You too can enjoy a thick, shiny coat!

Look, I'm not doing this because you are doing the internet wrong. I'm doing it because I'm doing it wrong. Or at least I'm not internetting in a way that makes me happy or leads me to think that any net positive is resulting from all my browsing and scrolling.

This, then, is the last chance saloon for my failing relationship with the web. Either I learn to internet better or I go off grid until such a time as it all blows over, or I simply succumb, rejoin Twitter X and spend the rest of my days reX-ing AI slop from Tiktok.

Hopefully some of you feel the same as I do, that there must be things that can be tried to make being online feel good again. And so I'm going to share the things I'm trying and talk about why I am trying them and whether they do actually make my internet experience better.

Eating Your Own Dogfood is a phrase popularized by Microsoft in the 80s, meaning that a company should use its own products to experience the same pain points and benefits as a user would, ultimately demonstrating confidence in its own products.

So I'm eating my own dogfood, a self-designed meal plan promoting healthy habits, firm stools and a thick, shiny coat. This will involve choices and sacrifices and restraint, but also freedom and fulfilment and wellbeing. Hopefully. Maybe you'll see some things that you'd like to try out for yourself. Maybe you'll have some ideas of your own to share with me.

Let's tuck in.