14 months ago, my co-founder Sankalp and I set out to build a business that can sustain our livelihood while allowing us the freedom to live life on our terms.…
How I Designed the Perfect Startup Logo for $20 — Colin Keeley
You can engage a fancy design agency and pay tens of thousands of dollars (or more!) for a nice logo or you can follow what I do. The results are similar. With…
What to write down when you’re reading to learn
One of the hardest questions I’ve had to answer as part of the project formerly known as epistemic spot checks is: “how do I know what to write down?” This will…
Optimizations as a company of one
Written on May 18, 2020 Hello! 👋 My name is Jen and I’m the founder, engineer, designer and customer support at Lunch Money , a personal finance and budgeting…
20 growth marketing hacks to get your first 1000 customers, and how to distribute your content effectively.
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Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems. Issue trees PROBLEM SOLVING Structure and solve…
Habits of High-Functioning Teams
I often struggle to explain what it means to be part of a high-functioning software team. Sure, there are mountains of literature, and an entire genre of…
Programmer Momentum
Why a 15 minute side track actually costs an hour Sean Clark Feb 5, 2015 · 6 min read I have been struggling for the past month with my productivity. I feel…
23 rules to run a software startup with minimum hassle
Over the last 5 years of bootstrapping, I’ve tried a lot of things, and discovered there are many ways to create hassle for yourself that wastes time and energy…
5 simple steps to Improving your mobile phone productivity and calmness
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free-for.dev Developers and Open Source authors now have a massive amount of services offering free tiers, but it can be hard to find them all in order to make…
It’s Not Enough to Be Right. You Also Have to Be Kind.
Top highlight Takedowns and clever quips are easy, but empathy and persuasion are better Ryan Holiday Mar 21 · 7 min read Illustration: Vaselena/Getty Images T…
Introducing our Startup Handbook – Version One
Over the past ten years, we have invested in and worked with close to 100 startups . Along the way, we have seen teams, ideas, and practices work spectacularly…
Why work doesn’t happen at work
Danish transcription by Louise Frilund . Reviewed by Mikael Fuhr . Download video Download audio 6M 5,803,690 Views Share this idea Details About the talk…
Writing is Thinking: Learning to Write with Confidence
If you told me 5 years ago that I would one day lead a 20-person Publications team or have a personal blog that’s read by hundreds of thousands, I would’ve…
The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company
Wenbin Fang Follow Jan 24, 2018 · 10 min read Listen Notes is a podcast search engine and database. The technology behind Listen Notes is actually very very…
What I’ve learned interviewing 500 people: the interviewer skills ladder for high growth software companies
Alex Allain Aug 15 · 10 min read It’s possible that the only thing engineers hate more than a nasty bug is interviewing. Interviews are interruptions from deep…
11 Tips to Unlock Your Creative Thinking at Work – Thrive Global
Even if you don’t consider yourself a “creative,” chances are your job still calls for some form of creative thinking. Creativity is an invaluable part of our…
SaaS CTO Security Checklist | Sqreen
Your employees Accustom everyone to good security practices seed People are often the weakest links in any company’s security. By holding trainings to explain…
How to Build a Successful Business by Changing Your Mindset
The hardest thing about starting I Love Ugly was not knowing where to start, the constant rejection, the self-doubt the battle of feeling like quitting on a…