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Why?

This is the best answer.

Passive income (in the forms that it actually exists, and isn't a scam being sold by someone who makes their "helping" people create passive income) requires long-term thinking, and it's nearly impossible to make good long-term decisions when you're worrying about rent money or your next meal.

If you work full time, focus on getting a raise, a new job, or changing industries.

If you're a freelancer or consultant, raise your rates, or fire a shitty client to make room for a good one.

If you don't know how to do these things, you're not alone, and there's no shame in asking for help.

_Reliable_ income isn't necessarily a pre-requisite for passive income, but it's emotional leverage that most people try to skip past and never achieve either.

Nope full catalog is all included in the subscription, new workouts added every day.

Obvs not supported officially but I have used it outside of the US with a VPN.

Thank you!

I’d add kudos to the Apple Watch, which I bought a few months before the quest. I never thought of myself as a “don’t break the chain” habit person but the watch proved me wrong!

Totally agree. This experience gave me a very strong sense of applications that I would have been much more skeptical of before. Really powerful (and for me, unexpected) gateway.

Thank you for the encouragement!

I feel the same way! Also notable: I don’t really play video games at all other than this one. I get bored too quickly with most games!

This model of short workouts built around playlists really unlocked a lot of things for me, I think.

I upgraded to the elite strap with the extra battery pretty early on. Never feels loose, and I can easily work out for 60-90 mins without worrying about battery issues.

I'm 38. Never had a workout or fitness routine in my entire life except for a few brief and unsustained periods of working with a trainer, but quit.

Last May I bought a Quest 2 specifically to try Supernatural, a mix of Beatsabre with a Pelaton-style experience with pre-recorded song-driven sessions.

I did one 5 song session (20 mins or so) and for the first time in my life I was dripping with sweat and thought to myself "that was fun as hell, I want to do another one."

That want did not fade. I haven't missed a day since May 5th of 2021. I go harder some days than other. I take my Quest on vacation and do at least one session. I focus on closing rings on my Apple watch. I have become more mindful of my eating too.

I was also surprised that with Supernatural specifically, the inclusion of a game mechanic that translates to squats and lunges means has translated to pretty significant increase in strength as well, even though it's "just" body weight exercises.

I was skeptical about the additon of Boxing to Supernatural, but it's become my fav mode. I get to a target heart rate faster, and I've seen significant changes in my body since adding it.

Over the last 12 months I've lost almost 60lbs, feel better, am stronger, and enjoy the process. I'm headed towards a weight I haven't been since college, and it's clearly within reach.

This never happened before VR in spite of time and money spent on professional services, products, and trainers.

I'm adding a Tempo Move for some weight training, but I don't expect to give up Supernatural anytime soon, if ever!

Another huge plausible fan here! I pay for the hosted version but the option to self host in the future is really nice.

I've seen way too many forums die in the switch from an old school forum to Discourse. Makes me sad.

I love it! Used it to make the book shown on my site https://tiny.mba

Also cool, I use it in a browser overlay when I do livestreaming with OBS! Once I realized I could embed HTML/CSS in the stream I was able to copy/paste this right into the overlay. So easy.

Same here. I remember showing Firebug to coworkers and them thinking that I was showing them some kind of wizardry.

This reminds me of Microformats, which is an exciting throwback to when I was just getting into web development.

http://microformats.org/wiki/what-are-microformats

Start here: https://doubleyourfreelancing.com/category/start-freelancing...

I did the exact same thing for a corporate client who had one room of machines running IE5.5 back in 2004-5.

Cool find - storytime!

Back in 2005ish, I worked for the digital agency that built and managed all of Campbells Kitchen's online properties, including the Campbells Kitchen recipe database. It might seem trivial now, but at the time it was at least a few years of its time in terms of using the power of databased driven webapps.

I also personally built the first ever CSS-based layout site for Campbells - it was the marketing site for V8 Juice. Up until that point, everything was still built with tables holding sliced images.

At the same time, the internal computers at Campbells corporate offices ran IE5.5, which had terrible CSS support.

So I literally built two versions of the site - one that would pass muster on their outdated internal computers, and another would drag them into the era of modern layouts and accessibility.

I learned SO MUCH working on those sites.

It looks like the current CK website has been turned into a Wordpress site so I assumed my original work is long gone, but it's very cool to see the legacy of Campbells Kitchen database I worked on kicking as an API.

Any interest in selling/licensing a whitelabel version of this that I could load my own videos into/control access to?

How do you know it’s not FU money?

https://unicornfree.com/2013/how-do-you-stay-motivated-when-...

I love http://hammerformac.com

It's like having a precompiler for everything that does live-rebuild/reload, and creates deployable builds of front end code.

None of the individual things that Hammer does automatically is actually hard, but the fact that I don't have to think about firing up a bunch of watch commands before getting to work is awesome.

I came here to say that your long-form copy is quite good!

One very small change that you can make to get more people INTO the long-form copy is to "lead with the pain" in that paragraph. For example, in the opening paragraph, you open with "Make your AngularJS, EmberJS, or BackboneJS website Crawlable by Google" and then after some picture-painting for the reader, you go in for the kill with "Right now Google can't see your website. You could change that in just a few minutes."

If you swap those two sentences, the entire package becomes a lot more persuasive. There's a boatload of similar opportunities through the rest of the page that should be pretty easy to spot, too.

Congrats on finding your focus and pushing ahead!

Killer :)

I've got a question about the current dashboard: by default, "Today's Volume" seems to include more than today. "This Month's Volume" also seems to include more than this month (the range goes to the end of this month). How are these figures actually calculated?

Edit: you can email me directly, alex@indyhall.org, if you'd like to talk more about this off-forum.

I bought a copy. It looks nice, but I had to add it to the pile of Stripe "add-ons", app or otherwise, that don't do the ONE thing that I'm constantly trying to figure out manually (and I imagine other SaaS owners would, too):

Based on CURRENT subscriptions, how much money can I expect to collect over the next X days? Stripe tells me about transfers that are scheduled, but I can't look past money that's already been collected without manually pulling down a bunch of subscription data and trying to figure out how much we're going to be paid on each day in the future.

I'd be happy for this to be a command line script - I just haven't managed to figure out the best way to do it!

To start, practice not comparing your insides to other peoples' outsides.

Everyone else is just as afraid as you are. They're just better practiced at not making decisions based on fear.

Decision making & your emotions are always at odds. Learn to make decisions based on reality instead of the way you feel, and you'll start to see the world in a very different light.

Are you writing for you, or for your reader? Which do you think matters more?

Also, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_prose

You're actually a big sack of chemicals, mostly water. It's actually remarkable that those chemicals manage to form such complex and remarkable things as habits.

+1 to the writing as a practice.

I look back at things I wrote a year ago - sometimes as much as 6 years ago - and wonder if they were really written by me.

Writing every day and being willing to do it even if it's just for throwaway is the only way to develop the talent. You know, just like every other talent, ever.

Depends on a lot of things, but here's a particularly good day of sustained traffic in the top 10. https://img.skitch.com/20121001-earf66yyjrpj7b11tjek89i9ii.j...

The source of that spike was 300+ concurrent uniques high turnover for a good part of the day.