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Cooking my brand like homemade spaghetti

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Howdy #

Personal branding isn’t something I’ve thought much about in the past. I’m one that believes consistent actions speak for themselves. But with an upcoming commitment to speak at, it dawned on me that I have no consolidated place for folks to go!

Throwing spaghetti at the wall #

Some call this generating a “word cloud” or “mind mapping” to organically generate a consolidated idea from throwing words out there and connecting them to see what can stick.

  • Goal
    • Document what I do and share with others for ease of access and cross-referencing
    • Package it all up in an authentic way
  • About me
    • Jovial
    • Self-driven
    • Coffee for days
    • Lives in Kentucky
    • Writes most, if not all emails with “Howdy,” “Howdy, folks -,” “Cheers,” salutations
  • About what I do
    • Software Engineering
    • Develops in whatever languages or tools that best fit the problem
    • Critical thinking
    • Self-teaching when I don’t know something

Boiling your noodle #

After my ~30 minute exercise, I boiled down what my noodle came up with some word association.

  • Kentucky → The Bluegrass State → Motto: “Unbridled Spirit”
  • Software Engineering → dev → .dev → a Generic Top Level Domain that exists
  • Language/tool agnostic → multiple “fields” of study

My Generated motto: “An unbridled spirit that gallops around the open fields of software.”

Off to Namecheap.com, I went searching. Where I landed:

bluegrass.dev

So brief, but it seems like it articulates where and what enough to click to find out more.

Plating my dish #

Goal: Github Pages, update via commit a minimal content focused website.

Following through the steps for establishing a Custom Domain for a Github Pages site, I had this wired up in the basic form in about 20 minutes!

Can we eat now #

Here’s where you can see everything in action!