Setup a self-hosted Ghost CMS on CapRover
Ghost CMS is a simpler and faster WordPress alternative with a big problem: the price ($29 – 299/month!). In this guide, I share an easy way to set up Ghost CMS on your own server using CapRover. At the end of this guide, you can have a website like Buffer’
How to Sync Logseq Notes Across Windows, Mac and Mobile
A painful problem with Logseq is: the iOS mobile app needs iCloud to sync to your notes. On my other devices I prefer and use Dropbox. Let’s fix it. In this guide, I will share how to sync your notes from Dropbox (or Google Drive) on your other devices
Connect VS Code to GitHub for Legal Coding
If you’re a legal professional and want to automate your document assembling process at the unbeatable price of FREE, you’re in the right place. Tools like theformtool, HotDocs, Pythagoras, etc have comparable feature, the cost adds up. And for docassemble there’s a catch: The learning curve is
Learning to Learn
What counts as interesting? When’s the last time you learned something useful? Something that really shifted your knowledge and made a difference. How about the last time you found something “interesting” online—or several “interesting” things online? Every day, you make this choice on your time: * Sink it in
The Art of Thinking Poorly
What does good thinking look like? Thinking is hard work. To write well, you must think well, that’s more work. And that’s a start. To write well, read a lot. This helps you see what good writing looks like. You know what to steal and how to craft
The Focus Problem
winning the war of art It’s hard seeing things through. Since I heard of the magpie, when someone hops from one thing to the next, I think of this bird. The magpie is a very intelligent, like many. It collects shiny things, like many. And like many, it doesn’
You, Inc.
Is anything else more important than you? This year, protect your best asset: you. No matter how productive, inventive or anything else you might be, the best thing you can do for yourself is to take care of the only thing that is irreplaceable—yourself. I don’t mean hire
An Anti-Forecast
So… 2020, huh? How has 2020 been for you so far? With everything the world has been through this year, things will not be the same. The question for you is, how can you take advantage of the shift to put yourself or your product in a better place. Think
Getting Everything You Can - #1
Never fall in love with… Hello friend, In the next few emails, I will share lessons from my distant mentor, Jay Abrahams (the 21.7 billion dollar man) — with application to digital products. Here’s a start: they fall in love with the wrong thing The wrong thing can even
Inventing: Overrated.
How to “model” success instead Inventing is overrated. What you need is a framework to re-invent. Here’s the catch: Think in terms of what others have done that you can model. A model that you can use as a blueprint for your innovation. Here are some relevant frameworks:
