Self Dog Fooding
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
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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
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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
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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
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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