Summary: <p>He’s back! Ben returns from traveling to Hong Kong. He shared his rails knowledge by helping someone who is building a business and using a rails app. He made performance improvements and refactored items. Derrick is also doing some Vim tutoring. Learning something new does not take long or a lot of money, and gets easier. </p> <p>Of course, both Ben and Derrick continue to work on their new products, as well. Derrick is creating Level, an open source team communication and management tool. Ben is starting Tuple, a pair programming tool alternative for Screenhero.</p> <p><strong>Today’s Topics Include:</strong></p> <ul> <li>How to do file browser for projects in Vim: CtrlP; baked-in and plug-ins options for Vim</li> <li>Build and code, but talking to customers can impact your course and business</li> <li>Derrick is posting small, hot tips on Twitter that are nuggets of valuable knowledge</li> <li>Likes and retweets growing Derrick’s number of followers</li> <li>Ben needs to tweet more to market to developers for his new product - Tuple </li> <li>Derrick continues to work on Level; categorizing communication and how to present it</li> <li>Notion of urgency is big issue with Slack that Derrick needs to address with Level</li> <li>Brainstorming sometimes needs conversation, and sometimes long periods of silence</li> <li>Controlling distractions and creating checklists are part of Derrick’s daily routine </li> <li>Derrick is improving the copywriting and calls to action on Level’s landing page</li> <li>Ben plans to incentivize people via annual plan upsells</li> <li>Derrick is considering a referral tracking mechanism as an incentive</li> <li>Big transitions and uncertainty generate anxiety for Ben, but he now has strategies to deal with it</li> <li>Trying to create a thing that did not exist before is different than something that already exists; it is harder and more stressful, and you’ll feel pain and be unsure </li> <li>Ben’s role as external-facing sales and marketing vs. product development and coding</li> <li>Structuring to make yourself happy, but keeping staff happy, too; everyone should like what they are doing</li> </ul> <p><strong>Links and resources:</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.derrickreimer.com/" rel="nofollow">Derrick Reimer Website</a><br> <a href="https://twitter.com/derrickreimer" rel="nofollow">Derrick Reimer on Twitter</a><br> <a href="http://www.benorenstein.com/" rel="nofollow">Ben Orenstein Website</a><br> <a href="https://twitter.com/r00k" rel="nofollow">Ben Orenstein on Twitter</a><br> <a href="https://www.vim.org/" rel="nofollow">Vim</a><br> <a href="https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim" rel="nofollow">CtrlP</a><br> <a href="http://www.benorenstein.com/blog/your-first-vimrc-should-be-nearly-empty" rel="nofollow">Your First vimrc Should be Nearly Empty</a><br> <a href="https://thoughtbot.com/" rel="nofollow">Thoughtbot</a><br> <a href="https://www.microconf.com/" rel="nofollow">MicroConf</a><br> <a href="https://momentumdash.com/" rel="nofollow">Momentum</a><br> <a href="https://twitter.com/roidrage?lang=en" rel="nofollow">Mathias Meyer</a><br> <a href="https://www.reboot.io/episode/83-walk-world-seth-godin/" rel="nofollow">Reboot Podcast - How You Walk Through the World with Seth Godin</a></p>
