Today's topic is making progress learning technical skills. By "technical" here I am talking about skills where there is a clear, measurable way to tell how some result is better or worse.
For instance, drawing realistically—or emulating the style of a particular artist—may be viewed as a technical …
read moreThis morning I was going through my inbox for a not-used-so-much email account. I hadn't cleaned out this inbox for a month or two so. On this email account I'm subscribed to some newsletter things, so I was able to take a step back and view how the whole "COVID-19 …
read moreA popular way to build websites these days is to use React, which is officially described as "A JavaScript library for building user interfaces". With React, you write JavaScript which does stuff in a "virtual DOM" rather than the (browser's) DOM directly. In this way, you can work …
read moreThis crisp morning air greets me as I clean out some coffee grounds from yesterday and prepare a new pot of coffee for today.
There is a corner of the yard in the place I am renting which I call Siberia. When I first moved to that location, there …
read moreThis morning at eight something AM I decided to drive out a bit to deposit a check. Though I didn't really have to drive, I figure it is useful to make sure my car starts at least once every couple weeks; I haven't been outside of a small, less than …
read moreToday I'm going to return to a psychological/philosophical topic: words and thinking. I'll elaborate more below, but the main way this all relates to COVID-19 is that the primary way most of us understand what's going on is through words.
Words are great for lots of things, but they …
read moreWhen discussing any data, we must make assumptions about the validity of the data. Sometimes, this is pretty concrete. For example, if you manage a café, you might have counts of how many coffees you sell each day. This can help you answer questions such as how many pounds of …
read moreToday's topic is accountability as motivation. Specifically, I'll be looking at how the tough-times of COVID-19 lock-in have weakened many accountability mechanisms that keep many of us going day-to-day. Then, I'll go into some strategies I've successfully used to keep myself motivated and working hard. My goal here is to …
read moreMany parts of "daily life" can seem tedious and annoying at times. Take a morning commute, for instance. Sitting in traffic on the way to sit in a cubicle?! Now I repent; I find myself missing lots of these things now that I'm staying in most every day, most all …
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