2022 ROUND UP PART 3: NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS 2023
Did John Calvin consider cringe?
This is the third in a small series of pieces looking back on my experience of 2022. A quick list of things to leave behind or change my relationship to, AKA New Year’s Resolutions.
Me being tormented by my own reversion to a cringe mean
Stop Saying
‘Class position’ when the word ‘class’ would do - an annoying and obfuscating habit.
‘role or function’ - not sure where this crept in but really is just a more hectoring version of ‘purpose’.
‘-mode’ - infantilised online-ism. It’s no longer 2020, and I’ve functionally gone monkey mode already so why use that frame.
Stop Doing
Getting sick - it’s not fun anymore, very hard to live a life striving for Meaning when your own bod is leaning into workshy protection methods.
Not getting out when I planned to get out - Related. Immanent social anxiety is boring at this point! And only boring people get bored.
Move from video-games-as-opium to conscious consumption - the issue here of course is that opium is great.
Do More Of
Getting out more - Not just the positive of the negative above; make more plans, take trips when I can. All that stuff.
More radio - only done one bit of radio in the last two years, which is basically nothing. No sensation like it.
More university work - Feeling like I’m behind all my deadlines at the moment, need to get longer stretches in rather than circling round as I’m used to on my own projects. More focus - hence the procrastination platform you are reading this on. But also these deadlines are all my own deadlines. Maybe I just need to…
Relax - the physical state more than the mental state. Avoid dead time as that is not relaxation!
More work with GRM tools - A bit hyper specific but feels like an area of practice I am super super exited about focusing in on.
Me in December 2023, self actualised and cracking out the induction coil mics
