Mostly a lot of mind-body stuff to develop self-awareness, and adjusting my life, routines, and priorities to fit the needs that I find are not being met.
I can ramble on for ages about it. But it is also a highly personal journey - what works for me won't for the next person and vice versa. However KNOWING that it is important is huge.
I found your original comment very informative. Did you pick this up through your own experiences? Would love to hear if you’ve read anything in particular that helped you form a routine that worked for you.
For our clients, the appeal of Mandrill is the Mailchimp Template Editor. I think this is where their focus is going and so if you don't need that, then definitely check out competitors.
Out of around 18 projects, in which we have used Mandrill, only in 1 we have used the template editor. (I think only about half went for paid accounts when the project went live.) Most of our need was simple and quick transactional messages (Registration, Forgot Password, etc.). The main reason we chose Mandrill was ease of set up over Amazon SES. (Even though we had AWS accounts for all projects.)
Anyways, it's up to Mandrill to choose who they want to serve. I really liked the service though. Best of Luck.
> I will purposely challenge their solution to see how they react.
> If they get defensive, it’s an immediate no-go. Remember, there’s a difference between defending which is good and being defensive which is bad. The difference is that the former is based on rational facts, the other is based on emotion.
Are you always able to challenge them based on "facts", or are you going to challenge them with your current world view? I can see someone getting defensive if your challenge is perceived as deliberately provoking.
If you're submitting something for review which is admittedly going to be used at least in part to decide if you are "good enough" to hire, it would be foolish not to expect to have to defend the choices you've made.
Using the author's definition, "being defensive" based on emotional responses is more a character trait than anything else, and a negative one at that.
I would much rather work with a slightly above average or average developer who is thoughtful and rational than a rock star who gets personally offended if you question their use of $DESIGN_PATTERN.
Surely, if PwC is wrong, and Patreon is responsible (which seems this way) and HMRC decides to investigate, they will go after Patreon, and not individual users?
Correct, although I'd be very surprised if this actually happened. HMRC has enough trouble staying on top of non-compliance and lost taxes in the UK, let alone chasing people for VAT due in other EU states. I can't imagine HMRC being too quick to rush to become a debt collector for other EU states.
Bear in mind that if people merely keep operating now as they did in 2014, HMRC loses nothing - it's only the tax authorities in other EU states who lose out. While no-one should take this as legal advice, I suspect all we'll see is other EU tax authorities taking action against the biggest non-compliers rather than individuals.
