Tweetstorms are Stupid

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I would if I didn't feel motivated, I I wouldn't do it. So, but this time, I'm this morning, Monday, I'm forcing myself to do it. I have to quickly do it before I have to walk my son to school. And I'm gonna start as, Paul, my brother-in-law, former guest on the show, said suggested I'd, start building a list of topics, which I think I'll I'll do as well just to have a bank of things to maybe draw from it. Just often I those kind of topics I I don't feel like doing ever after the fact.

I'll think of it say like, you know, I'm walking to school, I think, oh, I should talk about blah And then I'll put it on the list and then I'll come to record the show and look at the list and like, don't feel like talking about that anymore. So but it still works. It'll be okay. And, also feel free to send in questions or topic ideas, questions about the show, question about podcasting, questions about, anything I've talked about. And if it's too personal, I I might just email you back, but I and I might not cover it on the show, but [email protected] is where you can email me.

But I know from past experience, you all aren't the overly communicative type of audience, so that's fine too. Or you can leave a comment in the discuss this episode link in the show notes. We had a busy weekend spending lots of time with friends and or families out every night of the weekend. And, not because of that, but, not two of our kids are sinus cold it is of some sort. And so I'm sure by Friday, Thursday, Friday, I'll be sniffling, kinda like the little advanced warning on what you're gonna get.

This weekend, a bunch of friends from the Internet were either preordering new iPhones, attending a fun conference in Portland called XOXO, or buying tickets for YouTube's just announced tour ending stop in Dublin or maybe all three. Think I don't know if there's a trifecta. Didn't see anybody who was at x x o x o talking about buying tickets to YouTube in Ireland. That would be the one missing connection to have a, triple play of sorts. But on and then I woke up on Saturday with bills and low bank balances on my brain.

And so then I went on Twitter and kind of vented about it, which was actually like, I I don't really support this idea per se, and I feel like I generally try to keep those kinds of things in and not like internally, but like deal with them not by just spewing them online. But it actually was like a this time anyways, it felt very therapeutic and I wasn't too worried about who. I I started off with kind of like a generic thing of just saying going off Twitter for a bit until everyone stops buying new phones and attending cool conferences. And then the second tweet was, and going to fun concerts, so it may be a while, which I was actually kind of serious about in to myself. Like, I was like, I I do mean that.

Like, I'm gonna I'm not gonna go off Twitter necessarily, but just I need to go back to using my quiet Twitter list, which is a list on Twitter, a private list I don't have. That just follows a few people and I can drop people off that list without unfollowing them. And that way, if somebody is just kinda like either good or bad kind of irritation irritation or motivation or whatever, you know, like when everybody's preordering their iPhones or whatever, like, and I'm not buying an iPhone, I don't need to be like feel, like, peer pressured or, like, I should be following along with the crowd. And and that's what my brain often does is, like, oh, I see all these people reading tweeting about doing this thing. I should probably also be doing that thing, which is kinda why social media is evil and works really well because I'm as a marketer and then as a normal person, I kind of play both sides of the the field.

But, so then I just kind of was like, I was supposed to be vacuuming and and I did vacuum, but I went on for about, I don't know, whatever it was, five or eight tweets or something in further just kind of like venting a bit and being a little bit more real vulnerable about, you know, lack of success in business and things like that and just kind of like because it's it's often like, John Locke replete replied to me at some point in there. I can't find the exact tweet he said. But something about like, you know, most people online, especially if they're in the marketing space and business selling themselves online, they don't really ever expose the the tend not to try and expose any of the the crap that happens, the mistakes and stuff. And unless it's like in a 22 list article about how to recover from escapes and or some mistakes and and this is now their success or whatever. And so this it was just kinda like me in the midst.

And actually it was rather than like taking it out of my family in frustration or, you know, being bitter that's whatever life choices I made and stuff like that, which is really what the root cause of it, it's it was kinda just like releasing it and he was gone. And I don't know, maybe sometimes it works well enough for me to just like write those thoughts down on in day one, a journal or app or somewhere on a, you know, piece of paper or a normal journal. That works fine or talking with friends or talking with family about some of those things. And sometimes it's just kinda nice just to throw it out into the Internet, into the ether and have it be gone from my brain and out there. And and I'm not really looking for support or sympathy.

There were some interesting comments and stuff and it was great to hear that. And I appreciate the sort of human response the humanity in in the responses and stuff. But I wasn't looking for sympathy or Tweets or replies or retweets or any of those kinds of things. It was more just a bit of sort of self care in a way. So yeah.

That's that is what it is. And, and we're okay. Like, we're not we're we're as a family and and me personally too, like, overall, definitely doing well and not like death depths of despair as much as probably it reads and that's the danger I think in doing some of those things is that it reads really bad or really bad, sometimes. And so, yeah, I thought I'd just address it on Daily yesterday. I'm meeting with another a potential another editing podcast editing client today.

So which is something I'm trying to branch out into more intentionally. It's kind of sort of stumbled into a little bit and realized how much I enjoy doing it actually. And so working on a website for that is a bit of a marketing site for that, but also trying to just test out the waters with a few clients and see how how the process works. And so just throwing that out there. If you've got a podcast you need to have edited, produced, get in touch, or, maybe you hear of somebody who wants to do one.

It does cost money. Like, you have to pay for my time. It's not just for fun as much as it is for fun. I do enjoy doing it, but, also gotta pay the bills. So, anyways, that's it for this day episode of Daily(ish).

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