Recently took Monica Lent's Blogging for Devs 7 day email course. (https://bloggingfordevs.com/)Thought the content was great but the delivery format (straight to email inbox) made it extremely effective.It made me wonder, why aren't there more email courses out there?It seems like many e-books and online courses would be far more engaging/effective/valuable as email courses.
I've found that splitting my time distinctly into writing vs editing has been really helpful. Writing: blurting everything on the page, no deletions. Editing: Refining what's on the page.Does anyone have similar tips on writing (whether that be for dev blogs or such)?
Built this because I can't afford calendly, don't like sending links, and don't like extra accounts/installations for something as simple as this.
I wrote a blog post (http://blog.jonathancai.com/premature-optimization/) about this too :)
The amazing products that we use and love did not always look that way, and it's easy to forget how crappy they were originally.
Most deals listed right now are for college students only, so please feel free to contribute more :)
Use this simple tool to drag’n’drop time availability, and copy/paste it for email or messaging.
There are several similar apps, but I’m not a fan of extra installations, links, or paying for Calendly.
But before I get there, I want to validate that this is something that would be actually bring value.
Yeah, I'm having so much trouble sleeping lately and it seems to correlate with the amount of work that I'm doing for my software dev projects. The mind keeps racing...
My problem is I don't use my laptop "with purpose":- I hop on the computer hoping to get x done, and then get sidetracked with y and z.- I hop on the computer hoping to get x done, and then spend way too long working on x and don't give myself time for other important thingsSo I was thinking, a solution might be a MacOS app where:1. On login, enter your purpose for using the computer and for...
Should you always have an MVP before "launching"? Or is creating a landing page with a waitlist (even before MVP) a better way to test for validation?
My first blog post is a bit depressing (http://blog.jonathancai.com/purpose/), but I wanted to ask, have you also felt lost during the beginning of your career? And how do you combat this and/or find "purpose" (in your work or otherwise)?
Do you mind sharing why you initially started Office Snapshots?
I ask because I suspect there was something far significant than "I thought it would be cool." This project is showing me how important it is to really love what you do - otherwise the amount of effort it takes to get something off the ground and self-sustainable is just truly back-breaking. I've probably spent a month on this project and I'm already getting exhausted. Starting to think its mainly because I just don't care enough about desks and desk setups in the first place.