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How to kill your blog with overthinking
If you are a regular in this part of the web you may have noticed a certain decline in amount of blog post here this year and especially through the summer. I have a "good" reason for it besides of a bad one. The "good" one is that I've been busy with Stylebook. Stylebook was launched during spring and ever since I have spend a lot of any spare time in tweaking the site, creating materials for it, checking comments and all sorts of stuff like that. As I mentioned above there's been a bad reason too. The usual, I had run out of will to blog. Call it lack of inspiration, call it something...
Why I won't use the Finnish language translation of your service
One of my biggest projects this year, Stylebook, has a newsletter list on MailChimp. Anyone can subscribe to it through our website. The newsletters, as our service, are in Finnish. And because MailChimp offers Finnish translation for their basic forms and confirmation emails, we've turned that on. We already had noticed that some of the automatic translations are a bit funny. Unfortunately it also appears they cannot be changed manually anywhere. Yesterday my business partner pointed out another rather comical translation mistake: The form where you can update your subscription options...
Living in a small home
When Toni and I moved in our 24 m^2 apartment lots of people were ready to tell us it's too small. They were laughing for the idea that two people would fit in a small place like this. Some offered their great ideas on how we could get a bigger home: "Surely you can come up with this and this amount of money in month for an apartment of this and this size." To which I offered my annoyment. Housing situation is terrible in Helsinki, the capital city of Finland and where we live. Young people being homeless is a growing problem and getting a rental apartment is harder and harder. Especially...
Search for passion
Reading all the well meaning advice of how to be happy with your life and work can be rather depressing. For instance many of all these articles about the subject tell that finding your passion is the way to go. But what if you don't have a clue of what your passion is? Leo Babauta writes on Zen Habits how finding your passion isn't easy. He points out that he's been lucky: He has found his passion and makes a living with it. In the article he points out a couple of simple ways to find your passion. It starts with starting a list with things you are good at, things that excite you, what...
I am an ocean
I am an ocean Silent and loud Moving slow and fast Breathing Living Peaceful for a moment Stormy in the next As the moon is full I don't have to see it Yet I feel it It pulls me over Makes me restless Calls me by my name Knows all of my secrets Hears my private thoughts And I answer it's call I answer without choice Begging it to let me free Asking for relief But it keeps drawing me Bright and calm Holding tight Until I give in I am an ocean Silent and loud
Does Pinterest drive sales and traffic?
Today someone on Twitter was asking for data about Pinterest driving sales. I did what he could've done in the first place: Fired up a search and wrote in some magic words. The results of my search were much more interesting than I thought. According to different sources of data Pinterest was driving e-commerce sales and giving bump in traffic. I've noticed the similar effect: Pinterest does drive traffic even to my small blog. The pins don't even have to be repinned over and over again, it's quite enough I share my blog posts to those who follow my boards on Pinterest. Pinterest driving...
Memories of boosting my brain with Tetris
I got my first computer when I was 13. It was a birthday present, a used PC. It came with Intel386, Windows 3.11 and even a modem. I never got to use the modem, back then Internet at home was something really rare and at countryside almost non-existent. This was 1994, you see. I loved that thing. I felt safe when the fans begun their song and the monitor made that funny sound of being fired up. One of the main things I did with it was writing stuff such as poems, diary, school work, beginnings of multiple novels, short stories and more. Oh, I had a printer too. It was pretty neat. But I...
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