october 23 etc
Yesterday I wrote that something that's always held me back from making digital things (blogs, videos, ebooks, etc) for a living was and is how uncomfortable I am asking people to pay for things I make. This is a holdover from the bad old days where I barely considered myself worthy of kindness, let alone love and support.
Though I am a very different person today, a lot of those old wounds are still in the process of healing. It took losing a lot of what I thought was important and then living through the first few years of the pandemic to realize that I had to make a bunch of changes in order to be the person I wanted to be. Or, rather, to be myself.
To my credit, I made a lot of them. To my detriment, I often forget that change isn't something you do one time but rather something you have to keep doing. Change is a lot like love in this respect. It's not something you say, it's something you do.
Anyway, I woke up today feeling different. Writing out what I actually wanted, and wanted to do, and doing so in a public place low-key forced me to take myself seriously. Or at least more seriously.
I'm probably never going to be okay with asking anyone to part with their money to acquire something I make, but if I am serious about making my living as an independent maker of digital things and/or army-of-one creative type, and I think I am (finally), I suppose I'm going to have figure that out.
#lightsupletsgo
βΎπ΅ Pharrell and the gospel choir Voices of Fire will be performing before World Series Game 1 in Toronto tomorrow. Voice of Fire will also be performing both national anthems. (Instagram; CBC)
βπ½π₯ I am posting on Threads again because of playoff baseball and, later on, the start of the NBA season. Follow me if you want to, don't if you don't. (Threads)
β³β³ "Users can set a reminder to appear every 15, 30, 60, 90, or 180 minutes, at which point the video will pause. Users can then choose to dismiss the reminder and keep watching, or close the app." TL;DR YouTube is adding a timer so that folks don't lose entire days watching Shorts. (TechCrunch)
π€π€ OpenAI's AI-powered web browser is apparently being seen a challenge to Google and Chrome. Counterpoint: most people don't care that much about browsers and every browser will have identical-ish AI features soon anyway. (BBC)
ππ That said, switch to Brave if you haven't already. (Brave)
π«π« I made a Road to Perdition reference on Threads today which made me think of the movie which made me think of this fantastic scene. Spoilers, obv, if you haven't seen it but to be fair it came out 23 years ago. (YouTube)
π΄π΄ The best account on Twitter found a tantalizing Airbnb opportunity. Fuck Airbnb forever, obv, but I would die for Basil. (Twitter)
βΎβΎ Ernie Clement makes a good point. (Twitter)
ππ° "Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier have been arrested as part of a pair of wide-ranging investigations related to illegal sports betting and rigged poker games backed by the Mafia," reports ESPN. (ESPN)
π² gonna let's
πΌ go
π± touch blue
π³ grass jays
π· now clap clap clapclapclap
Be good to yourself.
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