The line “if you don’t know us, you shouldn’t” is gold. Then Austin Nasso the tech bro vibe codes them a website.
It’s literally so millennial to have a website. HAH!
Watch the YouTube short here.
IT’S LITERALLY SO MILLENNIAL TO HAVE A WEBSITE
Month: January 2026
WORK BEFORE PLATFORMS
Mirella Stoyanova from ‘Author Platform Follows the Work’
“While author platform is important, I think new writers are particularly vulnerable to getting the order of operations wrong.
The author platform follows the work. Not the other way around.
Notably, none of the authors I admire had particularly robust social media platforms before they became successful.”
FIRST DAY OF THE YEAR OVER THE YEARS
2025: NETWORKING WITHOUT SOCIAL MEDIA
2024: BYE, INSTAGRAM
2023: OVEREXTENDING FOR WHO?
2021: PUT YOUR HEALTH ON YOUR CALENDAR
2020: NEW YEARS DAY ADVENTURES
2019: DEFINE YOUR OWN SUCCESS IN 2019
I forgot all about that very adventurous New Yeas Day in 2020! Wild to think how that year turned out.
DOWNLOAD, BACK UP
On the first of the month I’m reminded to download my photos from my iPhone. I do this so I don’t have to keep paying Apple a monthly fee that just keeps going up, and I just like having my photos right where I can see them, in folders.
For December I have 215 photos, 54 screen shots, and 18 videos. I’ll keep that saved locally on my MacBook Pro (just 3.5GB), and start a new folder for January where I’ll dump the photos from my Nikon throughout the month.
Then, in February, I’ll move this January folder to my external hard drive.
My folders goes all the way back to 2002, but it’s not nearly as organized. The total is about 57,000 photos, which takes up 207GB on my 2TB drive, backed up regularly to BackBlaze.
Yeah, I miss the search functionality (finding all the photos of bikes, or cats would be great), but I love only paying .99 cents per month for iCloud instead of $120 a year.
EVERY BOOK IS A LOTTERY TICKET
From Cory Doctorow
“I have one piece of advice: if you read a book you love, tell other people about it. Tell them face-to-face. In your groupchat. On social media. Even on Goodreads. Every book is a lottery ticket, but the bezzlers are buying their tickets by the case: every time you tell someone about a book you loved (and even better, why you loved it), you buy a writer another ticket.”