I bought drained – Scott Hanselman’s Weblog

I’ve been running a blog right here for the final 20 years. Each Tuesday and Thursday, fairly constantly, for 20 years. However final 12 months, with out planning it, I bought drained and stopped. Unsure why. It did not correspond with any life occasions. Nothing attention-grabbing or notable occurred. I simply stopped.

I did discover pleasure on TikTok and amassed a small group of like-minded followers there. I take pleasure in my YouTube as properly, and my weekly podcast goes sturdy with practically 900 (!) episodes of interviews with cool individuals. I’ve additionally not too long ago began posting on Mastodon (a fediverse (federated universe)) Twitter different that makes use of the ActivityPub internet commonplace. I see that Mark Downie has been taking a look at ActivityPub as properly for DasBlog (the weblog engine that powers this weblog) so I have to spend someday with Mark quickly.

Being constant is a tough factor, and I feel I did a superb job. I gave many talks over a few years about Private Productiveness however I all the time talked about doing what “feeds your spirit.” For a minute right here the weblog took a backseat, and that is OK. I stuffed that (spare) time with household time, private initiatives, writing extra code, 3d printing, video games, taekwondo, and a ton of different issues.

Going ahead I’ll proceed to write down and share throughout plenty of platforms, however it is going to proceed to begin right here as it is tremendous necessary to Personal Your Phrases. Hold taking snapshots and backups of your keystrokes as you by no means know when your chosen platform may change or go away completely.

I am nonetheless right here. I hope you’re too! I’ll see you quickly.

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About Scott

Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, advisor, father, diabetic, and Microsoft worker. He’s a failed stand-up comedian, a cornrower, and a ebook writer.

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