These were the results (warning: REALLY bad) — Fiverr is a very popular place for non-technical people to find developers for low prices. I’ve done it before myself! Needed an extra pair of hands for a project with a client a few years ago and posted this to fiverr. I quickly realised this place is full of completely…

A conversation that needs to happen — Customer: Is my engine done yet? Mechanic: Yes C: Great, then I’m gonna drive home M: The engine is done, but it’s still not back in the car C: But you said it was done M: Yeah, but not “done done” Raise your hand if you’ve had similar interaction when…

And how something being disputed means nothing — TL;DR; Mostly everything is or can be disputed. To put “This is disputed” warnings on only some of the things, you skew reality in favor of whomever you want, and control the narrative in a sly and cowardly way. Something being disputed doesn’t mean anything, the scientific method exists precisely…

Call it quits if your client shows too many of these traits — Ok, so, you land a new client, awesome! After communicating for a few days you sign the contract. …

This happened in 2016 but I never published it, so, here it goes. — I like to test things around me until they break, and figure out why they broke, and fix them. …

So, you want to create a startup, well, sit down and let me explain how this works by telling you the story of Jane, a fictional startup founder created for this tutorial. Finding your product Jane could choose only one of the following ideas to pursue: A platform that uses AI to do…

Do you want help or do you just want to feel helped? — If the self-help book you just read made you: feel capable of taking on the entire world feel very good about yourself feel super-duper optimistic feel like things are really simple it was probably garbage. Why? Because it told you what you wanted to read Whenever you read something you already partially believe, you feel good about it. …