I use my own platform, and I am partial to Twitter, but I like what Alan Jacobs had to say here about Micro.Blog.

• The community of the platform
• The simplicity of the platform for all blogging purposes
• The ease of journaling that can be accomplished

Simple and done.

You know me, I like the easiest of all available options.

(Whatever makes starting easier.)

I’m not sure I want to compete with Elon Musk in that arena though…

But maybe I’m wrong. 🤷‍♂️

There is a lesson here.

If looking to innovate, reducing friction should not be overlooked.

I should have jumped into the later internet mania – the early blogging mania – of 2004-2008.

Should have started blogging then instead of worrying about how to go back to grad school.

I know. Fate does what it wills… (And so does free will.)

But a few of those sure feel like wasted years.

Nearly every super successful blogger I know started near that time. 🤔

He jumped right into dot-com mania in 1995, when, fresh out of college, he founded a company called Zip2—a primitive Google Maps meets Yelp. That first venture ended up a big, quick hit. Compaq bought Zip2 in 1999 for $307 million. Musk made $ 22 million from the deal and poured almost all of it into his next venture, a start-up that would morph into PayPal. As the largest shareholder in PayPal, Musk became fantastically well-to-do when eBay acquired the company for $ 1.5 billion in 2002.

-Ashley Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Amazon)