Things are good
I spent the past week or so working on a thing.
This is the thing:
This isn't an email about the thing -- I still have to write an email about the thing, mind you, but this isn't it.
This is an email about how good it feels to launch things.
I have launched many things -- small things, large things, personal things, professional things, things that I am proud of, things that I've forgotten about, things that I'll remember forever, good things, mediocre things.
It's fun to build things and set them out into the world, like paper ships or balloons into the sky. I'm very good at the "letting a product slowly fade into the atmosphere" approach to marketing (which is to say, I'm very good at not marketing things).
Something that doesn't feel innately good to me -- or, perhaps more accurately, *innately easy* -- is talking about the stuff I've done.
I've been thinking a lot about how to remediate that. I don't really have any answers yet, but I think I'm getting closer.
(Part of that is probably growing comfortable enough with my projects to refer to them more descriptively and less dismissively than as 'things'.)
Either way, though. I'm sitting in Bishop's, waiting for my hair to get cut. I've got a bruised ankle from climbing earlier today and I just ate fried chicken. This week, I built something and launched it into the world -- and, if I'm lucky, some folks will find it useful.
Tonight I get to eat seafood and start a new book.
It's a good week.
Happy Sunday. I hope you make something.
This is the thing:
The thing is live now! I am very excited about this.finally adding support for lists in @spoonbill_io. diving back into Twitter API-land after a month or so away is fun/painful! pic.twitter.com/9IPCxQvBOY
— Justin Duke (@justinmduke) April 1, 2017
This isn't an email about the thing -- I still have to write an email about the thing, mind you, but this isn't it.
This is an email about how good it feels to launch things.
I have launched many things -- small things, large things, personal things, professional things, things that I am proud of, things that I've forgotten about, things that I'll remember forever, good things, mediocre things.
It's fun to build things and set them out into the world, like paper ships or balloons into the sky. I'm very good at the "letting a product slowly fade into the atmosphere" approach to marketing (which is to say, I'm very good at not marketing things).
Something that doesn't feel innately good to me -- or, perhaps more accurately, *innately easy* -- is talking about the stuff I've done.
I've been thinking a lot about how to remediate that. I don't really have any answers yet, but I think I'm getting closer.
(Part of that is probably growing comfortable enough with my projects to refer to them more descriptively and less dismissively than as 'things'.)
Either way, though. I'm sitting in Bishop's, waiting for my hair to get cut. I've got a bruised ankle from climbing earlier today and I just ate fried chicken. This week, I built something and launched it into the world -- and, if I'm lucky, some folks will find it useful.
Tonight I get to eat seafood and start a new book.
It's a good week.
Happy Sunday. I hope you make something.