As I sit here hunched over my notepad to draft this blog post, I tell myself I stopped doing “this” a long time ago. “This” being announcing things to the world about my personal projects that nobody cares about, because nobody knows they exist. I’ve been playing “entrepreneur” for a long time, where my INTJ urge to plan and strategize met my ASD’s dysfunction when it came to actually doing something.
The result was that one of the few thingfs I did manage to di is to buy domain names for all schemes I came up with. This lead to a pile of domain names in my account and a lot of dead projects, of which only the former cost me money. As life became more expensive and I had to start paying for my own car in more than a decade, the price of domain names also exploded and my disposable income imploded due to unemployment.
That made the total bill of my domain pile look less and less appealing, so I started culling domains and the last victim was the domain name toralko.com.
Does that domain name ring a bell? The plan was that it would at this point, of course. But of course it doesn’t. It was originally meant to be the name for a project I would collab on with two other people. That collab never happened, but back then I owed maybe ten domain names and figured I could recycle the domain name as sort of a “company name” for myself.
Toralko became synonymous with planning and never really doing anything, except to write blog posts about ideas and projects that were never worked on – the sole exception being Joomla & More which is now PowerUserGuide.com, a tech blog on its last legs. As years passed, the “Toralko” domain name became more and more of a taunt and a reminder of my inability to complete or even start something.
So I cancelled the domain name last month. Cancelling the domain name wasn’t a magical, eye opening moment that illuminated a new path towards greatness. It was just another domain name to mark with a green stabile marker in a list of domains whose demise was long overdue, to make room for paying for things I do need, like my car insurance. On unrelated note, the price of my assurance raised with one-and-a-half domain name this year.
So why write a blog post about this? Because nowadays I’ve reached a point where I’m not even plotting and scheming anymore. I think it’s due to my latest spell of unemployment. It does have that effect on me, as I’ve learned from experience. So writing this “project update” blog post that nobody will read is a step up from not writing anything whatsoever, and I want to get back into creating content (although I am not a hundred percent sure what I would be writing about )
What better way to get back on the horse than by announcing the official death of the project that kickstarted this recipe for insanity many years ago?