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Moving fast with the core Vim motions 3 years ago

I was in awe of a friend using vim, I asked him how someone could possess that power, he promptly gave me a license of https://vim-adventures.com/ and now I can't use any other editor that at least have a vim plugin.

Give the game a go, totally worth it if you want to ease into learning vim, after some time try and use it for everything, even if it fells slow, persist and it will be worth it.

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Write simply (2021) 3 years ago

If you are aiming for virality, you need to use the lowest common denominator. A fast thinker will understand someone that speaks slow, a slow thinker will not grasp everything a person who speaks fast says.

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Use ‘you’ in your copy to boost results 4 years ago

If "you" want to emphasize action(verb) and/or object more than the actor(subject) then use passive. Words are just tools, have them in your repertoire, understand all the rules so you can break them, poetic license is an art.

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Queen Elizabeth II has died 4 years ago

The UK is in a shocking state of decline, so not sure what metrics you are using there?

Metric is where "I" would raise my family, and based on all other western options, monarchies would come first; Brasilians idolises US, I can tell you because I was one of them, but them once you grow up and have a little more exposure to the world and different cultures, the current state it encounters itself it would be one of the last places I would live, because of its recurrent issues, mainly gun control, healthcare, I would also included woman's health birth choices under healthcare, those being the top ones, are a sad joke.

Of course everything depends on which stage one is at life, at the moment this is what I think with a young family, maybe if I was single just leaving Brasil, I would have fell in love with it, but that is not my experience. * At the moment I am fortunate enough to work from NZ with an US salary, and maybe when I am older I might retire on a Spanish villa, who knows, but US is not what it used to be.

...1,000 people are dying a month from the botched "response" to covid...

How many republics appear before the first monarch country in this[1] list? [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...

I wouldn't lay this on the feet of the monarchy, cos the elected officials seem to be the main cause of it. Me neither, but it is hard not to conclude that the further away a country have been "independent" the worse it is.

* I have been on some business trips to US. PS: Other countries I would consider would be AU, NZ, UK, CA and Nordics, also I could not care less who is running what, as long as my family is safe and I have peace of mind.

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Queen Elizabeth II has died 4 years ago

We might still want the whole concept destroyed

I am not well versed about republic vs. monarchy apart from my limited experience, which might be more than many people, but not as valuable as someone that have studied that and can pitch in. Coming from BR, have lived in AU, NZ, and UK, and traveled a lot, I would take monarchy over a republic any day, extrapolating on that, and just looking at the current state of affairs of republic countries vs the ones coming from monarchy, which ones look in a better state, and makes you want to move to, live in and raise your family?

And mad props to UK for keeping --relatively to others-- really well so far.

Thank you and Rest in Peace.

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What's your thought on finding passion? 4 years ago

Try things out as much as you can, and once you're good at something, that will "become" your passion or one of them, we tend to stick to things that we are good at. Also don't be too hard on yourself, you're 20, you can't possibly have exhausted all the existing possibilities.

You only know what you know, so revisiting old things that you have tried, might also be a good approach as it takes time to develop the "taste/understanding" of a subject, sometimes researching "the best" of something and jumping straight there, you might not like it[1].

You might have learned from another field something that will change your perspective about a previous topic that you can put a spin on it; but again this is after you have understood "enough" rules so you can break them.

Picking something that is too challenging you might give up, and something that is not challenging enough, you might also give up, so pick something relatively challenging, but with a good headroom for you to keep exploring as you grow.

I used to jump from one "project" to another, so never finished anything, I decided now to prioritise 1 thing, and 1 thing only, it might take 5/10 years of my life, but what I decided was whatever I picked, I would exhaust "all" possibilities before "giving up", and my 1 thing is not giving up of it, and after a while I am actually enjoying. ---

[1] from "Homo Deus" by Yuval Noah Harari p. 239-240.

    Experiences and sensitivity build up one another in a never-ending cycle. I cannot experience anything if I have no sensitivity, and i cannot develop sensitivity unless I undergo a variety of experiences. Sensitivity is not an abstract aptitude that can be developed by reading books or listening to lectures. It is a practical skill that can ripen and mature only by applying it in practice.

    Take tea, for example. I start by drinking very sweet ordinary tea while reading the morning paper. The tea is little more than an excuse for a sugar rush. One day I realize that between the sugar and the newspaper, I hardly taste the tea at all. So I reduce the amount of sugar, put the paper aside, close my eyes and focus on the tea itself. I begin to register its unique aroma and flavor. Soon I find myself experimenting with different teas, black and green, comparing their exquisite tangs and delicate bouquets. Within a few months, I drop the supermarket labels and buy my tea at Harrods. I develop a particular liking for 'Panda Dung tea' from the mountains of Yu'an in Sichuan province, made from the leaves of tea bushes fertilized by the dung of panda bears. That's how, one cup at a time, I hone my tea sensitivity and become a tea connoisseur. If in my early tea drinking days you had served me Panda Dung tea in Ming Dynasty porcelain goblet, I would have not appreciated it any more than builder's tea in a paper cup. You cannot experience something if you don't have the necessary sensitivity and you cannot develop your sensitivity except by undergoing a long string of experiences.
Good luck, and if you remember, let us know how it goes! =]
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The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep a journal (2017) 6 years ago

I have something similar, with the folder syncing to google drive, you could encrypt if you want to before hand but I never got to it, I separate one file per month.

  alias journal="vim ~/workspace/google-drive/journal/$(date "+%Y-%m")"
Then in vim I have this mapping, by pressing F2 it opens a new line at the end of the file so you can just start typing. I add goals to the beggining of the week with the F3 map.
  nnoremap <F2> Go<NL><Esc>i<Esc>"=strftime("\%A, \%Y-\%m-\%d \%H:\%M:\%S")<CR>po    - 
  nnoremap <F3> Go<NL><NL><Esc>iWeek <Esc>"=strftime("\%V ")<CR>p<Esc>i goals:<CR>    -
Monday -> Press F3 -> like a bujo, review what is still relevant and move to next week or drop it.
  Week 10 goals:
      - [ ] check connectivity with service x, splunk and service Y, from new environment
      - [ ] xxxx
Then whenever I will change context in my mind I just go back to the open buffer and press F2. I normally start my day looking at what happened over the other remote branches, and update my weekly goals task list
  Thursday, 2020-07-09 08:25:52
      - emails / slack

  Thursday, 2020-07-09 08:36:13
      - support x person

  Thursday, 2020-07-09 10:00:00
      - dog break

  Thursday, 2020-07-09 10:00:00
      - HN
Then at then end of the year I create a folder `archive/201X/` and move all the files under it.

I had a calendar event reminding me to review what happened over the week on Friday afternoon, but that is just lying to myself. I got to do once or twice over the last couple of years, that is something I need to improve on which is the whole point of article, review it while it is fresh and learn from it.

edit: code format

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