467 entries from "Canada"

We might be unnecessarily framing our limitations within a common narrative around why developers struggle to find collaborators. Doing this distracts from our unfair advantage of creating connection, which has been and can be a basis for many meaningful possibilities in our life. In the same way we can try to go beyond money to focus on the underlying need, we can go beyond traditional pathways to finding collaboration to focus on connecting with people and changing their lives, trusting that this will feed into our process positively. What are ways we can cultivate these kind of bonds with friends and strangers? How can we compose experiences or solutions from our broad skillset to blow away people with life-changing magic?

Where most people use the term community, we can use connection to play into our strengths.

Episode 81, Metamuse podcast — Muse

[The only distinction Sublime makes between free and paid users is showing the 'UNLICENSED' toolbar text, which you may not even notice in daily usage but might make you look no so serious about your tools.]
[First priority is text entry, so that people feel they can type as fast as they want. Second priority is extensibility so that community can create optimizations for specific domains.]
[Everything inside Obsidian is a plugin. You can even turn off backlinks and the file menu bar to have a barebones editor and customize from there.]

How Google Reader died — and why the web misses it more than ever - The Verge

One feature took off immediately, for power users and casual readers alike: a simple sharing system that let users subscribe to see someone else’s starred items or share their collection of subscriptions with other people. The Reader team eventually built comments, a Share With Note feature, and more. All this now seems trite and obvious, of course, but at the time, a built-in way to see what your friends liked was novel and powerful. Reader was prescient.

#043 – Confronting Your Fears and Taking a Leap with Pieter Levels of Nomad List

[Netflix can use their scale to charge $10 per month, but as a small business you need to charge more than that. Corner store doesn't compete with megacorps, but instead offers something different.]
[Aggregate information and research in one place and present it in a useful way, then build a community of people interested in that info to present other products they might like.]

#246 – Doing Content Right with Steph Smith of Trends.co

[Podcasts like are best friends, newsletters like acquaintances, blogs like random people you meet at conferences. You may never even know pay attention to who's writing an article.]

[Smaller numbers but quality relationships with everyone learning and growing together]

[Podcasts are top of funnel and a big ask for people to listen for an hour. Strategically talk about the topic in other channels, and plug the podcast when it bites.]

[You wouldn't hang out with a friend for an hour a week if they had no sense of humour and were purely informational, the experience needs to be fun.]

Open Box Computers & Electronics

Was able to find an iPhone mini here not available anywhere else. 'New' here means brand new sealed in box. Claimed over the phone they resell returned items from Costco.

Is the solo model misaligned when capacity for non-projects feels chronically impossible, yet fundamental milestones seem lightyears away? How much is a celebration of what can be accomplished by one person and how much is a failure to involve others along the way?

FAQs – All the Music LLC

[We generated and wrote to disk all mathematically possible melodies, then dedicated them to the public domain.]

[To become so centered that anyone coming to you with an opinion simply forgets. You can kill Jesus or Buddha but not push them.]

[Creativity comes easily to those who are loose and natural. Doing anything becomes a creative phenomenon. Touching something turns it into art, saying something into poetry. Even walking is creating a rhythm. Not because of obsession: simply being filled with energy makes you create.]

Much happens but nobody is the doer.

[A giver knows they have given and would like you to recognize it by giving them a receipt saying "Yes, you have given me", thanking them, feeling grateful to them. This is not a gift but a bargain, where something is expected in return. They give to get.]

[Birds don't need any religion.]

Let's talk about why countries don't follow the manual....

[It's not the side who can dish out the most that wins, but the side who can take the most.]

Creating Community Wherever You Go with Digital Nomad Alex Salinsky

[A couple of people are having dinner at this place (which isn't true the first few times, but later on it is), would you like to join us?]

[Give people something to say yes to; they may even be relieved if they were looking to have plans for the evening.]

The 2nd Winter Moon Cycle: Thoughts on Covid-19, Vaccination, VAERS, and Related Topics

[What kills people from COVID is the overreaction of their immune system to a pathogen.]

[A 'strong' immune system is bad language.]