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Hello everyone and welcome to yet another episode of ask Angela anything and you guys have spoken and

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my team have selected some pretty choice questions.

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I would say and I'm really excited to be have to answer them in todays episode.

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So as you may notice today is a very special episode because I am hailing from Nairobi in Kenya and

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as you can see it is absolutely beautiful out here and there's just birdsong and monkeys running around.

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So gone are the traffic sounds and the usual London pollution of my office.

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I hope today will be a scenic change to brighten your day.

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So once you are ready let's get started.

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Now the first question is from there at the golf.

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This shouldn't be called Ask Angela anything it should be called Angela.

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Murdering people's names.

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So there I ask.

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Do you have any advice for somebody who's looking to start freelancing.

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All right so you may or may not know but I learnt how to code when I was younger and I have been programming

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on the side for many many years but I actually trained to be a medical doctor.

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So during that time and during med school I spent a lot of time freelancing.

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So I hope I'm more than qualified to answer this question for you.

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The first thing I would say is that don't jump in don't.

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You know despite what people say don't just dive into freelancing quit your job tell your boss that

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he's a dick and then just go and you know try and find a job that's really bad.

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Even though the traditional image of an entrepreneur is somebody who likes take risks that's actually

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really not true.

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If you think about Richard Branson when he started Virgin Atlantic he didn't just go out and you know

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buy lots of planes.

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In fact he actually least a plane from Boeing to get started.

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And that meant that if it was successful then great he could continue doing this.

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But if it failed then he could just give it back and his investment wouldn't suffer.

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So don't quit your job straight away.

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Instead what you should do is try to figure out what spare time you have during the week and try to

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carve out about 15 hours per week that you're going to dedicate to building a pet project.

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Now the important thing about this pet project doesn't really matter what you build but what matters

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is that has to be useful to at least one person so that one person can be you.

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It can be your wife it can be your pet.

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It doesn't matter.

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But it has to be useful it can just be a hello world application or something that you use to learn

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about a particular API for example.

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Now once you've done that and you've deployed it onto either the web or if you're building an app then

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obviously on to the app stores then you've started building a portfolio.

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And this is going to be a great thing that you can show everybody potential employers or potential clients

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that this is what you're capable of.

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So this is the beginning.

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So now at this stage you are spending 15 hours a week building your pet project and once you've started

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doing this the next step is to carve out another 12 to 15 hours.

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Now nobody said that this was going to be easy.

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Freelancing is not easy.

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Nothing that's worth doing is easy in fact.

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Now you're on to step two and you're carving out 1000 hours per week which you're going to spend working

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on other people's projects.

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So you're going to be freelancing on small gigs.

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So the best place to start I recommend is a Web site called fiver and I'll include the links in the

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resources section of this episode.

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But basically it's a Web site where somebody can get a job done for maybe five to $20.

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Now the important thing here is that you're not here to make money you're here to get skills and you're

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here to learn about the world of freelancing just as you probably wouldn't let a surgeon operate on

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you if they haven't had any experience before.

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As a freelancer or as a web developer or an app developer People need to be able to see what you've

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done in the past how you were able to work with clients and have people who can give you good testimonials

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that kind of stuff is really really important in your career as a freelancer.

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So the first step I recommend is getting started with small things on fiber and don't take on projects

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that will take you any longer than a week to start with.

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And another place you can look at is a place called oDesk and up work and you could start building up

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your profiles on those Web sites and start answering to some of the requests and again don't go for

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something ambitious even though you know the larger projects obviously pay more.

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The important thing here is still about getting experience.

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So you're looking for projects that basically larger freelancing firms or agencies don't really want

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to take up.

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So these are things like bug fixes or things like update rates or maintenance or small improvements.

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Not going to make you a millionaire but it will start earn new money and along the way you will gain

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really really valuable experience.

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So that's what it's all about.

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Now once you've been working with a couple of clients some of them if they enjoyed working with you

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because you are communicative and I can't stress enough how important it is to be able to communicate

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well with your client as a freelancer it's probably the one thing that will make or break your career.

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Give your clients regular updates to show them what you've done and explain what it is that you're doing.

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It's really important that they understand how much work you're doing and also how you're trying to

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do a really great job for them.

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So as you do this you will start to build up a client list people who will ask you for other things

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that they want done as well and you will get word of mouth.

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And as this goes along you'll end up with a list of clients who will give you jobs who will give you

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good reviews or testimonials or be able to act as a reference for you for future jobs and with your

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portfolio.

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Remember those 15 hours a week that's going towards those pet projects.

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That's going to be building your portfolio and with the experience that you're getting with your clients

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and that's going to help you network and getting more people interested in getting you to work for them.

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And now at this stage congratulations you're a freelancer you've made it.

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And from this point on we're going to start to work on larger and larger projects perhaps collaborate

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on some projects with other programmers.

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But as always the first part is hardest.

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And once you've gotten over those hurdles you will be on your way to becoming a fully fledged and hopefully

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a really really in-demand freelance web developer or app developer.

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So I wish you the best of luck there.

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And I hope you have an awesome time as a freelance developer.

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All right.

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So on to the next question.

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This is a question from Amit Singh and he asked What does your daily shuttle look like.

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OK so the first thing is I'm going to say that what I'm about to tell you is probably an ideal day.

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I travel a lot because I give talks.

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So for example right now I'm in Nairobi because I'm giving a talk.

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So this is the daily shuttle of a day where I'm based in London and I don't have anything special planned

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for the day.

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So I think one are the previous AMAA I talked about my morning routine so I'm not going to cover that

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part.

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If you're interested have a look at one of the previous ones and you'll find the answer there.

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But I'm going to start from about nine o'clock which is where I tend to start work.

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So for the first hour and a half of the day so 9:00 until 10:30 I spend on learning stuff.

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Now this sometimes becomes one hour sometimes two hours.

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It's really dependent on what I'm trying to do.

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I want to be able to have enough time so that I haven't just gotten started and I have to switch to

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another task but I'm more of a morning person.

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I'm very alert and I'm very alert during the mornings and I'm capable of doing the most creative work

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during that time.

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So that's the time period that I tend to allocate to learning new things.

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So for example this morning I spent learning and digging more into self-named web drive them because

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I had written a pell script from God knows how long ago.

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Which basically I'm not even sure I should share this with you but it's a script that basically renews

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my library books automatically So once it gets to two days before the due date then it will print my

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books without me having to do it because I'm terrible at remembering things unless it's in my calendar.

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So that was a hack that I wrote a while ago but there's a lot of people who've been asking me how to

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do it.

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And rather than teaching them Perl which is just like torture I thought it might be a good idea to teach

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people how to use the Leneen web driver for example I'm using it to book the gym classes that I tend

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to go to.

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And also I'm trying to get it to renew the books that I have in the library.

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So that's what I was doing this morning but it could be anything really it's basically something new

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that you want to learn and you should dedicate a block of time when you want your best to do it.

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Now that tends to be the morning for most people but I know that there's a lot of night owls.

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So it could be that for you maybe that's you know 12 midday.

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But basically spend an hour and a half during your best time to learn something.

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I think that's really really worthwhile.

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Now after that blog I tend to do more creative work.

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So hi again high brain demands kind of work.

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So that includes things like developing new lesson plans for you guys.

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And also working on also working on new curriculum or working on a development project those are things

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that require a high cognitive function which I tend to have less and less of.

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As I go towards the end of the day.

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So that's the morning basically done.

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And then maybe I'll spend about half an hour on lunch and try to eat.

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I'm trying to eat something that's not so carb heavy so that I can stay awake during the afternoon and

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then I would normally go for a walk for maybe 30 minutes to an hour.

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And very often in our company we tend to do walking meetings.

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So we'll just take the whole team and we'd walk and talk and hash things out because I find that when

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people are sat down in a meeting room everything is very slow.

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And I think when you're walking I've long legs and I tend to set the pace.

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So I think when everybody's walking really fast they seem to get out of breath and need to talk really

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fast which I really like.

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So try to mold your environment to suit your highest productivity.

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Then after the walk I tend to work on some slightly less cognitively demanding tasks.

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For example video editing or meetings with clients and those kind of things.

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And then finally from 4 o'clock to 5 o'clock is my e-mail time and that's the only time during the day

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when I check my email so I find that with notifications it's very much a pulling process.

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You're being pulled by the world into whatever needs they have or whatever demands they have.

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But it's much better for you to decide when you want to check email or when you want to address issues

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from other people.

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So essentially you can protect yourself just by switching off notifications.

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And in fact my phone probably stays in airplane mode for a good.

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So I usually switch off airplane mode at 1:00 p.m. and I tend to switch it back on around 6:30 or 7

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p.m. so I'm not even really testing the battery life of the iPhone because it's only getting switched

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on for maybe six hours a day.

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But it does help me get a lot of shit done.

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Which is the important part.

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Right.

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So after about five o'clock I tend to wind down or you know finish off the things I need to finish off

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and just see if anybody else in the team needs any help or anything like that.

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And then I would probably have dinner around 7:00 I guess.

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And then after dinner what I do depends on again my cognitive abilities.

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So when I have basically no cognitive abilities then I would maybe play video games or or watch something.

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You know how you have HP.

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This is when like HP his or mental points are at like minimum one of my favorite games I'm playing at

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the moment is called Super hot soup.

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And the idea is basically that as you move Time moves with you.

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So I can't really do it justice.

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I recommend just checking it out on YouTube but it's a really cool game.

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I'm really enjoying it.

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If I have slightly more cognitive capabilities then I'll probably read a book.

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Usually nonfiction up to about nine o'clock and then after 9:00 it's only fiction.

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And if I have a lot of brainpower left then I like to play a game of Go.

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I don't know how many guys have ever played this game.

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And it's called baduk in Korean and it's called waiti in Chinese.

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But it's a fantastic game and it's so simple in terms of the rules and yet it's so complex in terms

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of all of the moves that you can make.

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So that's something that I recommend though so I know that this whole answer has been pretty much centered

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around how much cognitive capability I have.

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I think I'm making myself sound a lot like a robot if.

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Battery life why do this if Ramm load do that.

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I have I don't come across as a robot but yes.

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So that's pretty much my daily schedule.

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If you have any product of hacks or you know something that you do in your daily schedule that you think

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is really awesome has really helped you then please do either hit me up on Twitter.

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So asked you why you underscore Angela or comment below or in the Qandamp;A section and let me know I'm always

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open to new ideas.

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All right so the next question comes from Pascal Jaime here.

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I really hope that was a good enough pronunciation.

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I tried really hard and he asked What do you think about cross-platform versus native development.

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I have a lot of ideas on this because I get asked this question pretty much on a daily basis from students.

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But it's a really good question because there's a point in time where I would have said I don't even

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think about cross-platform.

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It's just not worth it.

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Just stick to native development and your golden but actually you know more and more so these days especially

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with new technology new frameworks like ract native.

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It's actually not so bad.

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Now let's just talk about some of the pros and cons.

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So the pros of native development is that is the gold standard.

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Basically if you're a large company flush with cash you're going to be going down the native route no

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questions asked.

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It is the best still hands down.

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Other pros include that it's fast if you need animations if you have graphics in your app then you probably

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should stick to native when you're using something that's really graphics intensive then the cross-platform

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apps do show other things are things like you have access to exclusive API.

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For example things like push notification or if you want to tap into health kits on the iPhone then

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those modules are generally not available at least not easily through cross-platform means.

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And the other thing is that if you're watching this video then you're probably taking my iOS swift course

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and you would know that there's a lot more resources for native development than for crossplatform.

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There are more people who are able to answer your questions on stack overflow.

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More results for your queries on Google and even the Apple developer form to help you.

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So there's a lot of help out there.

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If you are going down the native route compared to cross-platform.

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Now the biggest con for going down the native route is that if you want an Android app you need a complete

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There is basically zero reusability of your code and of your UI designs.

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It's expensive and it's time consuming and you will notice that most apps will launch on iOS first before

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they go down the Android route.

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It's just a resource constraints that most people have.

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Even large companies like Snapchat you'll see that features come to us first.

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So it's expensive because time equals money.

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And it's.

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And you need a lot more developers.

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A large development team more people to manage more people to pay.

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It's just more expensive.

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And the other thing is that if you yourself already have a good command of a particular language that's

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not swift or Java say you are a web developer and you know javascript or say your dot net guy and you

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know all about C shop if you're using cross-platform tools for example phone app accelerator or Cordova

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then you can use those existing skills that you have and all you need to know is learn about the modules

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the frameworks the API is and that's a lot less painful than picking up a new language from scratch.

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Although I would argue that you know as developers we basically signed up to lifelong learning.

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There's probably a new javascript framework every single week as far as I can tell.

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And it's cool it's fun.

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I really enjoy learning new things.

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But if you don't then that can also be quite a big downside of Native.

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Now the sort of halfway point or in between is something like that native which is a framework that's

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open source but it has a dodgy licensing and it was created by Facebook.

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Now the great thing about Riak native is that it offers a lot of the native features and it allows you

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to use a language that you're familiar with to code both Android and iOS.

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It has a whole bunch of modules that cuts down your development time because you can use them across

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Android and iOS.

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Now it's not completely developed once and deploy everywhere because it has that native aspect but it

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gets pretty close to it.

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Now the downside of stagnated.

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Probably the biggest one is that there are some really essential features that I think that modules

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lack.

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For example if you want to do something that's actually pretty standard on native iOS I found that you

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actually can't do it very easily without creating custom code which means that you need to know about

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Swift and you know about Native Doleman.

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Anyways it's kind of the way the icy rock native is that if you are an existing iOS with developer who

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wants to build apps both for Android and Aiwass you can use rehang native and do it more quickly.

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It's not really the use case for somebody who doesn't really know anything about Swift or us to just

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pick up and we have to develop for Android and iOS.

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The other thing to remember is that because it is developed by Facebook and it has this weird license

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so you guys might have noticed that the most permissive license is the MIT license.

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That's basically just do whatever you want with this code.

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in the future your company that uses reactor ract native decides to sue Facebook they can revoke your

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license to use the framework.

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So in most cases none of us have to worry about suing Facebook it's just that's just the level of success

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that we don't need to worry about until we get there.

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But if you are cautious and you know especially with everything that's been going around about Facebook

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lately I don't know.

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It's I think is definitely a con for me anyways putting inclusion I would say that it really depends

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on the project that you want to build whether you should choose crossplatform or native development.

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And you know you really have to assess in a case by case scenario it's really there's no blanket rule.

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There have been projects where I've used Riak native to quickly create Android and iOS apps.

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There have been times where I've stayed very very far away from any sort of cross-platform and stuck

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to good old native development.

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Figure out what the project is all about and look at the pros and cons of both and assess on which one

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will be better that way.

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So a tagged on question from Pascal is are there any helpful tools that you use that makes a developer's

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life easier.

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And yes I'm all about the tools.

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All about the tools but the tools.

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This also should answer your third question which is when can we expect new music videos from myself

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or the lone not brewery and that is never I am never ever ever again making a music video for those

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guys who don't know.

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Great for those guys who do know and have watched my rap music video about app development.

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I apologize for polluting your eyes.

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It was a bad attempt and anybody who knows me knows I can't sing for shit so I'm sorry.

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And it's never going to happen again.

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So.

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But I do have helpful tools.

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One of my favorite Web sites is product hunt and that's probably the first place I go to for inspiration

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to see what new products there are.

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If you haven't seen it check it out.

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It's absolutely awesome.

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But out of my top tools I've selected for first one is an app called duet and what it allows you to

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do is it allows you to set up a separate screen for your laptop or desktop using your iPad or even your

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iPhone and that basically allows you to have a jewel screen or in my case a triple screen and once you

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have experienced the joys of Jewel screening you will never go back again.

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I promise you and this is probably the cheapest way of giving it a going.

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You can reuse your existing hardware basically and it's just an amazing experience.

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It's a really good app and I really really recommend it.

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The next one is Alfred and many you guys especially if Im watching if you've been watching my Cheetos

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for a long time you would have noticed that I use Alfred pretty much religiously and a lot of you ask

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me why not just use Spotlight.

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It does the same thing right.

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It doesn't.

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It really doesn't.

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It's first the much much faster indexing because it's selective indexing and it doesn't go through your

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entire Mac.

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And the other thing is that it tends to pull up more relevant results.

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You have queries that you can put in there like find which opens the folder or open which opens a particular

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file that you have but give it a go and you will never look back.

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I promise you as well.

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The next one is momentos so you might have seen it again in my videos.

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It's a chrome plug in that I have which shows a new beautiful image of somewhere in the world that I

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should probably be traveling to.

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Every time you open a new tab but it also has a To Do List Bilton has the weather the time and allows

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you to focus on one particular task for the day which I find really helpful.

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So it's a free plug in just you know try it give it a go and see if you like it.

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And the last thing I wanted to and the last thing I'm going to talk about is something called a cheat

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sheet which is this amazing piece of software that gives you a cheat sheet of all the shortcuts in which

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ever application you are in.

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So if you hold down the command button it will just show you a list of cheat sheets wherever you are.

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And it's really really cool.

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Now the last one I'm going to talk about is not really a good tool but it's just something I found in

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product that I thought was hilarious.

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It's called canned e-mails and it has canned breakup e-mails it has emails to clients.

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I've never yet sent one of these because I'm just too scared that somebody else has seen this Web site

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but it's pretty hilarious and I recommend you checking it out.

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So the sun is starting to go down around here and I'm probably going to go and grab something to eat

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because I haven't eaten for a whole two hours now.

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But I hope you guys had fun with me in Nairobi in this episode of ask Angela anything and if you have

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any questions for the next episode then be sure to leave it below.

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This video on or on one of the new announcements that I make on a regular basis so I have you guys are

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having a great time where ever you are and that's all from me.

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I'll see you next time.

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Joe.