dizzydiz

I'd like to get good at PPC ads to help get traffic and conversions to my app.

Some people can seemingly sell anything via paid ads. I take it they find gaps in the data?

Are there any tools, books, courses etc that can help someone get good at PPC?

Are there any personal projects or open-source contributions that would show Data Eng skills? I'd be looking to transition from Data Analyst but I do have years of personal coding experience.

It seems most contribution opportunities to open-source data engineering tools are in fact software updates.

I’m broadly interested in many areas of CS, but not in anything specific.

I’d like to do meaningful work.

I would like to hear from people who have specialised as to how they chose their field.

Does it matter all that much?

Something I've recently realised is that, when I compare my feelings (rather than thoughts) I derive just as much pleasure from sitting at home playing video games/chess or reading as I do living out "dreams" in the real world.

Its a slightly different type, of course, but joy nonetheless (perhaps excitement vs contentment). In other words, its like there's a natural "limit" on the happiness I can enjoy at any given moment, and going to great lengths to "live the dream" might be pointless, except to look back and enjoy that one did it... a happiness investment perhaps?

Its been hugely freeing as I had been having some thirty-something angst about prior life choices (as you do).

Has anyone else experienced this? Perhaps if a far more common idea that I realise and there's proper terminology for it.

I love building things and have a good bit of money invested, such that if I could just earn 30-40k per year from my side projects I could live comfortably.

I hate marketing though. I'm sure this sounds familiar...

Is there any way to make money from a "side project" or open source development without needing to do marketing campaigns?

Not only am I terrible at it, even thinking about it corrupts my enjoyment of developing new stuff.

I have some research I'm looking to do on time-series in python in the coming weeks. In the longer term I do want to understand the math/stat underpinnings (I'm using Brilliant to catch up on maths), but, for now, could I make decent predictions/tests using python libraries? Perhaps by reading a layman's explanation of various outputs first (math is the limiting factor in this timeline)?

I mean of the stock variety - looking through tick prices to find support and resistance ”lines”, look for divergences between two time series etc

I have 30 more years until retirement.

I don't like working with clients but do have software dev skills and trading/investing skills.

Has all hope for growth and new product lines gone, now that Alibaba's out of favour with the CCP?

Although I enjoy my own project more than my day job I often find myself less motivated than in work. With work, I know I'm getting a paycheck simply for getting tasks (sometimes meaningless ones) done - there's loads of small wins along the way in work and obviously I worry less about the big picture as I'm less in control.

Has anyone else experienced/overcome this as an entrepreneur?

Do you typically ask what % of the company an equity offer constitutes? Is it standard practice for a company to tell? I figured the number of shares is meaningless otherwise...

Is it just hot air? Some big claims... I want someone to try and scale it til it breaks haha

“ Internet Computer is a digital token that runs on its own proprietary protocol called Internet Computer Protocol, which is supposed to let anyone build software or publish content on the Internet without using services from big companies like Amazon, Google, or Facebook. The protocol, according to Dfinity founder Dominic Williams, provides a “hackproof platform,” reduces costs “dramatically,” and is interoperable. He also says that the protocol is intended to make the Internet “fun again,” by allowing people to build a “new open Internet” and give users a “better deal.”

The idea is similar to other blockchain cryptocurrencies that use smart contracts, or computer codes that serve as a kind of agreement between parties, to exchange currencies.”