Why does mixergy have a photo of Gary Vaynerchuk on the home page.
I did a Mixergy interview so bad they didn't even release it
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Re: I did a Mixergy interview so bad they didn't even release it
#12I sometimes struggle to condense my thoughts while speaking, which can make for some uninteresting long-winded stories if I’m not careful. But it does get better with deliberate practice. Knowing the issue is half the battle. To be candid, even this blog post was on the wordy side. I understand where the author was trying to go with the piece by the end, but it might have been more engaging if reduced to half the len…
More often than I admit, I think about this quote by Mark Twain: "I apologize for such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a short one." You have to think about who's going to hear or listen to you, it's not just about being precise and descriptive.
"Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler." - Einstein
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Da Vinci
I had been exploring this idea in my codegolfing. For example: https://www.dwitter.net/d/15323
Re: I did a Mixergy interview so bad they didn't even release it
#13Aw, fuck. Now I want a boat.
As a software developer and team lead who's worked from and lived on a sailboat for the last two years, I'd agree with others here and encourage you to give it a shot. My wife and I both work remotely as software developers and we've been able to put thousands of miles under the keel, traveling from Mobile Alabama, to as far north as the Chesapeake Bay with multiple stops in the Florida Keys and the Bahamas, all while keeping our full-time software engineering jobs. It's been a really great experience and I highly-recommend it to anyone with a remote role.
Re: I did a Mixergy interview so bad they didn't even release it
#14As a sailboat owner I really want to hear the story of how you sank the boat...
It's far less dramatic than you'd hope.
I left it moored up at a port along the canal for winter (when the canal gets too shallow to traverse), the folks who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it didn't, uncharacteristic winter storms were blowing rain and muck all over the place, the cockpit drains got clogged, the cockpit filled with water, and things went downhill from there ;)
It was sitting quite happily on the shallow riverbed when I returned, but the inside was a swamp, and I had to tear out and trash the whole interior. At least it was fresh water, so the engine (mostly) survived.
Re: I did a Mixergy interview so bad they didn't even release it
#15Aw, fuck. Now I want a boat.
And I want you to get one ;) Sailing had always been on my "someday bucket list," but I kept putting it off since I could never make the time to take the week or two off to do the course. But once I started learning, it was so much more deeply satisfying than anything else in my life, that it immediately became a top focus. Before I'd even finished my captain's license, I had already hit "buy it now" on an ebay listi…
I think the key is to get a modest sail boat like a sunfish similar size. The cost are way more manageable.
Re: I did a Mixergy interview so bad they didn't even release it
#16And asking for a friend - how did you fix those guts of yours?
Re: I did a Mixergy interview so bad they didn't even release it
#17Well, that was quite something.
> The funny thing here is that I'm 100% aware that our stories are wrong. Our own stories, doubly so. We back-fit narratives. Our minds rewrite what we remember ourselves thinking at the time.
What are some ways to break out of this mode, and look back upon the timeline for what it was? robfitz wrote 'The Mom Test', so they must know!?
> So our stories are wrong. But they still matter.
I guess cognitive dissonance is how most of us are keeping our world-view intact. Especially when you realise that nothing really matters in the grand scheme of things [1].
Re: I did a Mixergy interview so bad they didn't even release it
#18Aw, fuck. Now I want a boat.
As a software developer and team lead who's worked from and lived on a sailboat for the last two years, I'd agree with others here and encourage you to give it a shot. My wife and I both work remotely as software developers and we've been able to put thousands of miles under the keel, traveling from Mobile Alabama, to as far north as the Chesapeake Bay with multiple stops in the Florida Keys and the Bahamas, all whil…
Ever been to Antigua and Barbuda?
Re: I did a Mixergy interview so bad they didn't even release it
#19I googled Mixergy and found out about a pretty interesting smart hot water tank.
Edit: being downvoted for a silly joke, I get it, but it's true. That Mixergy is placed way better than the startuppers' little bubble interview website.
Re: I did a Mixergy interview so bad they didn't even release it
#20I sometimes struggle to condense my thoughts while speaking, which can make for some uninteresting long-winded stories if I’m not careful. But it does get better with deliberate practice. Knowing the issue is half the battle. To be candid, even this blog post was on the wordy side. I understand where the author was trying to go with the piece by the end, but it might have been more engaging if reduced to half the len…
This is semi off-topic, but I normally write books, which I work pretty hard to edit down into the shortest versions of themselves.
As a weird side-effect of that, I noticed myself starting to hold all of my writing to that same standard, which was stopping me from putting out anything more off-the-cuff.
So part of my motivation with this site (which is only about a week old) was to frame it in a way, at least for myself, where I felt comfortable sharing the stuff-in-progress without worrying too much that it wasn't a finished book.
Which I guess is a long way to say that the rambliness is an intentional decision, since otherwise it wouldn't be doing the job (for me) that it was designed for. I already spend 20+ hours a week doing fairly utilitarian writing for my books, so this little site needs to be something different if I hope to stick with it. And in an ideal world, maybe a few other people will happen to enjoy some bits and pieces along the way :)