8 Posts

Life in Discrete Intervals March 14, 2022

When you break up life into chunks of no more than 15 minutes, you realize how much time you really have. It is interesting how the act of…

Studying vs Reading March 14, 2022

Study this book; read a word then ponder on it...Do not just read, memorise or imitate, but so that you realize the principle from within…

Writing as Performance March 14, 2022

Miyamoto Musashi wrote that he penned the Book of Five Rings with no editing and no quoting of others. He wrote from the heart in a single…

Shaping Up: How I Now Build Software June 14, 2021

I recently finished reading Shape Up by Ryan Singer and it's changed the way that I approach building software. I came across the book…

Jumpstart Learning with Spaced Repetition January 14, 2021

For a long time now, I've been trying to optimize how I learn. I often find myself needing to learn something that's very deep in a short…

The Shelf Life of Ideas November 01, 2020

Ideas are like fresh food in that they haven't been processed or manufactured yet and because of that have no inherit preservatives built…

Creating Color Palettes August 15, 2019

Creating a color palette used to be something like a dark art before I discovered a systematic way to build them. Umm, well let's just be…

How Does One Find Their Writing Voice? August 14, 2019

It’s often said that to find your writing voice, you have to write the way you speak. But the way you speak to whom? It helps to think that…