This is my fourth weekly notes post in a row and my first one in English as I decided to write the majority of the posts in English (again) earlier this week.
Enjoy the read.
52 Weken – Week 18
Ik verzamel 52 liedjs in 52 weken. Elke vrijdag voeg ik een nummer aan mijn afspeellijst toe. Met het gekozen nummer probeer ik mijn energie en gevoel van die betreffende vrijdag vast te leggen.
Week 18/52: Son Mieux – Tell Me More
Na 52 weken heb ik alle seizoenen, vakanties, top en flop weken van het jaar vast gelegd in deze afspeellijst op Apple Music. Gebruik je geen Apple Music? Dan kun je je via RSS abonneren op wekelijkse updates.
I followed up with the advice from Willem this morning during the 30-minute recovery run I had planned for today.
Being patient with my running is challenging for me. I shared with Willem yesterday that I always want to feel a little exhausted after a run, and because of that, I almost always run too fast. Willem is right, though; I should train more in zones 2 and 3 to increase my pace over time. So that is what I did today, with 45% of my run being in Zone 2 and the remaining in Zone 3. My average heart rate was precisely 130 bpm.
I’ve decided to post on my blog in English and Dutch. While I tried switching to all Dutch on January 1st this year, I missed interacting with my English followers.
To make it easier for each target group of readers, I will tag my posts written ‘In Dutch‘ so that you can easily filter these posts.
Het bevalt mij goed om geen onderdeel meer te zijn van één van de grote sociale netwerken. Terug naar de basis, naar je eigen website en je eigen bubbel. Mastodon en RSS helpen daar goed bij door het gebrek aan algoritmes en de noodzaak om zelf te investeren in je online netwerk. Ik volg op Mastodon enkele hashtags die tezamen mijn ‘community’ vormen rondom: #hardlopen, #fotografie en #widm. Andreas, schrijver op 82MHz.net, vat het mooi samen.
” But you don’t have to become a hermit and go offline permanently. Instead, you can use the internet in a way that is more compatible with the way our brains work. Find smaller communities around things you like and interests you have. Are you interested in board games? Retro computers? Knitting? Woodworking? Reading? You can start looking for blogs, online forums, small Mastodon instances etc. that center around the thing you’re interested in. Then follow these blogs, register specifically to those forums or smaller networks, and interact with the people there. It might take a while, but you can find like-minded people on the internet who share your interests and values, and you can build a community around that, engage with the people there and ignore the rest.
🔗 You don’t need to be connected to the whole world door Andreas