Have you ever browsed a blog’s /about page, hoping to find meaningful information about the author, but instead of finding something neat, you only found something like this:
“Graduated from Pacific Union College in 2009 with a degree in Chemistry”
And after finding information similar to the above, have you ever then thought to yourself, “Gee, I wonder what the author is doing more recently?”
🤔
Yeah.
I don’t think I’ve wondered that either.
But apparently Derek Sivers has wondered such thoughts.
He started the “/now” movement in mid-2015, and since then, it’s sorta-taken off.
Basically, a /now URL slug should take a reader to a page on one’s site that has a little more personal information than what’s to be found on the /about page.
So, instead of:
“Graduated from Pacific Union College in 2009 with a degree in Chemistry,”
the /now page might contain something more like this:
“My wife is almost done with school and I have a 6-year-old donkey”
(Or something to that effect.)
At first I thought this was kind of silly.
And, truthfully, I still think it’s silly. That said, I added a /now page for kicks.
Go check it out: /now