Notices by Craig Brozefsky (craigbro@infosec.exchange)

Do others identify epicycles in their thoughts and emotions around computer use?

I find myself mostly drawn to the comfort and aesthetics of simplicity and minimalism. From this. after some time. a drive for the novel arises, a need for learning material, and something to test assumptions against. This exploration and the pulling of the new into my environement eventually results in a aggregation of chaff and dependencies and breakage. As a response, a radical simplification is desired, a purging, a starting over. There is despair, dissatisfaction, and withdraw. Eventually, I re-enage with the simple foundations, #emacs, #lisp, and text, with a few changes from the start of the cycle.

I am sure a psychological model exists to describe this, or a diagnosis. Maybe it's just what self-guided learning at my phase oflife looks like?

@screwtape damn straight, relationships and community means meeting humans as they are, not self sorting into K-means clusterfucks of memetic dopamine milkers

@ksaj I'm a lifelong lisper, and I approve of this message.