It would have been nice to have heard this talk 4 years ago before I took the plunge! All good advice. I agree that more people could do this than perhaps think they can and I for one won't be returning to being employed! The benefits are far outweigh any negatives for me.
Very interesting talk. I practice mindfulness which I think is a real help to being empathic. As you said will bring gains to more than just your code. I've mentioned before (re one of your podcasts) but really appreciate your honesty and emotion when talking. Thanks.
It's okay but this isn't something worth to be put in a meetup/conference.
as a freelancer i know pretty much everything ben talked about and still felt like the talk will help me improve.
Dries started off by saying hes not gonna do a salespitch and then basically ran down the list of available central laravel tools and finding them awesome (i think he even called two of them his favorite). I suppose the tools are in fact good vut i think everyone who is here actually allready knew about them. i liked Dries giving all the contributors credit at the end. i suppoose dries is a very likable person but for the talk i was a little disappointed. but this could be just me and maybe it was helpful to others.
I tend to be a jerk too at times so this was quite helpful :)
Thanks for this.
A lot of stuff was covered in onlx one day and I thought it was in a very helpful way.
Nice tips re envoyer/forge for continuous deployment/qa testing. I would group Laracasts within the Laravel Ecosystem.