✏️ Cool things to read
Knowing when to quit: "That company or project you started isn’t working out. You were excited, early customers were excited, but once you launched nothing really happened. Even worse, it’s not a total failure. You made some money. Not enough to grow..."
Learnable Programming: Impressive interactive examples of a better way of learning to program and the pitfalls are not avoiding nowadays.
“The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake” - Bertrand Russell
In Praise of Idleness - Bertrand Russell
Owning your Shadow: Really great tips on relating to the hard parts of yourself. Really great advice on judging others
The key to automating processes
The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisiton: A great insight into owning a startup by buying a previously started one.
How to manage user feedback: Nice analysis on the use case of different feedback collection tools.
Scraping Bee: A very real and down to earth story. Not everything is 20k/month from day one!
Government as a platform
Glue: The importance of non-technical work and the conflict on career path choosinghttps://www.landen.co/bootstrapping-from-idea-to-ramen-profitability-in-a-year
The gambler who cracked the horse racing code
Indiehacking
Code
Building a proxy to get custom permissions on a 3rd party API
Choose Boring Technology: Grea food for though on choosing what works + the shinny new stuff
A better future: Do you like money or getting paid?