I remember a time in high school and college when I was regularly challenged to put my thoughts down and another would read them. To allow them to leave my mind, and in doing so, become concrete. Permanent.
Now, I often find myself trying to form beliefs and opinions, but in my head they have room to ever shift and dodge any dissonance that may arise. Without the externalization, I can change them to conform, and in doing so, I lose consistency and identity.
So this page serves to allow space for me to practice writing again. And in doing so, better form my opinions, tastes, and beliefs in a medium where I can track their development over time.
This page serves as a space to journal my findings so that they can be accessible to myself and others anywhere there is an internet connection.
The web's graph structure, nodes and links, allows the opportunity for me to build out a system of my knowledge, projects, opinions, tastes, beliefs, or just simple ramblings. A system that is intentional in its organization.
My notes app is quite flooded. My journals at home stacked high. Both seemingly nonsense, an inability to be searched, to find insight like searching a haystack.
I often forget how scary this fact can be. In the late hours it hits. The great equalizer. Baring none.
Perhaps it is fear of my particular death, and the forgetting that will follow, or perhaps the fear that death happens each day, in that which we forget forever.
Either way, despite inevitable, I contend.
Nic Farris, 01/30/2026