The Return of the Comeback

Maybe I am old.

Maybe I crave clunky UI/X and the constant threat of Google deleting my online consciousness on a whim.

Or maybe I'm just looking for a place where algorithms can't find me — a respite from spicy tweets, tech bros, and the incessant deluge of trash content.

And trust me, dear reader, I've been looking.

Where the hell have you been, loca?

I've been trying to heal from a creative burnout. I didn't know I was burnt out then — when I was in the midst of it — but now I know.

Monetizing your hobbies leaves a vacuum for your *actual* hobbies.

So in the last five years, I've tried a lot of platforms and content creation formats to fill the void:

• various social media

• video — both short and long-form

• newsletters

• microblogging

• Notion

• — and even LinkedIn!

Unfortunately, I can't seem to stick to any of them. None of these spaces felt genuinely mine. The social nature of these platforms also made them...noisy. Even when I wanted to just create for the sake of creating, my attention always snagged on algorithms, the stats, subscribers, trends, comments — you know the drill.

It was exhausting, more so because content creation is what I do for a living now.

(Literally, I am registered as a content creator on my tax documents haha)

I just wanted a quiet place to share my thoughts.

And that led me back here, to where we began.

Honestly, I don't know if coming back here was the right answer

I craved the tranquility of blogging like it was 2007, but I didn't know if I wanted to resurrect krishafromtheisland.

There's just too much history here, you know? So much cringe, so much stuff that I thought I'd outgrown. I tried putting up another blog, but it didn't feel right, either.

This blog has always been my safe space — the place where *everything* started. So here we are. I'll try to stick to it this time, cringe be damned.

After all, there must be a reason why I kept this domain running all these years, right?

Now what?

I don't want to promise anything!

I just want to write and let things happen organically. I've a huge backlog of random thoughts collected over the last five years. Maybe I'll share them here.

I'm just happy to feel a little spark of excitement over creating.

So mao to.

If you made it here, thanks for reading.

See you when I see you,

K x