To _try_ and generalize this perhaps I’d say any practice contains a mechanism for instantiating intention.

The grab-bag style is really interesting, where I just list out ideas and links to things that were interesting to me throughout the week. It’s essentially a forcing function for my attention. You have to to notice the things that you’re reading and thinking about, that are actually important, if you want to have any hope of pulling together enough interesting atoms for a functional structure.

While websites are really good for giving you a “presence” on the internet, I think they’re really powerful as tools not just to broadcast your identity, but to help you develop it. ​ The things that we’re all learning today are rich, multimedia, and hyperlinked. You need to be working in the appropriate medium to try and keep up with that. ​ The Recurse Center community has the Blaggerator, a RSS aggregator that creates topics in Zulip, that’s a really useful piece of community infrastructure. It basically gives you an audience for your writing that you know cares about the subject matter and shares your values.