Let's talk about society, laws, and two phrases....
[Representatives should not make any decisions, and rather simply vote the way a majority of the constituents in their district wants.]
[By the time a law has been passed, a majority of people have already changed their thinking: it's not a leading indicator but an enforcement mechanism.]
[Societal change happens in your skull.]
Bootstrapping Transistor.fm to 13,000+ podcasts
[It's uncommon for successful entrepreneurs to start from zero: they likely have experience, connection, skills, or a financial runway that provides the conditions to take risks.]
[If it takes longer to get to a sustainable income than you have runway, the market fundamentals might not sustain you.]
[A mental health balance is an important part of your runway when taking on something as stressful as indie hacking.]
Leaving a $500k job to build a portfolio of small bets
[People are willing to pay $30 to $50 to learn everything you know about a topic. What do you have in your head, experience or computer that others would be willing to pay for it?]
[People follow you because they think they will gain something useful for themselves. It can be almost selfish.]
Let's talk about a message to conservative parents....
[Every parent aims to raise their kids to be better than they are, and in your case they succeeded.]
[CRDTs gave me undo for free.]
[Good interviews help me understand something new about myself or good ways to phrase things.]
[With 5000 email subscibers before launch, endorsements from Netlify/Vercel, number one on Product Hunt, $1500 revenue on launch day, it seemed like the signals were pointing in the right direction. Yet it didn't grow as expected and ended up earning $10,000 over two years.]
[Can't validate an unpredictable market.]
[I work to sustain my ideal lifestyle.]
The Problem With War: You Break It You Buy It
[The launch is for everyone that has to know. The next releases are for everyone who wants to know.]
[Labeling people heroes means we will let them die.]
[If you don't have the courage to make something illegal, make it impossible.]
How to Build a Life You Love by Quitting Everything Else
[Most people start by building something without asking what problem they're trying to solve.]
How 150 personal emails sparked a community of 60,000 entrepreneurs
[Turn your process for advancing into a series of ascending steps.]
[Create something of value and put a price on it.]
[Makers are happy to create. IndieHackers want to make money.]
Constraints, Longevity, and Avoiding Competition with John O'Nolan from Ghost
[Blogging used to be writing about your experiences.]
[Use a paywall to give yourself space.]
[Enable an ecosystem of businesses to thrive around what you build.]
Let's talk about context, sources, and links....
[Important to fact-check not by simply following someone's link because it will obviously support their position. Use search engines.]
Let's talk about tactics to reach a different hesitant demographic....
[Contrarians can try to describe who's benefiting from this conspiracy without saying 'they', being specific.]
[Intuition may not always be accurate, or people might not be listening to it.]
[Envy-contempt sublimation is the transformation of envy into something more flattering or socially acceptable.]
Dr. Robert Sapolsky: Science of Stress, Testosterone & Free Will
[Higher aggression and sexual activity is a cause of, rather than an effect of testosterone.]
[More-so than my guitar player thing, I do music, and closely after, I'm a band leader. I try to create spaces for other people to do interesting things.]
[You can go to college for four years to study harmony, or rhythm, but not melody.]
[Improvise using the structure of Happy Birthday.]
[Melody is the way things go together. As you flow easily in conversation, flow from one musical idea to another.]
[Melody can be a way to share a cool thing you found, introducing and describing and showing examples.]
[I want to understand how the music I love works.]
[Every night I would take ten pages of notes about the songs we played.]
[Most of the people who are going to check your stuff out are not born yet.]
[I never play any two notes at the same volume.]
Male Rivalry: Sex, Testosterone and Antlers
[Women do problem-solving while cooking together but it isn't considered as such.]
The Transformative Power Of A Single Invitation
[What was a time in the last year where you felt most alive? What's a big life lesson you learned and how did you learn it? How are you similar or different from who you were as a sixteen year old?]
[To only express hopes, dreams, or values in the form of invitations.]
Let's talk about my morning routine and plot holes....
[Does it make sense? Is it feasable? Is it logistically plausible? Does the motive match the ends? Are there plot holes? If all that checks out, look at their 'evidence'.]
[How would I do it if I was the mastermind?]
Can I Get Some Feedback on That, Please?
[Be on your own side.]
[A can see you're trying to do x, y, z. Here's what seems to be helping with that. Recognize that they're doing their best.]
[Sometimes asking for feedback might be asking for permission.]
[Might be easier to receive exact feedback directed at someone else because you know they received it.]
