Keyboard Confessions

Your new favorite Friday email. It’s a bit ridiculous, a bit satire, and a whole lot of relatable. Each week, I’ll be pulling back the curtain on the hilarious, often absurd, truths of the work-from-home hustle—because we all know entrepreneurship isn’t as polished as it looks.

I Think I Triggered… Something? Was it an action? A sequence? A crisis? A panic attack?!

If you’ve been reading these emails for a while, then you already know this very important fact about me:

Tech and I?

We are not friends.

We are not acquaintances.

We are not even “mutual respect from a distance.”

We are enemies who occasionally have to work together for the sake of the business, like coworkers in a group project who refuse to make eye contact.

Because I just… don’t get it.

My brain does not process tech the way it processes creative things.

Give me an idea? I’m off to the races. Give me a blank page? I’ll fill it. Give me a product concept? I will build an entire world around it.

Give me a dashboard with 26 buttons and words like “integration” and “trigger”?

I immediately become the kind of person who clicks nothing and just… stares blankly, tilting my head with cartoon question marks floating above me.

Like maybe if I don’t move, it won’t notice me.

Because I am convinced—and I mean spiritually convinced—that I am one wrong click away from breaking something very important.

Not just like… “oops this page is weird.”

No.

I’m talking:

• Payments stop processing
• Emails go to the void
• The internet flickers
• A small alarm goes off somewhere in Silicon Valley
• A man in a headset whispers, “She touched it again.”

And it’s me.

It’s always me. I’m the “she” who touched it, again.

Which is exactly why I have built my life around a very solid strategy:

✨ Simply do not touch the tech ✨

I outsource it. I avoid it. I pretend it runs on vibes and good intentions.

Enter: Gem.

My tech wizard.
My calm, unshakable, “it’s fine, we’ll fix it” human.

If tech is a haunted house, Gem is the person who casually walks in, flips on the lights, and is like, “Yeah, it’s just a loose wire.” and then fixes said loose wire.

Meanwhile I’ve already emotionally written my will.

She handles everything.

And I like it that way. Period. Full stop. 🛑

HOWEVER…

And I would like it noted in the court documents that I did not make this decision lightly.

Recently… I decided to learn some of it myself. (Because I keep having this intrusive, nightmare of a thought “what will I do if something happens to Gem?!” like I literally don't know how the backend of my biz works… at all. 😅)

So I must try to learn the tech.

I know.

I don’t recognize me either.

It started innocently.

I opened the back end of Thrivecart.

Which already felt like a bold choice.

And then I thought, “You know what? Let’s just… try.”

TRY.

A word I usually reserve for things like new snacks, and series on Netflix, not entire tech systems.

So now I’m in there building a sales page like I’ve been doing this my whole life (I have not).

I’m connecting it to Kit.
I’m linking Google Sheets.
I’m setting up triggers and actions—which, by the way, still sound like something you’d say in a spy movie.

“Trigger the action.”
“Which action?”
“THE action.”

(Also, not sure I’m even using any of these terms correctly lol)

Meanwhile I’m over here like: “I clicked a thing and now it says ‘success’ but I don’t know what succeeded.” 🧐

And every step of the way I’m narrating like:

“Okay… that seems right?”
“That button feels important.”
“Should I know what this means?”
“Let’s click it and find out. What’s the worst that could happen?”

(Do not answer that.)

But here’s the part that is both shocking and slightly offensive to my entire personality:

It’s been going… okay-ish.

Like???

I don’t love that.

Because I had a whole identity built around “tech is impossible and I simply cannot.”

And now suddenly it’s like:

“I mean… it’s confusing.”
“It’s mildly stressful.”
“I did Google ‘what is a webhook’ and immediately regretted it.”

But it’s not… impossible.

Which feels like a betrayal to a core personality trait, honestly.

Because I have spent YEARS acting like tech is this giant, fire-breathing dragon guarding the gates of my business.

And now I’m realizing it’s more like…

A very complicated IKEA instruction manual.

Annoying? Yes.
Unnecessarily confusing? Also yes. But technically… figure-out-able if you’re willing to sit there and go, “Okay but why is this screw shaped like that.”

And I think this is the part that got me…

The thing that stresses us out the most…
The thing we avoid…
The thing we’re like “that’s just not for me” about…

Is usually just something we haven’t let ourselves be bad at yet.

Because let me be so for real:

I am not good at this.

I am clicking things with the confidence of someone who absolutely should not be left unattended.

I am looking around for an adultier adult.

I am learning via chaos and confusion.

I am one step away from naming my process “vibes-based automation.”

But I’m doing it.

And more importantly?

I’m not immediately shutting down the second something feels unfamiliar.

Which is… new.

Because most of the time, when something doesn’t click right away, we (I) make it mean something.

“I’m not good at this.”
“My brain doesn’t work like this.”
“This isn’t my thing.”

And then we quietly back away like nothing happened.

But what if the only reason it feels hard…

Is because it’s new?

Not because you’re incapable.

Not because you’re “not that kind of person.” But because you haven’t practiced being that kind of person yet.

Because I promise you, there is a version of you who knows how to do the thing you’re currently avoiding.

They just exist slightly on the other side of:

“This is confusing.”
“This feels weird.”
“I don’t like this.”
“I’m doing it anyway.”

And honestly?

That’s where all the good stuff in business lives.

Not in the part where you feel confident.

In the part where you don’t… and you do it anyway.

So yes, I will continue to write love letters about Gem and keep her as my lord-ess and savior, full-time tech wizard.

But I am slightly less afraid of the back end dashboard than I was last week.

And that?

Feels like progress. 🙌

(Gem, if you’re reading this… sorry if I broke anything 😅)

xo,
Melissa (your slightly suspicious of tech… but clicking things anyway, friend)

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