Slower month, and took a while to go through the podcast to extract what was important. By the way, as I’m listening podcasts, I’m taking screenshots to have a timestamp of the moment. So I guess I need an app, that goes through my photos, find the screenshots, find the podcast, find the timestamp, find the transcript, and I can extract it directly :D

Article: “Incentives and motivations – Manu”

They’ll not stop doing what they do because they simply enjoy the process of creation. Those are the people who I personally like to follow because are the ones that usually make great and interesting content.

Great example is content created by Beau Miles, and how YouTube got a piece of junk, you need to go there with a video or creator in mind, put your horse blinders on and not fall into the trap of watching pure junk.

Article: “The freedom loop”

You can drive as fast as you want. But you are also responsible for not running over someone in a school zone…

Living in the USA, land of the free, freedom is in the center of the (political?) culture. And yet I still haven’t figure out what is freedom. Freedom doesn’t mean to whatever you want.

Article: “Why do ships use “port” and “starboard” instead of “left” and “right?””

Starboard from “steer” and “board”, and “port” because that is the side facing the port/harbor

Article: “The crappy parts of engineering management – Mike Crittenden”

Balancing between full-time engineer and manager on the side. This hits home with:

Good stuff you loss: Focus time

Bad stuff you gain:

• Being a communication middleman
• Telling stakeholders we won’t build what they want at all (although a good product manager will shoulder a lot of this)

What can I do to get these back? or don’t deal with it?

Article: “Offline Is Just Online With Extreme Latency - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”

Which lead to Local-first software - Peter Van Hardenberg and the main point I extracted from it is to give up on fetching data from APIs, but more having a synchronous process: store data locally, and sync up with your cloud.

Podcast: “Episode 7 — Vika: Twelve Dropdowns in a Row — Full Stack Whatever”

The first thing they did before starting the company was to set their principles/values which I guess can be found on their about page.

Podcast: “Episode 8 — Linda Eliasen: Bricks and Mortar — Full Stack Whatever”

This isn’t verbatim transcription but notes I took while listening:

• No matters your seniority level you are responsible for both bricks (the cool stuff) and mortars (the boring stuff).
• Being more PM-y, try other mediums, writing the doc is boring, I’d rather do some design work. Try to have fun doing it.