KALENCAST

So one of my mantras lately is "getting stronger every day". One of my goals is to improve my fitness -  build muscle, lose fat, that kind of thing - and I find that with a mantra you want to have something that's aspirational but also realistic - because otherwise my brain will go "that's not true" But the cool thing about this one is that you can get stronger in so many different ways - like maybe my ability to curl weights goes up one day,  Maybe one day I lose some weight...weight loss goes up and down so much It's never that consistent - like the other day... I realize I've been drinking more water and having less of the iced tea, which is another one of my goals, right so that so it kind of forces your brain to look for little ways in which you're getting stronger, which I think is helpful to the whole process.

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As a developer, one of things you need is the ability to really focus for long periods of time.

In my own life, I can see that bleed into obsessiveness at times.

One of things I'm learning now is how to let go.

That's my thing lately...just learning to let go of things.

I can be obsessive about things.

Letting go is great for me for a number of reasons.

It helps me to be less anxious, a bit less of a hassle to deal with, and just happier in general.

If an idea comes into my head or a thought or worry, I'll be able to not necessarily have to obsess about it.

Not have to solve it or have to figure it out right away.

This is something that feels really healthy for me.

Flow state leading indicator of income, KPIs, ExtDN installer, learning new ecosystems

Prep for certifications, Working nights and weekends, eCommerce simplification

Remote conferences are not conferences  

If burned out on legacy Magento codebase consider working with more modern codebase with better tooling.   

What to do when clients expect quick responses to emails in off hours

1. Atomic pieces of work

2. Glide app to allow people to give feedback on podcasts as they are listening

3. Building CH on airtable

4. Cybertruck is the most innovative design in recent memory

Atomic pieces of work.

Playing with content formats - twitter text screenshot, quotes, animated scrolling text, meme videos  

Making connections before a conference  

Review pomodus - death by 1000 notifications  

What I do personally to limit notifications  

If you're not posting written content daily to LinkedIn you're missing out.   

Timed fields in integromat  

Airtable User-specific read/write permissions at view level  

Brendan speaking at Imagine

Content pillars Content  

Dealing with unresponsive clients - let them know you'll drop them - if you bend over backwards they will get worse Developers/Work  

"Building systems...  one of my core strengths is building and prototyping systems and not just theoretically but actually doing the grunt work to prove the concept but when I get stuck in doing grunt work that's when it's not productive I need to in a place where I'm building systems. " Product  Nocode job creation Nocode  

What's your message? Content  

B2B products that people love Product  

Social guest pass for imagine Magento

Multistreaming with https://restream.io/

Prep questions for m2 technical interview

https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1188837633746767872

Maybe not having privacy is a good thing? “Coming out of the shadows”

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-garyvee-audio-experience/id928159684

Product idea - saas app for building conditionals to hook up to integromat. Mobile friendly. 

file:///Users/kalenj/Desktop/Screen%20Shot%202019-10-29%20at%207.25.16%20AM.png

Notifications are unprofessional

https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1189153755335483393

It’s all about the quadrant

https://www.gartner.com/en/research/methodologies/magic-quadrants-research

ecomscan

https://twitter.com/mrloo/status/1188854359087554560

Multistreaming with https://restream.io/

Will MS acquire adobe?

https://twitter.com/blackbooker/status/1188599896535949312

 - largest m&a ever

Maybe talk more about magento api coverage

https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1188439528895324160

 - magic quadrant

Not streaming to linkedin any more

If you're trying to create more content don't limit yourself to certain topics talked about everything that comes to mind and then segment out those topics. 

Text santa idea. #sms

Double down on content that’s working. SMS topic for example.

Paying attention to whether people follow back is a waste of time. 

Maybe keep going through remote work statistics

https://usefyi.com/remote-work-statistics/?ref=producthunt

Better mint.com idea

https://twitter.com/BrandonMChu/status/1188476021210791937

automation might end most unskilled jobs

https://twitter.com/jmhorp/status/1187754016278638594

Multistreaming with https://restream.io/

Product idea: Channelizer from future commerce

https://twitter.com/philwinkle/status/1187780384194478085

Webflow traffic stats

https://twitter.com/bryantchou/status/1187777674711687168

Webflow twitter designers

https://twitter.com/Stammy/status/1187804990963888136

Multi-currency for shopify

https://twitter.com/ShopPad/status/1187845327891550209

kanye album

https://twitter.com/rrhoover/status/1187841843418951680

Data studio

https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1187822746035773442 

gross domestic product

https://twitter.com/TallSeller/status/1187788926276128768

Remote work statistics

https://usefyi.com/remote-work-statistics

Multistreaming with https://restream.io/

RFPs no code

https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1187434873906257921

Buy stock with cash app

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1187430268967231488

FC shirts

https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1187432875349676032

https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1187432786526900234

https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1187432606339682305

Content creator group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2436430953235092/?source=unknown

I got your back

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ive-got-your-back/id1335223370

https://www.instagram.com/p/B39-wG5FGQ1/

If you don't like seeing video of yourself that means you don't like yourself

Multistreaming with https://restream.io/

Instagram carousel bad ux

https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1186986665878966274

https://twitter.com/gabriel_somoza/status/1186746634421653506

Payment request api

https://twitter.com/namjesnik_/status/1186667722563903488

https://paymentrequest.show/

Stripe leaving san francisco

https://twitter.com/rolandlisf/status/1187213969229893633

Basecamp tenure lengths - pay, salary, bonuses, equity

https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/1187183814537293825

Magento - drop it all and get full api coverage

https://twitter.com/JohnHughes1984/status/1187270782520614913

$5m fund for wordpress businesses

https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1187060615950602240

Review of get mesa

https://www.getmesa.com/templates/

Multistreaming with https://restream.io/

Innovation lab

https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1186992696168194049

https://twitter.com/LBajsarowicz/status/1186698463695773699

Workflow for streamlining RFP processes between clients and agencies.

Our job as developers is to work ourselves out of a job. Micro vs. Macro. Macro is no code.

Maybe SCA

https://stripe.com/guides/strong-customer-authentication

Makerting

https://twitter.com/corey_gwin/status/1186746307513208832

Multistreaming with https://restream.io/

MLEU19

https://twitter.com/hashtag/MLEU19?src=hashtag_click

Zapier vs. integromat

https://twitter.com/thescottsb/status/1186253577213362177

zapier face detection

https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1186079249951793152 

taylor $10m

https://twitter.com/taylorotwell/status/1181940046707986432

CA law on freelancers

https://twitter.com/tonytost/status/1185756073430437888

The average modern person is exposed to 5,000 ads per day (500 in 1970).

https://twitter.com/Kpaxs/status/1185541246607155201

Multistreaming with https://restream.io/

Having a Content team is really helpful so that you don't second-guess yourself while posting. 

Medium is the message

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message

There’s something very freeing about recording long form content and then deciding after the fact which pieces of content you want to distribute. Deciding on whether to talk about 1 topic or 17 topics.

https://marketingland.com/wp-content/ml-loads/2015/11/content-marketing-idea-lightbulb-ss-1920.jpg

Idea - binge read individual’s tweets

https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1185903094338609152

Communities moving off of social media

https://twitter.com/ljin18/status/1185271777838034944?s=21

Podcast distribution

https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1185617790444531712

Age of the individual

https://twitter.com/george__mack/status/1091759999070670849

The average modern person is exposed to 5,000 ads per day (500 in 1970).

https://twitter.com/Kpaxs/status/1185541246607155201

Multistreaming with https://restream.io/

Life hack - throw phone on the floor in the car

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4-YxjErt_z4/hqdefault.jpg

Bitcoin stats

https://twitter.com/fernandoulrich/status/1185368277557620736

Prediction when recession hits ad spend is going to shift rapidly from TV to podcasts. 

https://anchor.fm/

No code is democratizing app creation the way that YouTube democratize https://twitter.com/cuhpajo/status/1184955611676643328

Startup episode exit I feel so happy for Alex

https://twitter.com/podcaststartup/status/1185297804081664000

Tinyseed tales - everything Rob Walling touches turns to gold

https://twitter.com/robwalling/status/1185192523700097025

Short and medium form text

https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2014/05/05/longform-content

Jealousy

https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1185506395610931200

CH job

https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1185221407082463232

Live stream #25 Meetup.com alternatives, Nocode prototyping as best practice, Magento BI Review

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Really enjoyed first in-person podcast with Jon

https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1184920505612197890

linked events - meet up alternative - 

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/linkedin-events

https://twitter.com/chrisachard/status/1184120203329888256

Every platform should have an indicator of average response time for example Twitter, email, LinkedIn etc. Show the average response time for each person. 

https://previews.123rf.com/images/iqoncept/iqoncept1707/iqoncept1707ncept170700113/81560889-time-to-respond-clock-responsive-service-3d-illustration.jpg

Traditional recruiters fees and litigious 

https://commercehero.io

I think a time is coming soon or has already come wear for a bootstrapped business owner the best practice is to prototype on no code tools and potentially scale to a decent revenue amount on no code. 

https://twitter.com/awilkinson/status/1184601623965945856

Review power BI

https://www.bimproject.net/en/products/extensions-for-magento/power-bi-integration.html 

Should you start a podcast? Should you do it with a cohost? How to find someone?

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6590323525226160128?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6590323525226160128%2C6590508469982502912%29

Spanish segment

https://www.kalenjordan.com/demos/en-espanol 

Gitbook looks awesome - about page is en fuego

https://www.gitbook.com/about

What podcasts do you listen to?

Reference material:

Thinking fast and slow:

Sapiens, central insight 

NYtimes: Susan Wojecki 

Enlightenment now: Stephen Pinker

Accelerate: The science of building and scaling high performing technology organizations, 

Everything is F*cked- a book about hope (Mark Manson). 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/business/youtube-ceo-susan-wojcicki.html

Random Cool stuff:

Helium IOT routers, new internet aimed at IOT incentivized by Cryptocurrency and Data Credits

Helium: Takeaway- Whitepaper

My airtable workflow - I’m so pumped about airtable/nocode I’m losing my mind

Not sure if you listened to serial podcast but if so I’m very curious what you think about this (and also generally what you think about subscription payment mdoels for pods)

https://twitter.com/awilkinson/status/1184553874780315648

Multistreaming with https://restream.io/

The best way to fire - garyvee podcast 46 minutes their new plan to give 90 days notice and place people in a new company when they fire them. 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/feed-your-business-instead-of-your-business-feeding-you/id928159684?i=1000453580176

100% ux vs. 80/20

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6589498081555865600?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6589498081555865600%2C6589612146861064192%29

go through podcasts that I'm subscribed to

https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1184447309637177345

Mutiny review

https://www.mutinyhq.com

If you're trying to create content, hack your psychology. Find the right time of day. Coffee in the morning for me. I feel discouraged multiple times per day.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/A_small_cup_of_coffee.JPG

FAM review

https://meetfam.com/?ref=producthunt

Multistreaming with https://restream.io/

Brent feedback on landing page

https://landing.wagento.com/no-hassle-upgrades

 - and dad jokes

https://twitter.com/brentwpeterson/status/1183834822197821441

Recess

https://twitter.com/takearecess

How I prep content.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrVqnlSuf9azZib_wD8iS0g

When recording audio podcasts video yourself

https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1184087459686158336

Adults as atrophied children vs. children as immature adults

https://twitter.com/JSargent88/status/1183830051126743041

Lifestyle businesses are great

https://twitter.com/shl/status/1183815261570228226

Random large invoice number

https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/1183903298790842368

Multistreaming with https://restream.io/

Shout out to Ben’s dog cooper

https://twitter.com/benmarks/status/1183640111659048960

Stillness by Ryan Holiday - meditation might not be best first step

 - Ironically I can’t get still enough to listen to the book

https://ryanholiday.net/

Quantity of content gary eve

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kalen_one-thing-that-i-believe-i-heard-on-a-recent-activity-6589489659821256704-5AwE

Working on document with my daughter 

https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1183723477246889984

Playing with airtable / zapier for building a productized service

https://airtable.com/tblKLoFi7Cphs0FPM/viwc6o873AQckSJMg?blocks=hide

Facebook inflating viewership - don’t run ads based on views

https://twitter.com/profgalloway/status/1183207739675291654

Brainstorming ideas for building website for Mark - cool how much there is on social

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BtNZmn75l3RJoWPpo6YCQwKkTj-ZHkxCtDKxUhaoMDw/edit

Multistreaming with https://restream.io/

#20 

Feedback on itstim

https://twitter.com/Litig8rS/status/1183150416516866050

Aim for zero field inputs with account creation

https://twitter.com/ironmicfm

Crazy Twitter doesn't have support for articles. 

https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1183364141400109059

Content team as a service

https://www.kalenjordan.com/post/building-a-content-team-as-a-service

typing live stream contest

https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1182987434558140416

last mile of UX

https://twitter.com/danielgross/status/1183173574800003072

Hard to make friends podcast

https://twitter.com/BonniePuns/status/1182435991065202688

Multistreaming with https://restream.io/

The Fear of Doing Something Insignificant

https://thestartupchat.com/ep456/

Startup podcast what would you do with a billion dollars. 

https://twitter.com/podcaststartup/status/1182669422282051586

Webflow has delivered on wysiwyg

What does walking your dog have to do with operating a business in a recession?

Website testimonials

https://www.kalenjordan.com

Monthly pricing billed annually

https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1182741057643188229

Multistreaming with https://restream.io/

Tim ferris listeners like ads

https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1182640121528672260

#WorldMentalHealthDay

https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1182440624034893824

https://twitter.com/RebeccaBrocton/status/1182330338300829699

Lambda school student

https://twitter.com/MoirBrian/status/1182510634988134400

120% off for store credit

https://twitter.com/kaleighf/status/1182363044795551746

Webflow makes me enjoy making websites again. 

 - crazy how many ads ignored

https://kalenjordan-com.webflow.io

Site review - Magequest

https://twitter.com/JohnHughes1984/status/1182320608245358594

Site review - Atkinsons review

https://twitter.com/atkinson_jj/status/1182291199199047681

Multistreaming with https://restream.io/

Congrats to Navarr

https://twitter.com/Navarr/status/1181961583335006209

Companies that embrace remote are winning. Without naming names I see this playing out in Magento ecosystem. Companies who previously were anti-remote are now remote.

Sending gifts app

Frictionless ways to capture ideas is important voice to text and things like that. 

Career coaching service

https://hireclub.com/

Before sending a potentially contentious message, sleep on it

 - Another nice thing about batching your replies on social media is that it forces you to sleep on it before responding to something that could be potentially sensitive or make you angry. 

Based on current maturity of nocode I think nocode is more important than code for my 10 year old daughter. 

https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1182034296560869381

More feedback on elevator pitches

https://twitter.com/IndieHackers/status/1181251843667763206

A cool device for meditation

https://twitter.com/ChooseMuse

Self-doubt when doing video - every day usually multiple times per day I feel like I should stop doing videos. Hack is coffee + twitter replies in the morning

Scary-credible phishing attempt

https://twitter.com/DigitalLawyer/status/1181348689756864513

 - Also I got a phish email from maligun support

Bemeir’s 5th anniversary

https://twitter.com/maierb/status/1181580682256101377

Traveling and escapism

https://twitter.com/jimmpierce/status/1181422720073908224

Deity / bigcomerce

https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1181573324666757122

#15 Live streaming audio, China!, Investing in students, Your startup’s elevator pitch, An app to help you make friends

Audio - Twitter voice reply long tap, Live streaming audio

An app that helps you make friends

https://twitter.com/jeffrey_way/status/1181235140262952961

LinkedIn live streaming access 

China gary v podcast - Reframing your success episode

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reframing-your-success-successful-mind-podcast-hosted/id928159684?i=1000452614510 

Recent CH job posts

https://app.commercehero.io/#jobs/type:full%20billing:yes%20status:open%20created-after:%221%20month%20ago%22

Invest in lambda school students

https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1181537433961336833

Elevator pitch feedback

https://twitter.com/IndieHackers/status/1181251843667763206