SelfDogFooding

Last edit November 7, 2014
Using stuff you create DoingStuff.DonaldNoyes.20140820

--- selfdogfooding is a specific form of dogfooding
  • using your own creations on your own personal site that you depend on, day to day
  • Metaphorically speaking, a person's ideas must be the building he lives in - otherwise there is something terribly wrong.
    • Søren Kierkegaard - introduction to Provocations

has several required components
  • the first two of which it shares with dogfooding:
    • active creation (whether code, UX, interactive/visual/graphic design)
    • use of that creation (e.g. by your company)

use
  • you yourself personally using your creation for your own personal uses
    • it's not just part of your day job that you shut off when you go home
  • self identification/dependency
    • using your creation in some manner that represents you, your self
    • part of your primary identity on the web
    • act of creation alters an aspect of the public "self" of the creator

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