{"id":14006,"date":"2023-12-23T15:13:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T15:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/?p=14006"},"modified":"2025-03-13T10:11:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T10:11:42","slug":"blog-overview-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2023\/12\/23\/blog-overview-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"blog overview 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I feel compelled to go to the start of my blog and start commenting on it. Visa Reacts to his own blog. (this is a janky mess)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This blog has been through many iterations over the years. It had precursors on dx and livejournal before starting over on wordpress, and then migrating to a self-hosted wordpress. I may have archived or deleted some older posts. It looks like I attempted something of an overview in 2014&#8230; whatever let&#8217;s dive into it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the oldest post is \/gifted\/, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>then we have \/mbti\/, which in hindsight is really a post about perspectives, framing, lenses, ways of seeing. each new way of seeing is initially world-expanding, but if you&#8217;re not careful it eventually becomes a new set of blinders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>first day of work 2013&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>travelling cebu 2015&#8230; moved to archives<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\/passion\/ \u2013 i&#8217;m an etymology nerd, what do you suffer for? eve ensler, derrick c brown&#8217;s instead of killing yourself<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\/tv\/ and \/movies\/, messy documents<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\/school\/, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\/communities\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\/bookmarks\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\/education-2\/ \u2013 this is a good memoir\/backstory\/podcasty post, this feels like an important memoir post to follow \/starting-work\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\/jc-advice\/ \u2013 maybe a bit dated, but &#8220;advice for young people&#8221; seems to be a recurring trope isn&#8217;t it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\/heat-death\/, \/sisyphus\/, i now think of these as upstream of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1443196315970670598\">ayy lmao<\/a> meme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\/politics-and-the-english-language\/, just great reference material re: orwell. i should connect it to my thread about orwell-russell language<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>mean girls essay&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\/mindfuck\/, youtube essay in the making<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\/jetpacks\/ information overload&#8230; relevant to bricks idea, hypercards<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\/arguments\/ \u2013 strive to understand context<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\/dont-jump\/ \u2192 optimize for survival <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>reality \u2192 archives<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\/cultural-appropriation\/, \/unlearn\/, \/plans\/, \/mvp\/ \/safe-spaces\/, \u2192 archives<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>threads for archives: &#8220;project insecurities&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1567844317615763459\">getting inside ooda loops<\/a>, stainless steel, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1264060554219421696\">two parts to coolness, interestingness and social game<\/a>, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>merge gep and gifted?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2731 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>noticing: several posts exist as extensions of youtube videos. this isn&#8217;t quite ideal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>some posts are stubs with definitions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>copes<\/strong>: I think the phrase &#8220;cope&#8221;, used as a noun, is actually a fairly useful term and ought to be repurposed as shorthand for &#8220;coping mechanism&#8221;. My best idea about copes is &#8220;you can&#8217;t moralize away a load-bearing coping mechanism&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel compelled to go to the start of my blog and start commenting on it. Visa Reacts to his own blog. (this is a janky mess) This blog has been through many iterations over the years. 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