I had this long blog post typed out and then I thought, Can’t I just let my collage do the talking?
See you next year
Taking a break. Hope y’all have a safe and happy New Year’s. I’ll be back Jan. 1, 2019 with my annual top 100. (PS. I took some liberties with the La Mancha sign — they actually open back up tomorrow.)
The digestive system
A question I get asked a lot: “How do you manage to find all the stuff that you put in your weekly newsletter?”
I’ve gone over the how before, but the how might not be as interesting as the why.
The why is explained in my book, Show Your Work!:
Make stuff you love and talk about stuff you love and you’ll attract people who love that kind of stuff. It’s that simple.
The longer I write this blog and the newsletter, the more I try to focus on what I genuinely love. The stuff that really nourishes and feeds me.
I could probably grow a bigger “audience” with the most recent creativity tips and life hacks or whatever, but that’s not why I started doing this.
I started doing this to find my people. The people who care about the same things that I do.
In other words: You.
Thanks for being here.
Backing up
I got a “First strike! Three strikes and you’re out!” copyright notice from Tumblr yesterday morning, and my first thought was, “Oh good, maybe I can totally forget about my Tumblr now.”
One of the biggest regrets of my online life is the gap half decade or so I moved most of my blogging activity over to Tumblr from this self-hosted WordPress blog. Tumblr (and Twitter) has been my public notebook — there are blog tags there that have become book chapters and many more that still might. If they delete my Tumblr, it’s a decade of public research gone bye-bye.
Believe it or not, you can actually back up your Tumblr blog now direct from their site. My blog took all night to export and the download wound up weighing in at 3.75GB. (The biggest surprise was all the .mp3 files that came through: they made a 10-hour playlist in iTunes!)
You can also download your Twitter archive and it comes with a handy index.html file that you can search and browse.
All this stuff will go away one day. Like I said in Show Your Work!:
Own your turf, own your turf, own your turf. (And try to back up whatever you’ve posted to turf you don’t own.)
Taking it easy
It’s my least favorite season in what’s shaping up to be one of my least favorite years. (Is it half empty or half full?) I’m trying to take it easy. Sitting around drinking coffee and reading books and scribbling notes to myself. Not feeling much like blogging. Might be quiet around here for a bit. (I’ll still be sending out the newsletter.)
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