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    Intro and AMA. Zero to $120k/mo and back down to $10k/mo with SEO.

    INTRO 
    Hard, hard pass on the job. Not a chance. You don't want it and you know you don't want it, it sounds like your wife is trying to pressure you into it. If she also has her own business and clients, what's the issue with insurance? Why doesn't she take the job? As others have alluded to, and...
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    Quit my job? NOW?

    EXECUTION FEEDBACK QUESTION 
    There's a really simple answer to this. If you can't get started and make progress while you are working a job, you aren't going to be any better if you quit. In fact, you might be even better off while you have a job because it places that additional time constraint on you - only so many...
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    Family: Do Blood Ties Matter? Or Is the Family Lottery Irrelevant?

    OFF-TOPIC 
    Blood is thicker than water = family over everyone The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb = friendships forged through trial and adventure are stronger than family There is no right or wrong here, it's a discussion and debate that's been around for millennia...
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    Books about Overcoming Addictions

    ASK THE AI 
    I reported the AI bot before realizing it was an AI bot... sorry mods.
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    Why you should buy a home as early as possible.

    GOLD! ASSERTION 
    Update on my situation. Fully settled in now to my new place, $2300/mo in rent. Still have a preapproval until June, which is good for $300k with $25k in down payment, meaning that I'd have virtually zero closing costs - would just need $1k or $2k, monthly payment for that down payment...
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    How do I organize my week/day?

    IDEA 
    Weekly calendar, plain pen and paper, MJ's own GoalSumo, Trello, Jira, FocusMate.. there are infinite solutions to this problem. Much like anything else, you need to take repeated action which will help you get better organized and more focused. You won't magically solve this issue with one big...
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    Moved across the country alone and living in a car. Update thread until stability

    MINDSET EXECUTION 
    Somewhere along the line, I feel like you lost your fire and became complacent. It became difficult to finish the thread. Here was this magnificent journey of moving across the country with your back against the wall and executing, making real things happen in a short amount of time. Then, that...
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    Marketing & Selling on Reddit? (Without Pissing People Off)

    MARKETING 
    I think it starts with characterizing the target audience of your average general niche subreddit: they are generally intelligent, curious, adverse to upfront marketing, consume content around the subject they enjoy, and moreso, do enjoy supporting small businesses. I'm not talking about your...
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    Lost my job. Give it to me straight how F*cked am i?

    HOT! MINDSET 
    4 months? You're worried about 4 months? Life is throwing you a small challenge, rather than thinking you're F*cked, embrace it. Your perspective may be limited, but truthfully, this is nothing. If I stop working today, I've got 3 weeks. Now is a good time to not only find a new base...
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    Why you should buy a home as early as possible.

    GOLD! ASSERTION 
    Thanks a lot for this info. It was really useful at the time, and I now have a quick update on my situation. Ended up moving out, locking down a 14 month lease in a cheaper one bedroom. To my surprise, about a week later, loan officer came back and said I was preapproved for up to $285k, with...
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    Why you should buy a home as early as possible.

    GOLD! ASSERTION 
    In a bit of a situation here, any advice welcome. Living with ex-gf, we broke up. Boston area rents are insane, was paying $2900/mo here (split) and studios and 1BRs start at $2k and up. Decided today I want to buy and then at some point I thought of the forum, and specifically this thread...
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    Face it. The only way to make passive income for average guys is inventing.

    ASSERTION FEEDBACK 
    A disingenuous, edgy title, followed by a faux display at providing value only to try to draw attention and possibly snag a guest for his own podcast. There's not really any reason to make a forum post in this tone. You yourself know the assertions you are making aren't necessarily true. The...
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    Someone is Squatting on my Product's .com Domain

    QUESTION 
    - $10k is not a lot in the grand scheme of things here, but you are also free to bid lower - You will lose SEO value / customers migrating even from .net to the .com version - Consider "getxyz.com" or "joinxyz.com" if you want to migrate to .com regardless
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    Ethical marketing vs. profit maximization. If a company can legally do this, I don't see what's stopping them - maybe the FTC/GDPR/whatever needs to step in and clamp down on free trials like this. Step 1 - avoid free trials Step 2 - avoid anything with a credit system, it's absurd how...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    You are 100% correct. I started web dev back in 2018 and had my prices relatively low (under $2k) to start. Every so often I hear from a client from a few years ago wanting help on a new project. They are usually pretty easy, so I do it on the side when I have free time. But the potential for...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    Eh, I think this would be tough. It's practical and of course money is money, but it's someone who I don't want to continue working with further. I think partial definitely implies 50% (or maybe 75% at best), but even if it was 90%, I wouldn't want it. - Discuss on project on an urgent...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    Thanks for your input. I addressed it in a similar fashion and then immediately deleted the site. Fact is, him offering a partial payment discounts the work that was done up to this point, which also included copyrighting, needing to source stock images, etc because he provided nothing...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    Need some tough love/advice here. Client requested website by Thurs, Feb 1, on 3 weeks notice. I had it up Monday, Jan 29 on staging. He doesn't get around to reviewing it. Feb 1 rolls around and he says that his marketing efforts have launched but the website is not live (after not responding...
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    Looking for Advice for unfair app suspension by google play

    QUESTION 
    Violated the commandment of control. Have you read the books, or are you just here to rant about your Google ban? Can you shift to a web app?
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    How to communicate value of changing to modern web development practices to boss

    A startup I work at is possibly making the transition from WordPress to Next.js because there are a handful of our other websites using the React system and it makes sense to standardize when you have a user dashboard, logins, three or four different websites, etc. all under one brand. Using...
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