So, why did Version 3.0 come to be? Or, as Matty Baseline so eloquently put it; “What’s that all about?”
Well, there were originally several reasons/intentions:
- I am probably the most brilliant person ever. I have too many ideas, and not enough time to do anything about them. Version 3.0 was intended as an outlet for these.
- I was getting annoyed with coming up with an idea, then two months later reading the same basic idea written down by someone else.
- Work gave me some free web-space, it seemed a shame not to do something with it.
- It annoys me that when you Google me the first thing you find is my job. I don’t want to be defined by my job, because I am probably the most brilliant person ever, and should be recognised as such.
- I thought people with their own websites were cool. Hence having my own website would somehow magically increase my appeal to women, increase the kudos I received by an order of magnitude, and generally give me that air of sophistication I was lacking.
All of these reasons/intentions are still more or less applicable, although I do realise that number 5 is somewhat (read: grossly) misguided. Obviously though, these weren’t really motivation enough. It still took me 2 years to do anything about it.
So what changed? The following things happened. These things together were obviously much stronger than any of the the aforementioned motivations:
- My ex-flatmate re-developed his blog in about 15 minutes. There is no way that he is getting one up on me.
- One of my very good friends makes me laugh when she writes. There is no way that she is getting one up on me.
- Finally, my girlfriend (giggle) is way more Internet famous than me. She already clearly has (more than) one up on me, but that isn’t going to stop me from trying.
Basically, the ultimate reason version 3.0 has (finally) come to be is that I am competitive. Very competitive.
