Issue 3: It's Always DNS
I'm not sure what happened over the last few days, but the archives for this newsletter used to be hosted at https://angelo.report; for reasons unbeknownst to me (i.e., DNS), that just... stopped working, and I can't get them working again.
So now, they're hosted at https://www.angelo.report, which is an uglier thing to look at in your browser's address bar, but you can still type in angelo.report and it should redirect you properly. Because of the joys of HTTP/HTTPS, however, previous links I'd shared don't work anymore.
Anyways, computers are the worst. How are you doing?
Pivoting For The Excitement Backlog
I've been pretty unmotivated lately to work on my (new) side project, Cheqin. I wrote about that in my latest article on Two Common Cents Club, where I coined the phrase "The Excitement Backlog" and then only vaguely defined what I meant by that. I'm honestly not really sure myself, but I really like the sound of it.
There's a feeling when you work on a side project, one that either has you thinking about it all the time, or one where it starts to feel like drudgery. If it's the latter and you've barely even started building the thing, well... that's not a good sign.
But sometimes you just have that feeling, that this has all the trappings of being something you can work on for the long haul. You can see way past the MVP that you're working on. You can picture the community you'll build around it. The business you'll build around it, maybe.
That's the excitement backlog.
I'm not quite yet ready to share too many details, but I will be building this in public. At a high level, I think we're thinking about personal finance wrong. I think there's need to treat this as part of our self-care, and that's what Cheqin will do.