A Small Web July
29 Jun, 2025
I am putting this out into the ether to see if anyone wants to join me, in any capacity, in some kind of accountability structure (following each others blogs about this on RSS, a 32-bit Cafe thread, sporadic guestbook/cbox comments, idk!) for spending less time on the corporate web for the month of July. I am interested in seeing how my brain wiring shifts with some new rules and a new month.
My (personal) rules for July are:
Almost no walled garden social media . For me that's Meta products, Reddit, maybe Bluesky here too. Anywhere where the spiciest or doomiest takes run wild are out for me. (My one exception is made for a daily check-in with my sobriety group).
. For me that's Meta products, Reddit, maybe Bluesky here too. Anywhere where the spiciest or doomiest takes run wild are out for me. (My one exception is made for a daily check-in with my sobriety group). Minimal time spent on the "big web" . For me, I consider this YouTube (landing/discovery pages, comments, etc - watching a single linked video through small web discovery is OK for me), news (15 minutes a day is plenty), or ad-filled, algorithm-driven, infinite scroll websites like Pinterest.
. For me, I consider this YouTube (landing/discovery pages, comments, etc - watching a single linked video through small web discovery is OK for me), news (15 minutes a day is plenty), or ad-filled, algorithm-driven, infinite scroll websites like Pinterest. Replace scrolling with building - building out my RSS reader, my website, my personal link connections, my skills in using a static site generator, etc.
- building out my RSS reader, my website, my personal link connections, my skills in using a static site generator, etc. Shifting my center of gravity to the physical life in front of me. Per Oliver Burkeman:
To stay sane, you need at least one foot planted firmly in your world: the world of your job and neighborhood, that letter you need to mail, the pasta you're cooking for dinner, the novel you're reading with your book group, ... – the world where you can have an effect.
My personal strategies to achieve this are:
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