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It looks like you are up to 175 posts of various workspaces. I didn't look at each one, but all the ones I saw were nicely staged, organized workspaces. Did you
by didgetmaster 4y ago
It looks like you are up to 175 posts of various workspaces. I didn't look at each one, but all the ones I saw were nicely staged, organized workspaces. Did you get any submissions for 'real workspaces' with stacks of books, papers all over the place, and sticky-notes all around the monitors? If you did, did you reject them?
I too, have a newsletter that I started last year about data management. I only have about a hundred subscribers so far, but I am trying to grow it with interesting articles about how computers organize, process, and analyze all kinds of data. https://didgets.substack.com/ https://didgets.substack.com/
If I get a few thousand subscribers like you, I might look for sponsors too.
- ryangilbert 4y agoI don't reject them for being "messy"! I didn't anticipate so many people cleaning their desks off before their feature but that is what many have opted to do. Here's some "real" ones: https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/106-michele-hansen https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/106-michele-hansen https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/070-alex-wilhelm https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/070-alex-wilhelm
- rabidonrails 4y agoDoesn't surprise me that Alex didn't go nuts to make his space look "perfect." I met him a couple years ago back and he was a really nice, smart, and incredibly authentic kinda guy. It even comes through in his interview: "Some sort of ergo-friendly chair that I bought online" "Apple Watch in case I work out"
- ryangilbert 4y agoHaha yeah I'm glad he kept his space as is!
- pandemicsoul 4y agoI won't presume to speak for the owner of this newsletter, but I do receive it, and I'd just say: "I don't want to see messy spaces." The whole point of seeing other people's workspaces is for inspiration – what are ways I could organize my desk, what are some neat things I might want to add, what tech is out there I could purchase to make me like my workspace better. My workspace sometimes look messy, but I always clean up before people come over, so it's kinda the same thing here? I'm sure lots of these folks let their workspaces look lived-in normally, but that's not what we're here for.
- ryangilbert 4y agoOP here - thanks for the thoughts around this! I don't ask guests to clean their spaces beforehand but I totally understand why many do.
- rileyt 4y agoRyan never asked me to clean anything. However, I find it hard to work in messy spaces, so my workspace rarely looks like a "real" one.