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3 year warranty, but probably will last 10+ years. Oh, and take care of that carpal tunnel issue for good.

What role do phone calls play in your strategy? Are you opening with cold emails and then setting up phone calls / in-person meetings, or are you trying to close the entire deal over email? Have you tested cold calling vs. cold emailing? If you're a reasonably personable... person, a cold call...

City? or Tech? ?

I personally can't stand a TV blaring on in the background when I'm doing anything other than actively watching TV. Hurts my focus and almost makes me anxious. I don't think I've ever fallen asleep when there was TV or some kind of dialogue going on right next to me either, something to do with...

Sorry to hear all that man. I'm 6 years down this rabbit hole myself, starting at age 27. I've bounced around so many allopathic, naturopathic, homeopathic, Chinese medicine, energy medicine, and natural diet and therapy modalities I've lost count. Tons of testing done. Tons of consultations...

Personally I look at that as basically a good thing. It's a positive indicator to me that the space has evolved toward a reasonably high barrier to entry and high level of expertise requirement and thus there's a good chance that success, far from guaranteed, will actually be defensible and...

I use and am a fanboy of my X220. The X220/X230 are really fantastic for taking with you on the go, but are fully capable of being docked with an external monitor and used as workstations. The X230 gets you slightly better performance at the cost of losing the last of the infamous oldschool...

Since you already admit you're less passionate about starting an agency I think the fact you only have early mornings and evenings to work makes the choice for you in favor of building your own assets. Starting a services based company where you're mostly unavailable during business hours would...

I'm totally onboard with what you're trying to illustrate with this and wholeheartedly agree that a singular focus is key even if it means some other things neccesarily get sacrificed in the process. But man, please don't let your health be one of those things. For without health, what's the...

Goal #1 is to rehab my health to a level where I can sustain the work regimen neccessary to successfully finish building and then market my current and only project. I pushed too hard this past month and paid the price in health more severely than I anticipated (I was gunning for a pre-Christmas...

I can literally smell all the money I'm not making by not having my shit together on BF/CM. Not going to let any more sweet Holiday cheddar fall off the table if I can help it. /in

I love the taste and experience of drinking coffee, but I had the same experience as Ryuzaki where it's ultimately a diminishing returns addiction that always leads to "bottoming out" where I'm probably worse off and only drinking it to avoid headaches until I go off it for a while (and then get...

If it's a matter of doing this site or not diving into any site at all, then for sure do it! I'd also take what Rob said into consideration though. Do you have any other interests that would have more obvious commercial intent? You'll be going through all the exact same processes and there's...

I totally get the internal doubt that arises from trying to get clarity on a single pointed direction to "master". I've been doing that my whole life and haven't really mastered anything due to constantly shifting direction to something else that is the new big everything. If you have a curious...

If I could throw this in for the Linux pros: anything you can say regarding the most critical security precautions to take with your own box? I have SSH locked down pretty well, setup non-root users, and update regularly. Beyond that...? Does anyone that manages their own box still pay...

I've heard people complain that curved screens can distort text, spreadsheets, images, etc for actual office and design work. I think a non-curved 21:9 single monitor at a large enough size to put two applications side by side is pretty optimal -- comparable to dual 20" screens without the...

If your business goals don't require in-person networking and access to a local labor pool I think there's something to be said for a comfortable, reasonably priced non-urban home base with a pleasant natural environment when you're in grind mode. Fewer distractions, save more money, everything...

Thinkpad X220 (12.5") or Thinkpad T420 (14") productivity workhorses from the 2011-2012 era. They are the last true Thinkpads ever made that can still be considered part of the IBM lineage. They can be had in the $75-$200 range all day long on eBay depending on condition and specs. Extremely...

Sounds like we have similar goals but you're starting way ahead of me from a position of strength you worked hard to establish. I'm back at dialing the phone book mode ;). Good luck man, I'll be following along here and on your blog.

You can get pretty close IMO. Homebrew is a worthwhile package manager for OSX and can install GUI apps like chrome with cask. I always have iTerm open to a virtual linux server (via vagrant), so I get all that linux command line goodness. My most used linux desktop app was emacs and that has...