For lack of a better way to phrase it, what is my website’s “Achilles’ heel?”
There’s one thing on my website I think I might have gotten wrong. I’ve felt that way for quite some time, but haven’t gotten around to correcting it. Why? One reason is I simply have so little free time. That’s also why funding is so vital. But there’s also not much motivation for me to do so. It’s not something that I think would necessarily have changed the fact that in over ten years not one person has contacted me as a potential backer.
Truthfully, for a very long time I’ve been wanting to do a blog post on this. I thought a blog post would be a nice, simple way of addressing this. But I haven’t gotten around to doing that until now.
Actually, I’m going to elongate this into two blog posts. First, I’m going to pose the question (as I did above). And let you chew on it. Let you roll it around in your mind. And then somewhere between now and the next six months, I’ll write a blog post giving you my answer. In the meantime, you have time to think about it — if you like puzzles, or just find the question intriguing. So put down that Agatha Christie whodunit and pick up this puzzle instead. Good luck!
Clues? You want clues? Okay, I’ll give you a whole slew of clues. But boy are you going to be embarrassed if you still can’t guess what the answer is.
To make them easier to refer back to, I’ve numbered the clues; but they aren’t necessarily in any particular order.
(1) It might be the biggest mistake I’ve made in putting together this website.
(2) You don’t need to read “in between the lines” or do anything fancy, it’s relatively straightforward.
(3) There’s even a clue of sorts right in plain sight on my website that might nudge you towards solving this mystery.
(4) And no — I’ll save you the time of jotting this one down — it’s not: “You should just tell us what your ideas are.”
(5) It points to arguably what might be the number one biggest thing holding us back from saving the planet.
(6) It’s probably one of the hardest problems to fix.
(7) It almost always goes completely overlooked.
(8) It may help explain why I’ve hardly gotten any real response in over 10+ years of running my ads.
(9) It ties in with why I absolutely should get the funding I’m seeking; as well as why I probably won’t.
(10) It’s a key reason why the odds of saving the planet are so overwhelmingly stacked against us.
(11) And it helps explain why so few people realize that’s the case.
(12) Even with all these clues, you’re probably still not going to guess what it is (if you had 3 guesses).
Here’s a bonus clue: (13) I hope this doesn’t sound like a contradiction, but despite all these clues, I don’t think it’s necessarily too big a deal in this sense: would it really have made any difference (if my website didn’t have this so-called Achilles’ heel)?” I don’t think it’s a “mistake” (if it is a mistake) that warrants not having any interested potential backers.
Another bonus clue: (14) It’s a key reason why it’s so absolutely essential that I get that necessary funding. Or else, I believe, saving the planet is a lost cause.
Those are the clues. And sometime between now and the next six months, I’ll give you my answer. That should provide sufficient time for me to get around to putting together a blog post to adequately address this. It’s fairly simple, I can do it quickly. But as you can see from some of those clues, it’s kind of important. It might take numerous drafts and attempts to get it just right. Or, perhaps, six months will fly by, the way it always does, and I’ll be left rushing to beat that self-imposed, six-month deadline. Time will tell. But in the meantime, good luck trying to solve this puzzle.