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by ChanningAllen 1y ago
Sorry for the interruption. We're an indie business with no banner ads, and our newsletter helps us keep the lights on. Hope you enjoyed the piece up to that point.
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by ChanningAllen 1y ago
It's doing quite well. Thanks for asking. :) Good observation re the forum: folks find it novel and engaging for about a week, then get bored of the repetition. Not very monetizable for an indie team.
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by ChanningAllen 1y ago
Author here. I've spent a decade drinking my own "snake oil" (the advice in this essay), and I've only now committed it to writing so that others can apply it or ignore it as they wish. I haven't burned out. Instead
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by ChanningAllen 1y ago
> Do you think the people described thought about how to increase their practice surface area? No, they were simply /interested/. In fact, many of them did think about it. Many of them designed, tested, experimented, and tweake
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by ChanningAllen 1y ago
This article makes me want to cry. I'm an unbelievably big Cormac McCarthy fan and the findings in his library shed so much light on many inscrutable and poetic passages from his books. I think for example about the following quote fro
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by ChanningAllen 1y ago
It's doing better than ever! LLMs offer the equivalent of $500k+ in outside funding if used correctly, so there's a huge uptick in # of new bootstrapped startups. In fact we (the Indie Hackers founders) are bootstrapping a new B2B
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by ChanningAllen 1y ago
Gotcha! Shame on me. Just slapped a "Slim Shady" label on his hoodie. Won't fully stop the bleeding but at least a few more people will get it.
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by ChanningAllen 1y ago
Author here. Good feedback: the text isn't nonsense, but it requires background knowledge that the man on the right is the rapper Eminem.
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Increasing your practice surface area(indiehackers.com)
169 points by ChanningAllen 1y ago|83 comments
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The Leverage Paradox in AI(indiehackers.com)
81 points by ChanningAllen 1y ago|53 comments
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Vibe marketing prompts for OpenAI's new model(indiehackers.com)
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by ChanningAllen 3y ago
> I believe OP would agree that the Plan should be low quality, at least at the beginning. OP emphatically agrees. Overplanning is arrogance in a world with so many unknown unknowns.
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by ChanningAllen 3y ago
Couldn't agree more. I always return to the following quote [1] from Marvin Minsky, who's an intellectual hero of mine: > Most people think that accomplishments like [those of geniuses] require "talents" or "gift
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by ChanningAllen 3y ago
> It depends… Body isn’t in the same “mood” every time. And I space out sessions. I have to say that physiological randomness of this kind is one of the main "use cases" for structured routines. Before I lived such a structured
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by ChanningAllen 3y ago
Nice app! I've rolled my own custom solution inside of Notion, or else you'd probably have another signup.
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by ChanningAllen 3y ago
Complex goals often require complex solutions. Keeping it simple is probably a good policy for most people most of the time. But for those who want to break through the plateaus that simple solutions will inevitably lead to, they can look t
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by ChanningAllen 3y ago
Fixed
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by ChanningAllen 3y ago
I'm a big fan of all 5! Plus many, many more. I wasn't being hyperbolic in my use of the term "80/20." The aim, fire, scan article truly only represents about 20% of the tools/techniques I swear by.
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by ChanningAllen 3y ago
> On that note, read some Extended Mind philosophy if you haven’t, originally from Chalmers I believe Literally considering writing a book on extended mind theoretic ideas. Highly recommend Andy Clark's "Supersizing the Mind&qu
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Aim, fire, scan: the 80/20 of executing on big projects(indiehackers.com)
273 points by ChanningAllen 3y ago|44 comments
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by ChanningAllen 3y ago
Really glad to hear that. My recommendation is to put a lot of emphasis on the "environment" step toward the end of the article. Otherwise, you might find yourself gaining a merely temporary hold of self-control only to get distra
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by ChanningAllen 3y ago
I enjoyed "On Bullshit" but I would much more emphatically recommend Frankfurt's "The Reasons of Love," [0] the basic argument of which is that self-love has been wrongly maligned in our society. Here's a taste
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by ChanningAllen 3y ago
> I say this as someone who was probably like you once. … I also tried all the meditation techniques whilst relentlessly trying to optimise my productivity, work and life, resulting in an inevitable burn out. … Following that, I have end
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by ChanningAllen 3y ago
The replication problems of the marshmallow test are certainly interesting, but I'm not sure how they are relevant to the point being made by Robert Sapolsky in the quoted passage. His point has nothing to do with the predictive powers
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by ChanningAllen 3y ago
Author here. I am a fan of box breathing, along with several other "proven" breathing techniques. Not sure what the downside is of experimenting with new techniques to add to one's tool set? Keep in mind that I'm just a
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by ChanningAllen 3y ago
Indeed the author did. Thanks for the catch.
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The PoWeR technique: a strategic approach to self-discipline(indiehackers.com)
142 points by ChanningAllen 3y ago|60 comments
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A college student reached $64k/mo in 6 months by being an AI first mover(indiehackers.com)
99 points by ChanningAllen 3y ago|91 comments
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by ChanningAllen 3y ago
Teach and inspire people to become entrepreneurs on their own terms, e.g. without raising venture capital. Media company (podcast, newsletter) with a large online and in-person community.
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The positive side of negative self-talk(indiehackers.com)
1 points by ChanningAllen 4y ago|0 comments

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