Luca Hammer

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With all of the Yahoo-Tumblr reporting still going on right now it surprises me how many writers still mistake Tumblr for a “blogging platform.”

Anyone who has spent significant time on Tumblr knows that this whole “blog” thing is a front.

Literally.

70% of a given blog’s post traffic actually happens in the Dashboard. For some blogs, that percentage is even higher.

This makes things like ranking a Tumblr blog’s popularity through site traffic fairly dubious.

It also means that the value of Tumblr isn’t just in the original posts but the amplification of ideas through reblogs and the like.

This becomes apparent when you dive into Union Metrics for Tumblr and break down any given post’s reblog tree:

There’s probably an iceberg.gif of some sort that would work really well here.

(btw, the numbers in that image are from an “official” blog that I run, not my personal blog.)

Pictured below the surface: all of the reblogs.

(via stoweboyd)

“Procrastination is like fat. If you don’t stay in shape it will become even harder to get rid of it.” 
- John Ashborn

I go running from time to time. On some days mountain biking. At the moment I am far enough to surprise my subconscious. I simply get out before it starts to think about how much easier it is to stay at home and do nothing. As soon as I am on the bike or ran some meters the body kicks in and tell the brain how awesome this it and I feel good. I will have to do it many more times until my subconscious can’t wait to get out. Training my brain like a dog. 

The last weeks I wrote many mails and messages on several platforms. I contacted people who I saw as a great fit for work.io. In some sense I am recruiting. This isn’t as easy as I thought. I always saw the positive thing of making money with stuff one knows and likes. But most people got jobs the hate, jobs they like or the work for themselves. Those who work for themselves sometimes get the idea immediately because they know that they need more time until they make serious money with what they do or they already work on the side. Or the tell me that they won’t ever work again for someone else. That is wrong because they do. But I will write about it a other time. Those who love their jobs are also sometimes open but mostly don’t see the need for something different. Those who hate their jobs, who I thought would be easiest to convince, are hardest. Often they hate the concept of work altogether and don’t understand that this is something different. Some only want to make sure that they don’t get fired. Or they see only the opportunities their job gives them. Everything outside wouldn’t give them some advantage. I will keep writing and maybe find ways to reach all of these groups. Though everyone is different. 

What I didn’t do over the last weeks was publishing stuff. I answered some questions on Quora but most were about startups in general or other stuff. Not so much on work, crowdsorucing, liquid work and all these things I am thinking about at the moment. I didn’t post new stuff to the work.io Twitter Account and neglected the Facebook Page and our Blog. One of the worst things a startup can do communication-wise. 

Do counter my publishing fatigué I will publish one post throughout the next weeks. Most around the startup. Some about my life. Some about publishing. 

Why I need to post that I will post? Because I am a blogger. That’s what I am doing. And I like some public pressure.

After using tumblr to recycle my soup.io posts since a year I will start to use it as my first public blog in english. If you followed me because of the images please head over to my soup and follow me there. I can’t provide you with a tumblr of it as the automatic import isn’t supported any longer.

Why?
Because I can. I am blogging since 2006 in german at 2-blog.net and was for some time quite successful. I still am. But who cares. Since some months I am part of work|i|o, a startup that tries to change how we work. My main role is communications at which I am awesome. In german. But my english sucks that much that I still have lots of problems with it and it makes me damn insecure. I was hiding, wrote concepts, planned stuff and everything but never went out there and told people how we want to achieve ALL the things. 

This year is important to me and the startup. We need to get momentum. In the last months I was able to postpone stuff with stupid excuses. Now I am hungry and I want to see things happening. 

My english is still bad but most of the people are able to understand what I am trying to say. Even if not they can always ask. Not doing anything won’t make me better. And it is just the language. I sometimes get told that I am still better than the majority of people for whom english is their first language. No excuse. 

Correct me
This is one of the few blogs where corrections about spellings and grammer are more than welcome. I can only improve myself if I get feedback. Of course you should correct me on a substantive basis too. If I write something wrong I hope someone will tell me. If you don’t want to do this in public shoot me a mail at lucahammer@gmail.com.

What to expect?
I don’t know. One reason for this was a post I wrote for the work|i|o blog which was too long, too unfocused and to unimportant. It will never be published there. But I think that I might still be interesting for some people who want to get the whole story. The content here will in most cases be centered around me. If you don’t like me or aren’t interested in what I do and think, you shouldn’t follow this blog. It won’t make you happy. To everyone else: Welcome to the future. If you have any suggestions use the comments or ask-a-question or mail.