A real entrepreneur wouldn't bother reading these books. They'd be too busy working on their idea and learning firsthand.

I've read two titles from this list (The Lean Startup and Trust Me, I’m Lying) and halfway through both realised I knew it already.

No book has all the answers. It's better to attack a business idea intelligently in your own unique way.

Another good read that's akin to Pricenomics is Tedium: http://tedium.co. I get it about once a week in my inbox, and unlike most email newsletters I actually read this one.

Who says China doesn't innovate?

Duck Go !Bang: http://duckgobang.com is a blog that tests bangs (some listed on Duck Duck Go are broken) and showcases the most useful ones.

Bangs are such a cool search hack, I wonder why more people don't use it.

Some bangs listed there are broken, others lead to really crappy websites. Duck Go Bang tests the bangs and chooses only the most useful ones, hence the motto "Best Bangs for the Duck".

Recently released a self-hosted Trello alternative called Wheatbin: http://wheatbin.com. It combines Kanban with the Law of the Harvest.

It's 100 percent free, open source and available on Github.

Nice! I did my own clone as well, just containing the 3 boards of todo inprogress & complete. Made it to learn react, and react native (for the mobile version). I mostly use trello now, as they've just managed to make a much stronger web client than I can. I still like my own mobile client better though.

Also the fact their app works completely offline for a while now is rather handy.

I meditate two hours a day, every day. Mostly Zazen. I haven't experienced mental breakdowns. However, when I first started using imagery as a focal point, I would weep uncontrollably about mid-way through my meditation session. I think it was a release of pent-up emotion.

It lasted about a week and then stopped completely.

I sometimes start crying midway through a meditation (I do mostly Goenka-style mindfulness meditation). At this point, I just sort of see it as normal.

This article seems relevant for my situation. A few days ago I released project management software called Wheatbin: http://wheatbin.com. It's my first contribution to Open Source.

The github repo is here: https://github.com/wheatbin/wheatbin

The software works great for my needs, but it would be nice to see Wheatbin evolve through community involvement. I wasn't sure if that happened organically or if there were things I could do to get that started.

There is no such thing as "if you build it, they will come". I mean, the movie "Field of Dreams" was about a literal miracle, after all. Open source software takes just as much marketing and "sales" to convince people to use--say nothing about contribute to it--as proprietary software.

> There is no such thing as "if you build it, they will come".

Who is marketing Redis, Postgresql, UBlock, VLC? I understand the opposite doesn't apply to everything but neither does the blanket negation.

Attention for uBlock AFAICT started with a widely shared blog post comparing its performance to other Adblockers. From there on it's probably word of mouth, but writing that blog post and getting attention to it was "marketing", even if maybe not intended that way. And it was good marketing, since tech loves "This thing is proven to be sooo much faster than the old thing people don't love 100%" stories ;)

VLC was (is?) written about extensively by blogs like Lifehacker. It's one of the most recommended programs on forums. I'm surr it started by the creators letting people know about it.

Postgres is very heavily marketed by EnterpriseDB.

Your post explicitly states:

> Open source software takes just as much marketing and "sales" to convince people to use--say nothing about contribute to it--as proprietary software.

The comments in response to my post have been about the author's of said software publishing blogs - are you really equating 1 author publishing a blog with the 'marketing and sales' used to sell proprietary software (as in dedicated sales team, dedicated marketing teams, SEO, dedicated social media/pr employees)?

> Postgres is very heavily marketed by EnterpriseDB.

Saying that Postgres is 'very heavily marketed' when drawing a comparison to the marketing proprietary software receives isn't just misleading, it's false.

Their evangelists doing talks at developers's conferences.

Your article is timely. Two days ago I went live on my first github project called Wheatbin: http://wheatbin.com and I'm not sure what to expect.

Thanks for sharing your insights. And Vym is a great name!

I go on longs walks a lot, and a few months ago I bought a poker stick to pick up the plastic bottles I see littered everywhere. My walks are no longer purposeless, but I feel better when I come back with a garbage bag of plastic that will be recycled rather then end up in our soil and water supply.

Here's the poker stick I bought: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B0042SNCGA/ref=yo_ii_img?ie=UT...

That product page is the mobile version. Here is a better shot: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0042SNCGA/ref=oh_aui_detai...