jackgolding

Completely agree with this - changed my life!

I agree with this approach and have seen it mentioned a few times in indiehacker or solopreneur communities.

Do you have any resources in particular you are following for this? 30x500 seems like one of the only courses for this but it has mixed reviews (source: google, HN)

I am on maybe 20 a week at the moment - main problem is the cost (which is probably $160 AUD a week) and how it makes the next morning/next few days useless while your body recovers.

Hope you continue succeeding!

Health and Fitness needs to be number 1 - part of that is reducing alcohol intake which is difficult as I am part of a very active social group which has a lot of alcohol and drug abuse.

Financially - reducing my cost base and actually getting to a new highest "net worth" figure (I've spent a lot on self education which has been very fruitful but I need that "fuck you money")

Otherwise I need to diversify my income and move towards operating my own businesses - either contracting or a bootstrapping an info product. I think I need to bite the bullet and rebuild my income as 100% location independent because I hate the daily commute so much.

completely agree with this as far as the recommendation overthrows the record

(went through 3 weeks of his tweets couldn't find it)

Sorry I've just tried to search for it again too, think @AustenAllred may have tweeted it?

Show a minimum level of initiative and you will impress everyone.

Especially works with social situations - its incredible how much I've gotten out of local music just by always being on the front foot.

yep there was a post here a couple of weeks ago about a guy who applied for 200 or so jobs over 6 weeks, every 2 weeks he increased his pay demanded by $20k ended up going from asking for $60k to $140k or something incredible.

Midi + Synthesia https://www.synthesiagame.com/ worked for me, also Midi + Guitar/Drums with Rocksmith https://rocksmith.ubisoft.com/rocksmith/en-us/home/

Mind you having 5 lessons with an expert paid off way more than 50 hours of rocksmith.

Not sure if you were looking for non professional ones but reforge's brief is great to subscribe to https://www.reforge.com/brief

A lot of his argument against taking VC funding comes to what you say - they are playing with other people's money in a very risky way and choose you to invest in because they want you to go beyond the call of duty because you have everything to lose.

Rand Fishkin's autobiography has a interesting few paragraphs about "rich founders" and why they are preferred over ones who want to "get rich" - in short VCs don't want you to cash out ever - they want that moonshot.

This is where you upsell into ebooks, video courses and paid training. Also if you build an email list you can build partnerships which will lead to a much higher CPM.

This resonates with what I consider when making big life choices - choose flexibility over long term commitments (at least outside family.)

Here are my favourites:

Digital Analytics Power Hour

The Indie Hackers Podcast

Startups for the Rest of Us

The Side Hustle Project

Empire Flippers Podcast

Double your Freelancing

Ditching Hourly

Side Hustle School (great byte sized audio content)

The Consulting Pipeline Podcast

Snowplow is really hard to set up and manage but I'd say its the best tool in this space if you want to self manage.

First sentence is what I was going to write (bully but cowardly and backstabbing) but would add my manager was also entirely hands off and would cancel weeks of catch ups then complain when a deliverable didn't match their pedantic requirements.

Thanks!

Hi I work in digital analytics and have a question. A problem with Piwik is if that PSQL database goes down (a database is NEVER 100% up) what happens to the data your JavaScript snippet is sending?

Will also add a lot of comments here are very unfair I hope you take them with a grain of salt.

I'm considering the same, but I recall reading something someone said while I was in uni - "Why would anyone want to be a consultant when you are mainly brought in for the 'gone to shit' situations?"

Any thoughts on this? Is there any difference?

> What I learned is that a title doesn’t grant you any control

Is this just for anything other than CEO? Or are they always held to the board/investors.

At a local meetup we had a speaker come in and talk about "The Process" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_76ers#2013%E2%80%93present:_The_Process_era) which he deduced is design a strategy for long term success and see what happens. My thought was most tech employees and executives have very short tenure (3 years) so making short term decisions is incentivised (there is a lot of writing on this.) You can imagine as a product manager/GM/VP you'd push very hard on something like Amazon showing ads because its "new revenue" and regardless of if its a good idea in the long term for the business, its runs on the board in the short term which will provide yourself as an individual with the best results.

I don't know if people will be shocked with that type of thinking, but I've been thinking about it more and more this year.

Fortnightly Releases, Daily Stand ups, Offshore Dev Team

Monday W1: Iteration Kick Off, Exploratory of Last Iteration

Tuesday W1: Story Workshop (estimate cards)

Wednesday W1: Deployment of Last Iteration

Thursday W1: Retrospective

Friday W1: Story Workshop (estimate cards), Backlog Grooming (plan future iterations)

Tuesday W2: Story Workshop (estimate cards)

Friday W2: Story Workshop (estimate cards), Backlog Grooming (plan future iterations), Iteration Planning (Finalise next fortnight's sprint)

It's a lot of meetings but we have hit our targets 10 sprints in a row and we have only failed to hit our targets when we (as in product) haven't been able to sign off on cards in a fortnightly fashion.

I'd move daily stand ups to slack but its important to say hello to the offshore team every day. Our biggest problems are working cross-functionally internally, surprisingly the offshore user facing digital development team is the easiest to run (compared to ERP, CRM etc). Managing mockups between an external UX agency and an offshore team is a bit of a pain too but we are getting better.

I've worked in client side businesses with marketing teams of 5-30 people, two of those in marketing. A lot of the day to day the marketing teams do is manage outside agencies who do the creative, ad-buying, events and present that up to the stakeholders. There obviously is strategy work which is pre-campaign and is what the more senior marketers do (even though this is the most emphasized part in uni.) There are a few more functions which are more likely to not be subcontracted like CRM (emails), content (blogs etc), analytics, social media management and corporate comms.

For your original question, the difference between this and advertising is an advertiser receives a brief and builds creatives appropriate to whatever channels they and the marketer choose.

This is my experience and a few marketers have disagreed with this - obviously it varies between companies.

plot.ly has quite nice documentation in very good detail - ESPECIALLY their examples using multiple languages

Ironic this pops up today when a colleague has this scenario happen...

BA: We found this duplicate field error in our database, do you know about this.

DS: I told you about this 2 years ago.

BA: Oh so you have a script to produce all the duplicate records?

DS: No I did this 2 years ago I don't know what version of Python or any of the libraries I used for the notebook.

In my experience a lot of data scientists like this work alone on business problems - if they were in a more collaborative environment they'd probably run into the problems that Joel is discussing a lot more and be more open to build libraries.

I agree with this, there are a lot of businesses which do interesting things without the pressure and stress big 5 bring.

I've seen Dejan speak and I'd recommend following his work because he does very interesting black hat things like this in SEO. He has so many out of the box ideas like this which are brilliant.

My concern is a 2 bedroom starts at ~$600k within 20 km of Melbourne CBD and 3 bedroom is about ~$1m in most close suburbs. In tech you don't have a whole lot of choice to work for a leading company if you aren't in Melbourne or Sydney.