Don’t call it a comeback

So that was some break from blogging, eh? To all those who kept my RSS feed just in case, thanks for sticking around!

I bowed out from the blog last September with a case of MMS – Merlin Mann Syndrome. It just so happened that as his blog 43folders was going through an identity crisis, I was having similar doubts about keeping my blog alive because I sensed it was becoming a 50/50 mix of baby blog and productivity pr0n.

I was getting a lot of work done back then, partly by limiting how much time I spent surfing online, so the last thing I wanted to do was post links that might encourage others to waste time reading about how to organize their files more efficiently or learning the latest GTD software. Not that I don’t love efficient filing or GTD software.

As MMS set in I just let the blog go, but I never signed off because I thought I’d return to it eventually.

I think I’m writing now in part because I’m going to Berlin this week to present a paper based on research that provided most of the content for this site when I started blogging three years ago. This time it’s just a short trip, but I’ll be revisiting old research sites, old friends, the world’s best falafel, and, just maybe, the eager barber of auspicious strawberries.

Word to your imama.