John Gruber & Merlin Mann’s Blogging Panel at SxSW

Merlin Mann:

We talked about building a blog you can be proud of, trying to improve the quality of your work, reaching the people you admire, and maybe even making a buck (in a way that doesn’t blow your deal).

This is from 2009. Every year or so, I go back and listen to this. If you’re passionate about creating, this is for you.

Here’s the audio link.

I'm Nash. I create things.

Blog

• A Year of Margin
• Apple News+ and my love for magazines
• We Are All The Algorithms Now
• Choose what you pay
• Understanding Us
• Press Reply. Say Hello. Rest In Peace.
• You’re Mad
• The No Phone Experiment
• No Phone (Lasted 22 Days)
• The Thankful Project
• Doors
• Aim Higher
• A Reminder: Go Be Great
• Returning from the fast
• Things
• Off The Grid: 21 Days with no iPhone or iPad
• My Favorite TV Shows, Albums, Movies, and Games of 2019
• Own Your Weird
• Dear Sariyah
• Clocking Out For The Day
• Aim for Quantity
• I won my first game as a basketball coach
• Become Your Biggest Fan
• Growing Instagram
• Your Story Is Outdated
• The Unknown
• Say Hello
• Anonymous Comments
• Start Where You Are
• Sailing The Uncharted
• Being a Coach
• Give Yourself More Credit
• Aer City Sling
• Off The Grid
• You Need to Rest
• Drifting Down
• A Ticking Clock
• Remove the Middle
• Find Your Calm
• Yoga
• Start a Fire
• Slot Machines
• They’ll Be Gone Soon
• I’m a Barista
• What do you do for work?
• Just tell a story
• An Escape Plan
• The Comparison Race
• Embrace Your Weird
• When Letting Go Becomes Easy
• Getting Through The Fog
• It Could Be Worse
• Three Jackets
• The Faceless Bottle
• Poetry: Self-Aware (10/01/19)
• Unhelpful Thinking Styles
• Control Your Thoughts
• Do Not Disturb
• Remembering the Light
• Being Present
• My Enneagram Results (WEPSS)
• Neophile: A new word that I just learned, that maybe helps me understand myself better
• Brain.fm: music to help you focus, relax, or sleep
• 15 Ways That I’ve Changed Things Up Lately
• We Are Not Your Kind
• Darkness Returns
• Log your time and what you’ve been up to, every 30 minutes
• How To Find Yourself
• A Few Podcast Recommendations
• How to save a phone in midair
• Ending My Daily Thanks
• MET: Louisiana
• Iterating On An Album
• Pilot Program: Engine
• Iterate To The Next Level
• Go Backwards
• The Closing of a Season: A Story About Running
• Austin Kleon
• What Freedom Looks Like
• Three Years, No Alcohol
• Notes on The Four Agreements
• Don’t let a bad season define you
• Pluto TV and the process of having black and white films loop 24/7
• There’s a glitch in the system
• Happy Mother’s Day
• Go do your thing. You’re gonna die.
• Guess I’m Fine
• What’s your projects? Now move them along.
• The Castle
• Dear Friend: Part 1
• The Little Brick From Bolivia
• A Train Is Coming
• Transparency. Creativity. Compassion
• Mental Health. Make An Impact. Be Thankful.
• Give Thanks
• My Daily Gratitude List
• Larry
• The Finish Line
• Exodus 14:14
• Four Years at Cross Church
• Build A Blog
• My 15 Favorite Rap Albums of 2018
• Little Buckets
• 100 Jacket Mission
• Apple Watch
• Scratched Cornea: Productivity Life Hack
• Scratched My Eye
• Find Your Spark
• Community
• Make Your Own Impact
• Kamikaze Review
• Finding My Best Self
• Scorpion: My Thoughts and My Version
• A Season of Transition (what I’ve been up to)
• 32
• I deleted all of my information from Facebook
• J.Cole - KOD (Review)
• Revisiting J.Cole’s Born Sinner
• My Cracked Apple Pencil
• Doing More and Not Settling
• A simple recipe to auto-blog any YouTube video I like
• My Morning Routine
• The Search for the Missing Quote (and an email from the author who wrote it)
• Introducing Headband: a basketball blog
• The End of Retail
• Minimal Productivity
• The Way I Organize My iPad Apps
• The Outdoors
• Healthy Living
• 3 Years At Cross Church, 20 Months With No Alcohol
• Bad Seasons
• Revisiting Jay Z’s Kingdom Come, and still, it’s not a good album.
• Revisiting Jay Z’s Kingdom Come, and still, it’s not a good album.
• Things: A Task Manager
• Make Lists, Improve Your Day
• White Space: A Month of Silence
• The Best Man’s Speech
• Apple Watch: Fill Your Rings (and build good habits)
• What I Have Is Enough
• The Unfollow Button
• Mugshots and Coffee Addictions
• Getting Things Done (a lot of things)
• A Gym
• Patreon
• Five Changes
• Allbirds Wool Runners: 8 Months Later (Review)
• NBA Fan
• The Dragon and the Emoji Princess (by Nash Pitre and Nicole Verdin)
• Endless
• Zero Gravity
• 31: a blank canvas
• Happy Mothers Day
• Nobody: a poem
• Sometimes we earn the day, sometimes we sit on the couch
• Blonde’s Ending (Seigfried, Godspeed, Futura Free)
• Just Know That I’m Working On My Return
• Working On My Return
• Raising Money For Bolivia
• Rest In Peace, Randal
• My Two-Year Anniversary at Cross Church
• Cleaning Up The Header
• Good Morning, 5am
• 10 Reasons Why 2016 Was My Favorite
• My 10 Favorite Albums from 2016
• Why Minimalism: The Act of Removing Clutter
• A Simple Christmas Gift To And From My 6 Year-Old Brother
• Minimalism Update (12/22/16)
• “Self Control” and “Nights” from Frank Ocean’s Blonde album
• J.Cole - 4 Your Eyez Only (Review)
• Pete and Sudi: Rekindling Lost Relationships
• Back to Dropbox: Organizing My Digital Files
• iPad Only
• Returning From The Blackout
• The Noise
• Diversifying My Income
• My 2017 Toyota Corolla iM
• Pace, Rhythm, and Blogging
• Carol: how my grandma impacted my life
• Dear Younger Me
• Writing, Archives, Friends
• The Writeous Ones Small Group: Week 1
• Rolling Shirts and Letting Go of Hangers
• My Thoughts on Blonde, Frank Ocean’s New Album
• My Thoughts on Blonde, Frank Ocean’s New Album
• The easiest way to organize your stuff is to get rid of most of it
• How Can I Help: an ongoing thought of never doing enough
• What I’m Currently Working On (Bringing People And Words Together)
• My Obsession With No Man’s Sky
• Finally Recording on the iPad Pro
• Thoughts On My Next President
• Own Less. Love More.
• Pallet Bookshelf
• About my friend, Chase Toups, and how God is working in his life
• 2015
• TJ
• Dad’s Jacket
• 75 Year Old’s First Vacation
• Blot
• The Impossible
• Removing the Clutter
• Seeing Progress With My Workouts
• DSLR - Bentley and Brayden
• Getting Things Done (GTD)
• Getting in Shape
• First Day of Cross Church
• Remembering Carol
• Becoming Pretty Boy
• Images of Conroe
• Kids - helping them grow
• My Nanny Sheila
• Lap One: the toy and the survivor
• Gone Fishing - Another Disappointing Season For Chris Paul
• Merry Christmas, Brayden
• Giving Nevaeh My iPad for Christmas
• I yelled at my TV, and for the first time ever, it yelled back
• The Machine — a love story
• I Turned 27 Today and That Scares Me
• Driven
• The Trampoline Trick
• Family and Friends
• GTA III — A Child’s Perspective
• Dear Lebron Haters
• Memories
• The McDonald’s Presentation
• Where is She?
• The Growth of an Artist - Evan Holt
• The Growth of an Artist - Evan Holt

Music

• When The Satellite Fell
• Chasing My Ghost
• The Illusion of Progress
• How We See The World
• Invisible Man
• The Loop
• Pilot
• The Land of Unfamiliar
• The Mask
• The Hero Dies
• PlasticSky

Photos

• October Photos
• September Photos
• August Photos
• July Photos
• June Photos
• My Birthday Camping Trip
• May Photos
• April Photos
• March Photos
• February Photos
• January Photos
• December Photos
• November Photos
• October Photos
• September Photos
• El Paso, TX
• August Photos
• July Photos
• June Photos
• May Photos
• If you could go back and tell your younger self something, what would it be?
• Sariyah’s Birthday Party
• April Photos
• March Photos
• January Photos
• Creative Minds
• December Photos
• Creative Minds: December
• The Making of “Mr. Bentley: The Birthday Card”
• November Photos
• Thanksgiving 2018
• Organizing and Decorating Nevaeh’s Room
• Creative Minds: November
• Creative Minds: October
• Creative Minds: September
• Washington, DC (Photoblog)
• Creative Minds: Last Fridays
• Consolidating Groups
• Summer Project: 2018
• Galveston Photoblog
• Indianapolis Photoblog
• Clear Springs Hiking Trip
• 2018 Louisiana Labor Summit
• Tishomingo Camping Trip
• Teach Me How To Doodle - Week 3
• Teach Me How To Doodle - Week 2
• Teach Me How To Doodle - Week 1
• I’m Co-Leading Two Small Groups (Fall 2017)
• Small Groups (Spring 2017)
• Art At The Park
• Creative Minds: Small Group
• The Writeous Ones Small Group: Week 1
• What I’m Currently Working On (Bringing People And Words Together)
• A Weekend with the Family
• DSLR - Bentley and Brayden
• Images of Conroe

Shop

• Loud: Without Ever Saying A Word
• Scroll
• Be The Light: Kids
• Creative Minds Shirt
• Be The Light: Premium Hoodies
• Cartoon Gym Bag
• Be The Light
• Cartoon Nash
• The Impact Collection

Videos

• Vlog: October 19, 2020
• Grand Canyon Road Trip
• Vlog: August 10, 2020
• Words Matter (Music Video)
• How Can I Help You
• The Seven Year Road Trip
• Roman Leather: Women
• The Illusion of Progress (Music Video)
• Strangers (a beautiful mess)
• Control (Music Video)
• Enemy (Music Video)
• Sky View (Music Video)
• Guess I’m Fine (Music Video)
• A Day In The Life
• Becoming a YouTuber
• Find Ourselves (Music Video)
• The Wave of Life (Music Video)
• For My Brother (Vlogs)
• For My Brother: 001 - Farewell to Thibodaux Apartment
• Walk In The Light
• NASHP - When I’m Gone
• NASHP - Flickering Lights (Music Video)
• NASHP - Wheels Up (Music Video)
• Helping Leroy
• Don’t Try
• My Zone: Official Music Video