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Re: Ask HN: What Are You Doing?

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Post by MattDemers »

I've failed at "creating content as a side gig" multiple times over the course of my career, and I'm working on providing more structure in my life so I can give it another go. Over the last little bit I've been getting my sleep, diet and exercise in order, and doing more reading about how ADHD and dopamine have affected my brain.

Unfortunately, I can feel the momentum and enthusiasm slowing down after a couple weeks of this. I'm tired, but I'm still trying to write goals and give myself some foundation for my work (Substack, and Twitch, pretty separately). I'm pretty happy with this "elevator pitch", which is something I've never really been able to do:

"I'm writing about the relationships people have with the Internet, and how it changes over time. I want to focus on the effects of fandom on marketing, creativity, competition, and personal identity. The Internet has been an enabler of dreams for a lot of people, and I want to explore how people use that for better or worse."

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Doing?

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Post by mcint »

leetrout wrote: post #53

I am chatting with my Mom on the phone planning Christmas. My dad died over 26 years ago and I am an only child so we always do our own thing. I am heading to Recurse Center in January and thinking about what I am going to do. Reading more HN than usual seeking inspiration and/or confirmation. I keep circling around computer graphics and flow based programming. I have been following Ben Houstons work with his behavio…

Happy holidays! I will follow your projects with great interest. Are you likely to write about your explorations, sharing your research and inspiration, or focus on time spent exploring and artifacts?

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Doing?

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Post by biztos »

MattDemers wrote: post #71

I've failed at "creating content as a side gig" multiple times over the course of my career, and I'm working on providing more structure in my life so I can give it another go. Over the last little bit I've been getting my sleep, diet and exercise in order, and doing more reading about how ADHD and dopamine have affected my brain. Unfortunately, I can feel the momentum and enthusiasm slowing down after a couple weeks…

Effects of fandom meaning… the effect on your own creativity etc when you are a fan of someone/something else? Or the effects of having people who are fans of you/your-product? Or something else?

I totally get the difficulty of focusing on creative work. I can manage to paint, and do software work for money, but I really struggle to tackle the dozens of other things on my creativity/content backlog.

Good luck with it!

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Doing?

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Post by biztos »

Scottn1 wrote: post #74

On the eve of me turning 50, I am playing a tabletop dice baseball game on my desk while reading HN {obviously}

Happy Early Birthday! I crossed that line, uneventfully, a couple years ago… and then the following years turned out to be filled with enormous, exciting, challenging life changes. Life begins at…

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Doing?

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Post by biztos »

bokohut wrote: post #70

Building and vetting, through dogfooding, an energy storage concept of my own design that will in time become a business.

That sounds interesting. I have an off-grid house and will probably have another eventually, so when it gets that far add me to your mailing list!

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Doing?

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Post by MattDemers »

biztos wrote: post #73
MattDemers wrote: post #71

I've failed at "creating content as a side gig" multiple times over the course of my career, and I'm working on providing more structure in my life so I can give it another go. Over the last little bit I've been getting my sleep, diet and exercise in order, and doing more reading about how ADHD and dopamine have affected my brain. Unfortunately, I can feel the momentum and enthusiasm slowing down after a couple weeks…

Effects of fandom meaning… the effect on your own creativity etc when you are a fan of someone/something else? Or the effects of having people who are fans of you/your-product? Or something else? I totally get the difficulty of focusing on creative work. I can manage to paint, and do software work for money, but I really struggle to tackle the dozens of other things on my creativity/content backlog. Good luck with it…

I meant more that the strategies used by companies to interact with say, Kpop or Marvel fans, have bled into other environments. Also, the way that those kind of fandoms act, or the things they do in order to provide marketing for their parent hobby, have affected how other things continue to exist by proxy.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Doing?

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Post by leetrout »

mcint wrote: post #72
leetrout wrote: post #53

I am chatting with my Mom on the phone planning Christmas. My dad died over 26 years ago and I am an only child so we always do our own thing. I am heading to Recurse Center in January and thinking about what I am going to do. Reading more HN than usual seeking inspiration and/or confirmation. I keep circling around computer graphics and flow based programming. I have been following Ben Houstons work with his behavio…

Happy holidays! I will follow your projects with great interest. Are you likely to write about your explorations, sharing your research and inspiration, or focus on time spent exploring and artifacts?

Thanks!

I need to start writing. It seems like lots of folks write about their RC experience. I plan to stream a little bit when I am coding and I started a podcast which will start publishing in 2023 and I plan to recording some vlogs and hopefully some podcast interviews.

I need to do better about finishing what I start so I am trying to commit to things I know I will accomplish / finish.

Re: Ask HN: What Are You Doing?

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Post by frob »

biztos wrote: post #68
frob wrote: post #35

I am prepping the area where I milk my goats every morning.

How many goats do you have, and how much milk do they give you?

I have 5 goats. I milk 3 of them. Right now, I'm getting very little milk because I'm in the final process of drying them off so they can give birth in 3 months. I'm currently milking about 2 pounds total from them every 3 days. When they're at full production, I get well over 3 lbs per goat per day.
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