If you have a personal website: what platform, CMS, SSG, tech stack, or service are you using for it? Would you pick it again? How much technical expertise did it require to set up and make it your own? And do you have to do a lot of maintenance?
Once more – you guessed it – I’m asking for my #OwnYourWeb#newsletter subscribers. 😉
RT = 🎉
Both as a #marketer and a big fan of #Mastodon and the #Fediverse I see Threads as a way to preserve existing social hierarchies, decrease the quality of content on the platform, and convince users (yet again) that they should view social media as a place to consume "media”... instead of being "social”
I’ve… been struggling to recover from that. My self-esteem is still shattered, and I don’t know how long it will take me until I feel confident enough to get on another sales call.
And that doubt brought back an old nemesis - “the dread". An awful feeling in the back of my mind. My brain reminding me of my trauma.
I wrote about dealing with this in my #newsletter:
If you have a personal website: how did it change your life?
Like, did you get hired because of it? Did it open up interesting opportunities? Did you meet amazing people because of it? Did you learn and grow? Whatever it is, let me know. And once again, I’m asking for my #newsletter subscribers. 🤗💚
Right now, I am in Boston for a conference and I definitely don't feel good enough.
I'm a speaker, and this event should be a wonderful moment of celebration. Except, I spent most of my first day here crying. I cried in the conference bathroom, I cried by the front entrance, I cried in my Lyft when leaving early, I cried in my hotel room, I cried at the Harvard Book Store, and I cried at the ramen shop a block over.
It feels like the world is ending from every possible direction.
Maybe you feel like your world is ending too. And neither of us benefits from putting on a fake smile and keeping on as if we aren’t dealing with deep, existential, debilitating fear.
So here’s an uncomfortable question: does #marketing work even matter during an apocalypse?
I talked about #marketing, mental health, #BPD, and emotional resonance.
Sometimes, failure feels like the safest option. Our present might suck and our pain might be unpleasant, but it’s familiar. We know how much our reality hurts. But a better future? That’s strange, new, and uncertain.
After months of working as a freelance content writer, I didn’t have much to show for myself. No bylines under my own name. No reputation.
For most in the B2B marketing world, Mariya Delano didn’t exist.
But I was too scared to publish anything on my website, because it already got some traffic from posts that I commissioned some other writers to create. Posting on the site felt like a lot of pressure.
Many yearn for the "good old days" of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.
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The "effective altruism" and "effective accelerationism" ideologies that have been cropping up in AI debates are just a thin veneer over the typical blend of Silicon Valley techno-utopianism, inflated egos, and greed. Let's try something else.
especially now as i am approaching the end of my year-long fellowship and needing to decide what’s next, your support is so critical in allowing me to continue doing this work