Hiding your WordPress admin or login screen for security? Myth Busted here at #WCATL!

Founders without kids: “I’ve optimized my work by fasting every 16 hours and basing ad spend on quantum physics. I don’t use email or slack, I communicate only in zen state telepathy.”

Me: “WHAT EVEN THE FUCK IS THIS??! As I wolf down a big Mac and my kid throws my laptop.”

@randallb Is this something I can opt-in to for testing?

99% managing I’ve had is reactive: “So how’s it going?” for 30 min every week. One day I’d love a proactive manager who goes “I thought about you this week and what you said last week, here’s a book I think you should read”. Is that too much to ask?

@jessabean HOW DID YOU NOT SCREAM AND JUMP UP AND DOWN?

@WordCampLanc @bethsoderberg @JosephHHoward @leedrozak @TaraClaeys @charlie3 What types of clients do you work for?

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@WordCampLanc @bethsoderberg @JosephHHoward @leedrozak @TaraClaeys @charlie3 What have you done to have confidence in your pricing? How do you not undervalue yourself?

“Always charge more. Difference between $1,000 website vs $5,000 website is price tag. Try it and see what happens.” @TaraClaeys

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@WordCampLanc @bethsoderberg @JosephHHoward @leedrozak @TaraClaeys @charlie3 Audience questions: Do you work when your teenagers are around? Why not use your kids as a second hand?

“I tried that. They want nothing to do with WordPress or computers” @TaraClaeys

“Was more stressful to hire my kids.” @leedrozak

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@WordCampLanc @bethsoderberg @JosephHHoward @leedrozak @TaraClaeys @charlie3 Last question, when you are working what is the music or the sound?

“Silence if task is hard, podcasts if task is easy” @bethsoderberg

“Podcasts while walking dog or in car, not working. Listen to lo-fi hip hop (youtube.com/watch?v=bebuiaSKtU4) when I work ” @JosephHHoward

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@WordCampLanc @bethsoderberg @JosephHHoward @leedrozak @TaraClaeys @charlie3 What is the one daily habit that you must do to feel you are working at your best? (showering doesn’t count)

“I have to get up and move every hour. Too hard to get immersed and not move for hours at a time.” @leedrozak

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@WordCampLanc @bethsoderberg @JosephHHoward @leedrozak @TaraClaeys @charlie3 How do you think through the thinking of staying solo?

“I don’t think about it. Being solo doesn’t mean you don’t have people who don’t help you. I don’t want to have other people relying on me for their livelihood.” @TaraClaeys

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@WordCampLanc @bethsoderberg @JosephHHoward @leedrozak @TaraClaeys @charlie3 What do you wish you could tell your past self?

“I had to make those mistakes and its ok. They brought me to where I am today. Start my own business sooner” @JosephHHoward

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@WordCampLanc @bethsoderberg @JosephHHoward @leedrozak @TaraClaeys @charlie3 How do you set boundaries so you don’t lose your mind but keep clients happy?

“When I started I didn’t have boundaries. Impeded on family time. Now I set boundaries that no one crosses. No work after 2pm on Fridays. Its ok to take breaks. ” @leedrozak

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@WordCampLanc @bethsoderberg @JosephHHoward @leedrozak @TaraClaeys @charlie3 “When did you know you could leave a traditional job and run your own business?”

Since I started learning to code. I recognized I was not a good employee – @bethsoderberg

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@WordCampLanc @aaronjorbin What if you’re a team of one?

“I was really bad at being on a team of one. The boss was horrible” – @aaronjorbin

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@WordCampLanc @aaronjorbin “How do you focus in a team with learning and getting work done?”

Communicating. Not learning is a risk. Not getting better is a risk. At times you want to take a risk. Others you want to ship quickly. If your team isn’t investing in you time to find a new team.

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@WordCampLanc @aaronjorbin Everyone is bad at estimating how long something will take.

“How long will it take to build a website?” is almost as hard as “How much does a website cost?”
– @aaronjorbin

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@WordCampLanc @aaronjorbin We need to expand beyond WordPress to other things like Drupal, Rails, React etc. How are they solving problems? How can that come back to WordPress.

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@WordCampLanc @aaronjorbin “My first job I was a Senior Backend Engineer. How could I be a senior engineer in my first job?” @aaronjorbin

Ignore job titles. Job titles are worthless in tech.

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@daljo628 Speed vs. Sustainability when running your business.

Do you want to do it yourself? Or pay someone to do it?

Buy it later when you have the money? Or buy it on credit?

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