I think it’s delightful that creating this resource about fear management has involved so many practical lessons for myself. I’ve added a number of new sections of fears I’ve uncovered, or rediscovered, during this process. An example? Why of course. I decided that it would be great to have a few interviews with people who…
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How to design a website (when you’re not a designer)
I’ve never been good at visual art. I have friends who are: they combined talent with a bucket of practice until they can draw and paint and sculpt. They can visualise an object and create it. I can’t do that. But I can still design a decent website. Overcoming the fear We get scared about…
Consulting? I don’t have any expertise to sell!
Consulting? No-one will ever pay for my advice! I’m not an expert. Everyone already knows what I could teach. There’s already way too many people selling. I don’t have anything new to say… Have you said any of this to yourself? I sure have! I’ve been judging my work’s value by my pay-packet for years….
Website heresy: Ignore user feedback
Feedback and collaboration are wonderful, important topics and they have passionate advocates. If you develop your offer with your customers you get better, more satisfying and more profitable products and services. But. There’s always a but, isn’t there? It’s not fair. Yesterday I was writing about how you should collaborate and work with your readers,…
Website heresy – No excuses!
Darlings, I think maybe I have the flu. My head is fuzzy, every limb is tired, and my head weighs ten tonnes. Writing is like building a ziggurat, with every word laboriously heaved into place. (Grammar and punctuation are still okay though. I have Standards.) I really, really don’t want to be writing. I want…
Website heresy: Forget perfect, start being awesome
I love awesome. I hate perfect. Perfect is a creepy abusive boyfriend: he stalks my friends, messes with their creative processes, makes them doubt themselves, trashes their favourite projects and leaves them powerless and afraid. I want to drag perfect out into the parking lot, pick up a aluminium baseball bat, and teach perfect a…
Website heresy: Stop learning, start doing
Education leads to action. Or as one of my personal heroes, Henry Rollins, puts it: Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit. There’s a limit on how much you can study without implementing the stuff you’ve learned. There’s a time when you have to stop buying and reading yet another perspective on a subject you already know…
Aftermath of heresy, part 2: Conclusions
This is the last post that directly references the highly emotional post about social media and scalability, although I have had a number of very interesting comments from there and the follow-up post that will turn into other posts later. After much thought and conversation I have come to a conclusion: that post was the…
Change the goddamned world
What topic do you need to be writing about in order to change the world? Any of them, dearest. Any of them. photo credit: Hamed Saber Most people have the wrong idea about how to change the world. They look at the big players and think “My plumbing supplies* website isn’t Gandhi. It isn’t Nelson…