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A quick mind dump about inspiration through trying times
A candid mind dump about staying motivated through a tough stretch — job searching, freelancing, and pushing personal projects forward.
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Using AI To Write a Better Social Media Post
How I used AI to augment my writing skills and "punch up" a social media post.
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CEO Or Bust?
As a solo entrepreneur endeavoring to learn, try, and (hopefully) succeed in business, I have a lot of identity crisis moments.
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React Native TextInput Vertical Padding Not Working
On iOS with a multiline TextInput, paddingVertical only applies to the bottom. Use paddingTop and paddingBottom individually instead.
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Crappy Software Motivates Me
I vented today in an entrepreneur group chat about how my domain registrar keeps sending me renewal and expiration emails after I have fully transferred a domain away from them.
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Launching June 13: Stay Woven
I'm launching my first 2024 product: Stay Woven, a mobile app that helps you strengthen your personal and professional relationships.
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Dungeons & Dragons Brings People Together
My wife and I wore Critical Role swag to a birthday party — and in less than two hours we had three separate D&D conversations with complete strangers.
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Dancing in the Window
One recent evening, while my wife and I were driving home, we passed an apartment building. In one window, two young people were dancing — joyful, unconcerned about being seen.
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On Prioritizing Multiple Ideas
As an aspiring entrepreneur with many ideas, how do you prioritize work? Even when all your ideas seem to have equal weight?
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Spend Better: Days 7 & 8 🚀
I was so close to my one-week goal. But that doesn't matter — SpendBetter.com is live!
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Spend Better: Days 5 & 6
With an expected short amount of work time on Day 5, I've made good progress on my smaller items to-do list over these two days.
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Spend Better: Days 3 & 4
Things are going well! After Day 2, the plan for Day 3 was UI. Check! ✅
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Book Review: Permission to Screw Up by Kristen Hadeed
As I take yet another journey into entrepreneurism, I'm actively working on overcoming my fears of failure. Kristen Hadeed's Permission to Screw Up came up in my search for books about said fears. This is my casual review.
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Spend Better: Day 2
Yesterday I told you about starting a one-week project, Spend Better. How are things looking at the end of Day 2?
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One Week Project: Spend Better
Two and a half years ago I wrote down an idea for a business directory to help you find alternative shopping experiences to large corporations. Now I'm building it in one week.
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Options Day Trading: 2023-10-30
Journaling my experience learning to actively trade 0DTE options — the decisions, mistakes, and lessons from day one.
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Recognizing A Great Meal
A couple days ago, I went on a date night with my wife at a local restaurant neither of us had been to.
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Be Honest With Your Projects
You're starting a new project. But do you have a clear understanding of how it fits into your life?
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Building In Public: Kickoff
Kicking off my first product built in public — a direct-to-consumer retail business selling customizable artwork.
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January 2021
A monthly update: buying our first home, a positive performance review at FormAssembly, and goals set for February.
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Magic Call Methods & Static Context in PHP
PHP's dynamic nature makes it an extremely flexible language. It can also mean confusion if you don't understand the inner workings behind the "magic".
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Hashed Passwords Using Symfony's AliceBundle
When using AliceBundle for fixtures in my Symfony project, I ran into an issue creating hashed passwords for users.
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I Have Already Failed - Why Am I Wasting My Time?
Those are the words I just spoke out loud to my wife.