I'm ending 🍟 Side Project Weekend

I’ve been calling Lifelog my side project, and working on it on weekends, called 🍟 Side Project Weekend.

But it doesn’t feel nice reading it, does it? To know this treasured place is just someone’s side project.

I don’t know about you, but it always felt off, even though I kinda needed it when I named and started it. Back then, I needed to be able to let go and try other things, while continuing to build features for Lifelog. So that framing as a side project helped me. But now, I’m not so sure anymore.

What changed?

Because this is anything but side project. It’s one of MY projects, and a precious one. If it went down, I wouldn’t sit idle. I’d jump into fixing it. I can’t do without it for even a day, because writing is my daily mental hygiene now. I enjoy it, want it, and hope to keep it going for as long as I can.

And that’s not what you’ll do to a side project.

So just as it’s just a name back then, I’m shifting it again now. It might all sound like semantics, but words have power, and words frame our perspective of reality. Word choice matter. To me.

So I want to accord what’s fair to this project, and to the family here.

It’s just be my project, one of my many main projects, although not a huge or hugely profitable one.

I’ll still work on it on weekends. Maybe even on weekdays if I have time. Nothing changes, except my own personal framing. But with this new frame, maybe Lifelog would have a fresh new season. I’m not sure yet, but brewing ideas… something.

So bye bye 🍟 Side Project Weekend. Hello, main course 🥩