Own your own website. Own your mailing list. Own your newsletter. Own your blog and prioritise your RSS feed.

This is the stuff that works in the long term.

Chasing virality on every new shiny platform is a waste of time.

@Daojoan Be a sysadmin even if you never wanted to be. Learn CSS, learn HTML, no Javascript though. Mitigate spammers. Know more than you ever wanted about websites and swear to never make it an unpaid job again.

@nini @Daojoan The hatred of JavaScript is irrational.

It’s a programming language. It’s really useful. Is it sometimes abused? Sure! This doesn’t make it intrinsically bad.