Alex Yao

Being an Internet forum rat was the best possible use of my time as a kid

Getting back into my daily reiki and energy healing practice 🙏

Struggling to know what to post on all of these new social platforms

Rereading Accelerando

we are real, earnest people who take joy in cultivating nurturing online spaces

we are the crabs that help the other crabs out of the bucket

we are the ones you will tell you that you can do it, who will encourage you to make your thing, and who won’t tell you you’re bad for liking what you like

I correctly added a txt record to namecheap.

DNS records are not updating after a day. Still can’t update my username to @thealexyao.com

if we play our cards right

If we’re this early we probably have an opportunity to influence tone and norms to some degree

Be the kind of bsky you want to see in the world

one of the first app subscriptions where $20/mo feels like such a bargain - most of my saas subscriptions are not even worth it compared to this

The Hero’s Journey - the archetypal story structure

1. The Ordinary World
2. Call to Adventure
3. Refusal of the Call
4. Meeting the Mentor
5. Crossing the First Threshold
6. Tests, Allies, Enemies
7. Innermost Cave
8. Ordeal
9. Reward
10. The Road Back
11. Resurrection
12. Return with the Elixir

Best books to learn about story structure (hero’s journey)?

How do I get more invite codes? 🥺

I think I just want to be earnest and excited about things and passionate and feel seen 🥰

I want to be there for my inner child in ways where others didn’t have the capacity to in the past 💔

I’ve been wanting to let go more - especially identities I am attached to, so I can connect deeper with the parts of myself that I’ve hidden away

It takes time and I don’t need to rush the process. Creating internal and external safety within myself and in my relationships is the way forward.

PKM didnt end up making a lot of sense for me with the existing tools out there, but with AI / LLMs it makes sense for me to start developing my personal database of resources and knowledge. Healthy data inputs leads to healthy decision outputs.

I assume it takes some time for DNS records to update?

I will try later near the EOD.

Yay, this makes me happy

Should i change my bluesky handle to my personal website?

Tried out Farcaster for a bit but the networks effects fizzled out for me bc some of my favorite twitter follows werent there. Now it seems like Twitter friends have moved here so will try this out for a bit to see if it sticks!

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