It’s so great to see updates to the Dialog app. It‘s a great app - very well-designed and beautiful to scroll through. And with ability to post finally available, makes it a great option on Android. I was seriously considering attempting to write an app for Android. May not now.
Thoughts
Anticipation of any sort is the biggest sleep killer. Your mind wanders around, stitching up every permutation and combination of what’s to happen. I have realised the only thing that puts my mind to rest in this state is Music. 🎶
A Warm Adieu, 2018
2018, for me, was a year of many firsts. To be frank, I was uncharacteristically active overall — so much so that I startled myself at multiple times throughout the year with the liveliness. I possessed heaps of clarity in terms of what I was working on, both within and outside of the profession.
Sure, if I look outward, 2018 has left the world in complete disarray. There is chaos, unclarity all around. There is an inconspicuous tension building up in every part of the world. A lack of trust, faith in one another. In humanity.
2018 may very well be remembered as the year when the word “true” lost all its meaning. A fight to drum up the perception that my truth is the only truth made one insensitive of everything that was being said by anyone.
And it did get tiring. As Scaachi Koul rightly said, “2018 wore us all the hell out” (h/t Sameer Vasta). I empathise with her when she says
I am usually energized by arguing, by getting aggressive, by putting a name or a face to an enemy, online or otherwise. Not this year.
But then I have decided to remember 2018 for the goods it brought me personally.
I expressed. Kept churning up more longer posts and lots and lots of shorter microposts.
I captured. Snapped a significant part of my life as pictures. Posted them, shared them more.
I learnt. Understood. And got enamoured by IndieWeb.
I developed. Worked on so many new projects - many found useful even by few others.
I experimented. Recorded a first podcast episode. Started a new individual podcast.
Unlike me, I gave up a lot lesser in 2018. Almost everything I noticed above was taken to completion.
And most importantly, I lived. Quality time with people closest to me. Family reunions. Getaways. Holidays. Making new friends, in real and digital life.
Yep. I will remember 2018 as a year of being satisfied. And being alive. It is only fair to welcome 2019 with a clean, untidy slate.
Every time I read or watch anything listicle, I cringe. I inattentively fall for the shady tricks from these “evil” people - I am a sucker for such stuff, I guess. There so much angst for this form of media that I feel crummy inside when that happens.
In times like these when I have to fight the winter outside and wake up early to watch a cricket match, I wonder is there no one on my timeline who follows the sport? I have hardly seen any mention of a post related to cricket. No love for the sport, I guess? 🏏🤔
we could finally see the video-streaming service roll out a new feature that lets viewers use their remote controls to decide how the film ends.
Great time for creative minds to experiment — multiple endings on user’s choice will be interesting.
🎥 Finally managed to watch The Last Jedi — I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. Of course, I am discounting the fact that some plot points may not fit the universe well and many were just left unacknowledged. But as a movie, it was a brilliant watch - had some scintillating scenes when I had goosebumps along my arms.
I think it also helped that I watched it way after it was released. I had forgotten about all the hype it had garnered and all the spoils that had escaped through to me. So, I was watching it with no expectations at all. (★★★★)
Minor Micro.threads update: You can now favorite/unfavorite a post right from the thread discovery section. So, in addition to an option to open a conservation thread, you can now bookmark posts right on discovery. I hope the small change comes handy.
Every word counts. Every breath as well. In a world filled with empty noise, the most important slots are reserved for the poets we seek to listen to, and the poet we seek to become.
Seth Godin gets it bang-on every time - so the first thing I read.