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I hope everyone is well, please do give this one a read
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This little email has grown slowly but surely and I am so thankful to anyone who has been here since the start, I appreciate you so much.
I realise that since itās beginnings it has also evolved and I certainly owe an explanation to most of you as to what exactly this even isā¦
On August 5th 2019, I published the first Cāmere to me, and naturally with a weekly schedule that same date hasnāt aligned perfectly, but I still cannot quite believe that it has been an entire year! š¤Æ
Having been toying with the idea for months, I still remember finally hitting send on the first one, from a Starbucks in California, what better breeding ground for a highly underqualifiedā¦ now writer?
I know a few subscribers are from further afield, so I better explain the obvious, the name is from the Irish slang āCome here to meā or āCome here till I tell youā¦ā - neither of which requires one to move anywhere but instead usually insinuates some sort of gossip or a random fact.
Despite now being a professional creative, I spent two years studying Chemistry with Molecular Modelling and then a year in straight Computer Science. I left college in pursuit of my passion, but not out of a disinterest in either of those lines of study.
Iām captivated with learning about things that I have no business learning, which certainly does not mean that I am particularly smart or an expert in anything at all, rather I am just not afraid to get stuck into things Iām seemingly completely underqualified to be privy to.
I love to know how the world works and Iām fascinated by science, engineering, maths, business, economics, people, culture and so much more. I procrastinate by watching educational videos & documentaries and reading articles & papers, on anything and everything. This is, of course, just as much of a flaw, but anyway.
Over the past few years, Iāve noticed that there is a whole collective of people who will completely refuse to engage with new knowledge or concepts and other peoples perspectives. Fields like quantum physics are scary, they are incredibly complicated, but you donāt have to be anyone special or have some sort of degree to try to obtain a basic and fundamental understanding of the concepts that run the world.
So I started Cāmere to me for a few reasons.
Firstly, as a way to share some of the things that I stumble upon and find interesting, but crucially with links to allow you to go and form your own opinions.
Secondly, to promote the idea of learning seemingly random/unrelated to your field but actually really important things, sharing insights and new perspectives, trying to help people form a more explored and rounded view of the world, and to somewhat change the stigma around being a nerd.
Cāmere to me should represent a shared curiosity.
And finally, I wanted to challenge myself - to learn a new skill, to learn to write, to practice compiling stories and chasing further sources. I also wanted to be able to share updates about my business and projects, share experiences with mental health and little things from the internet that made me smile.
Iāll get into plans for the future next week, but in short, I want to involve YOU.
I want this to become a curation of things you and others find interesting too, and I want to explore the best way to turn this into a community.
This is just the beginning.
KAREN
āA brief historyā
This article in the New York Times gave me a good laugh, itās funny how this trend has evolved. It is really interesting to read about the different possible origins and about cases where other names have had a similar stigma in the past.
It is also interesting, but not surprising, that because of this Karen could fade completely from our lexicon in the next decadeā¦
āIn 2020, Karen is no longer āan easy name.ā Once popular for girls born in the 1960s, it then became a pseudonym for a middle-aged busybody with a blond choppy bob who asks to speak to the manager. Now, the moniker has most recently morphed into a symbol of racism and white privilege.
A āKarenā now roams restaurants and stores, often without a mask during this coronavirus era, spewing venom and calling the authorities to tattle, usually on people of color and often putting them in dangerous situations.ā
(read more - New York Times)
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