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Congratulations, Jennifer. I really appreciate the lessons learned here. Like my favorite college professor (and I'm sure many others, as it is a fairly popula
by adt2bt 13y ago
Congratulations, Jennifer. I really appreciate the lessons learned here.
Like my favorite college professor (and I'm sure many others, as it is a fairly popular quote) would say: Sometimes you have something that looks really ugly and gross. You can liken it to having to eat a slimy, bumpy frog. The best way to eat the frog, is just to swallow it. Once you get in the habit of swallowing your frogs, the rest of your day looks great.
I think I'm going to apply the 180 small projects in 180 days to many different ideas. For example, I enjoy cooking. I will probably start a project to cook one meal from every country on earth every day for ~180 (196) days. I've done it so far on weekends, but I think speeding the tempo will help significantly. It forces me to practice, saves me $$ I would otherwise spend eating out, and grows my spice cabinet.
Who knows, I might continue it with bread, websites, meditation, or whatever else.
- DanielStraight 13y agoIf you haven't seen it yet, you'd probably appreciate this (or perhaps this was the inspiration for your comment in the first place): http://globaltableadventure.com/ http://globaltableadventure.com/ Basically, someone doing the cooking thing, but on a weekly basis. She only has 6 weeks left. Pretty awesome site.
- adt2bt 13y agoI had not seen it! Thank you for sharing. This is pretty awesome.
- jenniferDewalt 13y agoI love the idea of exploring the cuisine of other countries in a systematic way! Besides being super delicious, what a fun way to share a learning experience with family and friends.
- thenomad 13y agoI linked this above, but it's so directly relevant to your idea that I thought I should re-link it here: check out the Julie/Julia project, which was one woman doing approximately the same thing with cooking, albeit on a more focused topic: http://web.archive.org/web/20021217011704/http://blogs.salon.com/0001399/2002/08/25.html http://web.archive.org/web/20021217011704/http://blogs.salon... (As a side note, I love this idea, and would cheerfully jump into doing it myself were I not already rather overcommitted... From having cooked various world food banquets, I can tell you that you'll learn a HELL of a lot very quickly from doing this. Great idea: blog it!)
- adt2bt 13y agoYou know, I might as well throw it up on a blog. I need writing practice, photography practice, food shopping practice and cooking practice. It also helps keep me motivated! Thanks for the Julie/Julia project link. I have been considering going through Thomas Keller's great books in a similar way as well. I have Bouchon Bakery, and I've made probably 20% of what's in there. I haven't found anything that disappoints yet.
- jenniferDewalt 13y agoMy writing skills have improved dramatically in the last six months of forced blog writing. I also really like having the record of my thoughts throughout the project. Even though blogging wasn't strictly necessary for learning to code, I'm really glad I decided to do it.
- thenomad 13y agoCooool. Oddly, Keller was the person who sprang to mind for me too. If you do this, definitely blog it and let me know - hughhancock on Twitter - I'd love to read about how it goes.
- gjm11 13y ago> Oddly, Keller was the person who sprang to mind for me too. Then you will probably enjoy http://carolcookskeller.blogspot.co.uk/ http://carolcookskeller.blogspot.co.uk/ whose author made every single recipe in the French Laundry Cookbook. (Good writing, too.)