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My IRC client also does this and it's great -
EdwardHinkle
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Awesome! Great to hear other areas where this has worked well. Do you have any thoughts between it just applying to channels and it applying to the posts? What does your IRC client do?
(Originally published at: https://eddiehinkle.com/2018/02/25/5/reply/)
I do think it should be a preference, tho maybe hidden by default is okay. The trick is once the channels without new content are hidden, you have to have a way to quickly show them again in case you want to be able to look at old content again.
As for the posts: Slack, IRC clients, as well as Twitter, show all the posts, not just the unread ones. I don't think I personally would use the "show only new posts" feature except in certain cases such as when I suspect there might be some old unread posts that have been buried somehow. I prefer to have some visual indicator about whether a post has been read rather than hiding it completely. In either case, you'd need a quick way to toggle between showing all posts vs showing unread posts. -
I have reluctantly accepted the fact that I am a “self-employed creative”, a job title that sounds like it comes from a bystander quote in a NY Times article about Portland’s artisanal popcorn scene.
But that is exactly what I am; I mainly work for myself and my livelihood comes from a podcast, an online course, and an illustrated book filled with cartoon cats explain Roth IRAs. I dress up in glittery spandex costumes to teach about budgeting.
And 3 days a week, I get up at 4:30AM to vacuum and clean toilets at a gym for 50 cents above minimum wage. Sometimes other gigs come my way. Between these 2-5 jobs in a given month, my bills are more than covered, and I put aside a few hundred to a few thousand in savings each month.
I’m doing fine financially; I funded a 13-country trip in cash a few months back, I have 8 months of expenses in an emergency fund, and a healthy retirement portfolio. I buy nice coffee whenever I want it. I don’t have any debt.
But I’m always, always hustling. I clock 50-65 hours a week of “on-task work time” in Toggl (no writing this isn’t counted), and I’ve had 2 rest days since 2018 began. There’s never enough time for sales when you’re also making a show every week and writing a book and booking non-profit gigs and managing the logistics for a book printing.
I hate how being your own boss, especially in the personal finance world, is about projecting this air of LOVING your job all the time. I *do* love my work, but I *hate* being self-employed.
I miss having co-workers. I miss having an office. I miss having a *boss*. I miss having paid vacation or sick time or occasional weekends off. I hate having to wear every single hat: Broadcaster + Teacher + HR + Accounting + Writer + Sales + Marketing + Web Designer.
I hate the self-doubt that comes from making creative work in a vacuum, and the loneliness that comes from being your own boss. So there it is. If someone else would give me a job as awesome as this, I’d take it in a heartbeat. But until I see someone hiring for a cat-based purrsonal finance instructor and media mogul, I guess I’ll keep on purring along. #selfemployed
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"I've already made some progress; so far my iOS application shares the state of my phone battery at https://dri.es/status. This is what it looks like:
This was inspired by Aaron Parecki, who not only tracks his phone battery but also tracks his sleep, his health patterns and his diet. Talk about owning your own data and liking tacos!"
