4/12/2024

Share or not to share?

That’s the question I have been asking myself for some time now. If I can be honest, by “some time” I mean 4 years. It is quite a long time to ask one question repeatedly, don’t you think? Nevertheless, here I am. And this whole idea of sharing is quite new to me and at the same time, not really.

Just a few days ago, I received a notification from X (I still call it Twitter) that I just had the 12th anniversary of my account (and it wasn’t my first social media profile!).

This made me realize that I spent more than a decade consuming content and reading about other’s people lives on the internet. Don’t get me wrong. I love technology and the opportunities that follow. I wouldn’t be able to be this connected to my friends without it. But during all my time online I never really share extensively my side of the story.

So what am I talking about?

Now as I look back, there are plenty of moments that I would love to come back to. I wish they were documented in any form, whether it be journal entries, photos, or voice recordings. I have none of those. And now all of those moments will be lost like tears in the rain. With those data lost, therefore the chance for deeper, more objective self-reflection is also extinct.

For the past years, I have been learning sound engineering and a few other creative skills. Just sharpening the axe in silence. No audience. This made me think… when the time comes to cut the tree, will it make the sound when it falls?

If you’ve reached this point, then you probably can guess what’s next. I want to document. I want to share. I want to create value. I want to celebrate creativity. And all of those things in either a standalone context or by taking into consideration the perspective of two points along this journey.

I am more than sure that future iterations of content will evolve, but the identity will remain since I am the core of it. All of this will be greatly personal, very much raw, sometimes cringe, but always authentic.

Truly yours, Kamil

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