On the heels of the product kata post, I’m going to double down on the “ship something for money” advice. There’s no time to lose. Valuable, profitable seconds of your life are ticking by, and you’re missing out. Surely you’re aware of the concept of compound interest? In case you’re not, suffice it to say…
When I was a kid, I spent a bunch of years doing karate. As best I can recall, there were three main types of activities around which we’d focus: kihon, kata, and kumite. I listed these roughly in order of sophistication. Kihon translates to something like “basics” and it involved executing the same punches, blocks,…
I was listening to the Smart Passive Income podcast the other night. Yeah, I wasn’t kidding. I’m really trying to figure out how to do this stuff. Anyway, it was an episode with “User Stories” in the title, so I was intrigued. What I actually thought to myself was, “I’m a lot more inclined to…
One of the things I’ve spent a good bit of time doing over the last year or so is called “Craftsmanship Coaching.” This involves going into teams and helping them adopt practices that will allow them to produce software more reliably and efficiently. Examples include writing automated unit and acceptance tests, setting up continuous integration…
A while back, I announced some changes to DaedTech with idea of moving toward a passive income model. In the time between then and now, I’ve spent a good bit of time learning about techniques for earning passive income, and I’ve learned that I’m really, really bad at it. For example, I’m often asked for…
