Swizec's business articles

Swizec's articles in the "business" category

I aim to write mindblowing emails with real insight into the career and skills of a modern software engineer. "Raw and honest from the heart!" as one reader described them.

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Swizec's articles in the "business" category

What is the goal of engineering?

Most professional engineers can't build an app from scratch

5 crazy ideas that make $1,000/month

"There's a YouTube video for everything"

Building software is a distraction

How to make what you're worth even if you're from the wrong country

Build better software with The Theory of Constraints

Q1 2019 in Swizec LLC land #open

Indie startup more profitable than Uber 😛

How I sidehustled $180k and why it almost killed my business

React for Dataviz Turkey 🦃 sale report for the curious

Oh the things you can learn with a fun weekend hack project 🏗

Why you aren’t drowning in recruiters, too

How I sponsored my own genius visa

Announcing: Big update to my best selling book and course, React + D3v4

The surprising benefit of hiring interns to write your code

Intern process part 2 – (my first) webinar, about React context

Tech intern job

Don't say yes when you're happy

Am I thinking too small?

How I sidehustled $72,167 last year, and what I wanna do next

My new 5K monitor – LG UltraFine 5K 😱

Teaching backend devs how to React and Redux at StubHub Boston

$2535 November sidehustle report

Why I won't be switching to VSCode any time soon

$16,863 October sidehustle report

What I learned from teaching StubHub about React and Redux

$9013 September sidehustle report – or why the React + D3v4 launch was not 6 figures or even 5

$2629 August sidehustle report

The story behind React + D3v4

$3426 July sidehustle report

How to start a sidehustle

$4093 June sidehustle report

Initial Results of my Patreon Experiment

First day with a new 2017 MacBook Pro

$2890 May sidehustle report

What happened to React + D3v4?

How I Got Boned by Taxes Two Years in a Row

$2529 April sidehustle report

$5874 March sidehustle report

Why I don't write more Nightowls type stuff

A boutique React & D3v4 workshop – and my first vlog

Why People Read my Weekly Emails

This is how I connected my Canon DSLR as a webcam

$3875 February sidehustle report

Nights and Weekends

What I learned while 6x-ing my income in 4 years

React Indie Bundle flopped. Here's why.

These 19 Words are the Only Self-Help & Business Advice You Need

Why coding is more fun than engineering

I Got Schooled

After a year, my first business diary retires

The ES6 Cheatsheet story and results

Why I switched to making products

Does it even make sense to move to San Francisco?

React Indie Bundle report, or how we made $31k in a week

The Evolution of a Freelancer: Lessons from the Hallway Track at DYFConf

Why offices are where work goes to die

How a book I wrote in two weeks made $4,000 in its first month

It took me ten months to write a video course

Dear tech companies, this is not how you hire engineers

What I learned about freelancing by getting a haircut

How to royally cock up as a freelancer

After five months, my effective hourly rate with a publisher is 3eur/hour

Getting lucky with Bitcoin

I published a book with a publisher. Here's what the journey was like.

Lessons learned in a year of freelancing

Age

Facebook ads: good for likes, bad for sales

How Draft got me to pay for a free product

The true difference between self publishing and using publishers

Numbers that baffle

I made $730 by selling an unfinished book for 3 days.

Lessons learned after a month of freelancing full time

Do waste many a single moment

Steal my startup idea: Rent-a-mum

An evil business model that works

Selling to girls