So, on the twenty first minute of the twenty first hour of the twenty first day of the twenty first year of the twenty first century I have relaunched my personal blog.

(OK, I’ll admit that with the last two ‘twenty ones’ I cheated using the publish tool on WordPress, as I was only reminded of the significance of the date and time after the event. I do have the receipt to prove I bought the new domain – beyond 2020visions.blog – and a new WordPress subscription on the 21st of January 2021 though 🙂 )

Looking back over my last 10 years of posts is also a reminder of the ‘significant date number’ ones I’ve done in the past on dates we will never experience again in our lifetimes like 11.11.11 , 10.11.12 and 12.12.12 …

The title of my original blog, that I started in 2009, was ‘2020 Visions – Imagining the World my children will inherit‘ and it was a platform for personal musings on family, work and personal interests.

I started writing it with good intentions but ran out of steam half way through the decade. In more recent years I have experimented with other writing platforms like Medium but found them far too distracting as they employ all the addictive tricks of the main ‘social media’ platforms to keep you unhealthily hooked.

On balance though I do like the discipline of putting thoughts in writing from time to time. It encourages you to really ‘think’ about things and also to both ‘review’ and ‘plan’.

In terms of reviewing the last decade there was one particular post I wrote in 2009 that has provided a benchmark for my thinking back then and also one mechanism by which to measure the passing of time.