This is in response to Sarah's excellent Rants From the Geek Lab: Improving Your Blog. The questions hungry bloggers want to know: How do I make money from my blog, should I put ads on it, how much traffic to I need to make money? The short answer is: you are asking the wrong questions. First, pageviews aren't the … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2008
Noticing Your Commitments
I've been all about the GTD thing lately. I got my lists, I'm getting things done! I'm biggifying! I'm awesome! And then yesterday I realized, I'm completely exhausted. Here's what GTD is missing: sometimes you need to re-evaluate your commitments. Not just come up with the next thing and do it. Sometimes you've got … [Read more...]
My Adventures With Ambition: Healing My Need to Belong
I've been playing around with my fears of biggification over the past month or two and I've come to some conclusions. And I'm not afraid anymore. Here's what I learned: I was really afraid of myself. I was afraid I would get latched onto the idea of being "biggified" and start doing inauthentic things to try to be … [Read more...]