I complain all the time that dev interviews are nothing like regular dev work, but then today mid data structures and algorithms studying I suddenly found myself having fun and enjoying what I was doing, in part because it was nothing like regular dev work 😬

Data Structures and Algorithms, which (while heavily weaponized for bad) are morally neutral

tl;dr: If you're in WA state and filing unemployment but want to be focusing on building your business instead, check out the SEAP program. If you're looking for business training check out SCORE. If you've read this far follow me causing I'm posting regular business build updates.

I met with my mentor Randy yesterday for the first time. Randy does business coaching professionally, but also volunteers with SCORE. He gave me great feedback on my early planning steps, connected me with another tech entrepreneur, and had me set goals for our next check-in in three weeks.

There are many SEAP approved courses. I'm doing my training courses with SCORE. I picked them because they have a mentorship program. There are so many people with vast business experience who volunteer to mentor with SCORE. www.score.org/search-mentors

While filing with ESD you have to complete 3 job-search activities per month. With SEAP you don't have to do job-search anymore, but you still need to keep track of the hours you're working, just now on your business & training.

Until today I was doing both job-search & training/business building.

I’ve been on a mending and alterations kick: some Swiss darning for sock repair, hemmed a few pairs of pants, and some Sashiko-inspired visible mending. I’m also trying to teach myself how to alter dress shirts to bring up the arm length at the shoulder seam.
What have you been working on?

Maybe it's because we have the life-long skills to handle disruption?
Probably it's because we need urgency to get things done.

My inclination is to hide it away until I've added the proper email form, but in true #buildinpublic fashion, here it is: myrvmanual.com is live!

Tomorrow I've got meetings and business paperwork on the calendar, but Thursday I'll be back to the site to replace the mail:to with a proper form.

I've decided to go with Mail Chimp, but I've got to get a PO Box setup first, so I've pulled the text box in favor of a mail:to. I personally *loathe* mail:to on sites, so replacing it with a form will be priority, but I wanted to get deployment unblocked, and I did!

This is so cool! I'll be following along for sure. I'm a big user of music/background noise when I'm in focus mode. The directional sound is very fun to move around and hear shift.

Ballots (and postcards for @postcrossing.com and grandma) have been sent!

Currently I'm using Notes/ChatGPT for research tasks, so I'm going to give Dia a shot with that this week and I'll let ya'll know how it goes.

Awesome tool! Did you use Lovable to do the design? Asking cause I just learned about Lovable so I noticed that your favicon looks like their logo.