logging the monkey mind
As of yesterday I’m trialling a style of logging that sits somewhere between a social media post and a diary. This will be taking place over at logs.
Why? I’m putting effort into making this site more of an artefact, rather than a digital business card and accompanying blog to illustrate that I’m still alive. So in keeping with that goal, logging a (filtered) monkey mind could be a value over time so that (a) you, the reader, may stumble across some interesting links, ideas, notions or comedy and (b) I, the monkey, have a record of my fleeting thoughts1.
I think having this record online will maintain some sense of thoughtfulness and tact, and with the added side effect that I can also access them the internet - as it does happen where I recall something cool I saw but am not on my own machine to find the link in my history or bookmarks.
Footnotes
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Edit (2025-08-25): Since starting this, I’ve found there is something very satisfying about these logs. Unfortunately, I think it comes from growing up in a social media era, where we became conditioned to “post our minds” about any and everything. These logs satisfy the action of posting, while decoupling the dopamine component. It’s perhaps a little similar to the Zeigarnik effect, which has been used to describe how noting down a task has the same cognitive effect as having completed the task itself. ↑