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How To Sell Online Courses From Your Own Website

This post explores the hidden costs and risks of using centralized course platforms, and talks about how to avoid the pitfalls of these platforms while still getting the benefits.

How I’m Approaching Siren’s Support

This post explores how I’m tackling the support system around Siren, and how I think it’s going to stand out as top-tier support.

How Multiple Programs Makes Siren Easier To Maintain

Other affiliate plugins for WordPress are notoriously bad at maintaining affiliate programs, particularly when the program has several special conditions. This post dives into how Siren avoids these pitfalls.

How Siren Promotes Collaboration Among Your Affiliates

Siren allows you to create more than one reward program on your site. This creates unique opportunities for your affiliates to work together. This post explores some ways different programs can combine together so that everyone wins.

The 40 Hour Work Week Is Sapping Your Best Employees. There’s A Better Way.

For many people (myself included), 40 hours a day is too much. I believe that we’re long overdue to shake up this work model, and using knowledge from my nearly 20 years in the workforce, both as an employee, and a business owner, I have come up with what I believe is a better way to measure success.

Create a highly abstract image that symbolizes the concept of imprisonment within the cycle of a traditional 9-5 office job. Focus on depicting the sense of being trapped in a repetitive loop, with elements that suggest a struggle against constraints and the yearning for freedom from the arbitrary demands of time-based work. Use geometric shapes, contrasting colors, and swirling patterns to convey the feeling of entrapment and the cyclic nature of the daily grind, while also hinting at the potential for breaking free. The image should evoke a sense of both the confinement experienced and the inherent desire to escape to a more meaningful and liberated way of working.

Meet Charlie, Our Summer Camper

Earlier this year we bought a used camper to put on our seasonal lot in Vermont. This post talks about the camper, and how it stacks up with our other campers.

How Prototyping Makes Me a Better Developer

I have found that writing unit tests for exceptionally complex projects has forced me to change how I approach my work in some cases. This post talks about how I write prototypes of code to hash out how a project will work quickly, as a part of my design process.