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2024 Adminstrative Review

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Happy New Year 2025 🥳🎉

In 2024, I produced 154 blog posts here – a total of 122K words. More importantly, in 2024 the blog had more than twice the number of visits than in 2023. It’s seen an increase in traffic every year since its inception in 2017 – despite my neglect from being distracted elsewhere.

As nickdruryfad63dc877 rightly noted, some content is less focused than others. In this case, I was busy. To borrow from Pascal, “I’d have written a shorter letter, but I didn’t have the time.” As I responded to him, not only was the post meandering and an amalgamation of 4 or 5 – not necessarily mutually exclusive – topics, I didn’t even make the point I set out to make, so the topic remains a prime candidate for a future release.

I want to share more here but have other blogs and interests. It’s not a full-time profession, but it could be. Content creation is difficult. It’s even harder when one creates unevenly in several domains. We’ll see where this year goes.

Currently, I am putting the finishing touches on a Metamodernism Worldview Survey that is a culmination of earlier ideas. I am also finishing a couple of books and an essay, plus some short stories, some related to this blog, others not so much. I’ve also neglected my associated YouTube channel, so I’d like to render more content there, too.

Meantime, things to do, people to see. Cheers!

18 Years on WordPress

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I started this blog in January 2017, but I’ve been hosting blogs on WordPress since 2006 and others into the late ’90s. Some of these hosts died including Yahoo and Google sites, but I landed on WordPress and have been happy—even happier that they are still alive. I have a north site for my alter-ego pseudonym, Ridley Park if you’re so inclined to visit my author site.

I’ve nothing more to add, just sharing this trivia.

Daunting in More Ways Than One

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The more I document my journey, the more it distracts my focus, so this is a short post. At this point in my life, I am convinced that the notion of human agency related to free will is wholly constructed. So much so, that I have been surveying the current landscape. I fully recognise that I am guilty of confirmation bias. Even though I am attempting to compensate for selection bias by reading opposing views, much of my attention is spent picking apart counterarguments and fanboying supporting arguments. This is an easy way to end up off the road and into a ditch, but I suppose awareness is the first step to contravene the effects.

I say this is daunting not only because of how much there is to absorb I am finding that dozens of books have already been published and echo my sentiments. Perhaps not exactly; perhaps not clearly. But this is not a novel concept. So what is daunting is to have the incentive to follow through, to not be entirely or substantially derivative if I do.

I’m two-thirds through Robert Kane’s initial chapter of Four Views on Free Will. He makes some good points. I am already familiar with his Libertarian position, but he dives deeper in his essay, which was my hope. He and the other three authors have time to present counterarguments to each other after all of the positions have been articulated.

As I expect to respond to each position, in turn, I won’t say much now, but I find I still disagree with Kane and for the same reasons I disagreed before I started reading.

Please stand by…