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by ChanningAllen 4y ago
> Tech is weird in that you're competing against a lot of very smart people, the barriers to building a tech product are very low, and the competition is global. In contrast if you open a used car lot you'll typically be compet
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I use 634 step-by-step checklists(indiehackers.com)
1 points by ChanningAllen 4y ago|0 comments
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You’re a mental athlete. Why don’t you warm up?(indiehackers.com)
2 points by ChanningAllen 4y ago|0 comments
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DRY your code, but RIG your cognition(indiehackers.com)
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The problem with big innovations(indiehackers.com)
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The Problem with Big Innovations(indiehackers.com)
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by ChanningAllen 5y ago
> A natural fear is that by reducing the amount of work each employee tackles at any given time, it might reduce the total amount of work an organization is able to complete, making it less competitive. This fear is unfounded. As argued,
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by ChanningAllen 5y ago
Yep, I use Notion for nesting, since that's where I do all of my other work. Workflowy is great though — years back, I used it for everything. These days I supplement my Notion workflow with Dynalist, which is basically a Workflowy clo
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by ChanningAllen 5y ago
> does it generalize well to others? Numerous readers have already responded saying it's worked for them so far, but the devil's in the details I suppose. I really only shared the tip of the iceberg of how it works, and a lot o
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by ChanningAllen 5y ago
By default I'm actually very low energy. Always have been. I recall my dad admonishing me many times in adolescence that he'd take me to the doctor and they'd prick me with needles if I didn't stop napping during the day
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by ChanningAllen 5y ago
Ultimately they're both expressions of the scientific method. But the "innovation" (if that's not too strong of a word) in the nested plan-do-learn loop is that it's explicitly engineered for someone's personal
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by ChanningAllen 5y ago
I can come at this from either direction, since both of the following statements are true: a) this system reduces the frequency with which unexpected events happen in the first place, and b) the unexpected events that do take place become a
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by ChanningAllen 5y ago
Makes sense. This might sound counterintuitive, but my solution is to make sure that I'm always working on multiple projects, which I call a "project stack." It's a mix of professional, social, and personal projects, so
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by ChanningAllen 5y ago
Glad to hear it. And yeah, your comment cuts right to the core of what makes it work: productivity wins, i.e. little elevations in dopamine. Another thing I've found is that externalizing my plans takes a little stress off my working m
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My work routine: plan, do, learn loops(indiehackers.com)
170 points by ChanningAllen 5y ago|33 comments
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Infinite entrepreneurship: how to last as a founder(indiehackers.com)
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by ChanningAllen 6y ago
Love the concept. One slight improvement that would push me to actually bookmark a site like this is if, rather than merely listing _entire blogs_, it listed a feed of the most recent _posts_ from the various blogs. Posts are the level of a
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Indie email providers in the privacy age(indiehackers.com)
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We've made the first Twitter writing app(indiehackers.com)
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After losing my savings as an indie hacker, I can't do it anymore. I quit.(indiehackers.com)
232 points by ChanningAllen 6y ago|144 comments
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$10k MRR debunking election misinformation(indiehackers.com)
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How we made Indie Hackers a lot faster(indiehackers.com)
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Community: The new business model for entrepreneurs(indiehackers.com)
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Community: The new business model for entrepreneurs(indiehackers.com)
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There's a supply and demand problem in podcasting(indiehackers.com)
2 points by ChanningAllen 6y ago|1 comments
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Founders are adjusting to lost advertising revenue(indiehackers.com)
1 points by ChanningAllen 6y ago|0 comments
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No-code founders are on the rise. Are they making money?(indiehackers.com)
180 points by ChanningAllen 6y ago|120 comments
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People are learning to build new businesses in lockdown(indiehackers.com)
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People are learning how to build new businesses in lockdown(indiehackers.com)
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One-person startups are leaning on their strengths in the recession(indiehackers.com)
2 points by ChanningAllen 6y ago|0 comments

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