A while back, I was talking to a law student friend at a party and she made a remark that I often hear in various forms: “I’m going to stand over by you. You know, like, useful stuff.” She said that because she knows a great deal of things — complicated things — but many of them don’t apply to daily life. Living near Silicon Valley, it’s likely that most of your friends could design a web site a lot faster than they could negotiate a lease or attempt a home improvement or maintenance project. My passion — urban living — much more directly applies itself to daily life in San Francisco than many of my friends’ passions (unless you only want to live online which doesn’t sound so bad).
Lifehacker recently advised writing a personal FAQ instead of delivering similar, lower quality information multiple times to different people. Lifehacker of course assumes that you are a computer engineer of some sort who is tired of being every extended family member’s on-call IT guy. I actually love giving advice and imparting useful knowledge based upon my research and experience but agree that it would be more effective to do so in an organized manner.
Knowing my passion for well designed interiors, a friend who moved to San Francisco with a bulky couch that she had to Craigslist because it would not fit into her new midrise apartment asked me for advice on where she could shop for a new couch suited to long-term apartment life. I grew my Facebook response into this new FAQ page so that I can refer friends there in the future and so that strangers of the interwebs in the same predicament might also benefit from my experience. Check it out! As the FAQ page expands, I will post periodic updates notifying my readers (all two of them — hi, mom) of new topics.
If you read my blog from a feed aggregator like Google Reader, you may not have noticed other new tabs up at the top of myurbanrevolution.com. Here’s a little rundown:
- Best Of – If you’re new to my blog, this is how you can find my favorite posts and skip all the stuff that’s mundane or no longer newsworthy.
- Further Reading – This contains a few of my favorite books related to the topic of my blog. No big changes recently, but you may not have seen it.
- Header – In the works as I have some upcoming (exciting!) header changes.
- Recommends – Inspired by McSweeney’s Recommends. Not a lot of content yet, but someday…
- Video – Favorite videos from my posts (only ones made by yours truly).
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