What’s the secret to making money on the web? If you ask some arbitrary business-type, chances are they’ll start frothing at the mouth, do a little bobble-head dance while their eyes roll back into their head and they squeal: “Traffic, traffic, traffic!” It’s easy to get caught up in this mentality. Of course! If people [...]

I just finished reading The Monk and the Riddle, on the recommendation of Paul from Rogue Amoeba. It’s a sort of business philosophy book by Randy Komisar (with writing help from Kent Lineback). It was a surprisingly fast read. Enjoyable and inspirational. But let me summarize it in one sentence: Stop wasting your time working [...]

Last year, Gus Mueller of Flying Meat Software wrote a powerful blog entry describing the 1068 days that elapsed between his setting out to be a full-time indie software developer, and achieving that goal. Paul Kafasis recently redirected my attention to that post, and commented that it would be interesting to hear more stories of [...]

I started the Red Sweater Links blog as a place where I could feel comfortable spitting out short pointers to interesting things without worrying that I was overloading the main blog. This solution has been a partial success, but there are some definite down-sides. I often find it difficult to choose whether something is a [...]