Seed Pod #2: Time
Always fleeting, hard to find, occasionally just right
You’ve been asking for months, and it’s finally here: the second official SmallStack Seed Pod!
In honor of the approaching new year and SmallStack’s own half-birthday a couple of weeks ago, our theme for this Seed Pod is time.
Quick refresher: A Seed Pod is a group of people who agree to publish articles around a common theme and lift each other up through cross-promotion. Just like our last Seed Pod about libraries, this Seed Pod is open to anyone who wants to participate.
Want to join us? Here are the details:
This Seed Pod will officially run Dec 4-31. Comments on this post will remain open for the duration of the pod.
The theme for this Seed Pod is time. As always, you’re free to interpret this theme however you like.
This post is the Seed Pod HQ. Use the comments to share your post about time and find other pod members’ posts to like, comment, and restack.
How to participate in this Seed Pod:
1. Create an original post on the theme of time.
You can interpret this theme as broadly as you like. As long as your post is even tangentially related to time, it counts!
2. Add the following intro to the top of your post. You should be able to just copy-paste the text below.
The following post is part of a Seed Pod collaboration about time. Seed Pods are a SmallStack community project designed to help smaller publications lift each other up by publishing and cross-promoting around a common theme. We’re helping each other plant the seeds for growth!
3. Add the following outro and badge to the bottom of your post.
Want to see more posts from this Seed Pod or join in on the fun? Head over to our roundup to learn more!
Here is some alt text you can use for the badge: Cartoon of three green happy peas in a pod on a plain yellow background with a dotted orange border. Black text by the peas reads, "Seed Pods; A SmallStack Community Project”
Here’s an example of a completed Seed Pod post with the intro/outro and badge.
4. Publish the post on your own substack. Then comment here with the link and a short description the post.
Don’t have time (ha! get it?) to write something immediately? No worries! This Seed Pod will stay open until Dec 31, and you can post right up until the end.
5. Check out others’ Seed Pod posts in this thread.
Engaging in this thread is great and highly encouraged, but don’t stop there. Visit the actual posts and like, comment, and restack your favorites. Maybe you’ll even want to subscribe to a few new creators. That’s how we help each other grow!
Friendly reminder: have fun, make friends, and try new things!
Use this thread as a space to have fun and experiment. If you aren’t sure what to create, ask others to help you brainstorm ideas. If someone has shared something you really love, make sure to let them know!
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I've always been fascinated by the passage of time, and this Seed Pod coincides perfectly with my yearly ritual of reflecting on the past, present, and future. Here's my contribution (with an optional Tarot prompt for those who are interested): https://creativeletters.substack.com/p/three-questions-for-2025
For this week’s 100 Rejections Club newsletter, I look at the importance of setting aside space in our schedules to create, at the need to figure out how to prioritize our creative goals. Time to Talk about Creative Time: How do you prioritize your creativity? https://100rejectionsclub.substack.com/p/0065-time-to-talk-about-creative