Cal Newport’s So Good They Can’t Ignore You from maybe over 10 years now, conveyed that Steve Jobs was using hindsight in recommending you to follow your passion. Don’t be a firefighter, astronaut or ballerina. Just do what let’s you put food on the table. Cal’s later work is on doing reducing distractions and slowing down to meet your aims; less is more. Did Cal end up asking you to focus after all?...
DRAFT… Recently I went on a trip, to Kraków, where during the trip I got to try out the medical system and got to compare this with an experience in the U.S. too. In Kraków, I went on a traditional raft during the trip and prior to that, in the U.S. I was attempting to understand some long standing pain in my wrists. One of the things to do in the Polish countryside is to raft with the local Gorals1 who live in the forest areas, near the Poland/ Slovak border....
Came across Uncle Bob Martin’s Clean Agile talk1, putting words to paper on it… DRAFT so far It seems a lot of the original folks from the original Agile Manifesto are speaking up about how “the industry " got it all wrong. Dave Thomas emphasizes, it’s a adjective not a noun. Martin Fowler, emphasizes that SAFE is Shitty Agile for Enterprises. I came across a presentation from Robert Martin introing his book Clean Agile recently too....
adapting super script references I was mentioning in another post1 about switching from hyperlinks to citation style links thanks to seeing Doug Slater’s2 use of this technique. I am sure I have seen it elsewhere too but I forget. how to use the new technique An inline reference is simply “some text<sup>[1](#references)</sup>”, which has a corresponding 1. blahblah at the references at the end To make sure hugo allows the custom <sup> html you need in your config....
Going over Rich Hickey’s Simple Made Easy talk, clicked for me not just w.r.t. code but behaviorally1 too. So now I’m seeing the braids and weaves everywhere. Why do we still use browser tabs, they are very distracting when they accumulate. And the fact that they do accumulate is almost its own evidence of distraction that has occurred. But when you think, okay let me close the tabs, you try to close a tab but you read it and instantly get sucked back into what you were doing before....