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by jackgolding 8y ago
I agree with this approach and have seen it mentioned a few times in indiehacker or solopreneur communities. Do you have any resources in particular you are following for this? 30x500 seems like one of the only courses for this but it has m
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by jackgolding 8y ago
I am on maybe 20 a week at the moment - main problem is the cost (which is probably $160 AUD a week) and how it makes the next morning/next few days useless while your body recovers. Hope you continue succeeding!
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by jackgolding 8y ago
Health and Fitness needs to be number 1 - part of that is reducing alcohol intake which is difficult as I am part of a very active social group which has a lot of alcohol and drug abuse. Financially - reducing my cost base and actually gett
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by jackgolding 8y ago
completely agree with this as far as the recommendation overthrows the record
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by jackgolding 8y ago
(went through 3 weeks of his tweets couldn't find it)
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by jackgolding 8y ago
Sorry I've just tried to search for it again too, think @AustenAllred may have tweeted it?
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by jackgolding 8y ago
Show a minimum level of initiative and you will impress everyone. Especially works with social situations - its incredible how much I've gotten out of local music just by always being on the front foot.
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by jackgolding 8y ago
yep there was a post here a couple of weeks ago about a guy who applied for 200 or so jobs over 6 weeks, every 2 weeks he increased his pay demanded by $20k ended up going from asking for $60k to $140k or something incredible.
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by jackgolding 8y ago
Midi + Synthesia https://www.synthesiagame.com/ worked for me, also Midi + Guitar/Drums with Rocksmith https://rocksmith.ubisoft.com/rocksmith/en-us/home/ Mind you having 5 lessons with
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by jackgolding 8y ago
Not sure if you were looking for non professional ones but reforge's brief is great to subscribe to https://www.reforge.com/brief
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by jackgolding 8y ago
A lot of his argument against taking VC funding comes to what you say - they are playing with other people's money in a very risky way and choose you to invest in because they want you to go beyond the call of duty because you have eve
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by jackgolding 8y ago
Rand Fishkin's autobiography has a interesting few paragraphs about "rich founders" and why they are preferred over ones who want to "get rich" - in short VCs don't want you to cash out ever - they want that mo
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by jackgolding 8y ago
This is where you upsell into ebooks, video courses and paid training. Also if you build an email list you can build partnerships which will lead to a much higher CPM.
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by jackgolding 8y ago
This resonates with what I consider when making big life choices - choose flexibility over long term commitments (at least outside family.)
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by jackgolding 8y ago
Here are my favourites: Digital Analytics Power Hour The Indie Hackers Podcast Startups for the Rest of Us The Side Hustle Project Empire Flippers Podcast Double your Freelancing Ditching Hourly Side Hustle School (great byte sized audio co
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by jackgolding 8y ago
Snowplow is really hard to set up and manage but I'd say its the best tool in this space if you want to self manage.
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by jackgolding 8y ago
First sentence is what I was going to write (bully but cowardly and backstabbing) but would add my manager was also entirely hands off and would cancel weeks of catch ups then complain when a deliverable didn't match their pedantic req
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by jackgolding 8y ago
Thanks!
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by jackgolding 8y ago
Hi I work in digital analytics and have a question. A problem with Piwik is if that PSQL database goes down (a database is NEVER 100% up) what happens to the data your JavaScript snippet is sending? Will also add a lot of comments here are
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by jackgolding 8y ago
I'm considering the same, but I recall reading something someone said while I was in uni - "Why would anyone want to be a consultant when you are mainly brought in for the 'gone to shit' situations?" Any thoughts on
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by jackgolding 8y ago
> What I learned is that a title doesn’t grant you any control Is this just for anything other than CEO? Or are they always held to the board/investors.
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by jackgolding 8y ago
At a local meetup we had a speaker come in and talk about "The Process" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_76ers#2013%E2%80%93present:_The_Process_era) which he deduced is design a strategy for long term success and see
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by jackgolding 8y ago
Fortnightly Releases, Daily Stand ups, Offshore Dev Team Monday W1: Iteration Kick Off, Exploratory of Last Iteration Tuesday W1: Story Workshop (estimate cards) Wednesday W1: Deployment of Last Iteration Thursday W1: Retrospective Friday W
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by jackgolding 8y ago
I've worked in client side businesses with marketing teams of 5-30 people, two of those in marketing. A lot of the day to day the marketing teams do is manage outside agencies who do the creative, ad-buying, events and present that up
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by jackgolding 8y ago
plot.ly has quite nice documentation in very good detail - ESPECIALLY their examples using multiple languages
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by jackgolding 8y ago
Ironic this pops up today when a colleague has this scenario happen... BA: We found this duplicate field error in our database, do you know about this. DS: I told you about this 2 years ago. BA: Oh so you have a script to produce all the du
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by jackgolding 8y ago
I agree with this, there are a lot of businesses which do interesting things without the pressure and stress big 5 bring.
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by jackgolding 8y ago
I've seen Dejan speak and I'd recommend following his work because he does very interesting black hat things like this in SEO. He has so many out of the box ideas like this which are brilliant.
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by jackgolding 8y ago
My concern is a 2 bedroom starts at ~$600k within 20 km of Melbourne CBD and 3 bedroom is about ~$1m in most close suburbs. In tech you don't have a whole lot of choice to work for a leading company if you aren't in Melbourne or S
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by jackgolding 8y ago
Lately I've been thinking of moving to a country town to get away from a lot of these problems that are systematic in cities (traffic, crime, office politics.) I don't know what its like in America, but in Australia most towns are

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