#raw
- I'm going off to Alaska to work for the NPS and try to pursue a more scientific career and I want to share updates with friends and family per their request. I also orthogonally want to centralize a place to document thoughts on books, movies, etc that isn't necessarily part of a corporate overlord's platform. (Granted I am hosting this on GitHub pages in a GitHub repo which is owned by Microsoft but alas at least I theoretically have the raw markdown source files)
- In past adventures I enjoyed keeping track of things on free-range elliott IG account BUT I don't really like instagram and don't wanting to support / force usage of big brainrot-inducing ad tech platforms.
- Have quite enjoyed not using instagram much recently (although the linkedin doomscroll while searching for jobs recently was almost more soulless at times)
- Have friends who are also not using instagram
- Strava (my favorite social media <3) is fun for sharing random little updates but also not meant for blogging and not a great way to share more broadly
- Email list could be nice, but emails are quite transient and not as nicely organized together. See below section as may still want to incorporate email
- Thus came the general idea of a blog, further narrowed to the digital garden concept that I had been thinking about per What is this?
- Is there a simple way to set up a mailing list for new blog posts (in a specific subfolder of the digital garden ideally?)
- Is there a good way to facilitate responses (email? text? etc.) from people to my posts. One nice thing about social media is the interactive aspect. A "text me" or "call me" button would be fun but also don't want to just post my phone number publicly