Is It Better to Specialize or Go for Range?
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The story much of the world tells us is that we need to get a head start at everything if we want to be successful. If you want to be a musician, better start practicing shortly after you’re out of diapers. Want to be succeed at sports, if you haven’t started deliberate practice to get…
The Customer Doesn’t Care About Your Costs
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If you’ve been wondering about selling yourself on value, here is a great video from Jonathan Stark. Just like Jonathan, I don’t think that saying you live in a high cost of living area is part of the conversation. In fact, the customer doesn’t care at all about your costs, the only thing they care…
You Can’t Control Passion
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Two good quotes out of my reading today as I worked through Company of One by Paul Jarvis: Passion and courage are almost impossible to control and can easily leave you feeling bad about yourself. It’s far easier to simply work at getting really good at something in demand, discovering how these skills can be…
Downloading Files on a Server With Blink Shell on iOS
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While there are FTP clients for iOS, I haven’t found one that’s all that fast or nice to use. Instead, let’s look at what Blink Shell can do to transfer files from and to a server with the scp command that is built in. Preparing our Folder The first step we’re going to take today…
Friday Notes 071 – Sept 20 2019
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This week has been way more stable with the kids and school. I’ve been helping coach x-country practice two mornings a week and we’ve seen a bunch of kids whose parents said would never come do awesome and have a great time. For me, this weekend is a 50km race that I feel fairly well…
Mistakes that Most Business Owners Make (And How to Avoid Them)
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If you are new to the world of business, then you will know that some processes can be difficult to navigate. This can cause you to make mistakes, but there are a few things that you can do to try and help yourself to succeed. Choosing the Wrong Type of Business Think about it, did…
hPDA and My Field Notes
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Joe Buhlig has a short post about the awesome uses for his Hipster PDA. I still carry around my Field Notes book, though I don’t use it as much as I once did. I’m more likely to put my bag down and pull out my Bullet Journal.
Eating Meat Versus Environmental Impact and Nutrients in Our Bodies
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A little while ago I shared an article on The Impact of Eating on Our Planet. It basically said that meat is not great for the environment because it takes lots of land to produce, but going vegetarian is not quite the answer either because clearing land for farming removes forest and peatland that sequester…
Experienced Developers Just Google Better
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Love this post from Sophie. In an attempt to dispel the idea that if you have to google stuff you’re not a proper engineer, this is a list of nearly everything I googled in a week at work, where I’m a software engineer with several years’ experience I’ve long maintained that after 10-years coding I…
Justin Jackson Doesn’t Have the Time or Money to Change Behaviour
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From Justin: The goal of bootstrapping is not to change the way people behave. I liked this article on some of the motivation differences between bootstrapping and VC funding. I’d wager that there are more people that end up successful out of bootstrapping. No not in the make a billion dollars and start a space…
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