Minds on Medium

How do we engage with and use medium.com?

Connecting.

Comfortable chair, Screen adjusted keyboard and mouse, Computer booted, Rich black coffee, Sipping moment, Start connecting.

Eyes bright happy smile, Fingers dance mouse pivots screen flashes, Familiar images attention focused.

Walking Mental Map

Humans make cognitive maps of their surroundings, Doors and chairs coffee machine and where’s my glasses, Navigate with it, Extend it when driving shops walking mall forest walking hiking and surfing.

Connecting medium.com instinctively build cognitive map for navigating app, Finger walking riding mouse clicking open, Writing and reading stories and comments viewing profiles, Following and blocking breathlessly investigating stats and earnings mumbling oaths.

Like walking mall, Window shopping visiting shops loving and disliking turning nose up bits and bobs, Making enquiries purchasing and ordering, Meeting friends conversing over coffee more coffee finger food more coffee, Lugging trolley full of goodies and impulsive buys, Hidden from disapproving eyes, Secret delights and guilty pleasures.

Trip to mall shopping songline, Shops locations ordered by walking rituals observed viewing and haggling buying and ordering gossiping and looking.

Trip to medium.com walks cognitive path virtual songline but experience no less real than walking shops, On medium.com publications are malls stories in shops, Browse and read clap and comment read responses leave opinions, Directly engage medium but only leave messages for other walkers, Minds on medium.

My Songline

You see me through medium, Head filled with beloved forest, Walk each day raining or shining windy or breezy morning and afternoon, Transfixed by sunsets mind cleansed, Gaia’s blessing.

What is medium.com?

Physical network computers in racks permanently connected, Always open, But writers and readers irregular disjointed visits, Seldom see fellow minds, Separated by time and human commitments, Only communicating through written word or recording perhaps video, Our virtual footsteps leave permanent tracks, But our presence is fleeting like shadows of leaves rustling in trees.

Blessed be.

Acknowledgements

Warren "Storyteller" Brown wrote a thought provoking piece considering writers on medium interacting and forming the equivalent of a neural network. I felt inspired to write my experience of using medium from the perspective of songline thinking.

More Songline Thoughts

I have written on Songlines now for quite a few years. I find it compelling to think about walking with memory cues attached to favorite things, in my case trees, that grants access to ancient tales.