Why I changed my mind about advertising
I just published Why I changed my mind about advertising (here's the Tweet for any discussion). Also a few days ago I published Curating the curators. I'm resuming my weekly publishing cadence because I've exhausted all my growth-hack ideas, and I've decided it's time to knuckle down and focus on producing original content, even if it takes six months to really get going. Especially since thanks to the paid forwards system I mentioned last month, I now know The Sample can actually make money. We've been doing about $30/day. So all we gotta do is 20x the subscriber base and then my cofounder and I will each have a 100k salary.
I read a tweet once that compared personal websites to little gardens. I've done some gardening myself lately, and it felt great: my personal site has a minimal-er design now. It turns out you can just include a CSS file that has all of Github's markdown styling rules, and then you basically get instant nice formatting.
In other personal news, our daughter is nine months old now and had a step-change improvement in her crawling skills yesterday. Fun times ahead.
I'm allocating more time to non-startup software projects, so I'll probably do a release for Biff in the coming weeks, and somewhat relatedly, I'm continuing to work on Infovore. (My personal site is published with Infovore, actually. Now I just need to add an editor so I can add more posts to it...).
Jacob