Setting Goals and Achieving Them
In your weakest hour, drunk and peckish, you need to be able to say "no" to the pizza menu on your fridge. You need to get to the core of why you are trying to make a change in your life.…
At Some Point you Have to Write Code
I'm more of a thinker than a doer. Until presented with a deadline, I will only work on optimizing my approach instead of trying to actually solve the problem. Recently I found myself falling into this trap again. I've been dabbling in a new programming language…
Don't Make your Mornings Routine
I was told that everything needed to get done before work. But I'm a programmer, and so it's considered normal to stay up extremely late working on projects. You can't stay up late and wake up early, but I definitely tried.…
Measuring Productivity
If you feel like you've become better at a part of your life, you probably have! If you're total output has dropped but you're solving harder problems, you're improving and you should keep doing what you're doing.…
You Probably Don't Need that Mindfulness App
You may be thinking about signing up for a mindfulness service. I'm here to say you probably don't need one, and you may hurt yourself by getting one.…
Typing at the Speed of Thought
Let's get this out of the way: it's unlikely that your typing speed is holding you back. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was never a great typist. My parents taught me to touch type pretty early on, and by 3rd grade I identified as a bit of a computer…
A Review of the Keyboardio Atreus
I've written about the most comfortable keyboard [https://www.simonsays.so/kinesis-advantage-2/] I've ever typed on, but that's not the keyboard I type on every day. That's only partially because I haven't bothered soldering a new set of keywells in…