Okay, I think I am gaining some clarity on this thing. The reason I keep going back to reading random things on the internet is once in a while, I find something which alters the way I think about things, gives me a new perspective, sheds light on the idiocy of my previous thought patterns. This serendipitous nature of random reading is what keeps pulling me back to this habit.
Yesterday, one link led to another and I stumbled upon What screens want by Frank chimero. Although I don’t think I quite get what he’s trying to say in this, but I’m sure once I fully grasp his message, it’ll change the way I view design.
This same thing is what keeps me pulling back to twitter I think. How else would I find eccentric people like this guy who quit tech job to make art (ironic enough, he was an early engineer at midjourney), someone who makes computers in a figma file, or someone who you though was an economist after reading his substack but turns out he’s an athlete, musician and designer and is just playing around on the web. (I too should make a people’s list)
The wariness around reading things arose from the fact that I read “What screen want” and then closed the tab and continued reading other random blogs. What’s the point of it if I don’t ruminate on the things I just read, giving it some time to fiddle some neurons in my brain, and then putting it to practice by creating some things on screens.
What’s the point of being inspired by will depue’s figma computer if I don’t then put in time to understand what tf turing complete even means?
I think I got attracted to the aesthetic of reading esoteric things on the web just for the sake of it.