out.joodaloop.com

Design decisions

what happens in real life stays in real life

Everything on the microsite would only deal with activities that happened on a screen. No biomarkers, personal milestones, or events with friends will be logged on here.

Something about trying to convert non-screen activities and happenings into computer bits feels off to me. I’ve never really liked photo or video either, except as a trigger for my own memory.

i only care about outputs + consequences

Do I really care how many times I worked out vs. how fit I actually feel day-to-day? In general, I find that input isn’t worth attention, and I especially dislike when it’s fetishized in terms of raw hours or reps instead of quality of outcome.

I also don’t care about time, especially standardised time:

Our modern sense of time is homogenous. It divided and measured in “units” to be filled. Clock time. These time units have no meaning themselves. They are empty containers, filled with meaning by us, through activities we do within them.

Gordan Brander, Time consciousness

Hell-bent on standardization; on Cartesian deliverance. Time is the primary socializing tool. Indelibly imprinted and structurally biased. We are domesticated creatures of technical abstraction. If rationalism/reductionism is our religion, then time keeping is our benediction

Buried Inside, Time As Surrogate Religion

viewer-friendly

The goal is for everything to come together in a browsing-friendly way, presenting information that is, first and foremost, useful to the reader.

One of the best ways to make something nice to look at is to make it a picture instead of text. Luckily, I can get a lot of mileage from the humble screenshot since most of my work is visual.

What do I want to log?

• Writing
  • Good tweets
  • Shareholder letters
  • joodaloop.com posts, including edits
  • Essays
• Microsite creation and redesigns
  • Updates to microsite content
• Client projects
  • Launches
  • Discarded concepts
• Personal project launches and updates
• Songs recorded

What do I want to measure?

• Vistors to my web properties, maybe their comments
• # of items in each category
• Word count

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