I just listened to a 40 minute summary of this book on Scribd, after reading your comment. This will be helpful. Thanks for sharing.
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a) replies to emails I sent b) have anything to do with topics I'm actively involved with c) from senders who I have marked as not spam dozens of times
I never used to check the spam filter, now I do almost daily.
Regarding the government, a lot of locals were upset with the government policies, mostly around immigration, with lots of people moving into "slums" as low-wage workers from neighbouring countries, displacing Tico workers. There were a lot of fans of Trump there because of his policies around immigration. I was surprised, as I had a good impression of the government there, like you do, and expected to see more pride in the way things were done regarding the environment.
Interestingly, one of the people I talked with these opinions was a full-time accountant who took the day off to drive us across the country for $100.
He's the happiest guy I know.
My Dad is in his mid 80's and plays four hours of sports a day, or at least he was before the pandemic hit.
When I was in my mid-20's I had to impress the hell out of potential clients to get work, as I looked like I was 15, and girls my own age wouldn't look at me as I was too young. I never drank, so bars weren't an issue. When I was in my early forties, 15-20 year old girls were still coming on to me. I will be 50 next year, and I finally look like I'm in my 20s or 30s, and still get those looks from University-aged girls whenever I venture where they hang out.
A couple of years ago, my now 43 year old partner was mistaken for her teenage doppelganger and asked to the high school prom by three different boys while walking home from work.
It was annoying earlier, but now I look forward to turning out to be one of the immortals.
$10/month for a B2B product is very very low and companies don't sell $10/month products with sales people. It won't cover the cost of a sales person's time, or ads for that matter. If it costs $100 to get a client, you need them to stick for 10 months before you make anything. With an 8 month runway, your math won't work. It only works if you have great "free" inbound marketing and the time to wait. That's Netflix level pricing, where they have millions of clients and had the funding to cover initial losses while growing the user base.
My first advice is to raise your price! Either that or you need millions in funding to build a marketing campaign and to have the runway to wait until the CAC is covered. I would 10x your price at least, and then offer early adopter discounts to clients who pay for a year now, not when the product is ready, with extra off if they prepay for two years. Then each sale pays you enough to do some development and get the next sale, as opposed to paying you enough to eat at McDonalds once a month.
Also, list yourself on Sploda.com (no association) and update your profile every time something happens, so they start seeing progress.
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He had a "warehouse of Chinese developers" and would simply throw 10 developers at it working on the exact same thing, and use the best code of the 10. That was his pitch.
Needless to say, I said no.
I think it's really hard to get natural with it. Just like any new language, it takes years of immersion to speak like a native, and there's nowhere in our society to get that kind of immersion in NLP.
Many people complain that NVC sounds unnatural. This is because it is like learning a new language. It sounds unnatural when any native speaker teaches someone their language, because they speak slowly, in simple phrases, and repeat everything at least twice. That is exactly what Marshal did when teaching NVC.
Once you are fluent, it sounds very different and works beautifully. I've occasionally offer help to couples on the verge of breaking up, reworking what they are saying into NVC, and the effects are profound.
Couples on opposite sides of the room, who can't look at each other, end up tightly holding each other, crying together. They feel understood for the first time and understand the pain in each other that motivates each other's hurtful feeling actions.
Then I start teaching them to do it themselves. When they do, the relationship improves. When they don't, they keep needing to come back again and again, and the relationship slowly dies.
I still tend to listen to the full lecture on YouTube about once a year or two as a refresher. As far as I'm concerned, this is one of the most important life skills anyone can learn, and NVC should be taught in all schools.
From what they say on Product Hunt, it's all connected to a design so you can change styles once, and they get applied everywhere, so you can apply your project's palette etc, and boom, it looks right.
The idea is that you can very quickly wireframe any kind of sales site and make it your own. It looks like it could be very useful, as there are so many variations on each component.
What's really interesting is that it seems to also have a bootstrap version of everything, so after you quickly mock it up, you can quickly code something that matches. Again, adding your own styles. With Figma outputting CSS, that should work very nicely.
Wow. By answering your question, I've just sold myself on buying it.
[EDIT - EXPIRED CODE] Discount code on the product hunt site: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/source-wireframe-kit?utm_s...
Your plugin works much better than Catalina's voice control for me, and handles periods, commas, pauses, etc, all very well. Awesome tutorials. Love the cat on the keyboard. All really impressive. Also in my brief test, it didn't slow down my computer like voice control.
I'm just amazed that Apple can't get these basics of dictation right on an accessibility product, but I also have looked at videos where people had better results than I did. Need to test some more, but am keeping LipSurf in mind if I can't succeed with voice control.
When you're a remote manager competing for staff time to get these things done with on-site managers it gets even trickier, as people want to please the people they have to face every day, even if they see them just in passing. You need to take extra steps (more reminders) to keep secondary projects moving.
When I tell hairstylists, the reaction is shock/disgust followed by surprise when they can't help but do the smell test, and it doesn't smell, and then with the unprompted admission that I have "abnormally" thick and healthy hair.
I also just use unscented, clear, vegan, glycerin soap on the important bits, but I'm going to experiment with stopping that after reading this article.