In 2006, I went on a poetry tour ‘The Hammer & Tongue Four Continents Poetry Slam’ of the UK. We visited 13 cities and towns in 14 days with one night off halfway through in Glasgow. In every city we visited, I would find an internet cafe and scribble some thoughts about the day before on MySpace which, according to a blog post on Infinite Pursuit (which I started in 2005), I ‘discovered’ in 2006. I eventually had two MySpace pages (/kojobaffoe and /kojothepoet) and, while they are both still up, sadly I can’t access either and the stuff I posted doesn’t show. The...

I posted this on Substack a few months back. I am still conflicted about where to share my random thoughts. Here or on a platform like Substack. They say you shouldn't post on two places. It's all too complicated, this writing on the internet thing. Do you ever get the feeling that you are doing too much? One of the disadvantages of owning one’s time and working on projects, as opposed to working on a career is that I get moments where I feel like I am doing too much. Pursuing multiple things, at the same time, means that I need to be very structured with how I approach my work...