Hello!
Welcome to Heart Soul Machine! ❤️ 🔥 ⚙️ is the presonal site for me, Tim Klapdor. It's an attempt to create a Domain Of Ones Own, to house and collect my digital self.
This is a work in progress and personal project to bring together my work over the years into one place. I'm also planning to use this site to adopt a POSSE (Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere) workflow.
Over the next few months I'll be publishing new blog posts and micro-blogs here, and beginning to build out an Evergreen Notes section as a shortcut to some of the reference points in my work and thinking.
Latest Posts
March 2025
End of Q1 for 2025! I didn't blog much - but I was out in the world - reading, listening and watching too.
Being Broken
In the depths of COVID we turned to technology to connect us and express ourselves. Then to entertain us through the lockdowns. Then to distract us from our disrupted lives. Then we succumbed to the addiction. I think the addiction broke us and turned us into ... (looks around) ... this.
The Name
The name was inspired by the lyrics of a death 'n' roll band. The idea of Heart and Soul and those human attributes were a nice contrast to the technology I was working with on a day-to-day basis — the Machines. I was setting up on Wordpress.com back in 2011 to record an upcoming trip to the United States and I first used the name there. I wanted a way to record the trip, make notes, collect ideas and express opinions. Heart Soul Machine summed up that I wanted to use the blog to openly record what makes me tick and my commentary on technology. That has now evolved into this space - something I have a bit more control over and can hopefully more fully