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    Building and prototyping products for a few hundred bucks

    SOURCING 
    For hardware, I recommend McMaster Carr, and for electronic components/connectors Digikey. Both have next day shipping and a huge selection. Good luck!
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    3 Easy Proven And Tested Ways To Live An Unfulfilling Life

    INTRO 
    One hell of an FTE. Glad you're still with us and looking forward to seeing the work you're going to do next!
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    Do you have low energy everyday when it comes to work or business?

    MINDSET 
    The best MEDS are Mindfulness, Exercise, Diet and Sleep. In December I was stressed and unfocused, but also ate like shit, mostly just veg'd in front of my computer or the TV, and got little sleep because I kept waking up during the night. This month I turned it around completely. I'm meal...
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    What is the best thing you did for yourself lately ?

    MINDSET 
    Best thing I ever did for myself was join an improv class. It was a big push out of my comfort zone and after a long time of working on myself improv was what finally broke the social awkwardness I had been carrying for years. Now I'm the guy that can strike up conversations with pretty much...
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    The Ultimate Goal-Setting System: Take 1 Hour to Change Your Next 10 Years...

    GOLD! EXECUTION 
    What tablet is that? It looks awesome. Edit: searched "e-paper tablet", and it's the ReMarkable. That one's going on the wishlist... Haha
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    Building and prototyping products for a few hundred bucks

    SOURCING 
    Great tip! If you don't have a makerspace near you or aren't skilled with machines, there are online prototyping services for many kinds of parts, like CNC, advanced 3D printing, sheet metal, etc that will take your CAD file and run small batches of parts. Some examples are 3D Printing...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    I noticed in the PDF for the TGRRE audiobook: for chapter 102 (industry multiples table), what is read in the book as "Brewers" appears in the PDF as "Freedom Old". I don't have the physical book to crosscheck. @MJ DeMarco, is it a Mistake or a Fictitious Entry? (Also later in the list is a...
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    Side project (photography lighting "invention")

    EXECUTION 
    PVC pipes and adhesive RGB LED strips? :D
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    How creative are you? Take this test and find out...

    HOT! 
    I got 84.8% (coincidentally the same score as the percentage). I had one word (elephant) that tanked my score on two accounts - elephant:acorn and elephant:moon - which was surprising.
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    Does anyone else ever get "short-circuit dreams"? They are the stressful (not nightmare) kind where instead of thoughts flowing into eachother it feels like you are stuck in a loop. When I get them they usually have math or programming related thought loops, but last night I read part of the...
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    So I Quit Caffeine This Week... Should You?

    HOT! 
    Caffeine wires me up too much, and withdrawals make me irritable and angry even if I only drink small amounts of it. In the mornings I buy a decaf double double from McD's. A few weeks ago I randomly had a panic attack at work - I checked the label and turns out they had accidentally given me a...
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    Would you buy a book like this?

    IDEA BOOKS 
    I don't regularly read fiction, but I do often read new books from authors I already enjoy, so yes. Isn't the entertainment factor the value of fiction?
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    Outdated. Thank you

    AIRBNB 
    Could that be because your survey is biased towards positive responses? Are you tracking how many people open the survey but don't complete it? Those people are almost certainly "No" and if you don't include them your results are almost guaranteed to be misleading. Question 1: I immediately...
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    Watering a New Brand - mdot's Hardware Startup and E-Commerce Progress Thread

    EXECUTION 
    Haha, The Plant Whisperer. Every time a plant wilts I go "chit!" and prod it a little to assert myself as the plant leader. I'll be honest, the development has kind of taken me away again. you're right, I need to focus on building and maintaining a following otherwise Ill be launching to...
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    Watering a New Brand - mdot's Hardware Startup and E-Commerce Progress Thread

    EXECUTION 
    It's about 75% done. It's measuring the soil of my plant as we speak :) Fonts, images, and other UI elements are coded It sits in sleep mode for about 30 minutes, then wakes up, takes a measurement, updates the display and then goes back to sleep It's reading data from the off-the-shelf probe...
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    Problems with falling asleep.

    HOT! HEALTH 
    Its likely a combination. I read Why We Sleep and the biggest takeaways for me were Always go to bed and get up at the same time Stressing about sleep makes it more elusive Sleep in a room slightly cooler than you are used to in order to allow your body to lower its temperature (a prerequisite...
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    shoulder, neck, back pain and weakening of the body due to long hours spent working in a desk

    HEALTH 
    I've gotten random short bouts of back pain if I lift something in a weird way, but this weekend I tried Airsoft and it was really intense exercise. I don't remember the last time I even came close to exercising that hard. I was fine the day of, but sunday and into this morning the back pain and...
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    Famous YouTuber creates a second channel anonymously to prove a point

    $50 per video doesn't seem too bad. Spending money for the first few videos to get the engine running seems worth it. At the end he pointed out that 30% of the views were algorithm recommendations - probably the most "real" of views you can get for a one-off video. It would be interesting to see...
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    Famous YouTuber creates a second channel anonymously to prove a point

    Boom. The only luck in this video was getting the streamer to click the link, but even that was calculated to reduce the risk of failure - down to the video length, what time during the stream to post it, how much he needed to donate to get his attention etc. What an awesome video. Thanks for...
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    Lawn Maintenance As Service

    EXECUTION 
    How are you managing battery charge throughout the day? I was looking at buying an electric leaf blower for my yard and the 15 minute battery life turned me off it.

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