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Your Hours Worked Don’t Matter
When you first go self-employed, there is a massive internal pressure to fill every hour with “work.” When you don’t have a 9-to-5 schedule, being busy…
 • Kevin Naughton Jr.
How I Use AI to Code
When I first started using AI to code, I did it sheepishly. I treated it like a gimmick or a slightly better version of Stack Overflow. But over the…
 • Kevin Naughton Jr.
How I Built my SaaS to $600 MRR
Since my last update, Ferryman has crossed another milestone: we just moved past $600 in Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR). While the jump to $600 might…
 • Kevin Naughton Jr.
I Quit Google to Build a $10k MRR SaaS
Note: I am documenting my entire journey of building a successful, $10,000 MRR SaaS product from the very beginning. I just released the first video of…
 • Kevin Naughton Jr.
3 Reasons to Ship Smaller Code Changes
One of the most underrated skills in software engineering isn’t writing complex algorithms, it’s the ability to break a complex problem down into small…
 • Kevin Naughton Jr.
Don't Outsource Knowledge
We are living through the most significant shift in the history of software engineering. For decades, the job was simple in concept: a human provided…
 • Kevin Naughton Jr.
The Math of Taking Off
Something I’ve been thinking a lot about now that I’m self-employed is the pressure of finding “the thing.” When you leave the structure of a 9-to-5…
 • Kevin Naughton Jr.
The Software Engineer Weekly
The Software Engineer Weekly
Accelerate your software engineering career with weekly tips. Read by engineers at Google, Netflix, Meta, and more. Written by a Software Engineer @ Google.
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