James Wilkins
Hi, I'm James. I see you've stumbled upon my corner of the internet. Welcome! This feed contains everything I publish in one place, under one roof. Experiments, projects, essays, deep dives, things I learn, things that don't work out, and everything in between.
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From the Archive
A handful of older posts worth revisiting
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Writing
Longer essays and guides. Things that take more than five minutes to read and are worth it.
Note
Short observations and half-formed ideas. Quick to read, no pressure to be polished.
Image
Photo sets and visual work. Sometimes a set of screenshots says more than a paragraph.
Project
Things I'm actively building, with progress updates as they happen.
Memory
On This Day
Posts from this time in previous years
Archive
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The Idea
One Creator, One Roof.
What if, when you published something, it didn't just bounce around the algorithm for a few days before vanishing? What if all of your content had a single canonical home? A single feed with stories, pictures, videos and words. A platform that you own. A home for your audience to visit.
People used to own music. They'd hear something on the radio, find something they liked, and buy the album. Radio for discovery; pick the few you love and play them deliberately. Streaming changed that. How often do you listen to an album in its entirety now? We dip in and out. I've come to find the novelty exhausting.
This is my dream for content creation. Everyone builds their own little corner of the internet. Separate. Designed by you, to say what you want to say and look the way you want it to look. Let the algorithms do the work of connecting us to new audiences, while we rely on websites and RSS to stay connected. Creators no longer suffer at the hands of the algorithms, but answer to the judgement of their audience.
Intentional media consumption. One creator, one roof. A shared protocol.
Longer essays and guides. Things that take more than five minutes to read and are worth it.
Short observations and half-formed ideas. Quick to read, no pressure to be polished.
Photo sets and visual work. Sometimes a set of screenshots says more than a paragraph.
Things I'm actively building, with progress updates as they happen.