I am launching a new project, Vom Tag, to return to long form blog writing.

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• This week I want to introduce you to Vom Tag, my new long form project.
• Vom Tag (or Vom Dach) is German for "From the Roof" or "High Guard."
• It is an aggressive Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) stance, perfect for delivering devastating downward cuts and forcing the opponent to parry.
• It felt fitting for the tone I want to take with my new project: I want to write about my strongly held opinions, which I believe are often at odds with the prevailing orthodoxies.
• Tech Leader Pro is not a great channel for that, as I deliberately keep this channel free of politics or other divisive topics.
• Vom Tag will be different: here I will write essays from the sharp edge of modernity.
• In many ways, I yearn to return to traditional ways and reject modernity, while NOT rejecting technology.
• As a technologist, I no longer consider technology to be synonymous with modernity, and I no longer recognise that connection.
• Progressive modernity is rejecting technology, as many with that mindset see technology as a capitalist endeavour.
• Where I see technology as freedom, they see it as enslavement.
• Where I see crypto as a rejection of centralized control, they see it as a scam.
• Where I see AI as a productivity tool, they see it as a threat to their careers.
• While I still actively used X, I advocated there for e/acc and decried decel, and I have done the same in previous episodes of this very podcast, but the truth is that the decel mindset is now the “modern” mindset: they are the majority.
• I reject it, and doing so puts me on the edge of modernity.
• And you know what? I am happy to live on that edge, the sharper the better.
• I have launched a holding page at https://vomtag.com/, and I have also secured the https://x.com/vomtag handle over on X: follow me there if you are interested in this new project, I will only post there whenever I have completed a new essay. I have no further desire to post on X beyond that.
• Secondly, I am thinking about reading each Vom Tag essay as an audio-only podcast, and I am debating with myself whether I include those in my current Tech Leader Pro channel feed, or most likely I will create a new podcast channel just for Vom Tag.
• What do you think? Please comment on this episode, or at me on X at vomtag if you have an opinion.
• Raise you high guard, strike bravely and do not delay.
• And remember that no one defends themselves without danger.
• Talk to you next time.

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