LifeBlog - Abstainers vs moderators https://golifelog.com/posts/abstainers-vs-moderators-1615791591619
When it comes to habits, are you an abstainer, or a moderator?
You’re an abstainer when you find it easier to follow a rule 100% of the time...You’re a moderator when you need to release the pressure a bit from time to time, in order to sustain the longer habit forming journey.
Makes me wonder, how can Lifelog be just as helpful for moderators as with abstainers? Introducing the Most Streaks leaderboard is one way. Moderators can feel free to break their streak, then bounce back again and again, accumulating a series of streaks which will count up in a number called Most Streaks. That way they don’t have to feel bad about breaking their current streak, and have their own way to track progress.
What else can we do to integrate moderators and abstainers here on Lifelog?
You’re an abstainer when you find it easier to follow a rule 100% of the time...You’re a moderator when you need to release the pressure a bit from time to time, in order to sustain the longer habit forming journey.
Makes me wonder, how can Lifelog be just as helpful for moderators as with abstainers? Introducing the Most Streaks leaderboard is one way. Moderators can feel free to break their streak, then bounce back again and again, accumulating a series of streaks which will count up in a number called Most Streaks. That way they don’t have to feel bad about breaking their current streak, and have their own way to track progress.
What else can we do to integrate moderators and abstainers here on Lifelog?
Jason Leow
Author
@okitsjoe thanks for the ideas! Yeah users can see the no. of posts they wrote now, and soon can see the number of streaks they have (number of times they broke their streak and came back)
I think a simple solution would be counting the total amount of entries, it's a number that will always go up when you are active. I've also seen in the app "Loop Habit Tracker" that you are presented with your own history of previous streaks, so it can be encouraging to try to beat your previous best streak.
Day 74 - Permissionless entrepreneurship...and life https://golifelog.com/posts/permissionless-entrepreneurshipand-life-1615791163351
"indie hacking = permissionless entrepreneurship"
Expanding on it, it’s not just permissionless entrepreneurship I’m after, but permissionless work, career, lifestyle. Everything.
Expanding on it, it’s not just permissionless entrepreneurship I’m after, but permissionless work, career, lifestyle. Everything.
Day 73 - Create the gold rush to sell shovels https://golifelog.com/posts/create-the-gold-rush-to-sell-shovels-1615703171745
I’m always amazed that Michelin—a tire (or tyre) company—runs one of the most prestigious food review/ratings guide in the world, the Michelin Guide.. Food reviews might seem like a tangential offering to their main business – tires. But it makes sense complete sense if you think about it. To get more people driving and using cars, you attract them with travel and great food. And when they drive more, they need tire changes.
So basically, the principle seems to be this:
Make a product for your product. Make a side hustle for your main hustle. Create the fun fair and the popcorn for your main circus show. Create the gold rush and sell shovels......
So basically, the principle seems to be this:
Make a product for your product. Make a side hustle for your main hustle. Create the fun fair and the popcorn for your main circus show. Create the gold rush and sell shovels......
Day 72 - Learning how to market on Twitter https://golifelog.com/posts/learning-how-to-market-on-twitter-1615624646928
I’d been doing a bit of organic marketing and sharing on Twitter for Lifelog. Some things I’m learning the hard way:
👨🏻🎤 Personal vs brand accounts
🤝 Brands lack the human touch, but it’s still possible
📡 Broadcasting content vs engaging
☃️ Cold selling vs warm help
🗓 Consistency vs intensity
What else can I do or should do in terms of marketing for Lifelog? Would love to hear your insights!
👨🏻🎤 Personal vs brand accounts
🤝 Brands lack the human touch, but it’s still possible
📡 Broadcasting content vs engaging
☃️ Cold selling vs warm help
🗓 Consistency vs intensity
What else can I do or should do in terms of marketing for Lifelog? Would love to hear your insights!
Organic sharing/marketing on Twitter
Role model for brand account synergy with personal account on Twitter - how @harrydry does it with @GoodMarketingHQ
Day 71 - More sleep biohacks https://golifelog.com/posts/more-sleep-biohacks-1615536107529
Some new sleep biohacks that I’m looking forward to experimenting with:
Antioxidant supplements
Better daylight alarm
Resuming night meditation
Antioxidant supplements
Better daylight alarm
Resuming night meditation
Day 70 - Random review of $5k MRR goal https://golifelog.com/posts/random-review-of-dollar5k-mrr-goal-1615444540902
It’s not a special day or a milestone for anything, but I just felt like doing a quick review of my $5k MRR goal:
"I’ll learn my way towards $5k MRR by end 2021. In return, I’ll have fun growing my indie products, and adhere to a healthy, happy habit system. And I’ll surrender."
"I’ll learn my way towards $5k MRR by end 2021. In return, I’ll have fun growing my indie products, and adhere to a healthy, happy habit system. And I’ll surrender."
Day 69 - Cohort-based courses https://golifelog.com/posts/cohort-based-courses-1615360102165
An interesting trend emerging on Twitter – cohort-based courses. Everyone seems to be launching a course these days, and what’s special this time round is how the course creators organise each course by cohort, instead of an evergreen, join-anytime course on a platform like say Udemy.... Pros and cons I observe so far:
Organic sharing/marketing on Twitter
Losing steam. Not sure if I'm doing it wrong, or it just takes time. Not seeing much effect from organic engagement and just chatting...
I would do more with your personal account too. People like to be able to put a face to the product, especially helps with building in public. I pretty much only use my personal Twitter and make sure to make the content useful for people while being able to talk about my own projects.
Jason Leow
Author
@AdamMarsdenUK thanks for the tip! Yeah, i was a bit torn tbh. I do loads of varied stuff, so my personal account can look pretty scattered. Thought I might try using a brand acc to engage instead, with a focus on niche content for writing habits. But not sure if it comes across as authentic…
Day 68 - Eliminate choices to be more productive https://golifelog.com/posts/eliminate-choices-to-be-more-productive-1615267100599
"Choice is overrated. If you value your productivity, performance and success, eliminate choice as much as meaningfully possible."
Day 67 - Tune your car to used tires https://golifelog.com/posts/tune-your-car-to-used-tires-1615197302032
"Many teams…try to set up the car setup in response to how the car is performing in ideal conditions. But race cars perform differently at different times in the race. At the beginning, tires are new and fresh. At the end, they are worn and overheated. To maximize the car setup, the setup should be done on excessively worn tires. This way, the car is being set up to perform its best when the race is at its worst… the alignment settings will start to work better and the car will come alive later in the race." - @pkonsta23 on Twitter
Fixed streak for @brianball
Editing my backend database tables directly always stresses the hell out of me! So irrational, yet raw. Anyone else feels that way? How did you overcome it?
Just started using Tweetdeck to manage all the different accounts I have - what have I been missing?!
Organic sharing/marketing on Twitter/Indie Hackers
Day 66 - 1 year 'streak' as an indie hacker parent https://golifelog.com/posts/1-year-streak-as-an-indie-hacker-parent-1615102541411
Just yesterday we celebrated my son’s first birthday. With that, my wife and I had been parents for a full year now. A one year ‘streak’, in the familiar lingo here. Not that I was tracking, and I can’t break the streak even if I wanted to, LOL.
This is not a post about my son – I’m usually reserved about talking about my family. What I would love to talk about is how the whole experience had shaped me in other areas of life, especially my work as an indie hacker:
⏳ The power of constraints
🏥 Trailblazing a deviant path far away from the mainstream
This is not a post about my son – I’m usually reserved about talking about my family. What I would love to talk about is how the whole experience had shaped me in other areas of life, especially my work as an indie hacker:
⏳ The power of constraints
🏥 Trailblazing a deviant path far away from the mainstream
Organic sharing/marketing on Twitter
Day 65 - Learning as a product https://golifelog.com/posts/learning-as-a-product-1615024377528
"A lot of successful creators set out to learn a skill, and their account is a public diary. It’s a feedback mechanism.They’re focused on understanding and learning, and less so on building an audience or monetizing. If you learn a skill effectively in public, people who also want to learn that skill will follow you and tag along on your journey." - @ljin18 about the Creator Economy, on Clubhouse
Organic sharing/marketing on Twitter
Day 64 - Body over mind https://golifelog.com/posts/body-over-mind-1614931435821
"People generally have more control over their actions than their feelings. But we can influence our feelings by taking action. Take one small step. Move the body first and the mind will follow." ~ James Clear
Organic sharing on Twitter
Day 63 - Goals + Systems = Winning repeatedly https://golifelog.com/posts/goals-systems-winning-repeatedly-1614840215335
Goals powered by systems, and systems guided by goals, are for people who care about winning repeatedly.
Day 62 - Addicted to the challenge https://golifelog.com/posts/addicted-to-the-challenge-1614759203421
I always described myself and my personality as not best fit to the task of programming, to the work of a developer. But perhaps from this experience—and all the past adventures—I might have found some character trait (or flaw) that I can look to as saving grace for my coding endeavour.
To be able to finally say, “Yes, I can code.”
To be able to say to myself, that there’s this particular part of me that gels well with coding. This addiction to the challenge. A challenge. Any challenge.
I can live with that.
To be able to finally say, “Yes, I can code.”
To be able to say to myself, that there’s this particular part of me that gels well with coding. This addiction to the challenge. A challenge. Any challenge.
I can live with that.
🤞🤞🤞 I think I finally finally finally solved the @mention autocomplete feature
Had to dump regex to fix the trailing cursor problem from yesterday, and use some code from a textarea-caret-position package from the Github user Component. And it worked!
Spent rest of day dolling it up with a caret pointer (that was also semi-difficult!), and adding scroll with arrow keys using scrollTo() and scrollBy().
Spent rest of day dolling it up with a caret pointer (that was also semi-difficult!), and adding scroll with arrow keys using scrollTo() and scrollBy().
Organic chatting/sharing on Twitter
Day 61 - Biohacking sleep: Mouth taping, daylight alarms, coffee naps https://golifelog.com/posts/biohacking-sleep-mouth-taping-daylight-alarms-coffee-naps-1614675237201
Been pretty happy with my recent experiments in biohacking sleep:
* taping mouth to prevent mouth breathing, to enable less snoring, better sleep quality
* daylight alarms that use light to wake you instead of sound
* taking coffee right before my post-lunch power naps
* taping mouth to prevent mouth breathing, to enable less snoring, better sleep quality
* daylight alarms that use light to wake you instead of sound
* taking coffee right before my post-lunch power naps