Create on Your Own Platform - Not Someone Else's!

One of the best things I enjoy about blogging on my own platform - where I setup and own the content and as much of the infrastructure as possible is:

All the content I publish is my own.

In other words - by rolling my own infrastructure and blogging system, like Jekyll, I am contributing to my platform - not someone else’s platform.

This came up when free platforms do a “bait and switch” - where the platform offers users free use, no strings attached, then turn around and monetize user contents.

Basically, it’s not “free” - you paid for their platform by giving up everything you put on their system. Time, energy, content, etc.

Whenever I am on another platform now and I start to write anything over 150 words, I stop myself from pressing the: “Submit” button and ask:

Can I write a blog post on this instead?

I usually answer: YES - and cut the text out into my GTD inbox for another day’s post.

Your time, energy, content is valuable - don’t let someone else make money from it!