opinion-and-editorial
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Metromile My First Month
Table of Contents My Story with metromile I’m a pretty simple guy. My car is over 10 years old and last year I hardly drove at all. Mostly because of the lockdown. Prior to the Covid lockdowns, I would drive little compared to most people where I live. Most drive 10,000 – 20,000 miles per…
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Covid-19 Lockdowns Again!?
So we’re supposed to have lockdowns again. Most restaurants in California aren’t allowed to have guests dine in anymore, again. There is a new lockdown order, it’s supposed to last for 3 weeks. Some restaurants aren’t having any of that and are defying the orders to close down. I don’t blame them and I can’t…
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WHITE PRIVILEGE – Let’s TALK about it. Sam Dey & Oscar Gonzalez Discuss.
[social_warfare] There’s not much I can say about this video. The conversation came impromptu, sparked from an Instagram story post from a clip I shared from Patrick Bet David, about white privilege. My friend Sam and I decided to record this and so it’s below. The video is 2 hours long, and we didn’t stop…
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WordPress is Better Than Other Platforms
Share Share Pin Tweet Buffer WhatsApp I’ve heard something similar a dozen times, sometimes even a WordPress expert will say this. “WordPress is just a choice, like any other website platform.” The Main Reason WordPress is Better Video Timecodes 0:00 Why talk about this 0:40 Inaccurate comparisons 1:25 Analogy to car buying 2:20 WordPress in…
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Challenge Yourself More & Stop Hanging out With Losers
Pin Share Share Tweet Buffer WhatsApp I really enjoyed listening and watching one of Evan Carmichael’s recent Top 10 Rules. This was about Quentint Tarantino. I’m a big fan of him so this was easy to watch. The part that really struck me reminded me of a post I wrote a while back titled: Start,…
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Bye Bye Genesis Themes, It’s Been Good.
Over the past seven or eight years, Genesis themes have been my default to-go themes for any WordPress website I’ve built. But this post marks the moment I ditched the Studiopress collection of themes. Maybe you are wondering why. I’ve been a proponent of those themes for such a long time and this decision may…
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Tips for People Working at Home Because of the Coronavirus
Use the Brave browser. It keeps you a little bit safer and it is faster than Chrome. It’s free and based on the same root as Chrome (Chromium) so all your extensions work. Use Zoom to hold meetings with video conferencing and desktop sharing. Alternatives include Google Hangouts, Join.me, and U Meeting. One on one…
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Happy New Year!
2020 is here. It feels like it was just yesterday that we were starting in 2019. But I just wanted to wish you a Happy New Year and the best year and decade ahead. Yes, I know about the debate on whether 2020 is the beginning of a new decade or not. It’s irrelevant. Let’s…
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Don’t Get Butthurt Because Your Pitch Sucks.
On my way to the WordPress Developers meetup, I decided to record this short video about an interaction I had with someone on Facebook. I don’t use this word often, but this dude was seriously butthurt, for all the wrong reasons. I also don’t talk about negative interactions often because they usually bring weird vibes…
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Switchpod Unboxing + Discount Code
During our last Dot Com Lunch meetup, I was greeted with a nice surprise. Yes, of course we had wonderful guests joining us, like Kenzie Kawamura from Penny Cryptos to the Moon, and Bekie Dunmire from Seduce your market; their interviews are in the video as well! But I had forgotten about this cool gadget…