CANVAS OF DREAMS 2.0

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
― Anais Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

Intro

Hi, international friends. As the new header says, Canvas of Dreams‘ new slogan is Keep Believin’. As the world is heading to the unknown, we need to believe in ourselves more than ever, and this unprecedented level of existential threat to mankind we’re experiencing now poses so many questions for us.

In accordance with the current world situation, my blogging activities have significantly changed a lot – being more focused on productivity, reality, and logical way of thinking. Canvas of Dreams is for those who strive for their dreams and ambitions through realistic methods and daily rituals. Hope my writing will give extra motivation for them.

An experimental platform

If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you’ve noticed a major shift in my blogging style, especially during the past few weeks. My recent blogging series is centered around C language and Linux, and technology started overtaking my blogging activities.

The reason is simple – I want to reshape Canvas of Dreams into an experimental platform where I can share all sorts of knowledge with you, my readers. This blog has traditionally been a place where I shared my travel photos or my personal thoughts. But somewhere along the way, ethical writing has become a dominant style of my blogging activities, and it worked.

Throughout my writing, new irreplaceable friends came into my life and brought more joy and vitality to this chapter than I ever imagined. Since the core DNA of this blog is composed of ethical ways of thinking, my ideas and thoughts appealed to those who agree with me, regardless of their nationalities.

Here, what I meant by reshape is that along with my ethical writing, I also started tech writing activities where I shared what I’ve learned on the daily basis, and make them work as my diary that enables me to keep track of my incremental but steady progress in my skill development.

So, why did I do that? Well, throughout my blogging activities, one thing that has been coherent over the years in my life was that I valued developing transferrable skills. Especially in the age of uncertainties, what we all can trust is probably ourselves. If you can’t trust yourself, you can’t trust anyone. Especially in the age where we can barely trust our governments, we may be required to have skills that enable us to survive no matter where we go and should have the option to ditch our own country just in case, achieving true independence and freedom off the governments. The financial crisis, natural disasters, political turmoil… We can predict nothing, and I personally have so many questions about my own government and country as a whole and the direction our whole world is heading to.

The sole reason why tech writing started overtaking this blog is because of not only my personal interests in tech but also my personal ambition to be a true citizen of the world who can travel around the world with his skills and hopefully inspire others who may agree with me by sharing my knowledge.

All in all, my new goal here is to reshape Canvas of Dreams into an experimental platform where I can share my knowledge and discuss new ideas with my readers as well as those who visit here randomly, creating a free flow of ideas – and I do believe it is the core essence of democracy and freedom of speech.

A new admin to join the team

All the way from France, I welcomed Jessie as a new admin to moderate and maintain Canvas of Dreams with me. We’ve met in HelloTalk almost half a year ago, and one of the blog posts I shared there attracted her attention.

For security reasons, I can’t and won’t reveal much about her, but everything she’s done for me over the past six months as a friend was astonishing. Not only because of her deep understanding of mental health issues but also because of her dedicated support for me over online interactions helped me get through those tough days, considering my mental health status and what I’ve been through last year.

Since she had experience using WordPress before, it was quite natural for me to invite her to this blog as an admin.

Let me provide you with some background information about her. As a mother of two children, she’s constantly juggling her daily responsibilities, such as parenting and continuous e-learning.

And, the whole interaction with her over the past months hinted to me what a future organization will work like. Even though we are not living on different continents millions of miles away from each other, we share similar life views and ethical ways of thinking.

Don’t you think the traditional organization is almost on the brink of collapse on a global scale? – think about the recent massive layoffs in silicon valley as an example. Instead, now maybe is the time to reshape how we define an organization and the new form of it might look like something we’ve never imagined before on a global scale. Regardless of nationalities, like-minded people can always find each other on the Internet and form a new form of friendship or even a small personal level of organization.

CANVAS OF DREAMS 2.0

As the title goes, yes it is – my blogging style has changed over the course of time, but the recent changes I’ve been through are unparalleled. Technology has become a dominant subject of this blog. The new admin joined the blog. And now the blog keeps tracking the daily progress of my programming skill development. So many firsts are now reshaping it into something a little different from a while ago, and we’re now heading into the next phase of the blogging activities.

My own radio station too?

From a few posts ago, I started to add a link to YouTube in every essay, and the reason behind this is that I want to enhance the reading experience into something better and more exciting than the traditional reading-only experience.

When I was a college student more than ten years ago, there was my radio program, called DP Lab, which was hosted by a Japanese DJ, Takayuki Horiuchi. Unusual for a Japanese radio program, his song selections were always those from the English-speaking world. Since he himself spent his twenties traveling around the world as a backpacker, the narrative topics he chose, especially world news, always attracted my curiosity. The foreign songs played in between his narrations made the whole listening experience to another level, and it was one of my best teen-to-early-twenties memories.

So, with my blog, I just thought maybe it’d be an exciting experience to add my favorite songs’ links to my essays, recreating the decade-ago atmosphere I loved. So the readers may enjoy my writing while listening to the songs.

As I’ve written it above, this blog is an experimental platform, so I want to try as many ideas as I can think of and make them into reality via my blogging activities. And, hopefully, this blog could transform itself into something like a mini-radio station. Hopefully, you’ll enjoy it.

Afterthoughts

So, how did you guys think of this? As nothing stays the same, my blogging style has changed a lot since its inception back in 2016. The world is not the same place anymore when compared with the pre-covid era, but something that coherent over the course of years was the undeniable fact that we need to invest ourselves in skill development and hopefully enjoy the journey to achieve our goals.

Let us begin…