I did $20K+ in March.

I don’t have a sexy AI SaaS but here are my boring small bets breakdown:

Online:
- medium = $50
- newsletter = $100
- books = $300
- react consulting work = $5K
- web dev agency partner commission = $2K
- tech writing = $5K
- part time consulting for…

I had a crazy conversation with a friend who wants to start building startups too, his name is cso and before this he was always a freelancer

The problem he had was he thought every idea he had was not big enough or did not have 'product founder fit'

With that he meant he

Tech is the only profession where the interview process is harder than the actual job so You don’t have to reevaluate your entire career each time you failed in a tech interview.

Tech interviews are high stress affairs.

Japan has announced today that it plans to introduce new visas that will make it easier for Indian and Southeast Asian tech workers to move to Japan.

Japan is tired of lagging behind China, India, and SE Asia in terms of software.

A new Japan is loading.

I tried 2-3 times to do work from a caffè like a normal remote developer and I gotta say it was the worst experience of my life and it’s just a show off to get likes on X

Me in the day (🌞) Go to cafe, order coffee, open laptop and barely finish 1 task in 4 hours, only good

My view on 'launch a unique new idea' vs 'enter a market with lots of existing solutions' has flipped over the last few years.

I used to think you needed something new. Be first to market, get all the customers!

Now I think the existing markets are a better bet, here's why...

Nobody in developing countries who has ever made $400K/year would even dare considering this question.

most of us are lucky to have a tech job and there are only selected companies in India where people are working 9-10 and can make $200K/year.

It’s sad to see such privileged…

This is how you make an immigration policy for skilled/talented people!

Meanwhile, the US/EU/Canada/UK makes it impossible for so many skilled people to get in legally or make them wait for years to get their citizenship and give them constant stress but rolls a red carpet for…

In real estate, you make money on the buy.

In business, you create money in the build.

In finance, you extract money on the sale.

Unpopular opinion: if you want to start a business or becoming a self employed person the best thing you can do is to work every day including weekends!

strike whenever motivation comes!

There is no weekend/weekdays in business!

don’t fool yourself into thinking that…

NRI playbook is dead.

you can’t save money like NRIs were doing earlier so don’t come with hope of huge savings instead come for experience, clean air, less pollution, less population, culture and living a different lifestyle and see if this is something you wanted otherwise

31 things I've learned about becoming a better writer:

1. Like design, if a writer is doing their job, you never notice the writing. It's frictionless. You just keep reading.
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2. The best way to differentiate yourself against AI is to write with personality. Show readers your…

Happy to announce second speaker for TIL Conf, happy to have Ankur💻🎧💪 joining us as speaker.

Ankur is a software engineer and content creator. He will be presenting his talk

Writing for Software Engineers

#tilconf This is Learning @[email protected]

year 2000- learn to code
year 2010- learn to code
year 2020- learn to code
year 2024- learn AI, use gpt etc..but 'learn to code first'