When you care too much, but also too little.

Day 2 of hacking this website together.

There's now a page for long copy, short copy, and this blog.

Since the pandemic, I've started half a dozen tiny projects here and there.

Stuff I could do without spending too much money. Real stuff.

I'm a pixel pusher. Nothing I make is real. It's all fugazi.

Adfolk should ask themselves this often. Is anything we're doing making a real impact in the world? It doesn't even need to be good impact. Create some plastic waste. Fill some landfills. Expand the ozone bubble. Make something real.

Late last year, I had an idea for a notebook. It was called darkmode, and the pages were made with black paper, and the edges were rounded. I bought about ~50 bucks worth of equipment and materials and started cutting up some prototypes.

Over the next few days, I started testing my notebooks in the field. It was glorious. Whenever I jotted something in the notebook, people would ask me where I found it.

I was hooked. The attention gave me confidence in the project, and I started perfecting the product. I bought a domain. I created a website from scratch, complete with an interactive 3D model. Then I made a pitch deck. Then I did some product photography.

I finally stopped after receiving a thousand-dollar quote for manufacturing 100K notebooks overseas. Oh well. Carried away again.

I had a college project to create a new product/service. I decided to package up everything I had on darkmode into a nice and tight presentation, and submitted. Got an A. Good stuff!

I also got about 20 of my friends sign up for the raffle on the website.

I still haven't mailed Liam's notebook to Calgary though. Any day now.

What I'm saying is, even though my project is never going to kiss an assembly line, it still was something real. It existed. So did all the other projects I've created and dumped over the years.

I need to put them up on this website, probably on a separate page.

But what do I call them? I gotta make sure no one thinks I was serious with any of these.

These were super casual projects. No sweat at all.

What do I call the page that houses these projects?

Ben Stokes writes www.tinyprojects.dev, my favourite blog on this planet.

I want this section to sort of be like his Tiny Projects section.

Are these tiny projects? Yes. Are they adventures? sure.

Tiny adventures? No. Adventure projects? nah.

Project : Adventure? Hmm.

It's all one big project to have adventures, I guess. So why not.

Project : Adventure is going to be the fourth page on this website.

Also, www.darkmode.work is the website for that notebook project.

One of these days I'll put the full story up here.

EDIT FROM THE FUTURE :

I tried it out, tiny projects makes the most sense.

That's what the fourth page is going to be called. I'll add the tribute to Ben's blog in the subhead to sling the credit where it's due.