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by joshcanhelp 4y ago
As a white man in tech, I often ask myself “do we want to hire more white men?” When I’ve interviewed 5 white guys in a row, for a team comprised of mostly/all white guys, that kind of reflection is important. I’m not trying to discoun
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by joshcanhelp 4y ago
Not using or deleting social media was a big one. I’m a little out of the loop since I’m not on Facebook but I hear about everything important via word-of-mouth now, which feels more intimate. Not using my phone at night. I try not to use i
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by joshcanhelp 5y ago
I’ve scanned this and have it in my reading list: https://github.com/veeral-patel/how-to-secure-anything I’ve been working with a very competent security team for several years and there were a lot of familiar terms an
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by joshcanhelp 5y ago
Oclif was one I used a while back but, last I tried it (a couple of months ago), there were either technical or documentation issues that made it a challenge to get started. It sounded like they were in the middle of fixes though so that mi
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by joshcanhelp 5y ago
We’ll put and thank you for this. We have the same situation here. Thankfully (luckily) they have picked friends with mindful parents but that could change on a whim. Our goal, and I’m sure yours as well, is to try and give them tools and i
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by joshcanhelp 5y ago
Totally agree but exercise benefits go far beyond calorie burning. More muscle === higher resting metabolic rate. It also helps to put you in a more healthy mindset, in my experience. If both diet and exercise are hard, then focus on diet.
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by joshcanhelp 5y ago
I just started listening to a great podcast about this: https://hubermanlab.com/how-to-enhance-your-gut-microbiome-f... I have no connection at all, just thought it might be useful for folks that like to listen and learn.
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Engineering Velocity from the Bottom Up(joshcanhelp.com)
1 points by joshcanhelp 5y ago|0 comments
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by joshcanhelp 5y ago
My main issue is boundaries and when to stop working, though I think I would still have that if I worked in an office and took a computer home. I will say that not seeing my team at all for the last two years has been a struggle. Getting to
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by joshcanhelp 5y ago
I have found Eleventy lovely to use after being one WordPress for a decade. It can be as simple as you need it to be and grows with you. I’ve been able to accomplish everything I need with it. Currently replying from GitHub to Netlify autom
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by joshcanhelp 5y ago
I was quite burned out by the end of this last summer. It was part work, part pandemic parenting but I was done in a way that I've never experienced before. I would open my laptop and just stare at the screen like the characters had no
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by joshcanhelp 5y ago
> On a personal level, do not think in failures or successes. Think in learning and level gains. I wanted to include that in my post but I didn't want it to get too long. This is so critical, IMHO. When I truly internalized this I f
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by joshcanhelp 5y ago
100%, I totally agree. I linked to an article [1] that talked about one person's experience with this. My argument here is that I believe it's overall better to accept that risk and important to encourage that in others. [1] http
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by joshcanhelp 5y ago
Your experience will determine where you're able to contribute and that determines what the blast radius is. I don't believe that you only learn from big mistakes and that was not the point I was trying to make here. You learn fro
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by joshcanhelp 5y ago
Like so many things, there is that implicit caveat “none of this applies in a toxic environment”
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by joshcanhelp 5y ago
I agree. In fact this post was inspired by someone I work with who embodies this mindset. I probably could have said something more along the lines of it fades naturally unless you mindfully keep it around. That quality, though, feels like
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by joshcanhelp 5y ago
Do you have a particular story/book/anime that really drove this home? I find I’m able to think that way about failure far removed from when it happened but, in the moment and soon after, it’s near impossible.
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We need your beginner’s mind(joshcanhelp.com)
141 points by joshcanhelp 5y ago|45 comments
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by joshcanhelp 5y ago
I do pretty much exactly this but with a different app (now Obsidian, previously Roam, Workflowy). Going on about 4 years with something like this system. This is mostly for work and side projects, personal stuff just goes on an index card
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by joshcanhelp 5y ago
* She
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by joshcanhelp 7y ago
I have this pinned to my wall by my desk. It reminds me how far I have to go.
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by joshcanhelp 8y ago
This, please. I switched to Firefox mobile and now can't even click the link without zooming in.
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by joshcanhelp 8y ago
Thank you for this. I've been programming for a while and always appreciate another perspective on things. Starting with 3 now!
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by joshcanhelp 8y ago
I can absolutely relate to what you're saying here about temptation. I lost ~100 pounds (280 -> 180) but have had trouble keeping the last 50 off. I range in weight from 200 - 230, despite only ever feeling comfortable being below 2
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by joshcanhelp 8y ago
Some good tips in here and I'll add my own as well. My fear came about like yours did, after a particularly terrifying experience on a flight. Here's what has helped me: 1. I picture what will happen as soon as I land: who will pi
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by joshcanhelp 9y ago
That was me for a while before the cognitive dissonance caught up :)
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by joshcanhelp 9y ago
I quit for a number of reasons, excluding this one. It never occurred to me that keeping "up-to-date" in the way that you do on FB/Twitter/IG makes IRL less exciting. Once I had been off for a while and felt less self-co
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by joshcanhelp 9y ago
N of 1 here but I am in the category of people who hate Facebook (been off for a year) and very much miss the pictures, invites, and updates from people I love. When I used FB, I unfollowed/unfriended folks I didn't care about, re
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by joshcanhelp 9y ago
I'm sorry to hear. I can definitely sympathize with what you're going through and currently recovering myself. This is just my perspective, of course. The hardest thing to get past, and the first one I encountered, is the very rea
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by joshcanhelp 10y ago
Sold a company. I learned A LOT in the process, main one being that you should keep meticulous and separate records for anything that has the chance of being spun off. The company I sold grew out of my freelancing but was separate with a se

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