During second wave of covid, I released a book as sarcastic joke in the hope to raise funds for different causes like Change by One Meal, Simply blood etc . Now releasing the book for everyone to read and smile at free of cost.
This is the way to go. Stairs counting And Steps counting are awesome way to make them fall in love with numbers. Also, while on a walk, tell them what is what like these are stairs, that is a donkey etc. despite they can utter it or not.
One more comes to my mind, tell the spelling while looking at the things like if there is ice cream written somewhere, say it like I C E C R E A M.
Welcome to the thirties, I am in my late thirties, and recently I retired after 14 years of short career.
Here is what I think, Pretty much what you explained, is some what on the lines of burn out and mid life career crises. It happens, our priorities does not remain same as it was when we were 20 or 25. Over the time, priorities changes, definition of happiness changes, and I believe you are in that changing phase.
In my short career of 14 years, I worked with many startups and did two- three of my own also, and It takes a toll on our mental health and life. Throughout these 14 years, I could not gain even a single KG of weight, and since I took retirement, I gained 5 KG (I was underweight), My quality of sleep has improved a lot.
Mind needs a break, it needs some healthy exercises, one of the ways to do is to indulge in creating activities like art, helping out at an NGO, spending time in activities which means nothing like binge watching etc. Spending time with family, kids also add to the happiness quotient. Instead of 5 days a week, working only 4 days a week and spending rest of the time in other things usually calm down the mind and help to relax, Most significantly keeping the work in the work time frame i.e. 9 to 5.
I always wonder about one thing, why do we keep on running, running behind promotions, running behind money, running behind almost everything except the small things which brings happiness.
Evaluate your priorities once, may be re-prioritising the things will bring change.
you are not alone, many of us has the same thoughts. One way that I can think of is read as many books as possible, it will definitely help to alter the way of thinking. Also, we need to change with time, our priorities changes over time, to be happy we don't need something fancy, we can be happy with what we have where we are as it is a choice.
10% cut per sales sounds good. Payment to PayPal still sounds little complicated for some countries. Means if I am a course creator and I am from one of the developing country, then I may end up facing issues. What's about connecting Wise or Stripe or something like that ?
I was searching for such a platform. Thanks for building this Greg, great work. However two things which made me to think twice:
1. Per month subscription model Vs percentage cut per sales
2. Payment via paypal.
If changes will be made to these two things then I will jump in without doubt.
isn't it a classic case, lets say there is a domain , and doing good business. I will go and book a the same name with different extension lets say domain.xyz and get a trademark. Now I will sue the original domain owner and extort money out of him without even having a business. I am really curious now what happens when we ignore such people who tries to create a hostile situation.
GOTO is used in very confined and careful manner. So, the statement that says "GOTO shall not be used" is only for the junior developers or newbies. Once someone gain experience, and knows what is going on, GOTO is safe to use.
Now, list down the features that shall be in a MVP. Once listed down, priories the list. If possible estimate the time and money required. If not, talk to the freelancers or engineering friends, and then estimate. Chalk down when and what needs to be completed.
This way, a MVP can be rolled out quickly and focus will shift to acquire early customers.
The alternate way to build the MVP is to use no code tool to build as much as possible and do the rest manually. Then over the time, replace the manual work with code.