Random Fact about Jon Mick: #10 of 365.

"I wear a watch that doesn't function anymore. It broke almost a year ago but it still matches my belt. Sometimes I make up the time when people ask for it so I don't have to tell them I'm wearing a broken watch."

I wrote that on Posterous in January 2011. The platform is dead now. Twitter bought it and shut it down.

But the impulse behind it survived six migrations: blog posts → Google Docs → Excel (39 sheets) → Notion → PostgreSQL. Each one died because the previous format couldn't hold everything I was learning about myself. Each one got replaced by something that could hold a little more.

The watch broke. I kept wearing it. The platforms broke. I kept documenting.

New article dropping today about what happens when you spend fourteen years trying to teach technology who you are.