🔬 Weekly experiment 3, 2021

Hey There.

So something pretty cool happened this weekend. I finally started investing in Twitter to grow my audience. Pretty much by accident, I posted a comment as a repossess on a feed with someone with massive (OK only 50k) following:

Engagement went through the roof. I got more traction with one Tweet comment that I did in the past five years on Twitter. You see this is what happens when you test things out, try and experiment. Eventually, something works. (Sure if I googled a bit I would have gotten here faster 🙈).

But I experimented 💪

🔬 Weekly experiment 2, 2021

I hope you experimented 😉 I certainly did.

I wasn't even aware of all the changes I made, so yeah the first significant change is systematic note-taking of what happened each day.

Not time tracking, but just observing every day what I did. So what happened in the last week:

• Candled my apartment contract. I'm moving out of the capital again. I guess I need to move to a new place every year 🙂 With all this Corona situation (probably not going to end till the end of 2021) I'm done rotting in the concrete jungle.

• I attended a few marketing webinars. I was astounded how much someone can talk and say so little in one hour. I don't get that 🙂

• I shot my first video vlog, which was total crap and went straight to trash. But step one achieved:

The idea was sooo cool. First video not so much, ...

Procrastinate on the food front and be too lazy to get to the shop and cook something other than pasta and rice. Now and then I'm just in no mood for cooking.

• Ever since the beginning of 2021, I'm super nervous. I'm terrified that I won't push forward enough the work on the freedom business and PhD research. Sure I did a lot in 2020, but not what I intended. And I know that I massively procrastinated and could have done more. Oh, the demons of perfectionism.

Found out that someone did part of the research work that I planed as my PhD's core topic. It was a bit depressing for a day, but then I realised that I can build on top of that and that I'm up onto something interesting.

• Had a chat with fellow bloggers. Four strangers from all over the world, discussing how to build an online presence and freedom business—Supper cool.

• Subscribed to a few YouTube channels. I never consumed on YouTube intentionally, and now that I do I get value out of it. Before I was just mindlessly watching movie trailers that fancy algorithms recommended to me.

• I wrote every day for at least two hours. It's a game-changer. If you want to do something, pick up that practice. It's insane how much you can crystallise and focus your thoughts in two hours of writing.

• After several months of working from home, I realised again that I don't like to have the background music when I work, but prefer the complete quiet, which I never get in the office ... On that aspect, I'm not looking forward to the end of Corona ...

With so much happening I'm excited about the upcoming year. That's a lot of stuff, but all those changes are tiny but something new, which excites me.

Reading material

Few things I wrote:

• My relationship with technology
• Why are we so frustrated with technology?
• Who am I? We started with this back in 2020. I wanted to do a re-cap again. I found a few more classifications and will expand on them in the future.

And two more cool things from the far corners of the web:

• Casey Neistat Do what you can't . I've heard about him before, but never watched his videos. So if you need a little motivation boost. Watch it 😉 From his videos, I finally realised why I could benefit from a slightly non-minimalistic creative space—more on that in February.
• Excellent read: How your "Fuck This!" moment changes everything. by Amy Hoy. Are you procrastinating on something because it is too much work? Say "fuck-it" and just do it 😉 That's what I'm doing with my writing at the moment.

Don't forget to experiment and cheers till the next experiment.

Ziga

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