In 2019, I had a few mindset shifts around recurring, daily or near-daily work. In short: Frequency first. Duration next. Then, quality. Make progress every day. Any progress counts, duration + quality should go unmeasured. Old goal: Run a marathon in 2019. New goal: Run every day. Old goal: Write 1000 words every day. New goal: Write every day
Lately, I've been thinking about the importance of how ideas are packaged, and the effect this has on persuading the intended audience of the idea
Another year has come and gone. 2019 was a pretty wild year for me, with a number of big life events and transformations like I haven't had in a long time. It was also a year in which I confronted my inner life more earnestly, which is something I had only started to do in 2018. Here's a review of my 2019. Presenting at RubyKaigi So, I'll start with the big bang, the thing I'm most proud of
There are many different responsibilities for the maintenance of an open source project, and while some of them get called "maintainership", I'm not sure they should be. Let's zoom out for a moment. What labor must be performed, by someone, anyone - in any successful open source project
That's me on Shark Tank. It's episode 12 or 13 of season 1. When I was 19 years old, I appeared on the American reality television show Shark Tank . The premise is simple: entrepreneurs pitch a hard-boiled set of investors to give them money for a piece of their business. It's based on a Japanese television show called Dragon's Den . I appeared on Shark Tank in 2009
In June of 2016, I received an email: The original email Dear sir: I'm from Syria , expected to graduate this semester (Computer Science) , and as you sir my role model in Ruby also Rails , I need some advice about open source projects in Ruby to learn from. Thanks in advance and sorry if I waste your time Actually, he wasn't just in Syria. He was at the University of Aleppo
Did I mention how awesome it is to live 30 minutes from a ski lift. In March of 2016, I launched a course called The Complete Guide to Rails Performance . Since then, I have distributed just over 1800 copies, for a gross revenue of $220,033. 50 (about $1000/week). Although I launched the course in March, I had worked on it for about 4 months
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