Abraham Kim @abrahamKim

Hipsters talk more than Boomers these days.

Abraham Kim last shared their writing dead tired
A lot of his friends now had an Amazon Ring. Or some other type of home security system. He really ought to have one of those. It was the 21st century after all. Why wouldn't you have one of those? During Christmas he had watched the first  Home Alone movie,...
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Past Mistakes / No Mistakes

brianball and I recently discussed approaches to reflecting on our pasts. I don't want to misquote him -- which is easy to do in discussions -- so I won't describe the whole discussion. Instead I hope to get one started here to see...
2021-01-27 15:10:30

Designing for leaders as reply to The Concept

This past week I've reflected on who I want to service with Adagia. From the title you can probably guess that it's leaders.

Back at 200WAD many regular users were leaders in one way or another even though the site's design offered no leadership hierarchy*. Writers like
2021-01-26 11:37:19

My new favorite places to write

I've now been writing within the foobar implementation of Adagia Tribes for a few weeks now. The longest running one is dedicated to writing Short Fiction. Another to practicing Hooks. And finally the most recent is for consistently practicing Poetry.

I've never aspired to write poetry. I started this poetry Tribe...
2021-01-24 22:38:38

Hail to the Six

As of today the year is 6% complete. 

Have you progressed six percent on any goals you had for this year? 

Do you still have goals by this time of the year? 

Or have they vaporized into the droll winds of holiday's end?

Hope it's the former. This is the first time I ever...
2021-01-22 15:00:23

Protecting an image as reply to Whole

I suffer your same habit of avoiding others when feeling down. I also share your realization that it's precisely when people come to us in their vulnerability that we actually learn about their self rather than being blinded by their image.

My primary reason for avoiding others while I'm down has...
2021-01-21 16:08:34

Documenting Adagia
After six weeks

Six weeks is a sweet spot when you are hopeful about the next possible steps but also feeling the growing backlog. This is the time where if the project hasn't died yet then just the right mixture of impatience and excitement might drive you to jump to acceleration. To double...
2021-01-18 03:55:15

What is a blanket?

It's the thing that keeps us warm on cold nights. It's the thing we want wrapped over us even when the night's hot. Because it reminds us of warmth... not only literally but also figuratively. Of a life we once lived even for a short time. Nine months about.

But what...
2021-01-16 13:54:54

Something more important than being right as reply to Solomon Asch

Until about 14 months ago, I was unable to fathom a better way to live than sticking to your guns and being an honest individual. If some or all the people got offended or hurt, well fuck them. That's how I thought and tried to live.

I always found myself as...
2021-01-14 23:08:30

Confronting Truth as reply to Let it bleed

@Abe, to take it up a notch about confronting truth, doesn't it follow that the artist should confront truth in the present, not only in hindsight? Or is that what you mean about growing (learning from the past) in order to confront it (the present). 

It's possible to confront truth in...
2021-01-13 18:52:13