advocating for personal sites
I’m really glad that others, through blog posts or manifestos on their site, keep advocating for others to make personal websites. A big Tumblr post about it 3 years ago made me create my own site. I thought about whether I should write something similar to give back and spread the word, but not only would I not add anything new, but it also isn’t something I am particularly passionate about. Of course I support others doing it, but my brain doesn’t set itself on fire writing a post about it.
I’m also not very patient and tolerant in this regard, I must admit; if my plea to make personal websites got dragged to social media and link aggregators, I would hate to see the comments. They’re always the same. You always have (sorry to say this) whiners in the comments who are like: “But what about being professional? Why would you make it look so childish? How does this generate money? How does this build my brand? But why do it if no one reads it? If you’re not doing it for a CV or to advertise your product, what would you even write about? Why would you write about yourself, just write in a diary.” and I think others are great at handling these, but I am not. I can’t stand it, we are so different that I really struggle to put myself in their shoes. We don’t have any common ground I can appeal to and I don’t know how I can reach people that are so deeply LinkedIn-brained. I think I can usually make great arguments, but some rifts are so deep and wide I don’t know how to make them see the vision, and I am left speechless.
I think I better serve as a design inspo or making people aware of Bearblog by writing posts about something else that they then come across. I don’t have it in me to hear the weird self-promo, validation seeking concerns. I really struggle with it, because it doesn’t feel like talking to a human who does things for fun, it sounds like talking to a husk that has been hollowed out by the Market™️. I wish it wasn’t so. I wish I could earnestly help people get over the need to perform, impress, hustle and network all day but I can’t. I think others are better at this than me.
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Published 26 Feb, 2025