Resetting

The ipoverse

Since 2007, I have been creating a fair number of blogs. None of them remained active for very long—perhaps three years at most.

In the beginning, some of the blogs I made were heavily focused on politics. Others were geared towards philosophies of life.

Others were thematic, such as one I wrote about Porto Alegre (which is still online here). In that one, every post was related to a Google Earth image.

One was more professional but completely focused on geoprocessing, called Mapas Abertos. And so it goes.

But this time, I promise it will be different. Seriously. This time I decided to start again from scratch, taking advantage of a significant change of cycle for me: completing my PhD in December 2024.

The difference between this blog and the others is that here I will try to implement the philosophy of minimalism. In short: this is a single hub for my productions. Everything publishable will come here, whether as a blog post or a dedicated page.

Here I will mix all themes as much as possible: political, philosophical, artistic, professional, etc. By starting simple, things will gradually become more complex.

For the return of the 2000s internet

Honestly, I think it’s worth writing and posting on blogs in a style more akin to the internet of the 2000s. To me, it is increasingly obvious that we have lost the internet to an avalanche of content designed solely to capture our attention.

The beginning of the decline was the industrialised production by web professionals. Now, the situation is out of control with AI-automated content production. As some say, the internet is dead.

One way to resist is to go back to writing on blogs. This is truly communicating with the world, rather than feeding an AI algorithm in an infinite scroll feed that makes us look like zombies seeking instant microdoses of ecstasy with likes and emojis.

Of course, I don’t think it’s viable to completely abandon mainstream social media. These platforms are very useful as spaces for effective sharing, which is where people actually hang out.

The trick, perhaps, is to produce artisanal content outside the networks on personal websites and share only the links to them on social media.

As I always say:

it’s time to go pro