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64 | Part Time Creators Featuring Swyx


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In this episode, our guest, Swyx talks about how part-time creators have an advantage over full-time content creators, leading indicators when creating content, networking and engaging with your audience, and creating luck.

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Show Notes
  • 0:00 Introduction
  • 2:06 Introducing Swyx
    • Coding Career Handbook
      • Part-Time Creator Manifesto
  • 3:28 Why Writing?
  • 7:16 Priority and Time
  • 9:45 Better to be Part-Time Creator than a Full-Time Creator
  • 12:16 Do you set up a business entity?
  • 13:22 Consistency
  • 16:49 Lower the Barrier to Entry
  • 20:16 Sponsor: Daily.dev
  • 21:17 How much do you pay attention to growth?
  • 22:37 What is the leading indicator?
    • Second Brain
  • 24:17 Engaging with your Audience
  • 25:24 Ratio of One for me, One for Them
  • 31:44 Networking
  • 34:43 Niching
  • 37:18 Sponsor: Hashnode
  • 38:04 What's a sustainable action plan for part-time content creation
  • 40:23 Getting your stuff stolen
  • 41:41 Creating Luck
  • 48:31 Community Shout outs
    • Monica Lent: Blogging for Devs
    • Coding Career on Twitter
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