Some facts that make me a little sad:
- Social media is more and more splintered.
- Sites that used to be enjoyable became tolerable. Then, they became intolerable.
- Worse, the algorithms decide whose posts I should see and whose I should not.
If you have not read any of Cory Doctorow's writing about enshittification, I strongly recommend you do.
I don't see the posts I want to see from other people—and I'm sure you don't either. You might not even know about all my feeds.
All My Feeds
My RSS feeds:
- The main jrothman.com feed. The Pragmatic Manager newsletter shows up on this feed.
- Managing Product Development feed. (If you're wondering about Hiring Technical People, I now cross-post that category to Managing Product Development.)
- Create an Adaptable Life feed
Why several feeds on this site? An artifact of my site's age and my mistakes during all the transitions. At some point, I will fix this, but it's way far down on my list.
You can also get any of these feeds by signing up for the blog by email. Go to any blog post, and enter your email in the box that says “Receive the blog by email” on the right sidebar. Yes, if you use gmail, tell them you want my emails in your main mailbox. Sigh.
I record my Pragmatic Manager and Create an Adaptable Life newsletters for my YouTube Channel (link below). I'm slowly building more content there, but the newsletters have their own playlists.
If you like to read, I strongly encourage you to get an RSS reader (but not Feedly, because they appear to invalidate feeds at random). If you read feeds on an Apple product, I use and strongly recommend NetNewsWire. Sorry, I don't use any other readers. But I bet some of you, my readers, do. Please add suggestions in the comments.
My Socials
Just in case you still use social media, here are my various social media channels:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/johannarothman
- Mastodon: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@johannarothman
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannarothman/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@johannarothman
So far, that's it.
Do Follow Me, But Maybe Not on the Socials
I suspect we are in for/in the midst of a big social media change. That might be my wishful thinking. But I do want to keep up with you, and I hope you want to keep up with me.
Even if you don't always like what I say, I hope you decide to subscribe to my writing in some way. That's how you'll know what I do and what I think.
Thanks.