I "slightly" disagree with requiring previous engineering work.
In my experience, from having paying customers or people willing to pay to keeping them is very different and requires an actually robust and stable technology (unlike the prototype, landing page, or MVP required for validation). I'm focusing on turning a valid idea into a profitable business, if that makes sense.
Additionally, the reason why I say "white male" instead of just "white people" is because white women are also presented with less opportunities than white males. I'm trying to make this a better opportunity for minorities.
Thanks for the article. I simply disagree that racism is should be defined in terms of historical power structures as the article suggests. Racism - or discrimination on the basis of race - is repellent to me in any form.
Simply put, I don’t want to treat anyone differently on the basis of their skin colour.
Thanks for the explanative answer! I've felt similarly to you before, until I dug deeper into the subject and realized that for white privilege to "disappear", it requires the privileged to do more than just "stop seeing color".
I wish I didn't have to treat anyone differently, but I feel like I should give minorities some benefit, as they have less access to opportunities.
Do you have an idea of how I could convey that without using the "white male" term or language?
For example, you could remove that statement from your site and discuss that during the negotiation. At that time, you don't have to explicitly ask "are you white male?" either. You can do a video meeting and you'll know who they are. Then you can adjust your equity percentage accordingly without even mentioning you are giving them a discount because they are a minority, or you want more equity because they are oppressors. In my opinion, that would be the neutral way to handle this.
Otherwise, I agree with the other comments here that, whether you are favoring minorities or the oppressors, you are still categorizing people in your head and feeding the very concepts we need to pay no attention at all.
Thank you for the suggestion, Emrah! From what I've been exposed to from people in minorities who are actively working towards diversifying the tech space, "paying no attention" is part of the problem of systemic racism, thus requiring an active discrimination against the privileged, in order to try and balance things out.
It's not a comfortable thing to do, because it can feel wrong, indeed.
I would be happy to consider removing that sentence if someone with more experience in this subject explained me it was hurting rather than helping diversification.
I've been enjoying working with Next.js [1] in the last couple of years, and especially with a serverless architecture, deploying to Vercel [2].
I've got most of my projects working in this setup now, and so as I was starting to work on a couple of things more recently, I decided to pick one that I've had in production for a few months without issues, strip it to the bare essentials, and update all dependencies.
If people find these useful, I'll start a collection and release some with basic stuff like connecting to MongoDB, sending emails via Mailgun, passwordless user login, and more.
Let me know what would you like seeing!
I hope you enjoy it.
Thank you for your attention and kindness. I really appreciate it!
Hey Bryan, I just got up an elasticsearch boilerplate, but haven’t published it yet. Do you want to take a look first and let me know if that’s useful?
Something I've started doing many years ago that allowed me to cut back on "wasted time" was reading websites/feeds/blogs only once per day. I automated it and eventually built a product around it, since a few people asked me about that routine.
It allows you to receive a daily email with a digest of the news about the day before. The "news" will be any update on any website, or blog you follow (including public twitter accounts).
It's News, calm [1].
Bringing calm and tranquility into people's lives is something I strive to do in every product I work. Hopefully you'll find it useful.
If you’re interested in getting “the news” delivered to you daily, instead of having to check a reader app, I’ve built something that aggregates all your feeds (and websites without feeds) into a daily digest via email.
I don’t want to “spam” so I won’t link here, but you can check on my submissions for “News, calm”.
On the “RSS apocalypse” front, I can say that on this product I noticed that most websites “non-tech people” follow don’t offer RSS feeds, apparently over monetization concerns.
I was definitely in a filter bubble as everything I followed had RSS.
If the website has no RSS Feeds, it scrapes the website and gives you the articles (if it can guess what are articles, otherwise, just gives you the link to the website — in this situation it’s more helping you create a habit to only visit that website once per day, and if you tell me which website it is, I can go in and tweak the logic for it).
I’ve built something not too dissimilar, but focused on slowing down too, so instead of a feed with changes you get a daily digest of the new things that happened.
It also allows you to view the regular formatting, etc.
If you’re curious, it’s https://focusd.co and I’d love to hear about what you learned with “figuring out” if there’s an RSS Feed for a given URL.
I built a slow news aggregator for people to control their own news (via RSS feeds). It’s at https://focusd.co in case that helps you with your curation for the aggregation
A few days ago I read something that sparked me some interest: counting to a trillion would take someone over 30 thousand years, if they took 1 second counting each number from 1 to 1 trillion (in short scale, meaning 1 billion = one thousand millions, not one million millions).
The idea was to put the number in a different perspective, as we’re quite bad at grasping large numbers.
I’d never thought about numbers that way, and honestly, was quite refreshing.
So I built a small app that helps with that, and also takes in consideration that you don't take 1s per number for most numbers.
It’s been very interesting for me to put even some smaller numbers in a different perspective, like a thousand. Maybe there’s a new way of valuing time with it.
P.S.: There’s also a tiny easter egg, if you’re curious.
I "slightly" disagree with requiring previous engineering work.
In my experience, from having paying customers or people willing to pay to keeping them is very different and requires an actually robust and stable technology (unlike the prototype, landing page, or MVP required for validation). I'm focusing on turning a valid idea into a profitable business, if that makes sense.
That being said, this is an experiment. I wrote a little bit more about what drove me to build it at https://news.onbrn.com/im-starting-build-for-equity if you're curious.
Thanks again, and I'll report back!