What now?

I started this aimless newsletter two years ago. It's time for a change.

A man with a smile casually walks out of an office with chaos inside. Include at least one flying accountant.

After graciously failing My Two Year Plan, instead of jumping straight into the next thing, I resisted the urge and did nothing – other than work to keep the lights on.

It felt terrific, and I got better at not caring.

Do you know what happened during all these months I didn’t care – Nothing.

Besides the obvious drops in profile visits, engagement, and other magic metrics, none of the things I care about that make a good impact – like my blog¹ – suffered any damage.

This newsletter? Not a scratch!²

My blog’s reach – where I try to give my best knowledge to web developers – kept growing. As for Twitter, I was making the same $0 from it as before.

Should I have stressed less and devoted more attention to my blog – Yes.

But as Steve Jobs said, ”You can't connect the dots looking forward;”

Thanks for still reading my stuff!

—Akos

1. In future issues, I’ll be including links to the articles I wrote since the last newsletter issue you got. I know I have web developers here, and I’m sure what I write is helpful to you.

2. I’d like to thank you for this by writing less. Your time is valuable, so I’m setting up some restrictions for future issues. I’ll rename the newsletter to Bitsy - which sounds like pici, which means tiny in Hungarian. Tiny, small, bit, you get it. I’m doing this because:

I often wondered in 2 or 3 directions in my previous newsletters when I only wanted to deliver one idea. From now on, I’ll be allowed to write as much as fits on my laptop screen without scrolling – not including the title, picture, and footnotes. I love the footnotes.