I want in what follows to be a chronicled but also "planned" program of self-development, one that by intention, and by design, is both a framework and a working document. This document is designed to supplement and to extend the other documents, essays and actions noted and chronicled elsewhere in both the personal and professional artifacts of the Author’s life. In spelling out this document, it is to both externalize internal plans and wishes, but also to try to relieve the burden of carrying it in the Mind, and also to offer some concrete commitments and tangibly expressed goals that can be referred to and measured against. That said, as this is much a document that is about future plans and wishes, as well as a journaling of an ever receding present, imperfectly, of actual actions and goals met, or not; it will not be taken to be something binding in the way a contract is, but rather as an ever-present effort to make more explicit what is only expressed in vocalized wo...
I have in recent months been experimenting with ways to satisfy my desire for expressing myself, both in terms of my creative passions, but also in terms of my desire to actually connect with others. In some sense, my desire for connection is intellectual, but it is also social. It has proven to be, for me, a challenging problem, not so much for lack of things to say, nor actual forums on which I can express myself, but whether there is the right audience, distance, and the right control that allows me to give enough of myself, while not being overwhelmed by the potential attention and interactions that may fall out of "putting myself out there." For those who do not know me, and indeed, that is probably most of you, I style myself an independent thinker and writer and learner. In this sense, I am representing only myself, presenting things that are of interest to me, both in the sense of being original, or taken from the World around me as interesting to me, and worth comme...