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KALENCAST

by Kalen Jordan

Kalen Jordan discussing business, life, mental health, remote work, software development, ecommerce, & more.

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  1. Getting stronger every day

    So one of my mantras lately is "getting stronger every day". One of my goals is to improve my fitness - build muscle, lose fat, that kind of thing - and I find that with a mantra you want to have something that's aspirational but also realistic - because otherwise my brain will go "that's not…

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  2. Welcome to the shed studio.

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  3. Learning to let go

    As a developer, one of things you need is the ability to really focus for long periods of time. In my own life, I can see that bleed into obsessiveness at times. One of things I'm learning now is how to let go. That's my thing lately...just learning to let go of things. I can be obsessive about...

  4. Remote work and relocation

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  5. #65 - Flow state leading indicator of income, KPIs, ExtDN installer, learning new ecosystems

    Flow state leading indicator of income, KPIs, ExtDN installer, learning new ecosystems

  6. #64 - Prep for certifications, Working nights and weekends, eCommerce simplification

    Prep for certifications, Working nights and weekends, eCommerce simplification

  7. #58 - Remote conferences, Legacy Magento codebases, and more!

    Remote conferences are not conferences If burned out on legacy Magento codebase consider working with more modern codebase with better tooling. What to do when clients expect quick responses to emails in off hours

  8. #57 - Atomic pieces of work, Cybertruck, and more!

    1. Atomic pieces of work 2. Glide app to allow people to give feedback on podcasts as they are listening 3. Building CH on airtable 4. Cybertruck is the most innovative design in recent memory

  9. Streamlining workflows by creating atomic pieces of work

    Atomic pieces of work.

  10. #56 - Setting up meetings for conferences, The return of Falkowski, and more!

    Playing with content formats - twitter text screenshot, quotes, animated scrolling text, meme videos Making connections before a conference Review pomodus - death by 1000 notifications What I do personally to limit notifications If you're not posting written content daily to LinkedIn you're…

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  11. #55 - Finding your message, Dealing with unresponsive clients, and more!

    Content pillars Content Dealing with unresponsive clients - let them know you'll drop them - if you bend over backwards they will get worse Developers/Work "Building systems... one of my core strengths is building and prototyping systems and not just theoretically but actually doing the grunt…

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  12. #54 - Talking to friends vs. a therapist, Approaching people at networking events, and more!

    Talking to a professional who is trained to listen is powerful -a lot of times our friends&family don't actually listen very well When you're building a PWA and run into missing API endpoints Business opportunity to create API endpoints to help agencies launch pwas. Approaching people at...

  13. #53 - Content velocity, Prepay for freelance work, and more!

    Content velocity if you are not generating 5 to 10 original thoughts per day where your iterating on different ideas then something is stuck. Prepay. Shouldn’t be in business of financing. How's Work podcast from Esther Perell https://gimletmedia.com/shows/hows-work Brent's video did really well...

  14. #51 - How to network at conferences & landing page feedback

    1. You don't have to go to conferences if you don't want to. Lots of different ways to build your career and profile. 2. How to socialize at conferences - ask questions, follow a system 3. Landing page feedback https://www.indiehackers.com/post/lin...

  15. #50 - Magezine, Mental Health, and more!

    Magezine swag Basecamp Personal https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status... php 7.1 https://twitter.com/eComscan/status/1... Social media usernames https://twitter.com/kirillzubovsky/st... Generato https://www.indiehackers.com/post/low... Screenless coding for kids...

  16. #49 - Singles day, Setting boundaries at work, and more!

    Singles day https://twitter.com/EmiliejayG/status... Replatforming podcast https://twitter.com/paulnrogers/statu... Magenews https://www.atwix.com/magento/atwix-m... Portals https://twitter.com/ericerway/status/... Disney plus! https://www.disneyplus.com/ Marketing takes a lot of touches - play…

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  17. #48 - Amazon Installment Payments, Productized Services, and more!

    Table Plus vs. Sequel Pro https://twitter.com/thescottsb/status... Amazon installment payments https://twitter.com/philwinkle/status... Credit card for chores for kids https://creditacademy.io/?ref=product... Lighthouse CI https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/statu... YouTube chrome extension feedback…

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  18. #47 - Cricket protein, Maximizing flow state, and more!

    Unsplash as a marketing channel https://twitter.com/philwinkle/status... Returns products super expensive - Ali's product relaycloud.io https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Cricket protein https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/statu... """Social media isn't a bad thing"" Social media is talked…

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  19. #46 - Free work as a marketing plan, Note-taking systems, and more!

    "Free work as a marketing plan" - Marketing plan for Content accelerator do free pieces of content for people. This can also work for other things like free e-commerce strategy or site teardowns. quote 30k visits what to do next https://www.indiehackers.com/post/30k... What to do when your idea…

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  20. #45 - Remote companies encouraging non-work socializing, GraphQL road-mapping, and more!

    "For all-remote companies, leaders should not expect informal communication to happen naturally" https://about.gitlab.com/company/cult... I criticize people for wanting to hire remote but I want to work locally with my buddy https://twitter.com/hoomanradfar/stat... B2B API poll...

  21. #44 - Nocodevember, Complex systems, and more!

    Counting operations for integromat kills creativity a bit https://www.integromat.com/en What's your content routine? Maybe tag phil/tj quote Cataloging your thoughts - my topics airtable - aggregating over time. Retroactive. https://airtable.com/tbljfUR3h2eYVy1m... Vinai should do video training...

  22. #43 - I left my house without my cell phone AMA, Written Content to Video, and more!

    Gary Smith unboxing https://www.nectarbridge.com/ Akoova review - positioning as best of both saas and open source https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/statu... Part of the reason we cringe when we see ourselves on video is that we don't love ourselves quote.html - #228422 Dev teams having a nocode...

  23. #41 - You CAN say no, New podcast from Derek Sivers, and more!

    "you can't say no to person x from department y if they are having a problem you can fix or explain" https://www.linkedin.com Shout out to Derek Sivers and also some thoughts on youtube/twitter as a channel compared to email. People always say email is the best channel where you own the...

  24. #42 - Is Shopify cannibalizing it's ecosystem, The Messy Middle, and more!

    Is Shopify cannibalizing it's ecosystem by getting into email? (https://twitter.com) https://twitter.com Rehash acquisition https://twitter.com Messy middle https://twitter.com Outsourcing writing - I'm assuming it's the ideas and not the writing that people are looking for. https://twitter.com...

  25. #40 - It doesn't need to go live today, Real wealth is about freedom, and more!

    Wonder if ever been ab test of diet soda vs soda in a society. file:///Users/kalenj/Documents/quote.html I wonder if social media platforms blocking political ads will just cause dollars to flow to influencers. file:///Users/kalenj/Documents/quote.html "I need this to go live today" - even I felt...

  26. #39 - Why is Airtable better than Google Sheets, SaaS annual billing, and more!

    Shopify credit card hijacking https://twitter.com The right time to do annual payment on SaaS is NOT when first signing up file:///Users/kalenj/Documents/quote.html Talk about what you’re doing when creating content that’s the easiest way document versus create. Example: I can't really do Magento...

  27. #38 - How to trend on LinkedIn, Being an intentional dad, and more!

    Stream with TJ https://twitter.com Grammarly tone detector https://twitter.com Dips with 45 pounds https://twitter.com It feels good to express yourself - you don't always have to have a reason or justification for why you want to talk about something file:///Users/kalenj/Desktop/quote.html How…

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  28. #36 - Session-based Magento hosting, Shopware API focus, and more!

    1. Session based pricing aligns incentives. Magemojo. If you’re just paying fixed price hosting company has no incentive to improve. https://magemojo.com/ 2. If someone misses a call, it's not okay for you to miss a call - 2 wrongs don't make a right, it still makes you look unprofessional....

  29. #37 - You have permission to talk about whatever you want!

    We've got 4 solid devs that were recently laid off by a Magento agency on Commerce Hero https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1189875045755228160 Publication of record https://twitter.com/awilkinson/status/1189248374316421120 Gym might be the only place where you can get unbiased information on...

  30. #35 - Work asynchronously!

    Respond to all of the linkedin comments on my post related to notifications being unprofessional https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kalen_developers-development-notifications-activity-6595019660368891904-6n5t...

  31. #34 Notifications are unprofessional and it’s all about the quadrant

    Multistreaming with https://restream.io/ Prep questions for m2 technical interview https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1188837633746767872 Maybe not having privacy is a good thing? “Coming out of the shadows” https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-garyvee-audio-experience/id928159684…

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  32. #33 Texting Santa & Will MS acquire adobe?

    Multistreaming with https://restream.io/ Will MS acquire adobe? https://twitter.com/blackbooker/status/1188599896535949312 - largest m&a ever Maybe talk more about magento api coverage https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1188439528895324160 - magic quadrant Not streaming to linkedin any more…

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  33. #32 Webflow eats the web, Multi-currency for Shopify, Jesus is King

    Multistreaming with https://restream.io/ Product idea: Channelizer from future commerce https://twitter.com/philwinkle/status/1187780384194478085 Webflow traffic stats https://twitter.com/bryantchou/status/1187777674711687168 Webflow twitter designers...

  34. #31 Streamlining RFPs, Content creator group, and more!

    Multistreaming with https://restream.io/ RFPs no code https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1187434873906257921 Buy stock with cash app https://twitter.com/jack/status/1187430268967231488 FC shirts https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1187432875349676032...

  35. #30 - Payment Request API, Magento API Coverage, $5m Fund for wordpress businesses

    Multistreaming with https://restream.io/ Instagram carousel bad ux https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1186986665878966274 https://twitter.com/gabriel_somoza/status/1186746634421653506 Payment request api https://twitter.com/namjesnik_/status/1186667722563903488 https://paymentrequest.show/...

  36. #29 Magento Innovation Lab, Streamlining RFP process, Developers working ourselves out of a job

    Multistreaming with https://restream.io/ Innovation lab https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1186992696168194049 https://twitter.com/LBajsarowicz/status/1186698463695773699 Workflow for streamlining RFP processes between clients and agencies. Our job as developers is to work ourselves out of a...

  37. #28 MLEU19, Zapier vs. Integromat, New CA law about freelancing

    Multistreaming with https://restream.io/ MLEU19 https://twitter.com/hashtag/MLEU19?src=hashtag_click Zapier vs. integromat https://twitter.com/thescottsb/status/1186253577213362177 zapier face detection https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1186079249951793152 taylor $10m...

  38. #27 Importance of a content team, Bing reading tweets, Podcast distribution

    Multistreaming with https://restream.io/ Having a Content team is really helpful so that you don't second-guess yourself while posting. Medium is the message https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message There’s something very freeing about recording long form content and then deciding...

  39. #26 Throw your phone on the ground, Long form text content, Podcast ad spend in recession

    Multistreaming with https://restream.io/ Life hack - throw phone on the floor in the car https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4-YxjErt_z4/hqdefault.jpg Bitcoin stats https://twitter.com/fernandoulrich/status/1185368277557620736 Prediction when recession hits ad spend is going to shift rapidly from TV to...

  40. #25 Meetup.com alternatives, Nocode prototyping as best practice, Magento BI Review

    Live stream #25 Meetup.com alternatives, Nocode prototyping as best practice, Magento BI Review —— Really enjoyed first in-person podcast with Jon https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1184920505612197890 linked events - meet up alternative - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/linkedin-events...

  41. #24 Interview with Jon Bownds

    What podcasts do you listen to? Reference material: Thinking fast and slow: Sapiens, central insight NYtimes: Susan Wojecki Enlightenment now: Stephen Pinker Accelerate: The science of building and scaling high performing technology organizations, Everything is F*cked- a book about hope (Mark...

  42. #23 Compassionate firing, Pods I listen to, B2B Personalization software

    Multistreaming with https://restream.io/ The best way to fire - garyvee podcast 46 minutes their new plan to give 90 days notice and place people in a new company when they fire them....

  43. #22 How to prep content, Lifestyle businesses, Landing page feedback, Video content for audio pods

    Multistreaming with https://restream.io/ Brent feedback on landing page https://landing.wagento.com/no-hassle-upgrades - and dad jokes https://twitter.com/brentwpeterson/status/1183834822197821441 Recess https://twitter.com/takearecess How I prep content....

  44. #21 Stillness/Meditation, Airtable for Productized Service, Facebook Inflating Viewership

    Multistreaming with https://restream.io/ Shout out to Ben’s dog cooper https://twitter.com/benmarks/status/1183640111659048960 Stillness by Ryan Holiday - meditation might not be best first step - Ironically I can’t get still enough to listen to the book https://ryanholiday.net/ Quantity of…

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  45. #20 No-input customer onboarding, Content team as service, Last mile of UX, Live stream typing

    Multistreaming with https://restream.io/ #20 Feedback on itstim https://twitter.com/Litig8rS/status/1183150416516866050 Aim for zero field inputs with account creation https://twitter.com/ironmicfm Crazy Twitter doesn't have support for articles....

  46. #19 Fear of Insignificance, What to do with a billion dollars, WYSIWYG, Dogs & Recessions

    Multistreaming with https://restream.io/ The Fear of Doing Something Insignificant https://thestartupchat.com/ep456/ Startup podcast what would you do with a billion dollars. https://twitter.com/podcaststartup/status/1182669422282051586 Webflow has delivered on wysiwyg What does walking your dog...

  47. #18 The gold standard for podcast ads, Therapy, Code School Success, 120% Off Store Credit

    Multistreaming with https://restream.io/ Tim ferris listeners like ads https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1182640121528672260 #WorldMentalHealthDay https://twitter.com/kalenjordan/status/1182440624034893824 https://twitter.com/RebeccaBrocton/status/1182330338300829699 Lambda school student...

  48. #17 Remote companies are winning; Gift-sending app; Career coaching; Sleep on contentious messages

    Multistreaming with https://restream.io/ Congrats to Navarr https://twitter.com/Navarr/status/1181961583335006209 Companies that embrace remote are winning. Without naming names I see this playing out in Magento ecosystem. Companies who previously were anti-remote are now remote. Sending gifts…

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  49. #16 Elevator pitch feedback; Meditation device; Scary-credible phishing; Traveling & escapism

    More feedback on elevator pitches https://twitter.com/IndieHackers/status/1181251843667763206 A cool device for meditation https://twitter.com/ChooseMuse Self-doubt when doing video - every day usually multiple times per day I feel like I should stop doing videos. Hack is coffee + twitter replies...

  50. #15 Live streaming audio, China!, Investing in students, Startup elevator pitches, Making friends

    #15 Live streaming audio, China!, Investing in students, Your startup’s elevator pitch, An app to help you make friends Audio - Twitter voice reply long tap, Live streaming audio An app that helps you make friends https://twitter.com/jeffrey_way/status/1181235140262952961 LinkedIn live streaming...

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