Personal Websites (and Beans)
Let me explain something to you.
Imagine yourself at a Hyatt hotel somewhere.
Imagine the beautiful breakfast buffet.
It has everything you could dream of.
Take a moment and picture it in your mind. Table after table, from front to caboose.
Hot dishes like eggs, potatoes, bacon, beans, sausage, oatmeal.
Fresh fruits of every color.
Sweet pastries, breads, toasts, bagels, jams.
Whatever you like to eat or drink, it's there.
If I gave you a free pass to eat and enjoy, would you serve yourself a big fat plate of only pinto beans?
Of course not.
Imagine all that pasty mush, bite after bite. How boring would that be?
Imagine the flatulence.
Would you enjoy it? No.
Would others enjoy watching and hearing your gastro-stress? Not likely.
Now keep this image of the buffet front and center as you read my beliefs:
I believe that you, the reader, should have a personal website.
I believe that you, the reader, are a curious human being.
I believe that you should then use your website to show the world the vast range of topics and things that you enjoy, think about, are interested in, study, follow, and curate.
I believe that you should use your website to put together your fascinating thoughts from different life experiences you have, projects, jobs you hold, or pursuits.
The more unrelated the better.
The stranger the better.
The more you, the better.
Now that is a cool way to use the internet.
No need for a "brand" or an "audience" or a "feed" or some corporation to give you juice and make money off you. In fact, how about we put those marketing terms from the last ten years into a big ass grave and move onto something more fun?
If I could suggest a new motto it might be: Own your buffet.
Use a personal website to create your 'Hyatt.'
Then serve up something good instead of serving up a fat plate of stale, lifeless beans: one-sided, mushy, corporate-canned crap.
Let people come, stay a while, and fill up.
I intend to put everything here on my website. Using BearBlog has been a pleasure since I started. It's fun and there's a good community here. I hope you'll do the same.