Mental Model: Direction Is Yours
If you don’t choose a direction for yourself, someone else will pick it for you. Someone else will also tell you what is right and… Read More »Mental Model: Direction Is Yours
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Mental Model: Wander, But Don’t Dawdle
To wander is to live freely, in awe and gratitude of the moment. To dawdle is to spread yourself thin and miss out on what… Read More »Mental Model: Wander, But Don’t Dawdle
Mental Model: Do a shitty job
Stop being a perfectionist. Just put in the work, and put yourself out there. Get feedback and evaluate yourself respectfully, truthfully, and briefly. Then, get… Read More »Mental Model: Do a shitty job
Direction, Strategy, Tactics, and Execution
Asking questions in the right order improves problem solving. Do we know what we want? How do we want to do it? What works for… Read More »Direction, Strategy, Tactics, and Execution
Trading cards and Deck building: A mental model for opportunities and activities
When playing a trading card game, how many cards are you able to take per turn from your deck? How many different decks do you… Read More »Trading cards and Deck building: A mental model for opportunities and activities
The past, the present, the future me
Treating my past, present, and future selves as individuals that I interact with directly helps me optimize my life: increase happiness, reduce regrets, address laziness,… Read More »The past, the present, the future me
Microservices
The past few months have been quite an exciting adventure for me in software development. I experienced new technologies at different levels of the tech… Read More »Microservices
Embracing confusion
Been listening to Farnam Street Blog, and I am very pleased with their content. In Embracing Confusion, one of their recent podcasts, they discuss how… Read More »Embracing confusion