Where is the personal stuff?

December 05, 2003 | Comments Closed

Summary: This is your personal blog, you use it to tell a lot of stories about your experiences as a web developer, but I have yet to see any stories about your own personal life… maybe your childhood or what you did over the weekend. I also can’t find your resume posted anywhere on the site. Are you deliberately keeping that level of personal information off of the site?

From Nick Finck

What? There’s not enough pretentious bullshit on this site? You want more?

I kid. I kid.

No actually you’re right, the lack of personal information is sort of by design. The thing is, it’s not that I don’t want people to know me, know who I am, what I’m all about or anything like that.

I want my readers to get to know me.

When you meet someone in person they don’t (usually) just start spouting off their resume or what their interests are. You have to talk to them, pull that information out a little at a time. It’s better that way.

This is something I’ve always thought a bit awkward about the personal aspect of the Web. With lots of personal sites it’s just one giant bio and resume and frankly I don’t really think that’s the number one reason why people come to a site like mine and I don’t think it’s the best way to get to know someone either.

At one point I almost built a site I was going to call “Pretentious B.S.” and it was going to just be a whole bunch of links to peoples bios, vanity photos and stuff like that. It’s not that I don’t like this stuff, or think it has no value, I just think it’s at times kind of silly. Just look at Jakob Nielsen’s site.

The “King of Usability?” Okay…

I wanted to get as far from something like that as possible.

As far as my resume. It’s um…available by request. In other-words, I need to update it, but don’t tell anyone.

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