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i haven't lived the zoom lifestyle yet, as my only pandemic gig was phone-only. but i def feel like zoom is over-relied-upon. why else would _so_ many people have zoom fatigue? the…

a part of me is thinking "ugh, why couldn't we get a tax credit for, you know, bike bikes? non-electric bikes?" :-D but i'm not hating much -- a small step in the right direction -…

I suspect the answer is, like most things, 'politics'. So, to me, for instance, take the biggest problem the world currently faces - global heating. I think everyone knows the two …

i think this sounds very reasonable.

for yourself or others, do you think your workload would be reduced? or, would you be able to get the same or more done in 20% less time?

sounds like a good idea to me. i wonder if a 4-day work week would actually be attractive to employers, especially if they could take a cut (back) of salary. maybe even something l…

Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen it's great. seems to be something there for everyone. fans. musicians. political people. artists. lovers. writers. poets. workers. NJ enthusiasts.

i suspect not. they seem to show up a lot for me, still, for....almost any search i do. and looking thru a lot of posts on idiehackers and related, it seems to be the number one pl…

i use a super-simple 'email myself' app to type up a quick message so that it hits my gmail and i process it later. usually that means looking at it, looking it up, figure out what…

Been working on a service to let you listen to the web -- similar in function to the audio part of the Pocket app. Mostly using AWS Lambda and SNS. Some occasional weirdness in str…

No. That's what I want to believe anyways. It would be interesting to see an actual study, though. Team A does project 1 with Scrum. Team B does project 1 without Scrum. Let's say …

I plan on launching a B2B and B2C solution soon. My strategy in a general sense will be to: * re-listen to all the Indie Hackers podcasts and take notes * stay patient I heard one …

whenever someone makes blanket technical statements in this crazy boasting fashion, i think of Yeats: > ...the worst are full of passionate intensity. that said, it's difficult to …

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better, why do they still make car horns?

i've been in this position, and on the other side - where i wanted to pick up someone else's idea/tech and run with it. in theory, we'd figure out a way to split equity/etc. now th…

Dropbox locked me out of my account years ago and I'm sure they have locked out thousands of other people too. I suspect loss of trust helps a company go into decline, especially w…

A job market with a lot of interesting opportunities, but 1 hour outside of a major city, and your career will be secondary to...a job market with lots of interesting opportunities…

tony hsieh tried to retire early. didn't work out so well. one strategy for how to deal with problems is to try to fix them. another strategy is to run away from them.

sounds like The Second Coming poem ("the centre cannot hold") by WB Yeats, 1919: https://poets.org/poem/second-coming The best lack all coviction, while the worst Are full of passi…

I am about to look for a new job and i'm hoping there are some companies out there that don't video zoom -- i feel like the video part is bad info, wasteful, stressful, etc.

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I have not seen a single serious critique of the 1619 project yet. So far it's all just hyperbolic white supremacist right-wing fox news-speak. I do understand the seriousness of t…