No Newsletter This Week, AMA
Hi all,
I’m afraid the last week has been a bit rough for me and I’m hitting a total emotional wall on writing at the moment (I’ve even failed to keep up the daily writing practice reliably!), and all the work in progress is stuff that I’d like to do properly, so in lieu of phoning it in I’m just going to give you my apologies and skip a week.
I’ll try to build up a buffer this week so that I have a few queued up to prevent this happening again, but realistically it’s probably going to happen again.
If you’d like to though, I’d encourage you to use the comments section (which is open for everyone, not just paying subscribers) to ask me anything, or start a discussion about any of the previous posts or notebook posts (or anything else that feels vaguely on topic really!)
one more thing...not a question but I just want to let you know that I really appreciate your writing and I've gained a lot of valuable insight from it. I've read every post on your notebook since early May and many of the posts before that too. I hope things begin to look up for you as I look forward to reading your writing every day, but don't put unnecessary pressure on yourself to write one days when it takes too much out of you. thank you for all of your ideas !
Relating to a recent notebook post, https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-06-22-19:57.html, how do you think this interacts with cases where there's a community of experts that are connected to a community of non-experts but neither is directly reliant on the other? For instance, a lot of software isn't used by non-developers, but I wouldn't expect that attitude to necessarily change for someone working on that type of software.