One More Thing Before We Dive In

One more bit of background before I resume talking about Burning Man, the feeling of being called this year, and my choice not to go. I need to talk about Free Refills and how it relates to my career.

I've been publishing Free Refills five times a week for almost five months now. Has it been worthwhile? Sure. Will it continue to be? That's not as clear.

It takes a lot of time and energy to publish five days a week. If I'm going to continue to do so, it needs to be serving to advance my career in ways more than, "This has been an interesting experiment and I've learned a lot."

If it's not, well, I could take some pleasure and pride in what I've accomplished here and put the project to bed at the end of the season.

Or I could reduce the publishing to three days a week, or two, or one, thereby keeping myself publishing while also freeing me to work on other, more lucrative things.

Or I could aim to make Free Refills play an essential part in supporting the advancement of my career, and that means making money.

I've owned the Free Refills domain for almost ten years now, and I've had some version of WordPress installed here since 2006. I've been inconsistent, to say the least, about actually publishing stuff on the site, but I've kept ownership of the domain and been paying hosting fees all this time. That should tell you a lot about my internal sense of how important Free Refills will be in the continued development of my professional life, and thus which of the approaches I outline above speaks to me most powerfully.

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