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Trimming the Feed Noise →
What Aaron Mahnke has learned from giving up the noise of his feeds:
- I get a lot more work done.
- I’m getting a lot better at what I do.
- Apple is STILL going to release the iPad in March whether I read every pre-release review or not.
- When I get my work done faster, I have more time with my family.
- When something really important needs to find its way to me, it always does.
- If a friend wants to get in touch, they can email me.
I’m at fault of doing this from time to time although I feel less overwhelmed with the amount of information I subscribe to because I keep it in shape with Reeder App throughout the day.
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Blogging is all about doing what you love, forget the rest. You blog because you love it, not because you want it as your career, or because Google Adsense might make you rich. It’s like being a rock star, but less cool, and no one knows you.
– Interview with Cameron “i/o” Hunt conducted by Shawn Blanc. This pretty much sums up my commitment to this site. -
I read a lot of posts on social media hoping someone will say something new, but that never happens. We need to stop masturbating to what the tool is and start using it to see how it works.
– Rebecca Thorman on Stop Writing About Social Media to be a Successful Blogger. I can’t help agreeing a little with her on this. Basically, write about something else besides social media because everyone else is already doing it. -
Finding That Sweet Spot →
Having read Chris Guillebeau’s eBook, 279 Days to Overnight Success, I learned that blogging can be a very demanding craft especially if your ambition is to generate some money with it and also that there really is no such thing as overnight success.
Most of what’s mentioned in the eBook I’ve come acrossed elsewhere but this one is perhaps the best written on the topic and it’s always refreshing reading up on the fundamentals of how to achieve more with something that you enjoy doing; in this case blogging.
Out of the 79 pages of valuable information, this passage by far stood out the most for me because I think everyone that blogs seeks to find that happy medium:
Naturally, you can’t get paid for everything you love, but there is usually a sweet spot of convergence between what you love and what people want to pay for. Clay Collins illustrates this concept well with the following diagram:
