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- Day 50 - April 27: Closing a chapter - what did I learn from this experiment of 50 daily podcasts?I started this podcast as an experiment 50 days ago. Today marks the end of season 1. What did I learn? What went wrong? What would I do differently?7 min
- Day 49 - April 26: From Nomad to Home-ad - What's changed?Now that I've turned from a full time digital nomad into a locked down home-ad, what changes have I noticed and what do I look forward to after things open up again?8 min
- Day 48 - April 25: Once you go entrepreneur, are you unemployable?A dissatisfaction about management decisions ultimately led me to Entrepreneurship. With the gained experience, would it still frustrate me as much or is it just a matter of finding the right role in a larger organisation?8 min
- Day 47 - April 24: Charge backs and disputes are just a part of doing business unfortunatelyI'm frustrated every time I get a dispute - which thankfully is rare - and I then figure out it wasn't a fraudulent transaction but rather just a customer to scared who could not be bothered to contact me beforehand. Unfortunately the system is very much rigged towards the5 min
- Day 46 - April 23: Are soft deletes impossible in times of enhanced privacy protection?Soft deleting - so the act of setting a flag on a record that is becomes invisible to the user - instead of really deleting it (hard deleting) - is that still possible under current privacy legislation? IANAL - Just my point of view from experience.7 min
- Day 45 - April 22: The dilemma: support privacy violating ad platforms to grow your business or not?What is a entrepreneur do? Give in to the targeting and tracking options of big tech platforms to get new customers and contribute to the problem of privacy demise or go the ethical route but risk not succeeding with your business?9 min
- Day 44 - April 21: New Support Ticket titled POS - must be a request for Positively Outstanding Service, right?After getting an emotionally charge support ticket I go through my four step process: Research, Rectify, Explain and Close.7 min
- Day 43 - April 20: New Business Ideas for a Socially Distant World?How can we incorporate social distancing into entertaining activities? Drive-In Cinemas? Picnics in parks instead of Restaurants?6 min
- Day 42 - April 19: My first internship and the first faux pas in the first hourTales about my first internship at Compaq and how within one hour I managed to insult a senior member of my department by mistake and what else I learned!8 min
- Day 41 - April 18: Attacking Developer Supply ChainsMost developer use library database / package managers (NuGet, NPM, ...) for their projects and it's an overlooked attack vector in my opinion.6 min
About Future Alex
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An audio journaling experiment of a rambling tea drinking solopreneur to his future self. Follow me along as I figure things out along the way to growing my main software product and launching a new one. Expect confusion, failure and the odd piece of helpful information on this journey of entrepreneurial enlightenment.
Find out more about the projects mentioned at https://mailmerge365.com and https://innovote.io