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Hacker Monthly - Issues 1 through 4
Read: May 2012
Quotes from the first four issues of Hacker Monthly
2 Steps to becoming a great developer - Eric Davis
- Write more code
- Work with great developers
7 Tips for Successful Self-Learning - Bradford Cross and Hamilton Ulmer
- Longest path is the shortest and the shortest path is the longest
- Avoid isolation
- Avoid multitasking
- You don’t read through textbooks, you work through them
- Build Eigencourses
- What to do when you don’t understand
- There is nothing so practical as good theory - Kurt Lewin
Leave the ad revenue and crazy business model revenue streams to the startups with venture funding. - Spencer Fry
How to become a millionaire in three years - Jason Baptiste
- Market opportunity
- Leverage skills you know
- Look in obscure places
- Surround yourself with smart people
- Charge for something
- Information products are valuable
- Primary metrics shouldn’t be dollars
- Get as many distribution channels as possible
- Do not care about fameballing - become famous with your customers. They’re the ones that truly matter.
- Be an unrelenting machine - commit to your goals and do not waiver from them one bit regardless of what else is there.
- Focus on the first $10,000
- Be a master of information
- Get out and be social
- Say No way more than you say Yes
- Be so good they can’t ignore you
- Always keep your door/inbox open
- Stick with it
- Productize a service
- Look for something that is required or subsidized by law
- Don’t be emotional
- Raise revenue, not funding
- Don’t get comfortable
- Look for those who are comfortable
- Keep the momentum going
- Learn how to filter