Sometimes I amuse myself with the most random and stupid things!
In this case, I was thinking about how much we talk about scalability of this, that and the other... and I chuckled to myself and thought "well I wish I could scale my LIFE better!"
I have been a rather prolific writer for almost 50 years, and I have always "partitioned" my writing because if I were to put everything in a single place it would amount to what we once upon a time called "post flooding." Besides, the audiences for psychology, cats, stamp collecting and eBay entrepreneurship are pretty different.
What does that have to do with scalability?
One of my great challenges in life has always been that I don't know how to do anything in a half-assed fashion. The result is that I take on something that is supposed to be a 4-hours-a-week part-time gig, but I take it on in such a fashion that it would require a staff of five, working 40 hours a week, to keep up with it.
That's not a part-time gig, that's a suicide mission!
The reason I ended down this particular rabbit hole is that I was sitting here with my five different ideas for things I wanted to write about and I realized "I can't just put it all on Hive!"
Then I got to thinking about the work I'm currently undertaking with my artwork... where we are migrating all my online sales venues to a single location, and building a new website, and undertaking a bunch of social media marketing, and I was trying to gain perspective on that in terms of it being a part-time thing I do on the side and yet? The scale of the project I'm trying to complete is realistically something that probably would take two or three people to effectively do, as full-time work.
Part of the dilemma here, is that most people actually don't really care whether something is done really well, or really effectively.
In this world of super short social media where you are lucky if you get people's attention for 3 seconds, nobody cares about detailed 1500 word essays that explain everything down to the smallest granule.
And if anybody actually does care, they're most likely to ask their AI companion to summarize it into a 15-word snippet, and they certainly don't want to talk to me at length.
I know that the rebranding and representation of my artwork is going to be awesome once it's finished, but the unpleasant elephant that's sitting in the middle of the room is the question of whether it is a worthwhile thing to do?
Of course, I could just claim that I am doing it for ME, but that's a lie in the sense that I can't afford to do it just for me. I should be working on something more directly income producing.
Similarly, I have these five different ideas of things I want to write about and that I have already fleshed out outlines for, but what's the point? And who's ever going to read them? And where should I put them so that any given audience I'm reaching out to doesn't feel like I'm post flooding them?
Earlier, I was talking to a friend about social media and marketing online, and she was amazed that I am — for all intents and purposes — a complete nobody... in spite of the amount of time and effort I put into it.
I chuckled to myself once again, and couldn't help but think that maybe my biggest problem is that I try to stick to reality and quality rather than spreading FUD-based fantasies at the end of clickbait titles!
But for now, I need to get back to distributing my articles across several old blog sites...
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