Some tips and tricks on dealing with imposter syndrome as a developer, why context matters and you should always be learning regardless of your seniority.
Knowing yourself when it comes to energy and motivation is important. You don't want to let a slow day where you just can't get yourself to work on your business cause a vicious cycle of self-doubt. Sometimes the right solution is to simply stop working and go do something else.
Quick recap of a talk by Joe Manico about password security which updated me on the best practices and some tips for bootstrappers implementing their security workflows.
Thinking about how different countries will react to the economic crisis after COVID I wonder what effects failure acceptance in each country will have for future economies.
About twice a week I have to explain to confused customers why their Office365 is not the right Office365 for use with my product. And I can't blame them. It's confusing. And Microsoft repeatedly makes the same mistake, again and again.
Having just done my monthly accounting yesterday it got me thinking about the state of invoicing in 2020. Why isn't the process made more easy? Why are we still converting one accounting record into a PDF that's sent through email and then converted back into an accounting record on the other end?
Just as I was adding a new little feature to Innovote I remembered how grateful I was for some IT security instincts I still had from my past working in a IT security company. A small feature that could easily have been used to send out a lot of spam!
An off the cuff episode about how hyperbolic messaging is forcing us into two distant extreme viewpoint camps and how that's not good for anyone. All using the example of productivity shaming in the current crisis.
In this episode it's more stories from past entrepreneurial projects, how I tested, answered questions and falsified hypotheses using only small amounts of development time.
7 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