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What I learned launching my first successful e-book

What I learned launching my first successful e-book

Let's get meta. Today I'll write about writing Shell Samurai, which I officially launched yesterday. Enjoy. On February 10th, I pre-launched a book about Linux while on a flight from San Francisco to Cincinnati. I'd been thinking of launching some kind of technical course

Reflections on Midjourney

Reflections on Midjourney

Last Thursday I paid $30 for a subscription to Midjourney, the AI image generation tool created by a team of 11 or so people. In return, I received access to unfettered AI image generation. Founded by David Holz, previous cofounder of Leap Motion, Midjourney is HUGE and getting bigger by

How to get a job in IT as a complete n00b

How to get a job in IT as a complete n00b

A friend reached out to me today because he wanted to get into IT. His current gig wasn't working out great and he'd heard the promises of YouTubers that 6 months is all it really takes to land a six figure job. (spoiler: wrong) This post

Leverage - An Army Of Robots to Do Your Bidding

Leverage - An Army Of Robots to Do Your Bidding

A few years back, I heard about this Naval Ravikant guy who had just published a "tweetstorm" on twitter about all of these crazy ideas on wealth, happiness, finding passion and a bunch of other things. Who? Naval? Like the orange? Why should I listen to Naval? Naval

Lessons in growing a Facebook Group to 100,000 members

Lessons in growing a Facebook Group to 100,000 members

Sometimes, I feel like I just got really lucky. Besides, all I did was accept and decline member requests nearly every day for 3 years, post memes and funny content often, build branding that fits my audience's niche, get verbally berated and not berate back, post useful career

Choose Yourself - James Altucher Book Takeaways

Choose Yourself - James Altucher Book Takeaways

I first heard of James Altucher via Twitter. I wasn't really sure who he was, probably a quack – he's into cryptocurrency and has crazy hair. A few weeks ago, I listened to James' interview on the My First Million podcast and was blown away by

I Tried to Buy 4 different (tiny) Startups and (mostly) Failed

I Tried to Buy 4 different (tiny) Startups and (mostly) Failed

Have you ever had a hobby that you're not good at? They can still be kind of fun. For me that has been acquiring online businesses or SaaS products. It is not easy, but it gets easier, I think. Ever since I took Ryan Kulp's MicroAcquisitions