1. Apply the "do the simplest thing that could possibly work, get feedback, and iterate on that" principle to any project or idea to gauge interest and get feedback.
2. Reach out to relevant sponsors or partners for support and collaboration.
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Ha, Amazon's AWS fits. Didn't call on the agreed date for phone interview. Then when visiting on-site, future manager, probably the main person I should have been talking to, wasn't there. Quickly assembled together an interview schedule in 20 min with people who , except maybe two, seemed distracted and just wanted to go do something else. Forgot about me during lunch. So was left sitting in an office for an hour without anyone checking on me (eventually got up and started wondering the hallways hoping someone would stop me and ask me -- "Hey I don't think you belong here" and I was hoping to reply with a silly joke about trying to steal AWS's root CA private keys). Then of course they promised to call back with a decision in 2 days, which was more like 2 weeks. Didn't get an offer, no surprise (I did get snarky about the "leadership principles", they probably didn't appreciate that), but it did make a good story I like to tell every time interviews come up.
If you have to pull their head out of their ass during the interview process, you will have to do it everyday several times. It is better not to work there. If they give you an offer, give an outrageous salary range as your compensation to work in that kind of environment.
-1 for Stripe. The API is designed without any thought how the use cases need to use it. Leaks the JSON structure of the document to the client. This breaks your code when they change the JSON structure.
I'm not sure what you mean about changing the JSON structure; the Stripe API is versioned and you have to opt-in to any updates, including breaking changes like removing or renaming keys in the response.
Maybe you can write an article on how you traveled the world with free miles during your investing vacation? Where do cheapos like this guy get money to invest in startups? Money laundering?
I enjoyed both of the books of his I've read, but you're not wrong. They're classic get rich quick schemes and get skinny fast schemes...not always based on the best science, or based on anything other than one data point (often his own personal experience). The value in them is more likely to be in maybe convincing someone to do something toward their goals, rather than providing a useful blueprint for what that something should be.
I followed his page on facebook years ago, and he trots out the "eating wheat causes you to have poop in your blood" article every year or so (there is no reason to believe "leaky gut syndrome" is a real thing, and Ferriss treats the guy who espouses that theory as though he is some kind of expert on health and nutrition). That's enough for me to take everything he says with a huge grain of salt.
The thing that always gets me about people who sell "success" and "wealth" products is that there would be no need to sell them if the product was truly that good. They'd just use it to become successful/wealthy themselves. But, they claim to just want to help other people? Awesome. Then, give it away.
Likewise with books that promise to teach you how to make a trillion dollars in the stock market. Really? You've found a way to do this, yet you want to sell me a book for $9.95?
Likewise, Kiyosaki started with a small amount of capital and made most of his early money haunting mortgage foreclosures and flipping foreclosed houses. At one point in Rich Dad, Poor Dad he gloats about making some obscene amount in an afternoon ($50k or so?) by buying a family's home out from under them and selling it. That's an asshole move no matter how you cut it, and I'd rather be poor than be a scumbag.
That's not an asshole move. You can't "buy a family's home out from under them". The bank owned the home. Kiyosaki made sure the owner of the home got repaid for their initial investment.
And banks have never foreclosed on mortgages unfairly, right? He made it easy for the bank to cash out at a huge loss to the mortgage holder. If it wasn't easy then the bank would have been more motivated to reach some agreement with the mortgage holder.
Yeah--I think he's not a great dude, but The Four Hour Body was a pretty good kick in the ass for me to lose a bunch of weight and take better care of myself. I'm glad I came across it.
The demand for every programming language / framework follows the bell curve. You are correct that Android demand will drop off at certain point. It's difficult to predict what will be the next big hit. The best thing to do is keep an open mind and try out different things that has the potential to become very popular. It's like managing your stock portfolio. You have to spend time in some risky technologies which has big rewards, if it takes off.
Ruby Silent Casts
Why silent?
What's in it for you?
- Your brain has to fill in the blanks
- You will be able to connect the dots and develop the understanding yourself
- No one likes to read documentation. These videos will be live coding with no reading.
- You can listen to something else while you watch the videos
- Easy to brush up basics before the interview
- Free to watch on browser and reasonable price for download option
1. Apply the "do the simplest thing that could possibly work, get feedback, and iterate on that" principle to any project or idea to gauge interest and get feedback. 2. Reach out to relevant sponsors or partners for support and collaboration. 3. Create content in a consistent and dependable manner to build an audience. 4. Promote content through personal networks and relevant forums or communities. 5. Request feedback from viewers or users to improve and refine content.