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Episode 6 · March 16th, 2020 · 46 mins 19 secs
About this Episode
- Accidental caffeine and harnessing the power of coffee
- Nanopresso portable espresso maker
- Skip to 8m 20s if you want to get right to the updates
- Cam updates on working on the last weeks of his first contract
- Cam talks about pitching to a new client
- Cam talks about a lucky conversation with a friend that may lead to a new contract
- Cam updates on dealing with the stress of not knowing where your next project/paycheque is coming from
- Kaelynd and Cam discuss figuring out how to manage your runway as a freelancer
- Cam talks about buying time up front from contracting to put towards his own projects later in the year
- Cam talks about being intentional about making new connections and maintaining existing ones
- Cam meets someone from the TinySeed team
- Cam talks about possibly starting a meetup
- Kaelynd ramps down at her current job doing some documentation and picking some last work to help her current company as she prepares to transition to a new role
- Kaelynd discusses an Ultraworking session that she had
- Kaelynd talks about some fun work setting up integration triggers in SalesForce and Jira and automating some sequences in a similar workflow to Zapier or IFTTT
- Indie Hackers episode with Vlad of Webflow
- They chat a bit about where the "No code" movement may be going
- They discuss how "No-code" is great for prototyping and testing things out before moving on a custom-engineered solution
- Kaelynd looks forward to setting up some similar integrations work for future clients
- They get to chatting about the importance of value-based pricing vs hourly pricing
- KG meets random facebook friends
- They discuss meetup culture and how important it is to be intentional about the culture you create in events and companies
- Relevant Startups for the Rest of Us episode - Sex & Software
- They discuss what is the right move for outreach efforts to bring in underrepresented groups of people into tech and ask how should events go about that
- They talk about gender and race can be uncomfortable topics, but it can be an ongoing back and forth conversation. Everyone will make mistakes, but it's an ongoing effort.