About Me

Dear visitor, welcome to my Numeric Citizen Introspection website. My real name is JF Martin, but I prefer to be called Numeric Citizen in cyberspace. This is my "nom-de-plume" name (learn why I'm using this name). I have been an IT (Information Technologies) professional since the early nineties. I'm 54, I'm probably getting old, I know. My hobbies are many, but writing is the one that’s taking much of my spare time. I spend about twenty hours a week on writing and publishing (fully documented here). Why? Get the answer in “I read, I learn, I write, I Share”. As explained in this post, I write about my passions which revolve around Apple, photography, privacy protection and climate change. You'll find plenty of stuff on these subjects in my digital garden *(⚠️ warning: it's a rabbit hole 🐇).
As you can see, I have more than enough interests to trigger my inspiration. So much so that they are the source of my monthly Numeric Citizen Introspection Newsletter, the starting point of this website. Speaking of which…
…What is this website all about? This website is about introspection. Through my publications here, you'll learn more about me, my reflections on life and many of my experiences. It's the closest you'll ever get to me. It started as an experiment. Then, after finding the newsletter purposes, I added the Friday Notes Series, and my Photo legends Series too. The former is weekly introspection notes, the latter is a series of short stories behind some of my photos.
My most personal stories to date
Here is a list of the most personal stories that I’ve published on this website.
- Friday Notes #54 — Something That (Most Of) My Friends Doesn't Know
- Friday Notes #53 — Am I Getting Old?
- Friday Notes #40 — The Unexpected Birthday Gift
- Friday Notes #36 — A Real Farewell
- Friday Notes #25 — What’s in My Head When I Run?
- Friday Notes #21 — Some Parts of ME
- Friday Notes #20 — My Impostor Syndrome
- Friday Notes #18 — What Will be my Legacy?
Some of my best work is available elsewhere
Finally, some of the articles that I’m the proudest of.










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Follow me in these places
Written words
🟤 My main blog content is cross-published to Flipboard.
🔵 My Medium page.
🔴 My newsletter is hosted on Ghost.
🟤 I do have automatically generated newsletters on Mailbrew.
🟡 Numeric Citizen I/O: a blog about blogging, a meta-blog if you will. The “look behind the scene" my content creation endeavour.
Photography
🔴 My Glass profile page
🔴 My Smugmug page
⚫️ My 500px profile
🟡 My Unsplash profile
🔵 My Behance Profile
⚫️ My Flickr page
My visitor card

Last updated: 2023-04-01. Created in Craft. Published with Ulysses. Hosted on Ghost.