This post is written for a friend who wants to upgrade web development from a sidetrack to a career.
Here’s how.
Tag Archives: Learn
System Error
99% of learning happens when one adjusts their actions according to feedback. When this airway is blocked, situation can hardly ever improve. And the biggest reason for evading and resisting investigating and learning from errors, is a tendency to take it personally.
As opposed to “take it systematically”.
Book Recommendation Updates
[Latest Update 5/16, 2016]
- Verbal Judo, should legitimately be taught in school
- Deep Work, on productiveness
- The Geography of Bliss, the happiest place on earth?
- Trust Me, I’m Lying, not cheerful, but worth the read
- The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, a thought provoking page turner
Simplifying
I’m trying to teach myself figure drawing. Following Proko’s tutorial, this part in particular struck me as the essence of learning:
I Want To Grow Faster
Thoughts on how to grow faster, after finish reading Harry Potter And The Method of Rationality. This is the how the dialog goes inside my head.
Book Recommendations
If it actually works, I’d passionately take on a full-time job where I march around on the streets, wave my arms and chant “please read these books!” all day long, because the world would definitely become a better place if more people read those books, and this is the most natural and efficient approach I could come up with.
How to Read Code Beyond One’s Comprehension
A colleague of mine asked me yesterday: what’s the difference between good code and bad ones? I gave my answer without a blink: “Reusability.” The answer struck me. I didn’t realise that before I said it out loud.
One good way to improve reusability, is to consciously refine one’s code with an eye for patterns. Repetitions are worth summing up–it’s just pure fun.
Those Who Compile Into JavaScript
I wondered what it would be like to have my front-end workflow in Ruby, or Common Lisp. What about all the libraries that could have been easily bowered and required in JavaScript? Could existing libraries somehow fit into the picture, or should there be counterparts taking their places? What about CoffeeScript, how does it work?
After some research, the list of answers I got:
Hard is Fun
I saw the film Inside Job this morning and it gave me a few notes to take. It’s about the 2008 economic crisis.
I’ve always believed that there must be something wrong if more than half of the society consider it perfectly normal to get something out of nothing. No system works in the long run following this line, be it weight loss, gambling, physics or our financial system. People who “earned” millions a year by transferring money, did not create direct, solid wealth, e.g. food or clothes or cars. Their action, put plainly, was to take money from group A who wanted to “earn” something out of nothing, and give it to group B who gladly took that money and spent it. Apart from the rare occasions where group B were actually people who did create wealth, and the bank did create indirect value by making that action possible, the dealers’ work is, most of the time, worthless. But of course, surely that is their job, right? To tell good investments from feeble ones, not to pump as much cash into the system as possible, so as to give their wallet a nice boost.
No it isn’t.