aaronbieber

If you read pieces like this one (which I do, and have done purposefully for over a year as part of my coaching practice), and you have a reaction to the cautionary language that sounds something like this:

"What hippie-dippie emotional bullshit!"

Take a moment to consider how we were all trained from a very early age to measure and value only those activities which fuel "the economy" or "productivity." We have a visceral reaction to the idea that we're enough, just the way we are, when we love whatever things we love and do whatever things we do that make us happy.

In a big way, everything else is an intrusion. Sometimes useful, sometimes not, but that should be for you to decide. Don't chase any single thing believing that it will "make you happy." Instead, find happiness in what you are and what you have right now, in this very second.

You're doing great.

It's a cute idea, but <cfquery> or bust!

I wrote ColdFusion professionally for 7 years in the mid-'00s and I quite liked it back then. The issue, of course, was code organization and sprawl because you couldn't easily detach the logic from the view.

Still, <cfquery> blocks and <cfloop>s around the results were one of the fastest ways to get something up on a page and working, in the days before very mature frameworks existed yet.

It also forced everyone to know everything, so you could point to any dev on the team and they mostly understood the HTML, the CSS, the JS on the page, and the backend.

I think the industry trend toward specialization is useful in some cases, but it has made organizations and products almost intolerably complex in many cases where it isn't strictly necessary for the product itself.

There is a ton of practical stuff written in this general area if you search for "mind mapping" or "zettelkasten" (links below).

The biggest thing I've taken away from all of my reading and experimentation in this (and being a bit of an information hoarder myself) is that the link itself, or the article itself, is not information, it's "data."

There is value to the data, and if you want to record it that's fine. I use tags (hashtags in Logseq) to classify data so at least it's in some type of taxonomy, but Logseq full-text search is also pretty good so as long as you have words around the URLs that you'd be likely to search for you're good.

Information is what you derive from the data. It's your summary, or paraphrasing of the core point(s), or connections you make between a thing and some other thing you previously recorded.

Tools like Logseq and Obsidian exist to allow you to easily create those connections, and that's very much based on the zettelkasten method, though amplified by what the technology now allows, which is more complex and nuanced.

Don't hoard URLs and headlines. Hoard your thoughts about them, what you think is important about them, what you saw that related to another thing you saw. That is information.

https://zettelkasten.de/introduction/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten

https://logseq.com/

https://obsidian.md/

It stood out to me that the author of the post is the COO at a meditation service start-up, not a manufacturing one... Unless Ten Percent Happier is making physical products that I'm unaware of.

I think this guy was just musing about Apple's quality and has watched a lot of AvE and This Old Tony on YouTube and wanted to share his opinions with the world. They're not all entirely correct.

For anyone who wants to go on the whole manufacturing journey, don't miss the Linus Tech Tips video about why their screwdriver took 3 years to bring to market (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K5Gqp1cEcM). And they based their design on a fully functional production-ready screwdriver, they did not start from scratch.

Going from idea to production is really, really hard. Even today, even with CNC and 3D printing and other prototyping tools. Even with all the money LTT has to spend on it (millions of dollars, as I understand it).