Published in1ppm·Feb 20, 2017No Time for Side Projects?Discover your priorities to find the time you need. — One thing I frequently hear as feedback for my “One Project per Month” Challenge is: Sounds like fun! But I have a full time job…and this and that… So I don’t have time for side projects. If side projects have no priority for you, it’s ok. I will explain below…Entrepreneurship4 min readEntrepreneurship4 min read
Published in1ppm·Feb 8, 2017You’re Not as Interesting to the Internet as You Think You Are!And here is how you can leverage that for your business and side projects. — “The Internet never forgets!” — that’s what I kept telling myself when my thumb was hovering over the “send” button. But, unless you are Kim Kardashian or Donald Trump, there is another side to that: it also does not care. Like — at all! To me, this was so far…Startup5 min readStartup5 min read
Published in1ppm·Jan 23, 2017The Next Step for “One Project per Month”In the last weeks, the 1ppm project did really well. In only 3 weeks it achieved: 422 Stars on GitHub, 174 Forks and 57 participants entered 97 Projects in the HallOfFame! In the meantime, I released my first project for 2017: a presentation layer for the “Hall of Fame”, where…Productivity2 min readProductivity2 min read
Published in1ppm·Jan 11, 2017Why Quantity Beats QualityTL;DR: More quantity leads to more feedback. More feedback leads to more learning. More learning leads to better quality. — With the beginning of the new year, I decided to start a “One Project per Month” challenge on GitHub. The idea was to accelerate learning, avoid over engineering to develop a habit of getting things done. …Creativity5 min readCreativity5 min read
Published in1ppm·Dec 29, 201612 Months / 12 Side Projects — Are you in?2017 is just around the corner. How about this new year’s resolution: release one side project per month! Ok, that sounds intimidating at first, but it’s actually not that hard if you pick the right projects. Plus, you will soon have a really cool portfolio to show off. You can…Programming3 min readProgramming3 min read
Published in1ppm·Dec 28, 2016One Side Project per Month - First StepsTwo months ago I started a “one project per month” challenge (1PPM) and so far it’s working out really well. Here is what I learned during the initial phase: The First Project When I started 1PPM, I had already collected some ideas. Mostly unsorted, unstructured files in a Dropbox folder and some Google…Nodejs3 min readNodejs3 min read
Published in1ppm·Nov 23, 2016The 1PPM-ChallengeHacking and learning new things each month! — Challenges are a very useful tool for learning and for getting out of ones comfort zone. Even very busy people like Mark Zuckerberg are known for taking personal challenges. As he puts it, these challenges help him to “learn and grow”. …Productivity3 min readProductivity3 min read