drakonka

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by drakonka 3y ago
Yup, short stories were published exclusively on KDP in the Kindle Unlimited program.
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by drakonka 3y ago
I have not used it myself, but know others who do. I think technically it works just fine. For me, one hesitation would be sharing my WIPs with Google. I'd rather just not have _another_ company have more copies of my work when they do
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by drakonka 3y ago
I am at a bit over 15 years of experience and have generally had a steady influx of recruiters and internal HR reaching out through LinkedIn. When I briefly listed myself as Open to Work (for recruiter view) last month the flood gates reall
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by drakonka 3y ago
I got started with short stories and later moved on to novellas, then novels. Now I write a mix of novellas (25000-ish words) and novels (up to 120000 words). I started publishing only on Amazon (in their Kindle Unlimited program, which pay
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by drakonka 3y ago
Afraid not. I write under a pen name because I don't want my books linked with my real name just yet. It's not a huge deal if someone finds out, but they're still a little too cringe for me to put out there, plus I'd rat
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by drakonka 3y ago
I write under a pen name, but I've published about ten sci-fi romance books so far across a couple of different series.
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I don't have much advice on that front since that is one thing I've never actually had an issue with (unlike literally everything else about it, from craft to marketing). Ideas tend to come for me all the time, _but_ I noticed the
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by drakonka 3y ago
I am writing and publishing fiction. It's slow going, but scratches my creative itch and pays for my cat food.
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by drakonka 3y ago
I do not think just adding a daycare will make having children suddenly make sense to many people - at least not enough to warrant such a blanket statement about it. Aside from simply not wanting any, there are so many reasons to not have c
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by drakonka 3y ago
I have been using a paid Proton Mail plan since 2018, and I _think_ a free plan for a year or two before that. In those years, I've run into two issues worth mentioning: * Android app sending incomplete emails. Sometimes the email woul
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by drakonka 3y ago
I am seeing AI used in _ways_ that it shouldn't be. More specifically, ways that I believe decrease efficiency and quality rather than improve them. So many people seem to want to be able to want to contort themselves with prompt &quot
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by drakonka 3y ago
I did a live coding interview a while back where I was sharing my screen. I just pointed out that I'd been testing Copilot and offered to disable it in my IDE. The engineer just waved it off and said I should keep it on. Trying to hide
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by drakonka 3y ago
I've been using one called FLOWN. It's not just for engineers, but some community sessions are themed (writing, coding, etc). There is not much chat in these other than sharing your intentions and reflecting on how you did afterwa
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by drakonka 3y ago
I have somewhat different interview preferences than you, but I've been politely declining to go forward with companies that just have incompatible processes. I hate live coding and whiteboarding interviews and at this point have just
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by drakonka 3y ago
I think this one is a little more nuanced than that. I haven't bought any of Dawson's courses and definitely don't plan to now, but this is not a person advertising a "get-rich-quick" scheme. At least not from the i
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by drakonka 3y ago
Hahahah same exact experience here. Clicked the tab and it was like touching a stove as my brain caught up with the title - noped out immediately. Now reading through comments while trying to work up the guts to try it. Edit: I did it. I sp
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by drakonka 3y ago
What is the goal/direction of the brand, though? Most brands I know of have some sort of purpose, or something they are selling. I get that a personal brand is more like selling yourself, but what "buyer" are you targeting? V
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by drakonka 3y ago
I think that depends on the end goal with the marketing. What are you looking to achieve exactly? For example: getting a job, getting funding, getting attention for an open-source project? I've never really thought about it for myself.
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Pretty much never, but that's okay. Writing the note itself seems beneficial. I figure if I forget about a note it wasn't that important in the first place. And if I ever remember it, I'll have it to go back to. If it turns o
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by drakonka 3y ago
This. When I was a kid my best friend and I made our own Pokemon game by drawing our own Pokemon cards and assigning various nuts (still in shells) to each one. My Charizard was an almond and her Mewtwo was something like a pecan, for examp
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by drakonka 3y ago
I've been using Logseq for a while, which seems kind of in the same general category of tools as Trilium. I like it a lot, but mostly use it for disorganized note-jotting. In reality I know it is highly extensible and configurable for
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by drakonka 3y ago
I am not sure, but I have always pursued this kind of work by default and aggressively. Of course there will always be ups and downs, but when it stops feeling interesting, meaningful, and challenging for a prolonged period of time, I gener
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by drakonka 3y ago
Thank you for the recommendation; I've wanted to start a private Notion for a while but had the same requirement for local data storage.
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I do this with my books - everything from my direct store is a little cheaper. This is because I get a much bigger cut of the royalties selling direct (90-100% minus transaction fees depending on direct sales platform, compared to other sto
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by drakonka 3y ago
Oh good to know, thanks. The online quote they gave me was really decent and they didn't ask about keycaps, but I've never done a trade-in before so maybe they'd back out at the last minute after seeing my poor N key...
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by drakonka 3y ago
I use it mostly to assist my fiction writing. Helping me brainstorm, critique, work through stuck-points, and proofread. The other day I was a bit stuck on the main conflict of a story I'm writing and talked through it with ChatGPT via
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by drakonka 3y ago
I'm considering whether I should trade in my M1 MBP for either an M2 15" MBA or M3 MBP today, or wait until M3 MBAs become a thing. I'm also wary of the trade-in value of the M1 MBP, which I guess will go down the longer I wa
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When I've heard that before I always just thought they meant they had no particular talent for it and weren't interested enough to learn. More a case of choosing to focus on things you feel more naturally inclined to, as opposed t
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by drakonka 3y ago
Thanks for elaborating. I think I realize now that we are talking about different things. I wasn't distinguishing between learning styles (e.g., guided or self taught), but more thinking of the ability to step into a new field and lear
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I don't think I can believe that the majority can't do this without some evidence. But regardless, I'm really curious what makes you think that? What in your opinion would be stopping them, other than maybe just not believing

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