blogging
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
Your Habits Create Who You Are
Sean McCabe posted the following on Twitter [https://twitter.com/cjchilvers/status/1165090933001658368] last night: > To those over 40: What advice would you give a 30-year-old today? I responded [https://twitter.com/cjchilvers/status/1165090933001658368]: > Your daily habits will create who you are at 40, 50, etc. What
Be a Librarian to Your Readers: An Interview with Austin Kleon
Austin Kleon is the New York Times Bestselling author of Steal Like an Artist [https://amzn.to/2U953Cn], a guide to help you “embrace influence, school yourself through the work of others, remix and reimagine to discover your own path.” His follow-up book Show Your Work [https://amzn.to/2UUfDKO]
Seth Godin to the World: You’re Still Not Blogging Daily?!
Seth Godin has moved to Wordpress, which has prompted him once again to tell us about the importance of blogging daily on his podcast [https://art19.com/shows/akimbo/episodes/3313d002-186c-46f9-9afa-646889bd57ef]. > “I’m encouraging each one of you to have (a blog). Not to have a blog to make
The Book Hiding in Your Blog
Patrick Rhone [http://www.patrickrhone.net/theres-a-book-in-your-blog/]: > "Derek Sivers is writing a book about surviving in the music industry right in plain sight. Every post he’s made to his blog in the past several weeks is a chapter around this topic. > I not only have done
Welcome Back Blogging?
From the iA blog [https://ia.net/topics/web-trend-map-2018/] (I really wish they had included the writer’s name): > “There seems to be a weak undercurrent of old and young bloggers like us that feel sentimental or curious and want to bring back blogging. Blogging won’t save the