Other Things

I studied Architecture in College. I was a computer nerd from birth (well, close), and one day I realized software was a better career than Architecture. I got into it the hard way, but I've done alright for myself. I also make furniture when I feel like it. And I bike some.

Besides stories and storytelling, I expect I'll occasionally drop-in a post about something software or city or woodworking or biking related. Probably not a lot, but some.

Why muddy up a writing blog with that shit?

Well, first of all, I've tried having more than one blog in the past, and it's just a bad idea. I mean, it's a sensationally bad idea.

It's incredibly draining to maintain a content stream that's worth anything. You need to write pithy posts (like this one) on a regular basis, and you wouldn't believe how fast you run out of ideas for content.

If you don't maintain that steady trickle of interesting tid-bitia, you don't have any readers. Without readers you have no fans, no audience. And without fans, or an audience, well, frankly, there's no point.

I don't have the time or energy to maintain separate streams for my separate interests, and the more I've thought about it the more I've decided that it wouldn't be a good idea anyway.

The real goal of any content producer is to collect the tribe of nerds that like the same stuff you do, so that if you ever get around to making something genuinely interesting, you've got a friendly tribe to show it to, some of whom might even be happy to pay you for it. That's the dream of every maker.

If you're reading this, I'm hoping you don't mind. And if you do mind... Well, John Scalzi has kind of a popular blog. You can always read that, I guess.