370: ‘Fine Hypertext Products’, With Jason Kottke
The Talk Show With John Gruber
I'm Not Sure I'll Do This Again This Way
I had a membership thing back in 2005 when I first started doing Kotki.org as a full-time thing and I did it sort of like a PBS style thing where it was like a whole like pledge drive kind of thing. Some of the books were like you know like I just like cold cold emailed Malcolm Gladwell's publisher and said hey can I get some signed books to give away for this thing? And after about a year I was like okay I'm not sure I'm going to do this again this way because I felt like at the time that it was this weird pressure that I had put on myself. But I feel like I had 1500 bosses and it was stressing me out
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