So, as I wrote earlier, I was thinking about brand. I was interesting in how we can show the world, who we are, how we can explain people, what we like and how to not afraid of all this stuff.

My plan was simple for me (I just thought so). I need a personal website, besides that I need to fill all my social media. One for work, one for art and one more for just my personal life to use it for all other things.

For example, as I’m a programmer, I thought I need nicely filled LinkedIn profile. And also it would be good to have a github with some project to show, how you code in reality.
As for art, interesting books that I’ve read I was supposed to use Facebook. To show my artworks I planned to use a new Instagram profile additionally.

So as a result - I created just one page in Figma (main page with one blog post and couple of drawings on it) for my future personal website and stacked. I couldn’t create a cool design for web pages. I didn’t like everything that I tried to do… My site wasn’t published. As I was busy with permanent redoing of the design, I didn’t write a word for future blog. I didn’t create a new account in the Instagram. And, to be honest, I did nothing important for work social media (I actually changed a banner in LinkedIn according, as I imagined, to my brand style, but who cares? By the way, I think it is not so bad, you can see it below. However obviously it is not important at all).

And this how it looks in reality in LinkedIn:

To summarize that - nothing really changed. And it seems that words of Ryan Holiday doesn’t affect me so much.

In the same time, I like to watch youtube videos about productivity, different notes making systems, cognitive life hacks and so on (By the way, currently I’m interesting in Ali Abdaal’s video, it is really interesting view and a lot of useful information. You can check it via link). So in one of the videos I saw a book by Austin Cleon “Show your work”. In the past I’ve heard about it, but I thoroughly tried to avoid reading it. I thought (because of it’s cover and format) that it is one more stupid book with obvious things which worth nothing. But after Ali Abdaal’s words about this book (link for that video) I decided to give a chance to it. And how I was wrong in the past.

It is really nice book if you already thought to start a blog, or online shop or just show what you do in the internet but afraid of it. If you shying to be seen by your colleagues, friends or relatives and afraid to hear nasty comments from them, this book for you. If you think that you content is not so professional, this book is for you.

Hire are just some thoughts from that book, that was stuck in my brain. Sorry, I’ve read it in my native language, so translation can be not so clear. ( Please read this book, it is small and anyway it will affect you different way )

So after that book I just published my site (if you read it in any of my social media pages, this is the link Julia Lopina (tilda.ws)). Just in the state that it currently is, without any design. Actually, I hope that in the moment when you see it, it is beautiful and full of useful information, and in this case I just show you the first version.

Nothing special. But I just started. I started to share my thoughts, work, art. A small “big” step. The next step is just describe this way from dreaming and doing nothing to the first step. So this post is my second step in this journey. Let’s see, what would be next.