Just after midday today, two emails arrived from my own website.
One told me that someone had answered the questions in a survey. The other went to the person who answered, with their answers written underneath.
It was a test, so both came to me. But they worked.
For years I’ve held back from running my own courses because the obvious places to do it were a Facebook group or a LinkedIn group. I don’t want to keep feeding nice people into spaces run by data-harvesting megacorporations. And those spaces never feel like they belong to the person running the group. Nothing quirky, homemade or wonky.
Now people can answer questions here, on a calm page with no surveillance code watching them. I see what they write, so they know someone is actually reading. And they keep a copy – which matters, because it may well end up in their memoir.
The Micro-Memoir course starts on Monday, and it will use this. Other courses will follow.
I talk about it – and about Dave Winer’s idea that replies should be private first, and about what AI is and isn’t for – in this episode of Voice Notes To The World: