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>You need to get good in order to get good things in your working life, and the craftsman mindset is focused on achieving exactly that goal. - Cal Newport (from his book So Good They Can't Ignore You). This quote resurfaced in my Readwise today, and even

What a lesson to be reminded of. I realise that sometimes this is easier said than done. But it does beg for a reminder every once in a while. In my experience, journaling also really helps a lot. Pouring your thoughts and worries down can help the mind manage the

So I don't know why, but for the past two days, I've felt like I have really started to understand CSS. Don't get me wrong. I am talking about understanding it at the most basic level. There is still a bunch that I don&

Noah Kagan, from AppSumo, once tweeted: >Don't let yourself become paralysed by the fear of what others think. In reality, they're not even thinking about you. They're too busy thinking about themselves. It reminded me of a recent conversation I had with my

>Success is feeling good about the work you do throughout the long, unheralded journey that may or may not wind up at the launch pad. - **Chris Hadfield, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth** This quote resurfaced today on my Readwise. It made me think about

Another of the nuggets shared by Dave Snowden in his youtube talk. He talked about an experiment where a group of radiologists were given a batch of x-rays to look for anomalies. In one of the x-rays, they hid the picture of a gorilla, which was 48 times the size

I rewatched a video from 2016 again this morning, and I felt so in sync I want to stop and take notes. I told myself I would let it run and I will take everything in. That I would later find the time to rewatch it and take notes to

Sometimes the frustration of ineptitude can make you want to stop. The unskilled will succumb to their old ways and not try anymore. I should know. I have been there. These past 5 days have been frustrating for not being to articulate in code what I want to create. It

I was so pumped because last night after I posted, I actually fixed the error that was preventing me from populating DfE with data after bringing it online. I thought I was going to be able to make a lot of progress today. I started fighting with CSS (I am

So today I decided I would deploy the alpha version of dFe. I hadn't deployed a Django app in a long time, so I thought I'd just do it for fun. Even with the knowledge that I still need to style things better. I planned to