blogging
Experiments Check In
A few of you wrote to me to ask about how my year of experiments is going. To refresh everyone, for 2021, I changed personal websites, started blogging daily again, changed book publishing models, moved to a new newsletter host, and tried to fix an old guitar with my son
Get Your Ass Kicked
From Brené Brown [https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9855106-if-you-are-not-in-the-arena-getting-your-ass] via Weekly Thing [https://weekly.thingelstad.com/]: > “If you are not in the arena getting your ass kicked on occasion, I am not interested in or open to your feedback. There are a million cheap seats in the world today
Practice Avoids Perfect
I love this from Tim Stoddart [https://www.timothygrant.co/]: > “Hate to break it to you, but the people who read my morning blog read my worst work. Which is actually the point. This is my warm up. This is my set of jumping jacks before I do burpees.
Hey, World! It’s About Time!
I’ve spent months trying to duct tape together what the team at Basecamp just unveiled: Hey, World [https://world.hey.com/jason/hey-world-b02a6f2e]. In short, they’ve taken their email service, Hey [https://hey.com], and turned it into a privacy-friendly, old-school publishing platform. I love it. Just about
Who decides?
Young me: I’m only going to write about things that matter. Older me: You don’t get to decide what matters. The reader does. Young me: Then, how should I write? Older me: A lot.
A Love Letter to the Link Post
I don’t know for sure, but I think my first blog started in 1996, two years after I built my first website. At that time, they weren’t even called blogs. You’d simply update the front page of your website every day with a few interesting links you
It’s Time to Get Personal
The personal website seems to making a comeback. Why? When social networks fail, we return to the hub: the place you own, the place where you control the experience. It's where you're indexed for life, if you're lucky. It's where you'
A Month of Blogging about Anxiety: The Results
I’m guessing a fair amount of you with blogs or platforms are wondering what the results were of focusing intensely on one subject for a month of daily blogging [https://www.cjchilvers.com/30-practical-tactics-to-decrease-your-anxiety-intro/]. Since I was writing up a note-to-myself about it, I thought: why not share? Results