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Julius Caesar "Gallic Wars" is certainly worth reading, translated from Latine to French, so probably, the English version is very good also.

In French, some of the best ones include Chateaubriand "Mémoires d'outre Tombe" (Memoirs from Beyond the Grave), the epic life story of a French writer from the American Independence war to the end of the French monarchy mid nineteen's century.

For my job, I often have to google a specific technical issue. It often directs me to company blogs, which I read happily.

I must say that, while I read happily the blogpost, I never once contacted a company because of a nice / useful blogpost they wrote.

The reason is that it is so complex to work with a new provider in a big company (purchasing process...) that we often prefer to stay with existing providers.

I developed a working product as a side project, and I am now trying to sell it by working on it part-time and keeping my full time job (actually tring to keep find of strict 9 to 5).

There are positives and negatives about my situation:

+ no risk for my family (except I am very busy)

+ I can actually experiment my product at my current jov (kind of customer 0)

+ my employer (large european corporation not in the IT business) was actually surprisingly willing to let me work on a side project, and did not bother me with IP.

- So far, I did not manage a single real customer (though company only started 2 months ago). I may have a better result if I was full time.

Hi,

getting users to invest time in a new product is not so easy. One of the fears is that someone will invest time in a product that will be abandoned. There are graveyards or abandoned softwares.

I am now working around half-time trying to sell my own side project (https://openlowcode.com), and it is quite hard.

In my opinion, Ramen (asian noodles) deserve some room in the junk food podium. There is even an essay from Paul Graham quoting them (Ramen profitable) ;-).

Hi,

I think you should start by making sure you set clear directions, and everybody understands. Then, just also be open to listening when people have something to say.

A surprisingly low part of your time will be spent as a 'policeman'. Most people do not try to cheat or be lazy, they just want to understand and be listened to.

As a manager, you are not the dictator of a small country. You are a sailing boat captain who is looking at the waves, and asking his team for the state of the boat.