Didn't read the article yet, but this is the premise behind that book and a lot of the writings on his blog. I highly recommend this book as well as Deep Work if you're a knowledge worker.
One of the bigger points he makes is putting in the hard work and eventually you'll get to a place where that thing develops into your passion and affords you lots of free time, flexibility, autonomy, respect, etc...
My daughter learned to talk a lot earlier than her older sister who is a year older, also learned to walk earlier too. Anecdotal, obviously, but part of me thinks she was trying to "keep up."
These are some awesome talks I've never seen, so thanks for sharing! I can start binging now.
Has he ever given a talk or written a blog post that gave pointers/tips on giving awesome talks? A lot of it is practice, I'm sure, but just curious. Did a quick search and couldn't find much, although I did find some good suggestions for running a successful conference.
Maybe I should've mentioned "Los Angeles" higher in my comment, but looking at the sibling comment to yours, apparently there are plenty other states where it is legal to pass on the fees as a surcharge as well. Obviously your situation may vary.
Merchants absolutely can pass on the fees or give "discounts" for cash, at least in the USA. Gas stations are one of the major businesses that practice this.
Anecdotally, I worked at a company store years ago where we would charge customers paying with cards a 2.75% fee, which is what we were paying. And that store was operated by a Fortune 500 company.
Also, virtually every small private business I go to in Los Angeles charges some fee, or has stipulations, for credit card transactions.
It's even worse when your chip starts to fail, as one of my has started to do very recently. You have to put the card in three times(and wait for it to fail 3 times) before you're allowed to use the swipe function. Took longer than cash.
I've read The Obstacle is the Way and Ego is the Enemy. I like his writing, but there is a business-y type of vibe to it.
I also recently picked up The Daily Stoic book, which does help me get into a Stoic "mindset" (for lack of a better term) to start my day. Although with the way Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is written, you could almost just open up to a random page each morning, read a passage and reflect. But so far I've enjoyed this book.
Not only the new stuff that replenishes the pool, but often times when I find a new resource/subreddit that I don't know much about but find interesting, there's often a huge amount of info already there. So even depleting the pool of past information becomes a huge distraction, all while more stuff is piling on top.
I got confused because I was clicking the boxes and nothing was happening. They should definitely put a demo button towards the top. But yes this was cool!
I think you're thinking about Antabuse, which does make you sick after drinking.
There's also Naltrexone which supposedly blocks the receptors that alcohol reacts to so you don't get the "good" feeling of alcohol.
I think it's more important for people to understand WHY they're drinking though, instead of masking it or using drugs to fix it. This is probably a conversation for another thread though.
When I first started learning this stuff, I started a blog. I made maybe 3 posts before giving up on it, thinking about how much I didn't know, how that everything I could write about at the time was probably covered elsewhere and better, etc.
Several years later I regret giving up.
A lot of writing is writing for yourself. Obvious benefits to that, one of which is hopefully you get better at communication, which is huge in life in general, not just a career as a dev on a team.
Another is learning through teaching or keeping a record. I've probably forgotten a bunch of things over the years that, had I written them in my blog I may remember, or at least know where to find the post instead of scouring the internet looking for another post by someone else that I used to helped me solve a problem.
Potential employers may like seeing a blog as well. You can tell someone you're passionate about x, but where's the proof of that passion? It may not be the most in depth blog like Dr. Axel Rauschmeyer's, but it'll still show what you know. And you never know who's reading, so you may help someone in the process.
The internet is already filled with "litter" or useless things. But if you're getting use out of it then that's the main point to focus on.
My daughter is 3 and learned to use a phone/tablet before she was 2. Whenever I'd pull up YouTube on my tv she'd walk to the tv and try to swipe it as well. Often getting upset thinking the tv was broken, haha.
She was used to iPads, but one day I gave her my Android tablet. She was upset at first because things are slightly different, but adjusted quickly. I was shocked at how fast she picked it up.
This is what I'm afraid of. By far the most reacted/responded to messages are the Happy Birthday/Anniversary shoutouts, the @channel letting everyone know the coffee machine is working again or donuts in the kitchen, memes, etc.
When our DB is being updated, or our staging instance is gonna be down briefly, or "Here's an article about security updates just released for x," there isn't huge engagement. You know, stuff that actually affects my work as a dev.
I really don't want to see highlights of "@channel can someone dog sit for the weekend? here are pictures!" or similar things that aren't pertinent to work.
Thank you so much for these links. Recently I've thought about building something data viz and stats related using baseball stats.
I know MLBAM has a bunch of data they keep to themselves, but I should definitely be able to find something to play with here. Many thanks for sharing!
This is amazing. I've started to learn Elixir recently, and as a result my interest in Erlang and BEAM has been piqued. I'm sure a lot of this will be over my head for now, but looking forward to digging in.
One of the bigger points he makes is putting in the hard work and eventually you'll get to a place where that thing develops into your passion and affords you lots of free time, flexibility, autonomy, respect, etc...