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On this day 23 years ago at 14:07 I posted my first blogpost.
After the very stressful time I (and my team and my family) had until mid-September, I have finally turned to my recovery from burn-out. Still very tired, but as I mentioned earlier my head is becoming somewhat more active. Part of that recovery is rekindling my sense of wonder.
Already last year in conversations with a psychologist I defined for myself three things to help me do that. Building more exploration into my activities again starting from my sense of how things could be, and by en…
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On this day 23 years ago at 14:07 I posted my first blogpost.
After the very stressful time I (and my team and my family) had until mid-September, I have finally turned to my recovery from burn-out. Still very tired, but as I mentioned earlier my head is becoming somewhat more active. Part of that recovery is rekindling my sense of wonder.
Already last year in conversations with a psychologist I defined for myself three things to help me do that. Building more exploration into my activities again starting from my sense of how things could be, and by engaging more again with my professional peers. Stressful and urgent events intervened for a long time, but now I find myself returning to it.
Two weeks ago when we spent a few days in Antwerp as a family, I came across the essay ‘Ode aan de verwondering‘, an ode to wonder, by the late Belgian scientist Caroline Pauwels, in the Stad Leest bookstore. A timely find and read now that I have slowly moved a bunch of activities off my plate, and except for a single client stopped working until February or so.
My blog has always been a way of sharing things that stood out for me, responding to what others shared, and especially enjoy the type of conversation that creates (thanks to all of you who engage).
Blogging is a feedback loop on one’s sense of wonder.
Just yesterday I wrote about a notion I had (resulting from reading this book), to find interesting European non-fiction books by authors in languages I cannot read. It resulted in several reactions already, including a kind mail by Sven who mailed me about two books in Swedish he enjoyed, plus some links on how to acquire non-fiction books in Sweden. (Thank you!) My blog over the years has resulted in many such and much deeper connections, reinforced by meeting people at a variety of conferences, and then interacting through other channels and in person (see the mention of peers above).
I find myself writing more again these days, and some of it ends up here. At the same time I see myself withdrawing from several other platforms. I don’t much like being drawn into my Mastodon timeline currently, nor my feedreader, as I seem to seek them out not out of curiosity but as grazing. I need to do my stuff in my own space for now it seems. I’m taking my blogging as an indicator of how I’m doing for the coming months.
Here’s to another year of blogging and conversation.
(In the years 2015 – 2022 I posted a reflection here on the role of my blog. (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 years of blogging), then I skipped/missed a few ‘anniversaries’.)