3dprintscanner's comments

It's usually better to make a bad decision than no decision at all.

Really the internet makes it too easy to have too much choice by making it easy to consume so much shallow information, and the real value comes from cutting through the noise.

Consider exploring interests serially rather than in parallel and going deep for a few months on 1 topic whether that seems the best or not.

If you are recognising the error, you now have something that you didn't know before. Also your tooling and process should be sufficient that a single error shouldn't have a negative impact on the business, it should ideally be caught in testing or code review. Sometimes it can be productive to think about how bad code can break the product and use that to feed back into your development process.

Depending on the constraints of your community, it can be quite effective just to go out and talk to people in the physical world and show them / get them to try your service. You can use nearby meetups and similar events that already have your intended audience and a place which they will be happy to give you the time of day. This gives you the benefit of immediate feedback and a local set of users that you've personally met and have built rapport with and will scale just fine to a few hundred users. I've been trying this approach with my London based events sharing community https://onlythebestevents.com and have been pleased with the results so far.

It's taking the approach that the best way of gaining wealth is to convert earned income into unearned (passive) income over time. That once the basic necessities are covered the bulk of your nontrivial expenditure should really be investments and that your elective consumption should be pegged to some nominally small percentage of your overall wealth. I think this has to come from a place of having something to fall back on at a certain level of wealth, you can take the risk on those investments if the downside wouldn't be any worse than losing your current 'level' of wealth.

The 99% Invisible podcast ran a good episode on this subject, and particularly the effects of sand theft. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-on-sand/

One site that I've found with a wide-ish breadth of events is https://evensi.com. They however seem to have too much choice and it's difficult to narrow down to a small relevant list of events. There sometimes are too many options that are vaguely interesting but too few that are genuinely engaging. Meetup works quite well in this respect as you can select your interests and it's not too difficult to scan the entire list if that doesn't offer a decent choice and it's certainly something Eventbrite lacks even though they have vast inventory (It's better designed for ticketing rather than discovery). I've tried to crack this and have put together a site to recommend you 5 interesting events each day over the next week. (Also all free entry with some food and or drink). Currently in fairly early stages and covers London. https://onlythebestevents.com

As a small side project I've been working on a tool to find interesting events in London that also have some food or drink provided, I found that there was sometimes too much choice and not an easy way to pick the best upcoming events. https://onlythebestevents.com