Nick's Blogging Butterfly Effect

Nick shares how his early blogging led to unexpected opportunities and connections.

"I've done this in other times. There's this art thing called the Normandy panels. The SS Normandy was a French cruise ship that traveled the world in the 1930s basically to proclaim to the world that France is awesome. It had some of the most amazing art deco interiors. I became captivated with the story of the ship. World War 2 broke out, the ship was changed into a military craft and all the guts were ripped out and now show up in private collections around the world.

I love this stuff. Nobody was really tracking these panels and so now I am the de facto resource for these panels on the internet just as a hobby project that I've maintained on my blog. Last week I literally got a call from a conservation expert at the Metropolitan Museum of Art asking me for advice about who they can talk to as they're thinking about these panels and how they're gonna show and display them.

All of this is through publishing and living your life online. These are little moments of when I've done that that have paid off for me in the long game. It's important to know this didn't happen overnight. This is a long term investment."