A few weeks back, Derick Bailey forwarded me an email he’d received from one of his subscribers, asking for my take on the question the reader had posed. The question boiled down to this: How do you stay focused on a side project (app, site, book idea) as an entrepreneurial developer? Here’s what I had […]
Continue readingLast week while we were recording the Entreprogrammers Podcast, John Sonmez hit me with a painful proposition: Has my entire marketing strategy for my books been wrong? Let me back up. Over the last couple of months, sales of my two Sublime Text books have tapered off. I recognized the downward trend in April, and […]
Continue readingPortland doesn’t get a lot of snow. An occasional dusting, from what I’ve heard. Maybe an inch or so of slush once in a while. But this was a weird winter in the U.S., and in mid-Feburary, a storm dumped 12 inches of snow on Portland. That evening, a couple of students at Reed College […]
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