I'll Take a Short Blogging Break

Marco Giancotti,

A watercolor painting of a ship in the ocean, surrounded by icebergs. A small ship seems to float above the horizon, upside down.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

—Seneca, Epistolae, LXXI., 3.

TL;DR

Aether Mug is taking a short holiday next week, and possibly the week after that.

What's Going on Inside Marco's Mind - Don't Peek!

I started this blog as a side project to capture the many ancillary thoughts I had while working on my main project, Plankton Valhalla (PV). The key difference between AeMug and PV was in frequency: AeMug was to be weekly, while PV had no fixed schedule. What could go wrong?

Of course, the weekly deadlines of AeMug ended up consuming most of my writing time, and PV was pushed to the sidelines. I have an unfinished essay trilogy on the other site that is constantly on my mind, but my progress with the final piece has been glacial (oh boy, it's already been half a year since I published the second one!). Partly, it's because the ideas I intend to describe there are epically difficult to organize clearly, but mostly it's because I only get a few crumbs of time to work on it each week.

So I'm going to flip things upside down for a while, giving precedence to my essay writing over my blogging.

Why didn't I think of this before? Simple cognitive dissonance ("I committed to blogging every week, it would be dishonorable to skip!"). I'm going to ignore that now: take that, Conscience!

Links

These are the first two essays in the "Purpose Trilogy" on Plankton Valhalla:

  1. Boundaries Are in the Eye of the Beholder
  2. Recursion, Tidy Stars, and Water Lilies

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Cover image:

Optical Phenomenon of an Inverted Ship on the Horizon near the Coast of Jameson’s Land, Greenland, Charles Hamilton Smith