Main Engine Cut Off - T+206: Going Independent

Episode Date: December 23, 2021

Last week I left my full-time gig at Big Cartel. I’m going independent to do more Main Engine Cut Off and Off-Nominal, and to make these space-focused projects the primary work that I do. I’m also going to be building some apps of my own, and doing a good bit of client work—which could include you! If you’ve got an app or a site or really anything digital to build, hit me up and let’s work together.This episode of Main Engine Cut Off is brought to you by 39 executive producers—Simon, Lauren, Kris, Pat, Matt, Jorge, Ryan, Donald, Lee, Chris, Warren, Bob, Russell, Moritz, Joel, Jan, David, Joonas, Robb, Tim Dodd (the Everyday Astronaut!), Frank, Julian and Lars from Agile Space, Tommy, Matt, The Astrogators at SEE, Chris, Aegis Trade Law, Fred, Hemant, Dawn Aerospace, and seven anonymous—and 718 other supporters.TopicsGoing Independent - Anthony ColangeloHome - Off-NominalOff-Nominal - YouTubeOff-Nominal Happy Hour - Dec 16, 2021 - YouTubeThe ShowLike the show? Support the show!Email your thoughts, comments, and questions to [e-mail] @WeHaveMECOListen to MECO HeadlinesJoin the Off-Nominal DiscordSubscribe on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher, TuneIn or elsewhereSubscribe to the Main Engine Cut Off NewsletterBuy shirts and Rocket Socks from the Main Engine Cut Off ShopMusic by Max JustusArtwork photo by NASA

Hello and welcome to Main Engine Cutoff, I am Anthony Colangelo, and I've got some cool news to talk about today. I've mentioned it on the last couple of shows, but thought that it's worth taking a couple of minutes doing a special episode to just talk you through some changes that are happening. worth taking a couple of minutes doing a special episode to just talk you through some changes that are happening. And if you're a fan of the show, they are the best changes that you could hope for, because last week I left my full-time job at Big Cartel. I don't know if a lot of you know, but I've been working full-time gig at Big Cartel. I've actually been there about seven years now. But I made the decision that it's time to go independent, to do more main engine cutoff, more off nominal.

My other show that I do with Jake Robbins, I'll talk more about that in a bit. I'm also going to be building some of my own apps, and to round all that out, I'm going to be doing a lot of client work. Really, any digital projects that you've got to do, I might be someone that can help you with that. My day job, I'm an iOS developer by trade, but I do a lot of web development, web design, native app design. Really, like I said, any digital projects is what I really tackle. So that's going to be a thing that rounds out all this work. But the goal here is to make main engine cutoff and off nominal the primary thing that I do that other projects bend around. For a long time, that's been the inverse relationship that I had these projects,

uh, going and I would fill in my time available with those projects. Um, things obviously changed when I had a kid a year and a half ago and, started thinking about more longer term stuff. And also, you know, this project here is almost coming up on six years old,

uh, in April and it's grown a lot. Thanks to all of you out there listening, especially thanks to those of you out there supporting at mainenginecutoff.com slash support. I'll mention that because now is a really good time to jump in there. If you are pumped about this direction that I'm going to do more of this show and to do different things, it's a good time to jump in there and support because that is really the thing

that's making this all possible, that I've got this level of support from you all that gives me the launchpad to do this and to make this change and to be confident in it and to really fulfill what I've always wanted out of these projects that I do here. You know, Miko's, like I said, almost six years old, but I feel like I'm still starting out. There's a lot of things I want to try. There's a lot more I want to do. There's a lot of new things I want to try, more travel to do. And that

all becomes easier when this becomes the primary thing that I do, that other stuff in my schedule works around. And that's really the main change. And over on the off-nominal side, if you have not checked out off-nominal, I cannot, you I cannot impress upon you enough how much you need to check this out. If you like what I do here, I think you'll love OffNominal. OffNom.com is where to go. actually look up my details. I think it was four years ago. But we've changed a lot in recent months. And we're trying a lot of new things there. And it's feeling so good to be doing something new there and trying some stuff out to see what we can do. So there is the off nominal podcast that we do once a month. We also stream that live on YouTube as we do it. But we just started a new weekly show called off nominal happy hour every Thursday at 4pm Eastern. We're going to be talking with creators in space that are working on interesting projects people that are in space

doing interesting work we're going to be talking more about current events they're really just a weekly hangout with jake and i and some friends from around the internet i i think it's been a lot of fun so far we've done a couple of shows the first one we talked about a project that jake did called mars time the second one we had uh Krause, the photographer on, who was the main photographer for Inspiration4 and is an incredible photographer all around. And that was a really fun conversation talking with him about covering that mission, about being a photographer and things that have changed over time. And then the most recent one that we did was talking all about what I'm talking to you

about right now is why I'm making this change, talking about with Jake, some of the stuff that we're trying with Off Nominal, why we're trying it, and then digging into Jake's projects as well and talking about things he might be doing differently in 2022. And we're just getting started on that. The week after Christmas, we're going to be having Jeff Faust from Space News on to talk about what next year in space will be like and what last year in space was like. So it's just going to be people like this that we bring on and time to hang out. So please check that out. YouTube.com slash off nominal. You can check out everything we're doing over there because that's going to be a big part that I focus my energy on because both Miko and off-Nominal, I think they're unique and fun

projects and it's the ways that I want to spend my time. But anyway, to get back to the main plot, I just, I'm so excited to be doing this and it's going to be a really interesting year. So I'm going to be doing more Miko. I might try some new things out. You might see me traveling more. I'm still figuring out all of my plans for the year. And obviously given the state of the world, things are getting a little bit shaken up at the current moment as I record this just before Christmas here in 2021. But we'll see what happens on the other side. Once again, I do just want to mention if you have any interesting projects out there that you'd like to work with me on, I am doing some client work. So if you have a digital project of some sort, that might be something that fits me

and a couple of teammates that I have as well. Hit me up, let's talk about some sort that might be something that fits me and a couple of teammates that I have as well, hit me up. Let's talk about it. It might be interesting to work together and kind of round out what I'm doing here. So I don't want this to go on too long. I'll get kind of rambly. I did write a little bit of post over on my personal site. I'll have a link to that in the show notes if you want to read some more about behind the scenes stuff. If you want to click some links to the projects that I have going and some of the other stuff that I've done in my past, that's a good spot to do it.

And I'll also leave a link to the Off Nominal Happy Hour where Jake and I dive into this topic in depth if you want to hear more about it. Just know that I'm so thankful for your support. You're making this possible. If you're someone listening to this, if you're someone supporting the show, you're making it possible to do this.

And I'm excited to be able to have time to do more for you and to have more Miko out in the world because I think it could be a very special thing we have going here and over at Authnominal. So thank you, thank you, thank you so much. So thankful for all of your support over the years

and for you being a listener, spreading the word, all of that is making this possible. So here's to a great 2022 and beyond.