The Q&A Series: Noah Beyeler

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"It seems odd for people to suggest that we raise taxes on the very foods that we subsidize the production of the most; to put hundreds of millions of dollars into government crop subsidies, turn a blind eye to the environmental degradation caused, and then tax people so they don’t buy the food we’ve put so much effort into lowering the supermarket price of. How does that make sense?"

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When It's Not Fun, It's Time for Action

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You know what I don't like? I don't like that the process of "selling" a book has gradually but inexorably robbed my website of all its fun. 

Seriously. I used to have fun with my site. Now it's all about "Make sure you have a page for the media" and "Have you run stats on your SEO? Is the SEO ship-shape?" And "Oh, that front page. I think you need new content daily so visitors always see something new."  

To which I say: Go away. All of it.  

Yesterday I wasted 90 minutes of my life trying to figure out whether I was optimizing my SEO and whether I should alter the front page so it's more SEO-able and on and on. 

And all I got was depressed and discouraged. And then a Twitter friend said, in effect, "Don't fret. If the research is there; if you wrote the best book you can, then you've done your job. Enjoy the process." 

Or, again, words to that effect. And I thought hell, yeah! I wanna have some fun. I've busted my ass for seven years to write this monster and now can I just have some FUN?? 

Does this site have to be so --- unfun? No, it does not. Or so say I.  

End of rant. Off to ponder a site page titled "The Rants." Seriously.