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Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩

This week has been yet another whirlwind. It's weird how some weeks seem to vanish in an instant. I haven't made progress on recording for my YouTube channel. I'm still struggling to break down my mental barrier. But instead of lamenting, I've decided to do something more useful: build something new!

I've finally started working on my community content curation product. I've just spent a few hours on it so far, so there's nothing to show yet, but I'm super excited about building this. As I've argued in my article about Community Knowledge Management, I strongly believe that social/community content curation has a big role to play for many communities. People who join rarely know where to look, what to read, what to listen to or watch. They need guidance, tips and tricks. Community curated content collections are one of the keys to helping communities better manage and share their knowledge. So I'll build that first! My first milestone will thus be to enable users to create a community, capture and share interesting articles. This alone should be way more interesting than the endless walls of Facebook/Instagram/<insert tasteless social network name>. I'll keep you posted about my progress!

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The lab 🧪

This week, I've enabled support for Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) on all my Gumroad products. My goal is to help as many people as I can, and I hope that this will enable more people to afford my products.

In the past 30 days, I've sold 40 copies of the Obsidian Starter Kit (~$1K). This is reassuring because some of those already came from the new landing page I've launched last week, meaning that it doesn't hurt the conversion rate! 🎉

I've also sold 7 copies of the Personal Knowledge Management Library (~$150). And I've reached 10 referred members on Medium, which means that I get $20 right off the bat when a new month starts. Not huge, but pretty cool! Last month I've made ~$150 on Medium, just by cross-posting my articles and newsletters. It's annoying to cross post, but it's worth it. The way I think about it is exposing my content to people using other platforms instead of hoping that they'll find or want to consume my content on my Website, thus adding options.

The biggest challenge with the new product I've decided to build is to fight against my urge to learn new things and "play" with technology. Instead, I need to focus on delivering the functionality I have in mind. You wouldn't believe how hard this can be for a crafter like me. Each tiny detail is riddled with countless puzzles to solve! To be honest I don't know if many other software crafters face the same challenge, but my taste for quality code is clearly my nemesis when it comes to actually making (useful and valuable) progress as an Indie Hacker.

New articles

Tools for Thought’s greatest benefit

The greatest benefit of Tools for Thought (TfT) is not what you think

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Optimism, pessimism and freedom

Optimists tend to find more creative solutions. Here’s why.

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Quotes of the week

• "You don’t rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems" — James Clear
• "You were born to stand out, stop trying to fit in" — Roy T. Bennett

Book of the week

Thinking and learning

Thesauri, Taxonomies, and Ontologies

Or, how we can learn from these formal methods to improve the organization of our own PIM/PKM systems.

MediumCameron Flint

17 Obsidian Features I’ve Invited Into My Autonomous, Plain Text World

You are only truly digitally free when your system can stand alone, independent of any one app

CodeXEllane W

Richard Feynman on looking at the world from another point of view

The Cassandra Dispatch About Subscribe Richard Feynman on looking at the world from another point of view By Can Olcer in Richard Feynman — Dec 18, 2022 In this report produced in 1973 by the Yorkshire public television, Richard Feynman talks about the importance of original ideas.Another topic that comes up is simplicity. According to Feynman, nature is usually much simpler than our thoughts. Therefore, when trying to explain phenomena, we tend to overcomplicate things. Often, in the end, reality can be explained by much simpler terms. We just need to look at it from another point of view. Previous issue Browse archive Next issue The Cassandra Dispatch © 2023 Sign up Powered by GhostCan Olcer

Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies

Obsidian plugins I use - Fork My Brain

Obsidian plugins I use - Fork My Brain

Fork My Brain

PKM Weekly Jan 29 2023 – Issue 054 – Curtis McHale

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What time is it? A simple question with a complex answer. How computers synchronize time - Andrea Corbellini

Andrea Corbellini

David MacKay: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms: The Book

Indie Hacking and bootstrapping

The early bootstrapper dilemma

I want to talk about a dilemma that crosses my mind frequently because I imagine more people think about it. I’d like to know what’s people’s approach t...

Indie HackersDaniel González Reina

I lost $209,640 of my own money trying to start a business.

Writing about failure sucks. But here’s the real story.

Mostly metricsCJ Gustafson

How I made a GPT-3 Chrome Extension for Twitter and earned $1143 in 2 weeks

Hey! My name is Sergey Bunas, and in this article I will tell about my experience of building a side-project that was created in 1 day, went viral on Tw...

Indie HackersSergey Bunas

Developers... What is it about your 9-5 that makes you want to escape it? 🧑‍💻

Is it: - The lack of freedom? - Micromanagement? - Meetings? - Work life balance?

Indie Hackers🧑‍💻🚀

How I Made $10,000 Online In One Month From 5 Different Places

“Well, how much did you make last month?” my Mom asked.

The Post-Grad Survival GuideTom Kuegler

Our bootstrapped form builder turned 2 and we reached $30K MRR

In October 2020 we launched our no-code form builder Tally. Today, 2 years later, we are still a proudly bootstrapped team of 2 co-founders with a profi...

Indie HackersMarie Martens

Ask HN: As a startup, what are your must-have sections for a landing page? | Hacker News

Hacker News

Tech

Interop 2023: continuing to improve the web for developers

Learn more about how all browser vendors, and other stakeholders, have come together to solve the top browsers compatibility issues identified by web developers. Interop 2023 will improve the experience of developing for the web across a number of key areas.

web.devRobert Nyman

GitExplorer

GitExplorer: Find the right git commands you need without digging through the web

GitExplorer

JSON Crack - Crack your data into pieces

Simple visualization tool for your JSON data. No forced structure, paste your JSON and view it instantly.

The yaml document from hell

As a data format, yaml is extremely complicated and it has many footguns. In this post I explain some of those pitfalls by means of an example, and I suggest a few simpler and safer yaml alternatives.

Ruud van Asseldonk

git-sim: Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos

git-sim: Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos with a single terminal command

Initial Commit Jacob Stopak

Making sense of TypeScript using set theory

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Open Graph Tester for Meta Tags | og:image - OGTester

Open Graph Tester for Meta Tags is a tool to instantly check og tag changes on WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebok or any social media with og:image, og:title

OGTester

About Sébastien

Hello everyone! I'm Sébastien Dubois. I'm an author, founder, and CTO. I write books and articles about software development & IT, personal knowledge management, personal organization, and productivity. I also craft lovely digital products 🚀

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