AKhoo

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by AKhoo 7y ago
I came across a guy on IndieHackers who called this "Maker Paralysis, which is like the equivalent of writer's block for makers". He put himself on something he called "Ship Therapy" - "committing to ship at le
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by AKhoo 7y ago
IT HAPPENED. I clicked the wrong button on my phone today and lost a few months of notes. Instantly thought of this message haha. Going to transition to Google Keep instead....
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by AKhoo 7y ago
Having some structure and more than anything, intention and persistence is key. IMO most people blame the lack of the Personal CRM, but really the bottleneck is they're not recording information they want to remember about people. I pe
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Ask HN: Founders, have you ever mentored someone or been mentored?
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by AKhoo 7y ago
Absolutely. I come up with a lot of crappy ideas, but there's usually something worth exploring every now and then. (1) I have an asana project called Ideas. Each task is an idea. I've set up a workflow where I can just send an em
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by AKhoo 7y ago
Ask him if he's talked to prospective customers and keep urging him to! The risky assumption in this whole venture might be whether customers have the problem and want their solution, not the technology behind the solution.
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by AKhoo 7y ago
One's a school alumni group, and one is a subcommunity of the same group.
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by AKhoo 7y ago
Haha, that's a great point. Entrepreneurship is a big focus for me right now, so here's what I log every day: In the AM: (1) What are the current goals for different areas of my life and what does it mean I have to do today? (2) W
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by AKhoo 7y ago
I'd encourage a multi-pronged approach: * Job boards make it easy to find jobs, but it's a volume game * If you find a job or company you like, you can go the extra mile by cold emailing someone on the team for an informational in
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by AKhoo 7y ago
For me: HN, Reddit, Indiehackers and a few private Slack groups.
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by AKhoo 7y ago
Two things have helped when I've felt adrift in the past: * Reflection: Think about what activities are really useful for introspection (this is person-specific) and do a lot of it. For me, it's journaling -- I started writing a l
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by AKhoo 7y ago
I used to absolutely hate it, to the extent where I would actually take the time and effort to switch to old.reddit.com whenever I got served the new redesign. BUT after a few months of having the new design being pushed in my face, and for
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by AKhoo 7y ago
Yes! I've told people about this before and people either hate it or love it: "Holy Shit - An Incredibly Epic Playlist" | https://open.spotify.com/user/ruhin94/playlist/0bG1EMQkukEeO...
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by AKhoo 7y ago
I've found that I don't bookmark for the sake of bookmarking -- What I'm really trying to do is to build a knowledge bank on something; like a blog post formed by snippets of articles I've found over time. Realizing this
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by AKhoo 7y ago
Quantitatively, there's two things I track daily: (1) My progress at the gym (which, surprisingly I track in an ongoing draft email*) and (2) the number of productive work hours I've worked that day (to make sure I'm not just
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by AKhoo 9y ago
Absolutely, but it depends on the skill level of the grad. Not all bootcamps or their grads are alike. A great point of reference is the super transparent outcomes data on http://cirr.org . The data reveals two takeaways: 1) Yes,
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by AKhoo 12y ago
lol I am the aforementioned co-founder. This is definitely a flight booking hack with costs and benefits that have to be weighed. I don't personally book this way for savings of just 10-20 bucks. When it's something like $80 in