New Website! And what's next.
Date
2024-04-28
Author
Eleonor Menéndez
I am excited to publicly announce to have put an end to months of dedication into building this website!
Who is this website for?
This website acts as a bridge for my personal and professional life, it's a safe space not only for me to dump my brain freely, but also for you to know more about myself no matter when. As a professional it's hard for me to keep the expectations of both sides of the coin satisfied whilst attending to my own personal needs without burning out.
Why a blog and not just use existing social media platforms?
Through the years I have built quite an enormous amount of friends and I used to keep them updated about myself through Facebook. Truth be said, I went through really dark days, my mental health declined and after receiving a medical diagnosis for ADHD, I realized that it was not realistic for me to keep attending to the needs of everyone through social media alone. In the ever changing landscape of the internet, I wanted to consolidate everything in one platform.
Furthermore, social media is a place where people can find way too much information about myself than what I am normally comfortable with sharing to the public, and I like to have total ownership over my own data and decide what I want to leave as public domain.
What makes me more mad about social media is that I often have to translate my content into multiple languages and there's not very good tools aside from "just post twice"; I have to accept it, my life has been spread across multiple countries, I need to put an end to the language barrier that social media has done for me.
And finally, with the rapid rise of Artificial Intelligence, I became more self-conscious over where I should be sharing, by having this website I can at least hold autonomy over data harvesting that is used for training of Machine Learning Models.
What is this madness of design, why?
I like art deco, and one of my favourite animes being Ergo Proxy, I got quite the inspiration from it, but also from other sci-fi movies that I have grown out during my teens. One theme that I felt wasn't explored enough was Futuristic Occult Art Deco. Such an idea hasn't been pushed in the mainstream media and possibly best represents my ego, big apology to the people who enjoy light themes. I'm trying to express an idea boldly here.
What content can we expect in the future?
I have been thinking about this through since I consider myself of a person with divergent thoughts. However, I would like to think of this website as a type of mirror of my internal-persona.
I mean, I spend most of my time thinking...
Enter: The Brain Dump
We call in the ADHD world a "brain dump", a space where you can sort of put an escape to all the noise in our brains, so I will quite often instead of writing for myself would write in this blog to the public, in their languages of choice specially since I don't gain anything of value by not sharing my day to day knowledge.
So in terms of themes I would be posting about the following topics depending on how my brain feels:
- Music
- Computer science
- My personal projects
- Philosophy
- Psychology
- Politics (I will try as much as possible to produce quality, unbiased content)
- Games development
- Art
This is also not an exhaustive list, meaning that this might change in the future, after all. To live is to change, and this place is a public diary of the changes in my life.
That's it for today! and if you have reached this far I am deeply grateful for staying with me along my life, for caring and for your wish of keeping in touch with me and staying in the loop.
Cogito Ergo Sum.