I needed a boost for myĀ ego.
enlivenworks.com, the website of my little leadership coaching gig, is up. It was built with WordPress, an unnecessarily more complicated option, instead of WIX or Squarespace. I wasted hours on it, because I was too proud.
I was good at building websites. I built the site of a Student Association back in college (šš»), the site of the consulting firm I worked for in Beijing, our start-upās page, online shopping carts for Accentureās clients, etc.
That was back in the 90s/00s. In 2020, nothing I knew worked anymore. I couldnāt even create a damn blank page! It sucked to be reminded of my age and irrelevance.
And people would say, āStop wasting your time such on non-essential task, outsource them!ā My wife, a superb website creator, volunteered to build it. āDonāt insult my manhood~~ā I gasped in humiliation.
Pride aside, the other reason of this irrational decision was I craved the hit of self-worthiness. Since I had the basic skills, the chance of me overcoming this struggle was actually high. This struggle was a potential cheap micro-success. So I cheated and indulged myself in tinkering with web forms and corner radius.
Even though I still feel old, I also feel useful, like how my grandma must have felt when she figured out how to use the remote to turn on her VCR.