Weekly Wisby 4: x reasons why the future of...

I have gotten a response and am now a guest blogger at “The Newbie Guide to Sweden”. That is, the Visitor in Visby blog gets that honor, the Weekly Wisby (like you are reading now) posts a bit too often to their liking… once per week in fact. It might find its way there as a collage of my greatest weekly moments; who could forget my eloquent review of that book that sucked, or Polly’s call to strong women everywhere to reject fresh ass.

 

“The Newbie Guide” had some great editorial tips for me to increase my online viewer engagement and I’m already anticipating a substantial growth in viewership from my search-engine-optimized title.


Instead of studying, my Saturday was spent learning the vocals to “Grace Kelly” so I could impress on Karaoke night, and whilst some people may question my life choices they are forgetting the sweet sensation of crushing your friends on stage. Well I called them friends, but ‘ditchers’ would be a more appropriate description. After half an hour of waiting we were lucky enough that Julius’ neighbor walked in with a couple of friends and we could hang out with them so that my rehearsals weren’t for nothing… until they ditched us too! But we had a great time for as long as it lasted at least.



To talk about school stuff though I did my ignite presentation; a 20-slide presentation, with each slide on a 15 second timer, accumulating in a 5-minute display of who I was and how I like to work together. Here’s some of my favorite slides:


“Through the eyes of a programmer."


“My goal is to bring a product to market.”


“How I like to collaborate.”


The only thing I regret is that one presentation was funnier than mine, by a guy called Tim. But hey, if you can’t beat them, join them, and we have been talking about collaborating on the teens project.

 

Actually, after remarking they felt socially isolated even though they were living in a big city, I decided to change my lens. Instead of targeting small town teens, socially anxious ones are now my primary audience.

We had all these charts that they wanted us to fill in like your business model and value proposition that I had a lot of trouble with. Not because recording this is a boringlishly dull activity, but from a lack of foresight. Up until now my plan has been “an online platform” but that is barely even a concept, much less a plan. Here’s a plan!


“A new town is born.”


Butter Burgh: for those with social butterfingers!

The website is an online forum for the social anxious, but to get them to participate Butter Burgh is its own little town where you get your own little house that you can decorate however you want! You can also invite people to your home and it becomes its own private chat room; from there you might want to suggest playing “Among Us” together. The forum-part is structure more like a classical forum, with the exception that we call them “guilds”.

“Remember that a life spent working at Max is a life well lived.”

You would then get exp and gold for participating in conversations (that you can then use to buy more stuff for your house), but there’s no pressure to do so if you don’t want to.



Nothing interesting happened in programming, however I did walk around a stormy sea during our 15-minute break.




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  1. M_HOctober 4, 2021 at 12:26 PM

    In any case .. Beauty cloudy skies, sea and waves. Thx man

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