In the process of setting this whole publishing process up, I’m reminded of the significant chunk of my career I spent learning about and building similar systems. Starting at the Arizona Republic, it was such a cool moment in time to be there for the transition from old media to new media. The innocent early days of social media when that term was new, and it felt joyful and optimistic.

It was probably the last gasp before Facebook and Twitter ate everything, before smart phones started disabling our attention spans, and before.. well.. before it got easy enough for the dumb-dumbs to join the party and start shitting all over it.

I’m writing a ton today, partially to run my system through its paces, and partially because I really missed this. Rambling into the ether, putting words to my abstract thoughts, and ending the process with something that feels both accomplished and somewhat tangible.