The View From Space

More work than I thought

November 18, 2008 at 7:57 pm (Media, The Life of A Spaceman) (expanding, spaceman23.com, wordpress)

It always is, huh? Getting my blog all sorted out, getting the RSS feeds working, getting the widgets, getting my generous friends to talk and try and work things out together to get the site up… it’s all been so much more involved than I anticipated. It’s coming together, but slowly. I keep needing to learn new skills, find new resources, discover more and hardest of all, create new content. 

The creating new content is the hardest part, really. Writing every day and not repeating myself is tricky. I love to find new ways of thinking about things, but the more I actually chronicle that thinking, the more it seems like more of the same. Forget trying to put together a longer work, it seems like this is all the time I even have to write. 

I am finding myself wanting to learn more about designing for the web. There has got to be a simpler way than trying to get my busy friends to do it for me. I want to be able to pop up a website and add modules to my blog. WordPress, the blogging site I use, it formats what I write into an HTML format for me, and I can open that up from time to time and place links…  but my mind doesn’t quite think in that way. I should say, yet. There’s something missing. 

I’m not resisting the work. It’s just that it can seem overwhelming from where I am sitting now. My mind already seems filled up to me, and somehow I keep cramming more and more in, and somehow it sticks. And my mind hurts. 

It’s this way in every area of my life too! It’s all getting more complex and there is just more and more to do. My love life, my job, my writing, my interpersonal and online relationship; all are expanding and patterning in whole new and wilder directions.  

I seem to remember, in elementary school, my teachers saying that a human being only uses about 10% of their brain. I keep having this feeling that maybe, just maybe, that numberis 25+ years old and completely outdated. Because it seems to me that we are processing more and more on a daily basis. Today, we deal with order of magnitude more symbols than that elementary school teacher in 1984 could have dreamed of. In 1984 there were like 8 channels of television in Los Angeles.  That was the maximum bandwidth of information in. Libraries were organized according to the Dewey Decimal System and that was the most effective way to get to information. The idea of answering machines were just catching on. 

Think about how much we process on a daily basis. It’s insane. And it keeps getting faster. 

Damn, I have a lot of work to do.

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