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605 karma · joined January 24, 2017

email sam sam@samputnam.com

locate sam github.com/samputnam

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putnam··on How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
Could you explain that to me like I am dumb? How does it relate to consulting?
putnam··on How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
Do consultants never code?
putnam··on How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
You have never converted a cold client? Has anyone done this before?
putnam··on How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
Were you the consultant in this case?
putnam··on How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
What is the value of the deliverable? Can you easily leverage your value?
putnam··on How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
Are you a consultant or freelancer currently? Have you tried doing this justification in the past and how has it gone? EDIT: length
putnam··on How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
What would be the solution you would propose?
putnam··on How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
Do you personally have the skills/knowledge worth paying for if you classified yourself as a freelancer?
putnam··on How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
Let us know when you arrive at your conclusion
putnam··on How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
What do you do?
putnam··on How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
What do you think new freelancers and consultants get stuck on that limits their success?
putnam··on How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
How did you do it?
putnam··on How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
Why do you think this happens?
putnam··on How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
How do you find your clients? How did you find this client?
putnam··on How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
Are you a consultant? Do you have 1 and 2 going for you?
putnam··on How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
What is the most painful aspect of consulting for you?
putnam··on How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
Is it working for you?
putnam··on How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
Assuming it is a real situation, would you rather do per week billing or per hour?
putnam··on Ask HN: What are the implications of being a consultant?
Would you call yourself a highly-paid consultant? What do you make?
putnam··on How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
How did you get into consulting? What do you do?
putnam··on How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
Was he a programmer?
putnam··on How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
Do you have those skills?
putnam··on How I went from programming to consulting (2012)
I have an Internet buddy in Chicago named Thomas Ptacek. [...] I decided to invite Thomas out to coffee.

At the end of the conversation, Thomas said something which, no exaggeration, changed my life.

Thomas: Some food for thought: If this hadn't been a coffee date, but rather a consulting engagement, I'd be writing you a check right now.

Me: Three hours at $100 an hour or whatever an intermediate programmer is worth would only be $300. Why worry about that?

Thomas: I got at least $15,000 of value out of this conversation.

Does this really happen in real life?

putnam··on Ask HN: What would your dream job look like?
What do you have?
putnam··on Ask HN: What is stopping you from becoming a freelancer?
Yes
putnam··on Ask HN: What is stopping you from becoming a freelancer?
Tell me more
putnam··on Ask HN: What is the most painful problem you have day-to-day as a software dev?
Part 2: What keeps you awake at night, indigestion boiling up in your esophagus, eyes open, staring at the ceiling? - Sam Putnam
putnam··on VoiceBase – Deep Learning Speech Recognition and Speech Analytics
I used this service today - it was the 2nd google result for 'auto transcribe mp3'. The result was sent to my inbox in under 10 minutes. The audio I needed transcribed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouyCabSt8Xg The output: Would you love to dramatically increase your sales through the use of Facebook ads Hi I'm Jerry of us and I run a Facebook ads agency specializing specifically in chiropractors and in the following video I'm going to show you the exact campaign I would run to make you a bunch of money so let me know what you think OK So using these cool tools given to us by Facebook [...] I do not know these guys, but this was exactly what I needed. Kudos, and has anyone used this at scale and/or for business purposes as well?
putnam··on Show HN: Deep Learning and Neural Networks Course on AWS
You're welcome
putnam··on Show HN: Deep Learning and Neural Networks Course on AWS
Hi, author here. Happy to answer any questions on how to set up a repeatable deep learning environment on AWS and run a feedforward neural network on real Vermont/New Hampshire real estate data to predict closing prices! -Sam
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