I have some work to share and a few other things.
First, one of the other things: If you're a blogger (or whatever), you gotta try Quotebacks. My friends Tom and Toby made this browser extension for saving and embedding quotes from online writing, and I love it. Only available on Chrome currently, but Firefox support is coming soon.
The ultimate goal is to encourage and activate a deeper cross-blogger discusson space. To promote diverse voices and encourage networked writing to flourish.
But, while that's a lofty goal the tool is small and simple. Quotebacks is three things:
- A web-native citation standard and quoting UX pattern
- A tiny library, quoteback.js, that converts HTML <blockquote> tags into elegant interactive webcomponents
- A browser extension to create quoteback components and store any quotes you save to publish later.
Quotebacks are so convenient that I already can't imagine reverting to another form of bookmarking... and that's not even the intended use case! Incredible. Here's the Hacker News thread for optional perusal.
I posted the digital version of Adornment for members:
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By the way, I'm now shipping zines internationally! If you've been holding back for that reason, it's your lucky day 😉🤗 Unless your country is on this list.
As promised, I wrote up my conversations with @estnihil and Carol Chen:
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A little while ago, I contributed to Cypherpunk Women, an online anthology about bitcoin. Normally I steer clear of gender-focused projects, but I'm a big fan of collection editor Leigh Cuen. I wrote a short piece called "Intimate Transactions," and made this collage:
Some thought-provoking links, no particular order:
- Reality has a surprising amount of detail
- Hic Sunt Dracones
- Liquefying the Heartland: an experiment in wild geopolitical speculation
- Reading notes: Civilization & Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. I: The Structures of Everyday Life
- A Love of Future Existence
- The Myth Of Blackness In Venture
- Random Surfaces Hide an Intricate Order
- The Feed
- Questing for Transcendence
- Disabilities of Absence, Disabilities of Pain
- How common was it was for parents to lose a child?
- Lost Art Of Bending Over: How Other Cultures Spare Their Spines
Lastly, a brief report on the Sonya Supposedly endeavor. A month into my independent quest / quest for independence, I've gathered 43 paying members (among ~1,700 email subscribers total). Thank you for believing in me! 😲🥳
By the way... I must admit that I'm not in love with "membership" to describe what I'm selling, but I haven't come up with a better term. Yet! It's that pesky "making yourself legible to others in a way that they like" conundrum again.
Gross revenue in May was just over $800:
I need to multiply that top-line number by 7.5 within the next five months in order to reach my goal of $6,000. Slightly daunting, but not undoable!
my goal is to hit one or both of these numbers by the end of October:
— sonya! supposedly? (@sonyasupposedly) May 20, 2020
• 500 paying members (https://t.co/MhvIk1SKKS)
AND/OR
• $6,000 gross monthly revenue
ambitious goal(s), but that's meeee 😬😅
Another metric is that 43 members = 8.6% of 500. Almost a tenth of the way there, from my glass-half-full perspective!
Until next time 👋
Bunderful photo by Rennett Stowe.
