Doing what I should've done from day one

Hah, I'm moving my personal writing over to rosiesherry.com

What got me excited about the web many years ago was the act and art of being able to create something out of nothing.

To create businesses.

To explore.

To use the tools.

To embrace social for positivity.

It made me into who I am today. It turned me into an entreprenuer.

Since those days that started around 2005 for me. I had my own blog on rosiesherry.com. I wrote. I explored. Built communities. Made friends.

Then along the way, life got a bit more complicated. I definitely got distracted and a bit more focused on my business, and made hard choices. Bit by bit I stopped doing my things for me. As mothers do. As life and business needs take priority.

In hindsight I regret it. I wish I had kept writing personally, even if it meant keeping things simple. I wish I hadn’t gotten distracted with new shiny tools. I wish I kept writing. Kept logging my life. I daftly thought that my social logs would be enough and stay around. Clearly now, with the demise of Twitter, that is not the case.

So I’m using this opportunity now to start again. To create a central place to log what’s important to me. What my mind is processing. And I’m doing it in a way that I believe in.

This means it is embracing the open web. Technologies that are built on protocols. Technologies that don’t end up f*cking you over. Platforms that put the users first. Platforms that don’t have crazies ruining it because of their ego.

It means committing to my domain as my digital home. It means you can always find me right here. It means you can subscribe via RSS, email or simply just drop on by and give me a visit.

It means creating something for me. Something that ultimately helps me process, and along the way it may help others too.

I was full of excitement with tech in the early 2000’s. There was energy that got lost along the way. For the first time I feel like it’s back. Not just for me, but I see it in others who are also embracing the open and indie web.

It’s feeding ideas for me personally as well as my business. It’s lifting my spirit. Filling my heart with goodness.

This is my long winded way of saying this Substack doesn’t make sense for who I want to be going forward. I’ll still be writing and sharing about indie business stuff, but that will be alongside other stuff that makes me, me. Neurodiversity, for example. Being a woman in tech. Unschooling my 5 kids, even if two of them are now adults. Perhaps even my progress with strength training. I find all of these things overlap too much to separate them.

And considering my commitment to the open web, it simply feels wrong to stay on Substack, which is quite the opposite.

I’m hitting send on this, I’ve moved previous posts over to rosiesherry.com (I use and am a long term fan of Ghost). I’m not moving email subscribers over, I’d rather people opt in intentionally. (And let’s be honest, Substack’s algorithm encourages people to subscribe often without realising they are.)

I genuinely hope to see some of you over there. 👋