It's Not About Speed, It's About the Message (or Its Depth)
2 days ago I realised that Daily Links (or News Roundups as we commonly labelled these in the WordPress days) were not as important as time spent researching and publishing original articles. This realisation was trigged by observations about the CIA's Factbook being "sunset" by the Cheeto Administration (information, bad!) and the demise of a Bezos-owned journal of record.
Within a day or so it turned out Daily Links could have somehow - perhaps without me even noticing! - warped into a restricting, inhibiting factor and sometimes a yoke or a burden preventing me from writing articles or making articles longer - as in a lot more detailed - when it's deemed necessary to do so (because reading and curation may feel more urgent at some point in time, even gratifying in the progress/productivity sense).
In retrospect or upon reflection, the new approach feels very liberating in the "usage of time" sense (liberation as in better choices available). It generally means we can produce much more original material and faster, not having to attend "link duties" like it's some social control media race to "breaking news". Better to write news than to just link to news if there's commentary that the news may merit. █
Image source: The Grand March of Posterity (Detail)
