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Funding Online Work in 2018

I wrote an unusual blog post (and designed an accompanying infographic) on my main site, It’s Pronounced Metrosexual, where I disclosed the numbers on the number of people who have contributed to the site, and the number who hasn’t. 

It’s reflective of all of my work, and an interesting (I think) take on the reality of creating stuff for the internet.

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Learning from Mistakes Quote

Mistakes don’t guarantee learning, but learning requires mistakes.

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Be the Wind or the Sail Quote

Be the wind, or risk becoming the sail.

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After 7 Years Doing this Work, I’m [Re-] Branding. Here’s how I’m making decisions.

I got thrown into this. Two-fold.

I got thrown into the work I’ve been doing. And I got thrown into a situation that’s led me to question everything, rethink and restructure, and make decisions that feel like an overall “brand.”

While I’m happy I’m here, one of the strongest forces that’s guiding what I do next is precisely avoiding how I got here: no more being thrown into stuff. Seem easy? Maybe. Probably not.

I’ll get to that in a second, but first the back story.

Every project I’m doing n...

Totally new site. Slightly new direction.

Howdy! Today marks two turning points: the design of this site has changed (from this to this), and the name has changed (from “Dear World” to “Sam Killermann’s Blog”).

From here on, in addition to things I’ve been writing about before (like happiness & technology), I’ll also be writing about how I DIY (do it myself) in all things social good & online platform related, and posting more personal updates about my work/life.

And totally new: I’ll be creating members-only content! So

I can’t stop thinking about the “Social Justice Dogma,” or keeping quiet.

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The Road Away From Email

I wish I never had to read another email.

This is something I’ve said thousands of times, aloud and in my head (mostly in my head). I’ve said it in anger after opening another death threat. I’ve said it in frustration when an email sent me down a rabbit hole that took me away from a project I had planned for the day. It’s been an underlying sentiment for years, but it wasn’t until recently that it turned into a concrete plan:

I am going to stop reading emails.

But how?

Email Drives My Life

I,...

2016, A Brief Review of Creativity

2016 was, well,quitethe year.

All in all, I side with what appears to be the consensus that it was, if given only one descriptor, a dumpster fire. That said, it was also more than a dumpster fire, and I want to take a moment to reflect on some of the things I made this year — something I basically never do.

So, with that said, following iswhat I finished, published, and/or createdin 2016.

Ilaunched a few new big projects.

hues, the global justice collective that I co-founded and now houses me...

A Fix: Politics Not Reminiscent of Sports

Political discourse is at a place where it’s hard—if not impossible—to see it as productive. Most times, it doesn’t even seem like folks who are arguing have a vision for anything being accomplished by that argument, other than hearing words yelled.

Facts have been weaponized and are lobbed as projectiles, not used as tools to build a bridge from one perspective to another. Opinions are worn like armor, used to protect ourselves from the bombardment of facts. We scream for our ideas to drown...

Maintaining a Daily Meditation Habit

I’m on day 9 of 100 in my quest to making meditation an integral part of my daily routine. At just shy of 10%, I have already learned a lot that will inform the next 90. I’m going to walk through what I’m planning to draw upon, from most concrete to most abstract.

1. Tools matter.

There’s this famous Audre Lorde quote that gets tossed around a lot inthe social justice activism spaces I occupy: “For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”

Folks generally take it to mean th...