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Waiting tables 2 years after graduating from IIT

Little companies, waiting tables, Drupal's solution for WordPress, and simple is not easy

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Shobhit Bakliwal
October 21, 2024

Hello hello! What’s up?

This is a letter, a personal letter, from me to you. I hope to send it to you every week. If you find it boring, or want to holler at me, just reply to this.

I am going to share three interesting things I came across the past week, every week.

Let’s get into it.

  1. You're a little company, now act like one

You're a little company, now act like one

You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the opposite -- you're alienating your best customers.

longform.asmartbear.com/little-company

Great article from Jason Cohen about how you need to be a better communicator to your early adopters.

Stop using the corporate speak, just be yourself, people don’t buy from a company, at least not a new product, they buy from humans they know and can trust.

  1. Waiting tables 2 years after graduating from IIT

Waiting tables 2 years after graduating from IIT

On my first day to work, I wore a jacket over the uniform to cover the Pizza Hut logo, carried the cap in my bag and my flatmates didn’t notice when the black pants replaced my usual black track pants.

www.deeptichopra.com/p/waiting-tables

Deepti is one of those inspiring people that just leave you awe struck.

Here she explains how she decided to be a Pizza Hut employee for about 2 months, and what did the job entail.

Fascinating read!

  1. Founder of Drupal might have a solution to solve the open source problem

Solving the Maker-Taker problem

How open source projects can balance Makers and Takers: lessons from Drupal's contribution credit system and recommendations for WordPress and other open source communities.

dri.es/solving-the-maker-taker-problem?utm_source=tldrnewsletter

Last few weeks have been bad for the WordPress community. Matt, the founder, has taken over a plugin, and disallowed anyone affiliated with WP Engine to access WordPress site.

The core issue is of a company building their business on top of WordPress and not giving back.

Founder of Drupal has a solution, that they have implemented in the wild for 10 years!

To stick to the format of this email, I had to scramble around and publish a post late last night on how simple does not mean easy. Hope it makes you think.

P.S. Hit me up if you’re looking for a team to build full stack web or mobile apps.