Getting Into The Flow: Clean Up & Streamline

This is the first time that I've not posted anything in 48 hours and it felt like forever. I was taking a break away from everything for awhile. Spent some time with Final Fantasy XV, and it's quite sad to say that the franchise doesn't really grab me by the imagination anymore.

Or perhaps I was too distracted by a few first world problems that I'm experiencing at the moment.

The growing mess of my research, writings, music, bookmarks, and files in general.

Talk about information overload since 1999 - I'm definitely the poster boy, one that's still hoarding onto many precious files while at the same time naming everything randomly. YO.wav, YOYO.png, YOYOOO123.txt. Come on, Kev. I know it's a matter of self-discipline and coming up with a workable system. Keyword being workable. In that, I find simplicity to be best - anyone got a lean, low-maintenance method?

I'm up 15 pounds since mid-2016.

Been sitting too much Steeming away. I might want to start returning back to a more active on-the-move lifestyle at this age. #YOLO. So nice if telepathy aka thought transfer is possible with the computer. That way I don't have to sit down, flip open a 5-pound laptop, and look all serious at the screen while pretending to enjoy my hipster coffee. For now, going to start skipping rice and start bar-belling. Be on the move while talking to myself with a voice recorder - write the stuff out later.

A growing need for social-platform streamlining.

Steemit is the first-time I'm active within an online community. I don't really know what I've really done here on Steemit to get a good following (in fact, already more than my friends and subscribers on Facebook) other than being a lucky early adopter, but I intend to start building stuff more actively online. Here's what I'm thinking of my situation at the moment:-

• I want to engage more with others, adding value that way too. But I find that my time is stretched between research, content creation, and curation. Even my music stuff has been on hold since discovering Steemit. It still remains as a magical, killer-app in my mind so I think I'll be dedicating more time around it, while inching my way towards having more of a presence in other relevant platforms as well.

• Although I'm now able to develop for Ethereum, I find myself floating more towards STEEM's possibilities right now. There's a plan on stall for months now - a blockchain enrichment hub that I mentioned once or twice when Steemit just first started. Maybe I'll revisit the idea of a co-working / co-living hub with a friend. Could use a change of scenery getting involved in a start-up on an island!

• I'm also less active in Curie now. It's becoming autonomous, in a way. So more time for everything else on this platform.

Decentralised urban farming has taken a more interesting spin

While working on my indoor farming kit project (which supposedly serves in part of a distributed research data collection project as well), I've discovered there's a more difficult and interesting problem to solve for distributed research modules for farming kits - validating / authenticating streams of data from hardware level (is that possible?). More info on that in another post.

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It seems like the community is bursting with activities at the moment! Honestly I've not participated much for the past week or two on Steemit.com. Just too many messages and business-related emails - I'm almost reminded of a time in the past when I (stupidly) threw my phone away just to stay sane. Anyway, thanks for reading this blog entry!