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- Check side-project directories for inspiration! For example you can check: https://profithunt.co/
- Find an old idea/startup and try to make it better in some way! Sometimes we try hard to find novel ideas, but making an old idea better, is more rewarding actually.
- Column1: Useful tools and Interesting startups (Cards: B2B, B2C, personal, etc.)
- C2: Blog ideas (and helpful resources for them)
- C3: Entertainment list (tv series watch list, my fav movies, weird directors, etc.)
- C4: To learn list (Articles, books, etc by their subjects)
- C5-10: Learned items (important things i learned sorted by subject and finished time)
P.S. I don't have any technical background, but if you want to just chat with someone, we can be in touch on Discord... ;)
I heard a heartwarming story recently from Brandon Sanderson. He was saying in his writing class that a full-time writer has an advantage, but don't worry if you can't afford being a full-time writer! If you only write for 4 hours a week, after a year you would have a novel. You have even less time? It would take 2 years but you gonna have your novel eventually. The important thing is consistency...
As an outsider it's not my place to give you any advice. And I know it's not gonna be easy. But I want to encourage you to pursuit what you like to do! It maybe take more time but eventually it's achievable...
A growth mindset, having a plan, real effort and of-course some luck/support, are things that I believe in.
I suggest this thought-provoking TEDx talk:
https://buffer.com/salary/senior-data-architect-2/average/
I think the most thoughtful/fair approach is to use more than one factor: role, years of experience, costs of living (having kids? big or small city? etc.) and loyalty (how many years in our company?) are the most important factors that come to my mind...
https://secretgeek.github.io/html_wysiwyg/html.html
You probably saw this before but this list can be helpful too:
http://rickcarlino.com/2018/07/11/fabulous-text-only-website...
But about regrets: There are days that I doubt my choice too. Probably because I never experienced working at big corporations. Maybe I'm OK with them? Maybe I should go experience that for myself? But usually these doubts don't last long. And hopefully your more experience helps you never encounter these doubts! ;)
-If you're really not into code, Wix or SquareSpace are good choices. But they have very limited capabilities beyond static pages.
- For dynamic pages or a full control on your website's functionality, Wordpress is an excellent choice. But it's hard to implement without any coding skill! You can have a lot of functionalities but you can't customize them if you are not a developer.
- Airtable or Notion gives you a lot of customization without any coding skills. So can make a nice dynamic page based on them with the help of an external no-code tool. Their problems? Very functional but without a decent UI!
It was my experience and I could be wrong. But as a no-techie, I think my experience could be relevant!
I'm not sure which Unicorns are outside US or which one hire remotely... But there are a lot of them. InVision is the only one that comes to mind right now.
https://www.cbinsights.com/research-unicorn-companies
Which startups in this list have the potential to grow rapidly in the next few years? Not all of them for sure! But there are a lot of them: SpaceX, Stripe, 23andMe, Discord, Grammarly, Duolingo, Calm, Intercom, Brex, Airtable, Figma, Canva and Udemy to name just a few.
The final factor? How many of them are in a market big enough to make big companies like Microsoft? This factor gonna make our list way too shorter! But it's hard to be sure. If I want to guess? I easily remove names like Udemy, Canva, Calm, Grammarly and Duolingo from our list...
It can work great, you can make a huge impact on growth of a promising startup, but it can also fail...
Digital marketers try their best to segment people properly, to measure everything accurately, etc but in the end there's NO WAY to do these things perfectly!
There's a lot of measurement inaccuracies after all and it's a normal part of their job... They find other ways to achieve their goals.
How I choose my books? I read extensively about their reviews. And I don't force myself to finish a bad book!
How do I choose my articles? I have a trello board for it! In my trello board I list every promising article I seen around the web. I list these articles based on their subjects. When I have time to read something I look at all the options I have in a certain category and I choose what seems to be the best and/or most relevant article among them.
Some stories are just fun and could change the mood in a classroom! Did you knew Évariste Galois, one of the most influential mathematicians of all time, died very young in a duel? What about Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy?
But more importantly some of these stories could help to understands math problems better. Why people tried to solve this particular problem? And how did they manage to solve it?
++ Another useful thing would be this: making problems less abstract! Telling students about why this formula is important? Which physics problem it can solve? How could be related to real life? etc.
++ Fun math problems could be useful too. Raymond Smullyan books are an example. But I'm sure there are lots of other books...
2. YES! Very much so!
3. A 1 hour meeting every other week! If you want to have weekly 1-on-1s, you can have a 30-45 minute meeting.
A few tips:
- Focus of 1-on-1s should be on supporting your direct reports. How they feel at work, how they can achieve more, what should they do for their career developments, etc.
- Active listening is very important! It's a meeting about our direct reports goals, so most of the time we should listen to what they have to say.
- I found this guide by Lighthouse helpful, but there are lots of other good guides:
https://getlighthouse.com/blog/one-on-one-meetings-template-...