--- type: this-week-with url: 'https://taylordrayson.com/2022/04/29/tww-s3-e89' title: 'Season 3, Episode 89' date: '2022-04-29T13:00:00+01:00' fields: episode: S3E89 season: '3' number: '89' topic: "News: Elon Musk has purchased Twitter for $44bn - Trix in the Stix - Speaking at events - Becoming an authority - Quantified Self - The new Generation of Taylor's personal website - Check it out with the link in the notes" duration: '25m 40s' --- # Season 3, Episode 89 News: Elon Musk has purchased Twitter for $44bn - Trix in the Stix - Speaking at events - Becoming an authority - Quantified Self - The new Generation of Taylor's personal website - Check it out with… News - Elon Musk has purchased Twitter for $44 Billion - https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/25/business/elon-musk-twitter Trix in the Stik children's entertainers magic convention is coming up Gordon is speaking at this convention on the topic of Software Tools for Children's Entertainers Speaking at an event helps to make you an authority in this field This could eventually turn into new customers Becoming the "expert" in your field gives you a higher chance of getting work as the choice becomes 50/50 between you, or everyone else The authority status makes people trust what you have to say Taylor's Personal Website - the next generation... Tracking lots of data about yourself - Quantified Self - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantified_self Owning your own data New Wordpress post type for each data set Why do this - managing and logging progress is the main reason Seeing where you have come from and where you are now People do this with Facebook and photos - to remember the past It's like an personal online journal Logging sodastream doesn't make sense as the data will be duplicated Check it out as a work in progress - https://taylordrayson.com   Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website - https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website - https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the website. We may receive a referral fee from any of our links which help towards the costs involved in creating this content for you. ## See also - Listen: [Listen](https://media.blubrry.com/thisweekwith/www.thisweekwith.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/this-week-with-taylor-gordon-podcast-89.mp3) - Watch: [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69Dl73OEcU) - All this week with: [This Week With](https://taylordrayson.com/this-week-with) - That day: [29 April 2022](https://taylordrayson.com/2022/04/29)