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Nothing really. It led to some learning I would probably have done in any case.
Maybe it's because I have no comment function. But it's nice. Had some interesting conversations that way. Makes the Internet feel like it's inhabited by real people.
I've also got a bit of press in part through my website activity. The New Yorker, Deutschlandfunk.
But I mainly have a website because I like having a website. It's weird, experimental, unusual and disorganized just the way I like my coffee.
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Any tips for avoiding the urge to spend time setting up a fancy SSG and playing with that and never actually writing? I've done that a few times over the years... I imagine the advice would often be "just write", which I do agree is fair advice, but wondering if you had any takes.
I wrote about my experience with this here: https://thelinell.com/The-Notion-Experiment-8191f33eaa864469... The main idea for me was to just reduce the barrier to entry so that writing more was too easy to avoid. I already use Notion for taking notes throughout the day, so transitioning to also jotting down blog thoughts has been very easy and has increased the amount of writing that I do.
Current steps:
- make newpost NAME='even a temporary title is ok, but a permanent one is better'
That creates a file with the headers and a couple of skeletal bits in the right place, then opens it in my editor.
- make rsync
That publishes it.
I've been blogging since 1998 and can trace every major step forward in my career to my blog. In 2003 I started writing about social networking and education - the replies to that blog post helped me kickstart my first startup. In 2009 my blog posts about technology ethics led to me giving a talk at Harvard, which led to my becoming the first employee at a media tech startup. That in turn led to me learning more abou…
I've been blogging since 1998 and can trace every major step forward in my career to my blog. In 2003 I started writing about social networking and education - the replies to that blog post helped me kickstart my first startup. In 2009 my blog posts about technology ethics led to me giving a talk at Harvard, which led to my becoming the first employee at a media tech startup. That in turn led to me learning more abou…
It also helped me remove writing blocks because I intentionally time-box my posts.
I've been blogging since 1998 and can trace every major step forward in my career to my blog. In 2003 I started writing about social networking and education - the replies to that blog post helped me kickstart my first startup. In 2009 my blog posts about technology ethics led to me giving a talk at Harvard, which led to my becoming the first employee at a media tech startup. That in turn led to me learning more abou…
Following up on this - any specific reason behind this? I am considering starting a newsletter soon to first gather audience and Substack looks like right solution for this without requiring much technical setup, esp. as a non-tech. Idea is to first start blogging, get into that mindspace, build an audience and then you can move it to a proper blog on your own website, if required.
Curious what would be your thoughts here?