WILD can be quite hard to achieve, I think. Doing MILD with dream journal works for me very well if I give it a bit time (not on the first night after a pause.)
This reminds me E. S. Fein's comment when someone asked him "Is reality disappointing now?"
"Not in the slightest. Reality still carries with it the endless enigma of unknowing. When I dream, I know I'm in dream. I know it is just a simulation created by my mind. But reality? I have no idea what reality -- waking life -- actually is. I have nothing to compare it to except for dreams, which stem from waking life. I love my reality, but I have also worked hard to build a reality I am very fond of."
There are different techniques to trigger LD, like Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreaming (MILD) but I think we need something else to make it more mainstream.
Over Christmas, I built a simple tool to track my income and expenses. I don’t need anything elaborate, and it suits my own needs well.
One side effect – I’ve learned – of seeing your income on colorful charts somehow wants to make it move UP by reducing expenses and finding additional income.
What would you add/remove? Maybe AI expense analysis based on uploaded bank statement?
A lot of us developers have websites. Why not add a "Hire Me" button for potential clients? Maybe we can make some extra money like this or even in time make it as our full-time freelance business.
I don't think I like Upwork (low prices?), TopTal (too exclusive?) or Contra (too many features?)
I just need a super simple site to list my skills and past projects. Maybe, and only maybe, there could also be some helpful tools, like an option to book a consultation call with me for a price.
It’s currently very simple on purpose and I’m choosing new features very slowly. Next up:
- See how many times your profile is visited
- Allow creating fixed price projects
5-day weeks are just a habit of history! People are talking increasingly more about mental health, avoiding burnout, and work-life balance. Remote work was a niche thing in tech for quite some time until COVID acted as a catalyst.
But we never wanted just to work from anywhere. It was always about a more flexible lifestyle. And 4-day weeks could be the next important step. The tech sector will be probably leading the way, just as it did with remote work.
Would be interesting to hear what you think about 4-day week trend?
People are talking increasingly more about mental health, avoiding burnout, and work-life balance. Remote work was a niche thing in tech for quite some time until COVID acted as a catalyst. But we never wanted just to work from anywhere. It was always about a more flexible lifestyle. And 4-day weeks could be the next important step. The tech sector will be probably leading the way, just as it did with remote work.
Making a Google Sheets
I wanted to see how many tech companies I could find who are already advertising 4-day weeks on their career pages. So I started to build a list on Google Sheets and so far I've found 42 companies.
Building a frontend
Google Sheets is nice, but I needed a proper front end. I installed a fresh Laravel (my favorite!) and made an html/css draft. I never design in Figma, I like web browsers as my canvas directly.
Registering a domain
First, I wanted 4dayremote.com but it was taken. I also considered 4daysok.com but that's too similar to remoteok.com I went with 4daytech.com (registered via NameCheap).
Setting up database
I wanted to keep everything as simple as possible as I don't know if I will be working on the project in the future. It depends if it gets some traction or not. I discovered that Google Sheets has an API where I can just fetch data from a URL – perfect, I could use my already existing Google Sheet as a database.
Some technical work
Before getting the site up on the web, I had to do some technical stuff, like changing DNS records, creating a new site on my Digital Ocean server, and adding Plausible for gathering statistics.
Launch
It didn't take much time and this was important to me. I can't be sure if I can make some money with 4daytech.com so I wanted to start with something super simple. I spent some time in the morning at home and now wrote the blog post in a nearby park. Hope you like it!
Would be interesting to hear what you think about 4-day week trend?