I had the absolute pleasure to talk to Protesilaos Stavrou. He is such a nice host, permitting to derail his line of topics and inquiries over and over again, and still enjoying the process. 11/10, can recommend.
YouTube: Prot Asks: Christian about indie dev, philosophy of experiences, Zettelkasten
The constant here is: work.
– Prot
We started chatting about development, and being an independent vs freelancer;
2000’s/2010’s discovery of attention grabbing techniques on the web; and how interaction, not attention, is the better currency of monetization;
“build it and they will come”, the bane of independent development;
working with a Zettelkasten, writing and thinking over long periods of time, keeping your thoughts organized (e.g. for a PhD thesis or other complex project); how you, the user, are the stateful machine that interprets notes over and over like a computer interprets code for execution;
Maybe you don’t know, but I’m organizing a local Urban Sketchers group in Bielefeld for 6 years. We meet regularly and draw and paint together. And that’s how I met your mother,
– I’d say if you were my child. As a birthday present, I got a Portable Painter Micro palette from my wife (she’s the best). It’s a watercolor palette holding 6 half-pans, and she picked colors to match Teoh Yi Chie’s 2021 palette, who historically very vibrant and fun paintings!
This time I remembered to record our weekly sketch-together over Discord. Here’s a 4x speed version with narration of this evening’s sketches. The focus was on tonal values, so no colors, just pen and ink, then ink washes on watercolor paper. The paper I used here is the Moleskine watercolor pocket book (Affiliate link). I don’t like that paper for watercolor paintings, but it’s great for ink washes, because it absorbs the ink quite rapidly (unlike regular drawing paper).
I know that #IndieSupportWeeks were supposedly a thing that ended in early 2020, but I don’t see why we shouldn’t continue shouting-out to the devs of apps we use everyday. Late in 2020, @Splattack on the Zettelkasten Forum brought up Monodraw – think OmniGraffle, but with ASCII box art!
