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The value of holding onto your links

David from the future: David’s Daily Journal (DDJ) is now defunct. See the 20/ New Directions newsletter for more information.

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I think I’ve committed, at least for now to DDJ and retroactively changed all the previous to this title. I’ve also realized that this whole this will be updated continuously throughout the day. In fact, it might be the only way to maintain it.

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There is value in holding onto your links on your own website, instead of leaving them on Twitter or Facebook. It gives you better control of your digital life. And thankfully, because I am using Ghost, if they pull up stakes and leave, I can still download the source code and run it on my own server (please don’t do that Ghost).

Up next 13/ Daily Writing A cathedral of books and some tools to help you write one of them. Daily Journals leading to Digital Gardens One of my hopes to do with these daily journals is to start creating my own digital garden of ideas. I have a collection of notes that I have
Latest posts Dealing with the Jealousy Alarm Why the new stories lately? Mud Pot “What the hell is going on?” 24/ Where I’ve been Creation, not consumption Getting Older and Slower Coming back to work 23/ Stretched thin and moving forward The Rule of Threes, Conflict, and Starting Your Story 22/ Blogging is my Hobby More than One Want Old Posts Why is this particular character on this journey? Breaking the Website, Breaking the Book Story Maps You’ll get through it 100 Attempts My March Challenge Becoming a Streamer Make your story (and marketing) rhyme What I want to do around here On Canoeing Reader Error The Continuum of Long Term Listen for the music Imposter Syndrome 21/ Tiny Notes Notes on “The Calculus of Grit” Tea Time Log Jams and the Creativity Faucet