This week’s throwback essay is titled “I don’t know anything, and that’s ok“. It was written back in 2015 by my friend Kyle. He and I grew up in similar circumstances; far from a hub of civilization, in a relatively economically depressed area, without the best education opportunities. Yet he and I both managed to…
I was delighted to find several years ago that there’s a thriving WordPress community in Nepal. Via Slack I got to meet Sakin Shrestha, and learned all about what their group is doing in Nepal to create jobs and keep the Nepali from having to leave the country to find work. I recently found out…
In the last year or so I’ve been a lot more involved with the business side of WordPress than the community side. The business side isn’t nearly as loving and supportive as the community side, and some of that is out of necessity. Business is business, and people need to eat. The problem comes when…
In August of 2016 I saw a WordCamp talk on WordPress.tv called “A Hero’s Journey”, and I thought that seemed like something I should know a lot more about. A short time later I was speaking with Tamsin Taylor on Slack. I love telling stories, but I love hearing them more. Tamsin told me a…
Over the last few months, I’ve been having some deep talks with my HeroPress partner about what the future of HeroPress looks like. We came up with some changes that feel deeply satisfying. Changes we think should help HeroPress, help readers, and help us as content producers. So here we go. Financial Changes At various…
FIRST: please leave a comment if HeroPress has inspired or impacted you this year. I’ve love for you to be a part of this post. With that out of the way, another year of HeroPress has come and gone. HeroPress is still young enough that we can’t really see multi-year trends, but I still find…
Event Espresso very kindly sponsored this last week’s HeroPress essay.
This last week you may have noticed a new sponsor for the essay. rtCamp is testing a new model for me, sponsoring a single essay, as opposed to the recurring model we’ve been using. It worked well enough that we have a different sponsor already for next week, which I’ll introduce then. rtCamp has been…
Over the years people have occasionally said, “You should have a donation form; I’d like to help support HeroPress”. Recently a particularly deep conversation convinced me that allowing people to take part financially is a different, broader way for others to contribute to HeroPress. Since HeroPress doesn’t exist without its contributors, I consulted them first…
One of the first addons for HeroPress I ever thought of was sending people to WordCamp who might have a hard time getting there. HeroPress started out to be a voice for people on the fringe of WordPress, and being outside the ability to go to WordCamp practically defines the fringe. I never could figure…
