That idea has been haunting me ever since I decided to relaunch my blog without its living memory from a long-gone past. A clean start, I thought, would be good, specially, since plenty of what I wrote about back then I no longer believe in it. Twenty one years later, reality has proved time and time again I was wrong. Dead wrong. More on that later… It’s perhaps a bit more poignant even, because at this point in time you won’t find me with an active online social media profile anywhere, except perhaps for Mastodon. I’ve deleted everything. On purpose. Including what for plenty of people is still considered *the* place to hang out for professional networking: LinkedIn.

I’ll be blogging over the next few weeks about the several reasons why I have gone through that massive clean-up of pretty much everything online that relates to the previous elsua, i.e. yours truly, previous as in before late December 2025 when I decided to nuke my digital life for good. Either way, I still find it incredibly relevant and useful to have a home, i.e. my online home, this blog, on my terms, in which I can share my own thoughts without having to depend on someone else’s playing the role of being such digital home.

I guess that’s why I still feel this blog needs to continue to act as my organic, living CV, even though it may well be pretty empty at the moment, because, at least, I can say it’s mine. It’s my thoughts, my life / work experience, my in-depth expertise in whatever the subject matter, in short, my own reflections on whatever the topic that has caught my interest at the time. That is still relevant, don’t you think?

Either way, those of you who know me from over the years can anticipate pretty much what I plan to blog about going forward. For those of you who may not know me just yet, but who may want to get a glimpse of what to expect potentially I’d like to point you to this superb curation exercise Stan Garfield started over 7 years ago: KM Thought Leaders. In it, you’ll find my own entry over here, with an updated version from last year.

I am eternally grateful to Stan for having put together such wonderful resource and for having me featured in such esteemed company within the KM realm. It’s humbling and a true honour. I’ll always very much appreciate it.

For now, I guess it’s time to keep populating this blog with upcoming posts, as I resume my blogging mojo, rebuilding up the necessary muscles to refind my own blogging voice and style. See if it is still there, intact, or find out how it may have shifted over the last few months, perhaps years. That would then allow me to keep building up my online CV in case you’d want to learn more about what I love doing AND conversing about. Oooh, and please, before I forget, feel free to jump into the conversations, as you may see fit, I’m looking forward to diving in, too! 

You know what they say … The waters are lovely 😎👍🏻.

It’s going to be super interesting going forward, at least, to me, to figure out whether I can re-find my own blogging voice and style, and resume my blogging mojo. I know I’m rusty. In fact, I have spent a good few weeks getting everything ready for this clean start, from scratch, and I still see the odd tweaks here and there I need to go through to fine tune this blog. Please bear with me and do let me know if there is anything missing, or not working well, or perhaps something else you’d like to see. I shall oblige. For those of you who are still subscribed to my RSS feed, as this entry pops up out of the blue, I’d like to offer a warm re-welcome to all of you my faithful followers. Thanks much for sticking around! We’ve got lots to talk about, don’t you think? 

In upcoming blog posts, indeed, I plan to share with you all what’s being going on with yours truly over the last couple of years and explain why I have decided to come back to blogging, leaving behind pretty much everything I’ve strongly advocated for AND believed in for nearly 30 years. I know it all sounds intriguing and much of a tease for you to keep coming back, but, believe me, it will be worth it. Remember the good old Open Social Web? That’s why. We still have got lots of great work ahead! 

What else? Oh, yeah, I’m also very much looking forward to sharing with you all what I have been involved with over the course of the last 3 years, and still going strong!, that’s kept me good busy working with some wonderful, incredible smart, people trying to push forward on two major key themes you’ll see me blogging about extensively from here onwards: #DistanceWorking and #DigitalAutonomy. 

I don’t want to spill the beans just yet on what lies ahead, but those two keywords will certainly give you a hint as to what to expect from my blogging here going forward. One, I’ve been heavily involved with for over 25 years and it still feels like pretty much the first day; the other, I’ve only just gotten started with it about 8 months ago, after I had to take a compassionate leave that forced me to go offline for 3 months and delete all of my online presence. The rest is history and I’ll be more than happy to share with you all the why, the how and the what.

Oh, but will you be writing about fun stuff as well?, you may be wondering, right? Of course, I will. In fact, I plan to continue sharing some of the photos I’ve taken over the years not just from Gran Canaria, where I still live, but also from my former business travelling. You’re reading former correctly. More on that later. I also plan to talk about home gardening, which I’ve taken up just recently, some of the more interesting and thought-provoking books I’ve read, music I’m listening to, perhaps some of the films and TV series I’m watching, places I go flaneuring out and about, etc. etc.

Yeah, going forward, this new blog will still remain, mainly, as a business blog. Like I said, we’ve got so much to discuss, talk about and learn, but it’s also going to be a lot more intimate and personal one, and, soon enough, you’ll find out why.

For now, it feels great to be back!