• Watch me Upgrade my 2019 Mac Mini to 32GB of RAM

    Watch me Upgrade my 2019 Mac Mini to 32GB of RAM

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    Instead of paying Apple $240 for 16GB of RAM or $740 for 32GB of RAM I got some aftermarket RAM from Crucial and the tools to make the change myself. That cost me a grand total of $350 including the expensive iFixIt toolkit to replace my mishmash of tools that have accumulated over time. Yes…

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  • Freelance Friday 055 – May 17 2019

    Freelance Friday 055 – May 17 2019

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    This week I made great progress on The Freelancer’s Guide to Niche Marketing. My original plan was to have it out in Q1, which has clearly been missed. I was caught up in other projects and not feeling the book so I didn’t worry about it. I’m happy to say that I’ve got back into…

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  • What does traction look like Or Know When to Fold em

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    From Justin Jackson: What does traction look like? Early on, you can evaluate your idea’s potential by looking at: How many people respond How enthusiastically they respond Seth Godwin talks about this same subject in The Dip. It’s a hard call. Most of the success I’m seeing now was sowed by almost 9 years doing…

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  • Done Being Man Enough

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    Enjoyed this TED talk Here are my notes that will be in my research for long term findability of the video. 3:00 the world says that men must reject anything feminine or be subject to ridicule by their peers and men learn this young 3:45 we must start embracing the more feminine aspects of ourselves…

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  • Taking on Debt to Keep Up with People Who Took On Debt

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    I was already frustrated by the lack of financial sense shown in my fellow Canadians by this article but this is crazy. Canadians are under social pressure that is pushing them into debt, with 91 per cent of millennials admitting in a new survey that they have taken on debt to keep up with their…

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  • Business Dashboard and Metric Advice

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    Good post from Segment about how to measure your metrics so that you don’t get caught up in vanity metrics and so that you have something useful. If you can’t look at your numbers and make changes to improve those numbers then you have bad numbers.

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  • Today’s Actions are Votes For Tomorrow’s Life

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    Figure out what success means to you. Don’t accept others’ views or conventional wisdom. Write down what your successful personal and professional life looks like in 20 years. Then roll the clock back to today. Make sure your choices are in service of those goals. – Strauss Zelnick in Tribe of Mentors I was telling…

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  • All consuming subscriptions

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    From Nick Heer in response to this WSJ article. I think users will find it fatiguing — at best — to live in a world where we pay hundreds of dollars a month to listen to music, use software, and store files. There are advantages: we can listen to most music of our choosing on…

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  • How I use my iPad to Solve Code Problems as a Web Developer

    How I use my iPad to Solve Code Problems as a Web Developer

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    Today you get a walk through of a real life problem that I’m solving for a client on my iPad. You can see the tools I use and I try to call out the keyboard commands I’m using at the same time. Inspect Browser Blink Shell My Vim Setup My Gear My gear: https://curtismchale.ca/my-gear Patreon:…

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  • I Make a Point to Have Friends Now

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    Kelly’s boyfriend refused to talk to other men or a therapist about his feelings, so he’d often get into “funks,” picking pointless fights when something was bothering him. Eventually, Kelly became his default therapist, soothing his anxieties as he fretted over work or family problems. Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden I…

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