Put a UUID on it. Put a timestamp on it. Put a version on it.
You won’t regret it.
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Feels like this place is turning to rubble.
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Taste is a weapon in a war of abundance.
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As a fringe frontend person, I've always found Webpack and friends kind of impossible to figure out. feels just right though. Simple and exactly what I need.
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Cat and vertical centering. What more could you want? mdrogalis.dev
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The fastest way to impress me with a personal website is to use vertical centering.
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Me in my 20s, making my personal website: look at my 47 projects and my expertise in programming languages!
In my 30s: hey look at this cool picture of my cat.
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Wow, ’s book is incredible!
So many answers to design choices I felt were off but didn’t know why. The chapter on color alone is worth the price tag.
Finishing my 2nd year on the bike, primarily racing on .
This year I relearned something we all know as kids, but forget as adults: you can’t be afraid of losing. Fear only makes it more likely you will.
FTP: 260 -> 280ish
If you want it bad enough, you'll find a way.
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Transformation complete!
One year ago I decided to put my ~20 year competitive distance running career on pause to see what I could do on a bike. I bought a Specialized road bike, an old Kinetic trainer, and got on @GoZwift.
Jan: FTP <200
Dec: FTP 260, hanging with cat A races
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This Quentin Tarantino clip perfectly sums up what I believe about entrepreneurship and making things. If something excites me, there’s a really good chance it excites other people like me.
When you shut that down, all you make are boring, cheap imitations.
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Quentin Tarantino says he makes movies with a very specific audience in mind:
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Maybe a contrarian view, but does anyone else think some products could benefit from *fewer* getting started guides / tutorials? Sometimes I find that there are so many entry points that it's impossible to orient myself.
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Taking a toddler on a cross country flight. Man plans, God laughs.
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👋Say hello to Stream Designer: The industry’s first visual interface for building streaming data pipelines natively on . 💥
Rapidly build, test, and deploy pipelines using a visual canvas extensible with SQL. Check it out 👇 #Current22
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Wow - sad to see it go, SL is easily my favorite conference. Huge props to @puredanger and crew for a phenomenal event all these years. ❤️ So many good memories.
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Strange Loop 2023 (Sep 21-22) will be the last edition of Strange Loop! We hope you can join us for one last conference. Early bird tickets are available now. ti.to/strange-loop/2
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The best books are the ones that almost seem like they're talking directly to you, telling you what you need to hear right now. Those moments are gifts.
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A little personal news—I'm joining 's team at Confluent in the Office of the CTO! I'll be working on one of my favorite things, making our tech easier to learn/use.
Feels delightfully full circle as Ben was a big reason joined Confluent 4 years ago. :)
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Hard to beat the kind of focus you get coding on an airplane.
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🚲 This sport is pure fun.
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Feels great to finally close out support for multi-typed schemas! Wildcard destructuring syntax with ->* is a nice bonus this round.
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How are people handling reprocessing of when you either need to change how you process the data or rehydrate a consuming system?
We're doing some unique thinking on this at Confluent, curious to hear how you do it now.
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"When you begin a task, especially one that requires revisions and iterations over time, you’re not going to be very good at the onset – which perfectionists do not like. But if you procrastinate, you can avoid having to face being less than perfect."
Screen-sharing lifehack: turn on accessibility zooming so you can see others' screens better.
MacOS: Preferences > Accessibility > Zoom
Command + option + 8 as soon as you start to strain.
Save the neck, save the back, save the eyes.
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Upgraded pain cave to a direct drive trainer—no going back now. Thanks , awesome product!
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Original quote was about AWS, but also Kindle Direct Publishing and Fulfilled by Amazon. sec.gov/Archives/edgar
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Bezos, 2011. Subtle:
“When a platform is self-service, even the improbable ideas can get tried, because there’s no expert gatekeeper ready to say “that will never work!” And guess what – many of those improbable ideas do work, and society is the beneficiary of that diversity.”
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#23: Burnout
Everyone knows it, but what is it? An excess amount of motivation. You’re driven to hit a goal to the point that you can’t rest and regain energy.
Burnout can only be fixed with time off, and it takes progressively longer to recover the deeper the burnout.
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#22: Stable motivation
The right mix of goals and energy to perform optimally. The sweet spot, where you avoid big ups and big downs.
Stable motivation puts you on the most efficient learning curve for skill acquisition. The challenges you experience are just right.
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With goals, when you miss, you understand why: your process goals didn’t work. You can introspect and adjust. But if you hit, you don’t take it for granted. This creates a healthier learning cycle and keeps you consistently motivated.
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#19: Expectations
Ideas about what you believe to happen no matter what you do.
Expectations are generally inferior to goals. With expectations, if you miss your target, you’re upset because it should have happened. But if you hit, you think nothing of it—it was supposed to.
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Pick a results goal, then pick a few backing process goals. That pairs an output with the ways you’ll achieve it.
If you can hit a results goal with no process goals, the goal was too soft.
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#18: Goals
There’re two kinds of goals: results goals and process goals.
Results goals = things you measure
Process goals = things you do
Some people think results goals are all that matter, others only process goals. You need both.
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It's like a sponge that can't absorb any more water.
Bloated brain goes away either through enough time passing, or preferably through a cooldown exercise, like journaling, to process that information.
If you were in the zone, that information starts along the ZLM.
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#17: Bloated brain
You’ve taken in a lot of information, say during a very busy day, or a high-pressure situation, but you haven’t fully processed what happened.
When you have bloated brain, you’re distracted, can’t think straight, or have trouble sleeping.
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#16: ZLM latter stages
Stages 3 and 4 of the ZLM are the same as the ALM (conscious competence and unconscious competence). Once you’ve identified the learning from experience, you move it to unconscious competence as you would any other skill.
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#14: Intangible competence
The first stage of the ZLM. You sense you’re right about something, but you can’t explain why.
The Iowa gambling task (1994) shows incredible results about what “knowing in your gut” really means, even at a physical level. psytoolkit.org/experiment-lib
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#13: Zone learning model (ZLM)
Framework for skill acquisition through experience. The ZLM is the dual to the ALM. The ZLM sharpens skill based on what you intuit while in the zone, or playing at a very high level A-game.
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