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Aggregating Interests (or, why I’m combining my blogs.)

Announcing a slight blog change; hopefully combining both of my blogs will be an easier way to combine interests and fragmented content than defraggregation.

July 2008:

In an effort to split out a couple of different interests, going forward, this site [Taylor Davidson Photography, Travel & Culture] will remain focused on photography, travel and cultural musings, and all business, entrepreneurship and innovation thoughts will be posted at Unstructured Thoughts.

After nearly a year, today I’m recombining the interests. Here’s the details:

Why am I doing this?

  • I’m combining the blogs to find a better way to link interests rather than divide them into different silos; frankly I’m finding it harder to truly separate the interests and conversations.
  • Depending on the ranking or measurement metric you prefer, this blog is one of the top 30 to 100 blogs about venture capital, which I find somewhat odd since it’s increasingly less about venture capital and more about the broader world of entrepreneurship and innovation. Combining this with my photography blog (oddly, one of top 20 to 100 blogs about photography in its own right) should be an interesting experiment.
  • And honestly, simpler is better…
Moving on: what’s next?

The “Drive-By” road trip is over. What’s next?

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This will be brief because there isn’t much to say; after 16,278 miles and 152 days, the “Drive-By” road trip is done.

Check out the road trip’s page and map to get the full details on the trip, stories from the cities and people I visited, recaps of my expenses and links to photos along the way.

What’s next? I’m working on it; suffice it to say, I’ll be thinking about how to turn small ideas and big ideals into big projects, leaning into fears, exploring the “periphery of simplicity” through attempts at complex thought, making the real world smaller, venturing close and afar, incubating lives, exploring the marginal costs to privacy, “doing the dishes”, testing my risk tolerance, strengthening loose ties and attempting to create serendipity. And, of course, doing work and having fun.

Drop me a line if you’ve got ideas…

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