I just came up with this in my last post - testing your email provider to make sure emails send good and I gotta say, i like it. Basically its a way of adding stuff that GPT said without having to rewrite it in my voice or have it be that weird amalgamation between the two. Feels like a big unlock honestly.
the feeling The feeling was stepping out of my back office, hearing a baby wailing, and realizing that that baby was not our baby — it was a neighbor’s baby. That someone else was dealing with this bullshit. Not because I want other people to deal with it, but simply because I don’t want to deal with it. And even that’s not true. It’s more that I’m just glad to be in a world where I’m not the only one who feels that. ...
I hate that terminology but it isn’t wrong. Explore mode is when you just wanna rummage around your ideas and everything is great and possible and expansive. Divergence is another term for it. This leads to that which leads to those and so on. But eventually one must say ’enough’ and stop. One must converge. Take what is there and do something with it. Package it for the marketplace? Create something worth consuming? Something that has a point? ...
How I’m Testing My New Email Provider (Loops) So here’s what I did. 1. First Stop: Mail-Tester I went to mail-tester.com, grabbed the weird little temporary email address they gave me, added it to my Loops list, and sent my email. Score came back great. 9.5/10. Huge win. 2. Then I Tried My Personal Gmail I added my own personal email to the Loops list because I wanted to see where it actually lands in a real inbox. ...
so simple, so good.
there’s a difference! Because this blog right now is still an infant, and literally I think only three people have ever even been given the link, I am able to be much more sensitive to the shifting experience of writing it as more people become aware of it. for example: i shared it with Michael Dean last week (Michael if you’re reading this, which you probably are cuz i’ll probably send it to you, hi!). ...
this is, strangely, a huge deal. or not strangely, but just interestingly given how common of a thing that is. everyone is posting onto youtube all the time. and yet for me it felt impossible. until now (dramatic) i decided to run an experiment this morning at about 530am - could i record and publish a video in 30 min. ...
Just read this awesome short essay Ramblings from Obsidian CEO Steph Agno in which he (until v recently I assumed Steph was a woman) shares how at their work they have individual channels for each person called ramblings where each person can just write out whatever stuff they’re thinking about and working on: A tip for remote teams of 2-10 people. Create a personal “ramblings” channel for each teammate in your team’s chat app of choice. ...
God I hope I can stick to these. The first that just came to mind is: no analytics. No knowing which posts do “best.” But isn’t that…useful? For people who come here? damn it I’m already folding like a lawn chair. well, that’s not really a problem right now - no one reads this, and I sort of want to keep it that way. well, A PART of me wants to keep it that way while another part of course wants people to read this and it grow. ...
I love collecting prompts and just found a bunch of real weird ones in a book titled Learning for people who prefer not to be taught Some prompts: Just add hot water and stir Internship Lottery Performative Artists’ Talks