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Twenty-three years of publishing in public, mostly giving the useful part away. What I have written about telling the story, working with the door open, and why the good stuff was always free.

I have been putting things on the internet since 2003, and running a travel site that did the same since 1999. Almost none of it was gated. That was not generosity so much as a bet: the people who found the free thing useful turned out to be the people worth building for.

Why it is free

The question I got asked most, for twenty years, by people who assumed there was a catch.

Publishing before it had a name

BootsnAll was doing on-location travel blogging, professional blogging, and community media before any of those were categories.

Working with the door open

Every six months or so I write down what I am actually working on. Reading them back to back is the closest thing I have to a career narrative.

Shipping something daily

Two challenges that were really just excuses to publish without waiting to feel ready.

Pictures and sound

Sharing is not only words. Some of the best of it here is a photograph and one line.

Telling it out loud

The talks and the moments when someone else carried the story.

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