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Daniel Vassallo
Daniel Vassallo

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Only Intrinsic Motivation Lasts

Why I quit a $500K job at Amazon to work for myself — Last week I left my cushy job at Amazon after 8 years. Despite getting rewarded repeatedly with promotions, compensation, recognition, and praise, I wasn’t motivated enough to do another year. I spent my entire time in AWS building tools for developers. I liked that field so much that I would…

Motivation

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Only Intrinsic Motivation Lasts
Only Intrinsic Motivation Lasts
Motivation

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Dec 20, 2021

Making the unpredictable, predictable

Everyone wants to decouple time from money. The problem? It’s an extremely unpredictable way to make a living. For every successful creator, there are thousands who make nothing or almost nothing. So, how do you make the unpredictable, predictable? Here’s what I learned: See, there are two very distinct worlds…

Business

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Business

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Dec 20, 2021

Variable income makes me smarter

December 2020 turned out to be a very good month, with $31,962 in revenue and $25,385 in profit. But it didn’t start that well. …

Business

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Variable income makes me smarter
Variable income makes me smarter
Business

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Sep 14, 2020

$210,822 in 9 months

I have two info products on the market: The Good Parts of AWS — A 173 page PDF, released on Dec 25, 2019 (with pre-orders since Oct 3, 2019). Everyone Can Build a Twitter Audience — A 100 minute video, released on Apr 22, 2020 (with no pre-orders). These two…

Marketing

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How I made $210,822 selling a pdf and a video on the internet
How I made $210,822 selling a pdf and a video on the internet
Marketing

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Apr 27, 2020

I sold $104,754 worth of videos and PDFs in 4 months

What’s my Twitter audience worth? Someone asked me this question recently. Let’s see if we can get to a rough valuation. On Christmas day of 2019, I released my first info product (a technical ebook). Earlier this week, I released my second product (a short video course). …

Marketing

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I sold $104,754 worth of videos and PDFs in 4 months
I sold $104,754 worth of videos and PDFs in 4 months
Marketing

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Jan 6, 2020

DynamoDB is Not a Database

Amazon describes DynamoDB as a database, but it’s best seen as a highly-durable data structure in the cloud. A partitioned B-tree data structure, to be precise. DynamoDB is much more similar to a Redis than it is to a MySQL. But, unlike Redis, it is immediately consistent and highly-durable, centered…

AWS

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DynamoDB is Not a Database
DynamoDB is Not a Database
AWS

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Feb 26, 2019

From Employee to Bootstrapper

How I Prepared my Finances Before Bootstrapping — Earlier this month I left my cushy developer job at Amazon to work for myself. I am 35, living in Seattle with my wife and two small kids, ages 2 and 4. …

Work

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From Employee to Bootstrapper
From Employee to Bootstrapper
Work

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