This is going to be a short post, because I really just want to pose these questions: do we mean what we say? And does it matter who we say it to? And why does asking these questions make me wince?
The advice you give, the inspiration that you conjure up, the tactics that you teach – do you mean it? Do you really want to create a following of people who are, in some ways, like you? Do you want people to do what you do, say what you say, feel how you feel, and create businesses like yours?
Because, isn’t that what we’re doing? When I tell you my online business experiences, and my takeaways and lessons learned and food for thought and advice, what I’m really doing is telling you what to do – mistakes to avoid, strategies to try, and the like. I am, in a way, fostering my own competition.
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OK. So. If you’re in the blogging community at all, and certainly if you use WordPress, I’ve sure you’ve seen the ridiculousness that is grown men acting like fools over the WordPress GPL.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, read this and this and this for starters. Or check out Chris’ Twitter or Matt’s Twitter. Then come back here. I don’t have the time or energy to rehash it all.
I’m not a lawyer. And also, I’m not a developer. But I’m both a WordPress and a Thesis user (SpendLessOnLife.com is going to launch in the next couple weeks, using Thesis). I have no desire to spend my day following the he said, he said “facts”, or searching through Thesis code to compare it to WordPress code so I can point a finger at someone. I have a life.
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Sometimes, I feel like both nature and corporate America are conspiring against me to make sure I get zero work done.
Such has been my life lately. With multiple Internet outages for long periods of time (at the fault of either nature or Comcast, or sometimes both) having happened so far this summer, I’ve actually been forced to write down what I should/could do in the event that I do not have Internet access.
And, sidenote, we’re a one car family. The husband takes the car to go to and from chiropractic school every day. So I, typically, do not have a car to drive to find myself a place that does have Internet access. So don’t comment and tell me to go seek out a connection. 
So here’s my “dammit, the Internet is out again and I need to do something to make progress on something so I’m not so far behind later that I want to cry” list.
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