Today is going to be a waiting day, for many reasons. I have to be at the computer for much of the waiting, and therefore I’ve been farting around making little category logos and thinking about how to progress things here in between slogging through DNS bullshit.
After the newsletter passed 20,000 subscribers, it started taking up a lot of personal mindshare. To the point where I consider my work to break into three parts now – the writing, the newsletter and this site. As my main practise is entering a more intensive phase, I’m trying to erase friction points on the other two. Unfortunately, that requires doing the hard work up front in order to have the easy work later.
I’ve actually solved most of the friction points with LTD, and I’m hoping I’ll have the issues with the newsletter sorted by tomorrow, because as it stands, producing the newsletter is taking six times as long as it used to. If this doesn’t work, I will just quit or default to a free service I’ll use just for announcements. It’s a ridiculous thing to have to think about. It’s ridiculous how much harder it’s got to use the basic tools to speak in complete sentences digitally.