December 2025 marks the twenty first anniversary of this website. Yearly about this time, I believe to myself: “How loopy! It labored!” I’ve been in a position to decide on my work (or to not work) by myself phrases for some time now. Nevertheless, I preserve going as a result of I really feel that the sharing and writing itself offers each myself and others an ongoing profit. Writing for others makes me analysis extra completely and enhance my understanding of the subject. Whereas it could be fashionable to mock “content material creators”, I proceed to like studying new stuff from on-line communities and people.
One other of the substacks I observe is Sketchplanations by Jono Hey, which explains complicated concepts utilizing easy sketches. Matters could embody all the pieces from vocabulary phrases to scientific theories. Apple and Concepts illustrates the next quote usually attributed to George Bernard Shaw:
In case you have an apple and I’ve an apple and we change apples, then you definitely and I’ll nonetheless every have one apple. However if in case you have an thought and I’ve an thought and we change these concepts, then every of us can have two concepts.
In one other sketch, Three Bricklayers Story does an incredible job explaining the “Three Bricklayers parable” concerning the energy of getting totally different views in your work.
In that means, I believe that every of us, sharing our personal concepts with others, even has a better function. Everybody might help one another transfer ahead just a little bit. I really consider that everybody has one thing beneficial to share about what lights their hearth. Maybe you publish sometimes to a web based discussion board, or simply move issues alongside to shut buddies and youngsters. Even sharing a mistake, what not do, is efficacious. Making a mistake additionally means you a minimum of took motion, took a danger. I’m a shy individual, however I’m at all times amazed that I at all times study one thing even after brief, informal conversations. Someday only a fast facet remark can flip me onto a vastly vital idea.
Finance nonetheless intrigues me, nevertheless it’s additionally enjoyable to be a newbie once more; I contemplate myself a curious novice in operating, triathlons, and woodworking.