@cogdog @Patlockley But to recap, over on Twitter you said "i don't think persay it is ideas, more i wonder how much we rely on not "paying it forward", and I didn't quite get this bit.

I think I do sort of get what you mean by "and if i'm not there, then 'views are my own' takes on a new level".

@Patlockley So it's interesting to be discussing this simultaneously here and on Twitter.

Here I am simply appreciative of the extra characters to think. There, we also have Mike in the conversation.

But you are you, and I am me, either way.

@Patlockley Yes, I see this now -- you're right. It's not some easy essential self wandering across platforms. It's self-for-purpose, in each place.

So this gets me thinking about how these different self-fashioning practices of identity work.

Do you have a sense of how you change?

@Patlockley @katebowles I do ed and I do tech, but as for ed tech, anything I do is as a subversive.

I am so pleased you don't think of me as someone who 'does music & I certainly take the friends as a compliment. I love that here I don't 'know' most people in person, & so have very little preconceptions or expectations. Everything that evolves is a pleasant surprise

#IReallyAmLikeALittleKid constantly surprised #HortonFreire

@lauraritchie @Patlockley Oh! I was just thinking of you as a person who plays the cello. Then I thought of @blamb because I learned more about his musicality thanks to you.

To me this evolving set of surprises is more fluid than a typical bio suggests. I love it too.

I also like mastodon's welcoming strangers. Especially appreciative of @Triplefox, @jk, @paralithode, @Gargron, @jeroensmeets.