is hella difficult to pursue.
When dreaming the web 2.0 dream, I cannot help but to felt discouraged. A lot…
The discouragement came when real problems arose. Whether it’s the database mapping that’s overly complicated (making searching difficult), or “way-over-the-top” JavaScript UI that I couldn’t create…
But such is life, ain’t nothin’ is easy. If success is easy, then everyone is successful already. Pursuing such humongous dream, of course I do the usual routes:
- Bank in skills like mad because cool stuff are made by utilizing various skills.
- Learn and apply time management. Even at home, or at work, or at plain old day-job, or while working at that cool open source framework. There’s only 24 hours a day. I cannot possibly lose too many minutes a day dreaming.
- Being Frugal. Because Frugal is the new Cool in Web 2.0
But those are seemingly not enough. It’s really though to COMPLETE a dream.
Therefore, when I’m at my low points. I like reading stories about how other entrepreneurs do things. I never read self-help books, but experiences told by real entrepreneurs are believable and more importantly, REAL.
Below are compilations of good reads that I’ve read. Stay tuned because I will have more:
- http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard/2007/01/02/just-build-it-damnit/ (funny, and straight to the point. Why is it on the top of the list? CakePHP, nuff said…)
- http://mingle2.com/blog/view/how-i-built-mingle2 (I gave comments on this one earlier)
- http://makeitbigingames.com/blog/?p=29 (This is more like for game developers. But if it works for games, it should work for web 2.0 as well)
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/dont-blow-your-beta/ (Interesting advice about Beta version)
- http://bnoopy.typepad.com/ (This guy created Excite.com and JotSpot. Beware: Most of these are old posts, but still fun nonetheless)
- http://www.paulgraham.com (Ahh… Paul Graham, the LISP guy. Entrepreneurship is nothing without his essays)
- Signal vs Noise (37Signals, the RoR champion. It’s always worthed to read their essays)
Thanks for the link to my rant about just building something instead of worrying about scaling. You and I seem to share a lot of the same thoughts…