Martin Adams

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Why startups slow down their innovation as they grow

Here's the real reason startups slow down innovation as they grow their teams.

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The Great Online Game

Fed up with not having the financial freedom to do what you want? Maybe it’s time to play The Great Online Game.

Personal Knowledge Management

Evolve your thinking to have original ideas

How do you have original ideas? In this post you’ll learn how to create original thinking from ideas which have been done before.

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How to make atomic literature notes using the Zettelkasten method

Find out how to make your Zettelkasten literature notes a single idea when the book you’re reading contains many different ideas.

Mindset and Mastery

Epiphany! What my ego really wants

I've had an epiphany! I've discovered what drives my ego any how it ends up getting hurt.

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Being a solo founder and building in public | Audio Chat

Listen to the replay of Albert asking about my solo founder journey building Flowtelic and Building in Public

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Why I wont build obvious features for my Zettelkasten note-taking app

Here are the key reasons why I wont build the most obvious features for my Zettelkasten note-taking app

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You vs your future self

We fail to recognise that the person we want to become is a different person to who we are today.

Mindset and Mastery

Why do I get motivated, but never do anything?

What is it that is preventing us from working hard, developing our craft and gaining mastery of our skill? What is it that throws us off track to the point where we give up and move onto something else that we desire?

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Record your terminal window using asciinema

Here's a quick tutorial how to use asciinema [https://asciinema.org/] to record a cast of your terminal window so you can play it back in your terminal or embed it on a web page. This is great if you want to create tutorials or show how a

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Understand 'this' in JavaScript

What is 'this' in JavaScript and how do regular functions and arrow functions impact it?

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Land a design job

I've hired designers and developers and nearly all candidates suck at selling themselves. Here's what you can do to stand out and multiple your chances of getting the job.

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Embed React into an HTML web page

Tutorial: Add React to an existing HTML page.

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Exclude a URL in Google Analytics

Don't let internal and bogus URLs spoil your Google Analytics reports. This tutorial will show you how to easily filter them out.

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How do I screenshot a webpage using Chrome and no plugins

Screenshot a web page using just Google Chrome and no extensions or plugins

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From idea to startup - what is your product?

A lot of startup ideas fail to know the difference between the product and the customer. Here's what you need to know.

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Using the DigitalOcean API with Node.js and programatic SSH

Tutorial: Create DigitalOcean droplets, generate SSH keys and run SSH commands all within Node.js

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The Ultimate Startup Trello Board

Creating a startup can be a daunting task. You soon find yourself thinking about the elevator pitch, minimum viable product, lean startup, product market fit, customer acquisition, etc. If you're new and some of those terms are alien to you, don't worry. I've created

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Easy async/await in JavaScript

A not-so-long time ago, JavaScript was renowned for a thing called callback hell . I should know, I've written projects which would have nested levels of callbacks. For example: function saveWebPage(url, callback) { // Get the web page getWebPage(url, function(err, html) { if (err) callback(err); // Load it if

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Good startup idea vs bad startup idea - find your product market fit

How to find a great product market fit for your startup and make sure you're not tricking yourself into failure

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VSCode Snippet for a React Component with styled-components

Create your own VSCode snippet to create a react component with prop-types and styled-components.

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All you need to know about Inbox Zero

How moving from "doing" email to triage and processing email can help you get less distracted and boost deep work.

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Is conjunction fallacy killing your personas?

Personas, love them or hate them. But if you're using them, watch out for this trap called the conjunction fallacy.

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Fix your reports

Find out what you're doing wrong when sending reports and how to fix it

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Docker for Node.js developers in 2 minutes

Find out how to get your Node app with a database and microservices in Docker in 2 minutes. Boom, done!