New domain

Way back in my second post on this site I said I was thinking about getting my own domain. I’ve now taken that step.

The new domain will be a big project and more directly useful for you. It will still be about me to an extent, but I will be more of a case study you can follow among other advice.

I’d like to thank everyone who is involved in wordpress.com as this is a fantastic service. It made me confident that wordpress was the right platform. For anyone thinking of getting their own domain, the wordpress platform (over at wordpress.org) is practically identical to the free hosting at wordpress.com

The new site is a bit basic at the moment. I’ve had to take a step backwards before I can take some leaps forward. That’s okay though. You should never be afraid of backtracking, especially if you find yourself at a dead end. In my case I saw the dead end a few months ahead, so I’m trying to save myself some work.

So, that said, take that step backwards with me now, and hop on over to improvehuman.com/blog

Already thinking about own domain

It may just be my connection, but wordpress seems incredibly slow. It will drive me crazy if it continues to run at this snail pace. Also I’m a bit concerned about not ultimately owning my domain.

But really I can’t afford to host it myself at the moment, so this is the best option. It will give me a chance to see if I actually get anything out of this or whether I feel it is a waste of my time. It was a bit of a rush decision to have another go at starting a blog, but that’s the way I generally operate. I like to set things in motion, even if it means I’m not going to be perfect to start with.

So this is a trial. The ultimate success of this blog will not be it’s popularity, but the amount of value I personally get from it.

Having said that, I’m very impressed with how user friendly everything is. And there seem to be a fair amount of features. Everything is integrated in a very seemless manner, which makes editing incredibly easy. I’m just not sure what others see, so I will have to log in on another computer at some time.

Improving the Human

I’m writing this for myself.

It will be great if this is interesting enough for others to read and comment on, but this is not my intention. It’s my place to write my ideas about improving myself, especially about improving intelligence, and possibly a place to spread my creative output.

I tried to do this ages ago in blogger.com, but it kept failing me. Hopefully wordpress is better, otherwise I will have to pay for hosting.

I am particulary interested in improving intelligence, and I have my own website about it over at http://www.improvehumaniq.com.

I’m passionate about this subject, and I will probably take it further than anyone else has ever taken it before. This will be my personal, honest, open account of my progress. I’m 24 years old now. I hopefully have a long life ahead of me, and I want to see what I can become in that time.

I’m trying to become something more. Not quite a renaissance man, but something along those lines.

The site above offers a condensed and more focused view on improving intelligence. This blog will be less focused, less worried about being commercial, will cover the wider topic of my self improvement, will be less instructive, will be more open and honest, and will be full of my emerging thoughts.

My lack of focus will probably mean this lacks popularity. I’ll be reasonably focused on human improvement type issues as that is mostly what I think about; but I make no promises to keep only to that topic.

As I say, this is for me.