Happy Star Wars day people. My favorite moment is when the Red Team destroys the Death Star and the fact that we all need to think about securing all the product we build :) What's yours?
I'm sharing with you a question that has been on my mind for a while : even if it's often a small impact compared to the IT carbon footprint and especially the global carbon footprint. Do you consider small efforts to be insignificant or can series of small effort, still have results ?
Each day we scroll past hundreds (maybe thousands?) of tweets, articles, etc and it's impossible to consume it all. Have you recently read something that you think others should make time for this week? Share below
While remote working, we all have had numerous discussions around the importance of sleep, and read many articles about the benefit of sleep, but do we sleep well? I am a person who needs 8 hours of sleep every night to function. I always thought that was such a waste of time. I envied others who could just sleep for 5 hours and still be ok until I read the book 'Why we sleep'. (I might now agree with everything in the book. but that's beside the point) Are you consciously trying to sleep better? Or you already do? How many hours of sleep do you manage to get daily?
The idea is, that you subscribe to a person(builder) and get access to all the products that builder has built or going to be built for free/discounted price (or whatever the terms described). I've seen something like this on Github where developers/organizations sponsor other developers to contribute to open source projects. It is like rewarding the coder for doing the open source community work. There is also a similar like model on patreon where edu-creators create content in several niches and viewers should subscribe to see all those videos. It is more like betting on a person rather than on a specific content/product. What if the same business model was applied on a builder who's building several consumer products? (This may sound stupid, but I'm going to ask anyway) Love to hear your thoughts from the builder's POV and consumer's POV.
It's almost the halfway mark and I would love to know some achievements you made that you are proud of. I got inspired thinking about how my year started and where I am now. The start of the year couldn't be worse. January and February were one bad thing after another. I was all caught up on the bad things but I started to reflect on the good so here are my achievements: - Got an awesome job with awesome people
- Held a session at a conference
- Read 3 books (as someone who never read anything)
- Got back to training, and am now in good shape
- Started waking up earlier
- Started creating content for LinkedIn
- Finished 4 exams
- Reconnected to old friends To some, these may seem small but to me, they are just the starting point to a great year.
The motivation to do something and the compulsion to do something are two different things. What are the most critical factors that keep you motivated to do work everyday?
We have a community consisting of freelance marketing experts and we're always trying to think of unique ways to keep them engaged. What are some interesting ways you've been able to engage your community?
Working on a new product can take an immense amount of planning and dealing with challenges before you even get started designing! What are the one or two most significant challenges you faced when putting your product together? Was it finding suitable funding? Deciding who you would work with or anything else.
I mostly rely on music, but sometimes It's a show or a video game let's play I put as a background. It just gamifies the experience and works really well for me (It distracts to check out what's happening there from time to time, but it's ok if you're doing something creative). Very curious about your hacks!
