i'd write something profound about sketchbooking maybe something like they're made to mess up in theyre made for bad art and mistakes and exploring the worst versions of yourself they're made to be a diary they're made to contain everything and nothing but i've been coding all morning and i haven't eaten anything or drank water and honestly such a manifesto would be hypocritical because what is an online portfolio but a curated gallery of only my best works? you will see only what i deem worthy of seeing. you will not witness the art i've deemed too bad or too unfinished to share and maybe there's beauty in that privacy given our state of hypersurveillance. ultimately there is no way to see the whole of a person online and is that really that much different than in real life? we will never be able to understand the whole of each other, but the beauty is that we tried and we continue trying and trying and trying