Limiting exposure to save face, and humans of the block

Currently I’m reading “Can’t Hurt Me” by David Goggins, and he talks about how, when he was younger, he often chose to keep quiet in class because “it was all about limiting exposure to save face.” There have probably been a thousand times in my life where I didn’t say or didn’t do the thing because of some faint or imagined risk of embarrassment. This block association is in a large sense an effort to not worry at all about saving face, and I can assure you that on that front it has already been quite successful—climbing light poles to post flyers is, based on the looks on some of your faces, doing nothing for my street credibility.

That brings me to Humans of the Block. This website is getting many more views than I anticipated, and the numbers are showing that the second most popular page after the home page is Humans of the Block. That is not totally surprising, but it has to be disappointing to visitors when they look on that page expecting to see a whole bunch of humans but then are presented with only a single human. Consider not saving face and sending in your face (or maybe even your dog or cat’s face) to highline28ba@gmail.com, along with a brief quote. I will post it and you will become rich and famous, probably.

Finally, some people have written in with some suggestions for generating interest (e.g., sidewalk chalk, posting on nextdoor.com). I very much appreciate those suggestions and will work to execute on them. If others have suggestions, whether analog or digital, please send them in, comment on this post, etc.

Stay tuned.