I know I've been really quiet with regards to the things we're working on at the Foundation, but it is really a result of being a terribly busy patch of my life (which doesn't look likely to stop before end-of-year). That said, I'm excited as ever about the Foundation and can't wait to grow it - with Jeanne's help - next year!
The Tumblr experiment is over & I'm officially back on WordPress. Heck, I couldn't be the co-founder of one of the largest WordPress theming companies online & not take advantage of all the cool stuff we've been building lately...
This is my new setup:
Why did I do this now? Well, our WordPress work in the last couple of months evolved and progressed to such an extent that most of the benefits of initially experimenting with Tumblr finally evaporated (in the sense that I could get the same features on WordPress and own my own data). So moving back to WordPress and thoroughly giving our own work a kick of the tires, seemed like a logical and much more flexible choice.
You can thus take this move as a signal of my and our intent in the microblogging space and you should expect WooThemes to cause a few ripples in this regard in the next couple of months.
Watch this space.
[box type="note"]There's a lot still to happen here and this is just the very first phase of the migration back to WordPress. So bear with me whilst I customize & improve everything again...[/box]
So… My last post on here was more than a month ago and in the few weeks prior to that I wasn’t overly productive (in terms of writing at least) either. The question thus begs to be answered: Why have I been so quiet here, as well as on Twitter, Flickr and everywhere else that matters online.
Simple answer: I’ve been busy.
They say that when the going gets tough, the tough gets going & to a large extent I believe that has been the case for me: I’m getting married in 2 weeks’ time, I’ve sold almost a 1000 copies of my book on pre-order, I’ve been working extremely hard with WooThemes, radiiate & Rockstar Foundation (significant updates on radiiate & Rockstar Foundation soon) & have had quite a few speaking gigs of late (with a few more coming soon). So this kinda means that blogging here completely falls off of the radar…
In addition to all of that, I’ve been blogging *a lot* over on the WooThemes blog, which means that even after everything else that I’ve been working on, I kinda feel drained when it comes to producing content (on here, Twitter or Flickr) that is not necessary at this time.
So there you have it: it’s not because I want to lay low or that I don’t have something to say… In fact, I have a lot to say, I just don’t have as much time…
Haha, I had to laugh at this, but only because it’s both funny and true.
See, the world is only willing to reward innovation if they know about it and if they get a sense that the masses will do the same. People (in the context of society / groups) are on average followers and will only follow trends; so it’s incredibly hard to influence this behaviour in a group, which will in turn prompt them to “beat a path to your door”.
I love the description of a startup above and agree wholeheartedly with Eston’s views on why titles actually do not matter.
This is a similar approach to what we have at WooThemes, where we’ve never been overly fussed about titles and specific job descriptions. And the only reason why I didn’t write such an article, is because I’m not nearly as eloquent as Eston, who manages to write an extremely intellectual article on the matter. :)