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But I don't recommend this kind of nap all the time - because after a while it's not that effective.
So, after years of napping (I'm an expert - I became so good at napping, that I can fall a sleep in 1-2 minutes, and wake up without alarm after 15-20 minutes), my advice would be: take a nap after lunch, between 1 and 3pm, without coffee before nap. Only in special situations, when you are under high pressure and lots of work, take "coffee nap" as they call it in the article.
Just try to believe that everything will be OK in the end, and that all this what happened, happened for a good reason - which you will probably understand sooner or later.
I've seen a lot of people saying this. I've met people who actually experienced this. And I can't listen to it anymore - so I've decided to write a book about how I learned Vim quickly, and how everyone can do this as well[0]. People just don't learn Vim the right way.
There's no need for months of frustration!
When I was starting with Vim, my friends were telling me something like "Just give it a few weeks, and you'll never want to switch back.". However, in every previous attempt to become good at Vim, I would give up after couple of days. Not because I'm someone who give up easily, but because I had lots of work to do.
And with every attempt of switching to Vim, I would spend most of my time on fighting with my new editor and not on the actual work.
The thing is, I didn't have to put so much effort when I first tried Sublime, or when I tried to switch to Textmate. They were downright pleasant.
What my friends were telling me (btw, advanced Vim users), was something like:
- "Turn off the arrow keys, it's not the Vim way..." - "Force yourself to use keyboard all the time, don't use mouse at all!" - "You have to learn x commands, and y things, so you could do z stuff..."
Then I realized - that was wrong! So, in my last (and the succesful one) attempt to switch to Vim (and finally learn how to be productive with it), I decided to don't listen to my "Vim masters" friends. I just decided that in the first couple of days, I'll try to use Vim as any other editor. Just like simple Notepad. No commands, no mappings, no plugins, etc. Just editing text. And that's how it all started.
With using some learning techniques, I've managed to get good at Vim really fast.
For example, if you can't get used to, or you're not productive with h j k l keys for movement, just don't use them. I don't use them. I use arrow keys all the time. Vim "masters" will probably judge me because of this - cause it's not the "Vim way". So what? I don't care. Arrow keys work for me the best, and I'm happy with it.
[0] - I'm in the process of writing a book - Mastering Vim Quickly (from WTF to OMG in no time) link: http://www.jovicailic.org/mastering-vim-quickly/
So instead of giving them money, it's much better to buy them food or something else what they really need.
I found a combination of MacBook Pro with Linux, as the only good use of Apple hardware.
P.S. I find it really inspiring, so much that I'll add it to my weekly newsletter which I send on Sundays (shameless plug: http://startupitis.com/).
I'm using Gumroad, Mailchimp and Wordpress pretty often, and (for me) it's not really problematic or time consuming. That's why your solution is not worth so much to me. But that's just me... once more, best wishes with the project ;)
For example, buy some neutral domain name, where you could setup landing page for your first idea, put 20-30$ on google adwords, bring 1000-2000 visitors to your page, and see if they are interested (by collection their emails).
If it fails, put a new page on the same domain, for new idea, again put some money into adwords, and test the next one...
Anyway, thanks a lot for the feedback. As soon as we update the page with some example content, I'll let you know on Twitter (there's a link in your profile).
Cheers!
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