I have been really enjoying working out and catching up on old Kalzumeus podcasts and it struck me today that the Personal IPO is a thing. People need to take themselves public in all sorts of fields and it is hard. So it could be easier.
In particular Nathan Barry says to Teach Everything You Know. It is so simple it is easy to brush off. but it is true.
I am also very interested in building what I used to call “prodesign30” but now I am leaning closer to The Swyx Center For Kids Who Can’t Design Good And Wanna Learn To Design Other Stuff Good Too just for the hilarity of it. It is basically a training-wheels course for myself and anyone who wants to follow along in making designs just a little bit better than default bootstrap. And it should probably always be on codepen.
The other thing Nathan advocates strongly is to build a mailing list. I haven’t at all been serious about this (going so far as to put up a short lived newsletter on free wordpress which sucked) but I can see how it is important.
I am working through classes on hackdesign.org but it is clearly far too design oriented. Lesson 2 is a whole thing on typography. lesson 3 or 4 is on photoshop. screw that.
We need incrementally better design now.
What I am going to do today:
- decouple this devblog (low effort) from my domain
- put my domain on DO
- host some sort of CMS but with the ability to set up new routes for other projects (including my own clone of buffer)
- put up a landing page on codepen.
well i got the DO hosting done and didnt use a CMS but ended up using a free HTML5 template that looked nice enough. it is probably not worth me putting more time into this for now. I should build prodesign30 instead.