Thanks Harold, it’s been a while since I caught up on your posts so I’m sitting here eating breakfast, reading your posts and waiting for the wash cycle to finish up. These days the mundane aspect of our day to day lives are the sanest (and most welcome) in this crazy world.

I’ve done a lot of reflecting over these last few years off social media and using my own PKM sensemaking to read and keep up to date with relevant news sources and people. However it’s hard - and getting harder - to do this. I’m now thinking that I need to further hone my search skills to only read things that are before 2023 or earlier - back when there was less AI generated articles. My current project is to remove, one by one, all the 1498 posts I’ve written on my blog and close it down. I’m copying and pasting each one to be made into annual volumes of physical books for my own shelf and enjoyment. That’ll happen in the next few months.

Who would have thought that this would happen?!

The world has changed and I can’t make sense of it anymore simply because it’s changing too much too quickly and we don’t know what’s fake or real. Also I’m in a better clearer calmer headspace to not worry about this all and in my own way, do small acts of resistance in my every day.

My own thoughts? I believe the world needs the skills we had been espousing years back now more than ever. Agency, PKM, community, critical thinking, imagination….but we have to contend with bigger players, capitalistic geed, rogue tech bros, corrupt governments, surveillance….they’re huge. No wonder we feel at a loss and feeling like you do.

(Write that book! Get it on physical paper!!)