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Been a while, but IIRC people losing their jobs, or making less money.
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My uncle did tax preparation in NYC, and he definitely saw signs of 2008 bust coming.
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Many people don't have an emergency fund, so it's good advice and worth repeating. Being stuck in a high-expense life style, especially if you owe a lot of money, makes it very hard to be flexible. E.g. you might not be able to
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Write a blog post, see what people say? And then maybe if you get a lot of interest you can write a book or do training or just leverage it into getting a better paying job. I don't think this is a great income opportunity, though. Bes
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Writing. Writing can help you think through a complex problem, and then editing and rewriting can help you explain a complex idea clearly, or convince someone to take action. Reading. Learn how to take in lots of information quickly, how to
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You're trying to add a massive amount of complexity and new technologies. That makes it much more likely this process fails, and is the opposite of what a proof-of-concept will give you. A build system like bazel or pants is not really
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I've designed a logging system designed to address some of these issues ( https://eliot.readthedocs.io/en/1.2.0/ ) and I know people have e.g. used the trace ID it provides to correlate Sentry errors with loggi
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Learn to prioritize, and value your time. You're not going to get much more done by working an extra 5 hours. Doing the same thing over and over again without getting tired is what computers are good at, humans have other skills. So gi
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"Sit back and I'll tell you a story of intrigue and corruption, deceit and murder." https://github.com/pyca/pyopenssl/commit/0beed1c968ea4511cbe...
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The author is confusing productivity with doing work. If you overcome all these things and work all day, non-stop... you may be still be unproductive because you're doing things inefficiently, or doing unnecessary work. The key to prod
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You don't need technology, or at least not software, you need pre-printed templates: https://www.staples.com/Awards-Certificates-Templates/cat_CL...
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Laura Ingalls Wilder's books include very detailed descriptions of how things were built or constructed back in the day. One gets the impression the author would've loved to be a carpenter but wasn't able to because she was a
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Self-promotion: I started a blog to talk about all the skills that aren't "how to code a thing in language X" or "how to use framework Y". Things like productivity skills, conceptual skills, career advice and the li
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Try #devops on Freenode maybe.
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A lot of the way experts think is actually very domain-specific. So if you want to be good at thinking about a specific domain, might be worth reading one of Gary Klein's books about naturalistic decision making. https://www
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Young programmers working long hours: a fun job or bad management?(codewithoutrules.com)
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Second what svennek said: get your foot in the door in a company that supports employees changing roles over time. In addition to technical writing, another potential position is training. Teaching children isn't the same as teaching a
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Or I could just use FastSpring :)
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Different countries, but also in the US different states have different sales tax.
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The problem is taxes. You need to pay VAT on EU sales ("MOSS VAT"), sales taxes in many countries... even if you are not resident of those countries. Even as an American if I sell to someone in EU I need to collect VAT. Options: 1
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by itamarst 9y ago
Build a mental map of where to find things, and then refer back for details as needed: 1. Skim the whole book. The goal here is to learn basic concepts, keywords, and the structure of the book. 2. Start coding, refer back to the book as I e
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I don't think it's a specific technology that made me the most money. Rather, skills like the demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly has been far more useful. In particular I have been hired at jobs where I knew ne
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They're different skills, yes. But if you want to be truly productive you need to have both: come up with the idea that will actually solve the problem efficiently, and then implement it correctly. In general I tend to think of problem
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The incremental improvement to your life from buying a smartwatch is probably pretty minimal. Having more money saved, and having the habit of spending less, is much more valuable for most people. So how about not buying one at all?
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Sphinx? mkdocs? Also worth thinking about how you should document it. Really great talk about this by Daniele Procida: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azf6yzuJt54 Prose version of the talk: https://www.divio.co
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia ?
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"Over the past few years, I was one of the many people who wrote off house flipping. But apparently it grew by value and volume exponentially. Was wondering if it's too late in the game to flip houses?" "Over the past fe
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Motivation is one of the keys to productivity, yes, so getting your motivation aligned with what you're doing is hugely important. That means understanding your goals, from big picture ("here is why I need a job" and "th
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John Stuart Mill talks in his autobiography about how he suffered from what we would call depression, and how this taught him the importance of feelings, via the arts: https://www.utilitarianism.com/millauto/five.html
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Happy to review resumes: itamar@codewithoutrules.com (20+ years experience, so I've seen many resumes over the years).

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