Dev Criativo - Substack
I'm looking for my people and having an online presence is quite necessary.
This year has been my most productive year. I write this post at the beginning of September and I estimate I'll have done around 40 personal projects by New Year - a lot of stuff. But this year is also one of the years I've earned the least amount of money in recent times. This is not right.
I have a broad set of skills and I have done cool projects that no one outside my closest circles have seen. To change this, around June, I began to post my projects and essays on LinkedIn, but this did not bring interesting people willing to work with me, and it also doesn't allow me to network effectively as I expected. So I created a Substack.
To justify the Substack I decided to create weekly projects... but weekly projects seem too small to me, so I decided for 15-day projects and I would start a new 15-day project every week. This way I can juggle complex projects with smaller ones and still finish projects every week.
Every Friday just before 6 in the morning I send an e-mail to my mailing list with my update. Other content like essays and tutorials are published on my Substack for free. I want to make paid content, but don't know exactly what to sell.
Writing for the Substack has been less challenging than I anticipated. When I sit to write about the ongoing projects I just write. The insights come naturally and I like sharing my process, so I try to share interesting moments. If it is interesting enough to be remembered without notes, it probably is really interesting. The posts tend to rest on a relatively big wordcount, but I think this is ok for this type of content.
I finish my articles listing all the links used in them and right below it I have a section of "themes" of that article. It is a free association section where I just write words related to the update. Feels like a mind dump, which is more or less my mindset when writing the updates, so I guess it is cool. I don't know where the idea of ending my articles with a mind dump came from, but I like it.
In September I decided to prepare a portfolio and pivot towards an AI engineering career. This meant no more bi-weekly projects for a while.
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Substack, Obsidian