SYW | My personal website! (robertl.in) 🥳

I saw this new SYW channel dropped, so I thought I’d share! 🙋‍♂️ (Also, my understanding is that in the dfos worldview, chat is meant to be “ephemeral” (even subject to auto-deletion!) and posts are designed to be more “cannon”? (And then, I guess, public posts externally representing a dfos space would be “super-cannon”? 🤔) Anyway, if I’m putting this in the wrong place, someone please just yell at me. 🙇🙇‍♀️🙇‍♂️)

What I wanted to share though was my personal website: https://robertl.in

My personal site is honestly the single best way to know me. I post on Bluesky every day of what I’m reading/watching/listening/thinking about and my site then aggregates everything, giving visitors insight into my world. You can also easily see every single person/organization/media entity since 2024 who’s ever influenced my “thought supply chain” or see the various seasons I’ve moved through. (eg. I went through a very intense ‘Tim Ferriss’ phase in early 2024. 🙂) In general, I’m a big believer that building a personal site is the single fastest way to “help your people find you.”

It’s been a real labor of love I started back in Jan 2024 which was when I started using social media every day (I started on X and then eventually moved to Bluesky) and discovering social media honestly changed my life. (It’s how I discovered, for example, Metalabel and New Creative Era! 🥳) I’ve always enjoyed writing but had previously journaled longhand in my own spiral-bound notebooks. Eventually, I moved through EverNote, OneNote, Notion, and Obsidian. And today I journal daily on a kludged-together ecosystem I’ve created of my website/Bluesky/Substack.

My background is in software and I hail from an OSS and #buildinpublic mentality where we literally just give everything away for free (generosity! 🎉) so I confess: dfos thinking and values are foreign and contrary to me. I'm also old and have been burned a few times now by platform risk 😔so my soul is weary; thus, my current mode is POSSE.  eg. All the notes I took while reading Antimemetics - public!  But I agree with Yancey and Josh that a New Creative Era is required and artists need to be more fairly paid!! ✊ GIVE ARTISTS TONS AND TONS OF MONEY!! 💰💰💰 So I’m here to help towards that effort in any way I can. 👍

My site also collects my various writings as well as just weird, one-off experiments that snipe me.  Most recently, I just launched a new series called The Robertlandian on Substack where I'm currently trying my hand at writing satire (in the spirit of The Onion/Borowitz) and am also noodling on a possible "future of news" vibecode, inspired by Bertrand Russell, that I call the Russell News Conjugator.  Finally, this summer I'll be walking part of the Camino Santiago in a bid to DEFEAT my coworker at our company's annual summer step challenge (https://JamesVsRobert.com/).  I think there's quite a few NCE Lisbon people here (which is where I plan to start!) so if anyone ever wants to grab a coffee IRL, please lmk!  Would love to hang out with fellow NCE peeps abroad! 🎉