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Want More Meaningful Connections?

Do you want more meaningful connections? Make them!

I know I do, and social media is entirely unhelpful in that respect. It's basically the worst. I mean, it's good for becoming a meme lord, or arguing with Nazis, but most of my social media has turned into this weird and useless echo chamber.

So I've decided to do something about it.

A while ago I came across this thing called TinyLetter. It's run by Mailchimp, so it's not entirely just something done out of the goodness of their hearts, but it is free, which is kind of cool! And if you don't feel like setting up your own mailserver and doing all the kinds of things that you'll need to do to send emails to more than a couple of people, this is a good compromise.

TinyLetter is super easy to sign up for! Pass the captcha, add your name and email, click a link, fill out a couple of other things and you're in. Now all you need to do is send emails.

Basically, where you normally would write a tweet or post to social media, all you have to do is put that content in an email instead, then click send!

It's possible that you'll have to get used to writing emails and sending them before they're some huge massive undertaking, but guess what? That's OK! Emails shouldn't actually take a lot of time or effort to write, and it's OK if you send them out before they're a big thing. Really, it's OK I promise!

Anyway, I've set mine up right here, if you'd like to subscribe: https://tinyletter.com/waynewerner I'll probably be sending emails out roughly once a week, maybe more, maybe less.

I'm really just making 2019 my year of taking my digital life back. I don't want to live in a world where my worth is only judged in terms of my ad revenue. I want to make real, meaningful connections with people. So that's what I'm working on.

How about you?

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Flight Time

Published: Thu 25 October 2018
By Wayne Werner

In blags.

tags: travel blog stream of consciousness

I'm on my way from FSM to DFW this morning (and from there to BOS). I'm going to Boston for a job interview, and I figured that I'd do a little bit of active entertianment by writing, rather than passive where I'm just watching some shows that I've downloaded on …
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What is Expertise?

Published: Fri 10 August 2018
By Wayne Werner

In blags.

tags: skills life semantics expert

Yesterday I was out mowing the lawn when my daughter came out of the house with a poopy diaper in a bag. She tried to save herself from having to step off of the concrete one step by throwing the bag over the fence at the garbage cans. In doing …
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More Frequent Posting

Published: Sun 20 May 2018
By Wayne Werner

In blags.

tags: blogs writing habit productivity

Recently I've read some articles about writing blog posts more frequently. I think there's a lot to be said for posting more frequently than what I have been doing (which is improving, but still not great). I do find that writing more often helps me to keep my thoughts better …
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A Shift in Perception

Published: Fri 04 May 2018
By Wayne Werner

In blags.

tags: psychology orientation hotels perception

For the last week I've been staying at a hotel, and each time I leave the elevator I turn left instead of right to go to my room. Every time. It got so bad that at one point I tried swiping my card on the wrong door before I realized …
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On Advertising in Media

Published: Fri 02 March 2018
By Wayne Werner

In blags.

tags: advertising media facebook news disruption

Duncan Stephen writes

The newspaper industry’s attempt to pin the blame of their woes on Facebook is wrong.

It is not only wrong. It is also telling of the myopia that has caused the media industry’s malaise.

Everyone gets disrupted eventually

and

Instead, newspapers have lowered their quality …
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Working Hard and Saying No

Published: Tue 27 January 2015
By Wayne Werner

In blags.

tags: no work

I'm really not sure what I plan to write about, but it's been too long since I've last written. One of the reasons is that I've been taking on more responsibility at work, which is fun, exciting, and challenging. My current big challenge is taking a project that has been …
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Webpage Update

Published: Sat 02 March 2013
By Wayne Werner

In blags.

tags: development website

I'm going to be updating my site soon. Instead of waynewerner.com, blog links should begin with http://waynewerner.com/blag/

Hooray redesign!
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I Miss My Brother

Published: Fri 01 March 2013
By Wayne Werner

In blags.

tags: family cancer life

I miss my brother. My wife picked up the Shrek 4-pack from Walmart tonight, and we watched it as a family. The very beginning of the movie is the song, Hallelujah, performed by John Cale. I helped Ross figure out some of the chords and how to tab it out …
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My Weekly Goal

Published: Mon 11 February 2013
By Wayne Werner

In blags.

tags: blog goals software development

I've decided that I want to write at least one post a week. Written communication is surprisingly essential for someone who programs for a living - although it's really not that surprising if you've been in the field for very long.

Or if you think about it for a minute, because …
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