Shipping dozens of websites w/ Ryan Maynard
Production Ready
English - June 23, 2020 10:00 - 33 minutes - 37.2 MBTechnology Business Careers software development soft skills career advice Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: How software can be racist (and what you can do to stop it.)
Ryan Maynard
Highlights
If you have an idea, act on it. It's like exercising a muscle - 4:00
when something is an idea, it's perfect. You try to protect it by not executing on it. - 5:30
Why it's easier to fix problems after building something, not before - 8:15
Ryan builds, then sells, a livestock calculator - 11:15
Ryan writes letters to baseball players - 14:45
Exploring the big world of small software companies - 15:45
"reach out to smarter people when you're in over your head" - 24:15
"It's not about who is most brilliant, it's about who has the passion and desire to get the work out there that wins." - 25:15
Avoid feeling busy without the needle - 27:15
Shipping is about overcoming fear - 30:45
Ryan's Rapid Deployment Stack
Jekyll
Netlify
Gitlab
Ruby on Rails
Heroku
Referenced in the episode
T H I C C D A V I S
https://www.chattanoogabystander.com/
First Version of Twitter
Without Fail - Groupon's Andrew Mason: Pt 1, The Rise
Without Fail - Groupon's Andrew Mason: Pt 2, The Fall
Rockwell Automation
Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat
Just F***ing Ship - Amy Hoy w/ Alex Hillman
Why Blacksmiths are Better at Startups than You - Amy Hoy
Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking - David Bayles & Ted Orland.
Quantity always trumps quality (includes clay pot story from Art & Fear)
Special thanks to Opportunities for their song "RICK DAVI$"