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There is high value in pieces where the author uses himself as a case study in achieving something and provides a lesson for others to learn from. In this case, however, it just reads like braggadocio. What's the take-away for us?
I wish the author compared his contracting value creation with his project's value creation.
I'm most impressed by how detailed the tracked time is- what app or method did you use and how did you stick to it?
Some friendly advice: your charts are almost impossible to understand. They may make sense to you, but they are utterly meaningless to most anyone else. I suggest that as you continue writing, you should take a step back and try to read it from the point of view of someone that has no previous knowledge of anything about you. This could help you focus what you write about and make things more succinct, because most p…
Some friendly advice: you called his charts utterly meaningless but didn't give a single specific issue you had with understanding them. While it would've helped to have unit labels on the Y axis, I was able to understand all of them. Also, "wall of text" generally refers to a long piece of text lacking formatting, punctuation, and separation into paragraphs and sections. This article, while long, does not have those…
Let's raise some specific complaints:
>So if you see "2 days 18 hours" that means "66 hours total time spent on this activity".
Completely superfluous. He goes on for 3 sentences explaining that a day contains 24 hours. WOW! AND he couldn't figure out how to keep his units, or make it unitless.
Chart 2:
>Here's how my work week tends to break down:
We break down the day into 4 time frames. Why? When does each timeframe begin and end? If the time is for a "work week" then why the hell does "monday" contain almost 200 hours? That's for 6 months, you say? Why?! It should be an average for a work week! No one intuitively knows how many hours occur on mondays over a 6 month period. Is that a lot of hours, or a few? You would have to do some mental math to even interpret this chart.
Chart 3:
>stacked bar graph
Enough said. It's impossible to comparatively interpret stacked bar graphs over time. You want to use a line graph when you want to compare things over time. Tell me, did he spend more time podcasting on 7/21, or the week after that? "Obvious!" you say, "he spent more time! It's clear!" Look again, however! The next week is 7/28, but the next label is 8/18. What? Where is 7/28? The labels are seemingly randomly distributed, with no rhyme or reason! Eventually you find 7/28 and lo-and-behold... they look about the same, but had to mouse over it to check, didn't you? Because they are separated vertically by nearly the entire chart.
And we didn't even get around to Happiness 3.0 Make a Change App Activity, which contains 41 distinct labels, and you can only read 3 of them at a time, and has all the same problems as the above... Or the Instagram chart that seems to contain the entire message as the label? Does an instagram post take 4 hours to make? What does this chart even mean?
Let's not sit here and suggest that it's "friendly advice" that a person isn't being helpful when they don't defend every statement they make. Anyone who tried to read this, actually read this, would immediately see that these charts are garbage and nearly meaningless. They probably make sense to the person who made them, but as a method of conveying information in a blog post to others, we can criticize without writing a dissertation about the mistakes here.
^ unfriendly advice
There is high value in pieces where the author uses himself as a case study in achieving something and provides a lesson for others to learn from. In this case, however, it just reads like braggadocio. What's the take-away for us?
>What's the take-away for us? My takeaways: 1. If your goal is to try and make money, being focused on one idea at a time is probably better than deep diving in to several narrow niches. 2. I shouldn't be discouraged by not (yet) generating income myself. Despite lots of stories of success and people telling you otherwise, it's a hard thing to do, especially if you work a full time job. 3. I'm really glad I don't bot…
Some friendly advice: your charts are almost impossible to understand. They may make sense to you, but they are utterly meaningless to most anyone else. I suggest that as you continue writing, you should take a step back and try to read it from the point of view of someone that has no previous knowledge of anything about you. This could help you focus what you write about and make things more succinct, because most p…
Some friendly advice: you called his charts utterly meaningless but didn't give a single specific issue you had with understanding them. While it would've helped to have unit labels on the Y axis, I was able to understand all of them. Also, "wall of text" generally refers to a long piece of text lacking formatting, punctuation, and separation into paragraphs and sections. This article, while long, does not have those…
I suggest get your posts on your own domain not this coda thing whatever that is. Stick on CDN hosting like netlify for free. Use simple images or svg. Eschew Javascript for showing static content. It’s was too slo to read so I didn’t.
Example: https://superjavascript.com/t/typescript/ - that loads fast!
My connection speed and latency are good by the way.
Wow, a simple blog post that could be served and rendered to me in less than a second (mobile iOS) takes ages to load with a spinning disc, ages to render everything and some charts are lazy loaded when in view and take a long time, and an unresponsive scroll bar. I suggest get your posts on your own domain not this coda thing whatever that is. Stick on CDN hosting like netlify for free. Use simple images or svg. Esc…
I didn't see a single revenue figure in here...