I see I have not posted here in years. It turns out having three children born in three years takes up a lot of one’s time!

It was also becoming pointless to post because Google was steadily reducing organic traffic to the site. For years now, Google has increased its own revenue yearly by pushing only content that feeds their own near-monopoly ad networks. This is why Youtube results became so prominent, paid ad links and commercial ads took up most of the search results, and sites like mine (informative, well-written with high quality indexes and few/no ads) have been abandoned by creators. The latest straw is “AI generated” answers, often wrong, as Google tries to compete with OpenAI etc in a panic as Search users dwindle. The entire edifice of Google is starting to crumble as the effects of abusing their monopoly on web search and advertising gradually choked off good websites.

I tried starting a substack (which can be directly sent to subscribers via email) but by then the kids were taking all the time I might have used to write. I have no regrets about this (they are a joy *most* of the time), but it’s hard to see all of the work I put into this site wasted because no one can find it now.

You can follow me on Twitter/X as @jebkinnison, where I am able to write small pieces in the limited time when I’m eating or stuck waiting somewhere. When the kids are in school, perhaps I will write more about the IVF experience and child raising, which I only had second-hand knowledge of when I wrote the attachment books.

Thanks for supporting my work here! I hope to find a better platform for later contributions. I should probably have a Patreon-like site where subscribers can interact with my work and sign up for advance copies of books to come. I’ll announce it when I get to it. And again, thank you all so much for reading.