I think the key question you're trying to ask here is what to do if you're having issues with a freelancer or vendor who aren't living up to your expectations. And in that situation what communication style works best.

I just let people go and try to terminate those types of relationships as soon as possible when I know it's not working. It's not worth it to focus on any communication style in my opinion. Sometimes you just have to cut losses quickly and professionally.

I try my best to learn from these situations and get a lot pickier about who I work with. If you're having lots of issues with people who aren't meeting your expectations I would check whether there's miscommunication or whether you need to increase your standards whether for freelancers or vendors. You should be picky with both the people you hire and your clients. I learned that the hard way. :(

Sorry if this was not helpful.

I do the things that scare the shit out of me consistently. The things that you wouldn't even consider an option and that many people might consider impossible. When things get really hard, I lean into the pain. Sometimes the pain will be overwhelming, but it will pass. Eventually you'll get used to the pain and things will get boring, you'll plateau, and then you pick the next mountain that scares the shit out of you to start the cycle all over again.

I think life might be a little like a video game. You need to make sure you conquer all your base mountains first- things like good mental health (stoicism), physical health, and healthy relationships. If those 3 are covered you can bounce back from anything. At least from my experience and my experience includes 2 suicide attempts, starting my own business, and surviving a bunch of bad stuff.

It is really really easy to develop mental toughness from physical exercise. The two go hand in hand. You can't push your body without pushing your mind. Many physical boundaries are mental boundaries. Physical exercise is the easiest way to challenge your mental boundaries if you can.

I love long-distance running. It's an easy way to see and test your boundaries and get fit at the same time. Once you hit your redline or hell when you're running- being able to push through hell and finish is key. Slowly and surely you'll be able to run through longer distances of hell. Remembering that pain, knowing that you can meet your boundaries and surpass them, can help you deal with almost everything. It's a confidence-builder. It translates to mental toughness- doing the things and confronting your personal demons, each personal demon you conquer brings you to a bigger demon, but all the small demons you conquered along the way become your allies.

Whenever I face a tough situation, it's like lol this is nothing compared to the shit I've been through. Or almost like an anime cliche, I've conquered everything that I've come up against so far, I'm not quitting now.

What doesn't kill you, literally makes you stronger. Do all the things that you irrationally think might kill you or that makes you figuratively want to die when you think about it. Your "I'd rather die than do x, y, and z".

In my experience, the figurative dying in "I'd rather die" often feels like failing. So die/fail often. I don't know if you ever get used to it, but you start to like it after a while. It feels like progress. Growth pains that you lean into I guess.

For an intro, I like Hubspot's Inbound Marketing: https://www.hubspot.com/inbound-marketing

I've heard good things about DigitalMarketer and the Traffic and Conversion (T&C) Summit.

I don't know if there's a course for all of digital marketing. In my experience, what works on email won't work for Facebook or Amazon etc. Digital marketing channels are different and require different strategies. So I like to stay updated by following the "gurus" of whatever marketing channel I'm interested in.

There are gurus for email, landing pages, Facebook, Amazon, Instagram, Pinterest, Youtube, funnels, and pretty much every marketing channel. I think the T&C summit highlights the best.

Good primer books?:

- Ogilvy on Advertising (Dated but timeless advertising principles)

- Copywriting: CA$HVERTISING: How to Use More than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make Big Money Selling Anything to Anyone

I've heard a lot about the Clickfunnels book - Expert Secrets, but I have not read it yet.

Sorry if this is unhelpful.

I recently read this HBR article on listening and I found it very insightful. The article talks about how conventional business management listening advice may not be the best and suggests what great listeners actually do.

https://hbr.org/2016/07/what-great-listeners-actually-do

Thanks so much. Your suggestion helped me discover a bunch of HTML5 upload tutorials which is exactly what I needed.

Glad I could help.

Thanks so much for sharing, this is exactly what I was looking for. I would love to see some of the things you've built so far. I've searched a lot of tutorials but I'm always a little disappointed when the lengthy tutorial lacks a live demo of what they built.

I wouldn't consider that theft because it's common dealing with China knowledge that kickbacks are involved especially depending on who you work with. Being paid by both parties are not uncommon for an agent.

My mom taught her cat to fetch with thin plastic rings the size of bracelets. She'd sort of chuck them like a mini Frisbee and her cat would swipe them out of the air like a pro athlete. She used to get her cat toys but they had a tendency of mysteriously disappearing forever.

They are all under the refrigerator. Guaranteed to find them, along with milk jug rings, hair ties, and other circles.

If you're looking for more women in tech communities, there's a number of Facebook groups like Female founders community, Tech Ladies, Women in AR/VR, and more. Leap is an amazing community too.

There's also meetups in nyc at least like Women Who Code or Pyladies.

The Grace Hopper conference is dedicated to women in tech.

This is where I find most women though they vary in experience and expertise. What type of ladies are you looking for OP?

Do you by any chance have any course recommendations for front end, Python, or building your first saas app?

A kind HNer recommended two front end courses on Angular and React, but my friend recommends Vue.js. Do you have any idea what would be the best framework to learn for an inexperienced programmer that just wants to throw something together as soon as possible?

for Python, I recommend the online Introduction to Computer Science 6.x by MIT. If you want a book, I would recommend the Python Crash Course.

Take a look at the minimum features you absolutely need to support on the project. You may be able to get away with plain JavaScript rather than learning an entire framework.

Thanks so much, will check these out.