Tagged “inspiration”

Make it a game, host things, do things.
Interesting section is "What happens once you have a lot of friends?"

truly inspirational stuff

excellent advice. write whatever you want. or don't.

Blogging isn’t for everyone. Tons of amazing developers don’t have blogs or personal websites at all. I write because it’s fun for me and it helps me organize my thoughts.

The little exercise of threes was amazing for me. Got this sample pack and actually finally started practicing it!

SIFI: Specialisation is for insects.
OSTA / ULTA: We overestimate our short-term ability, but underestimate our long-term ability.
DIBTP: Done is better than perfect.

Venus Theory on creator envy, and the importance of making 'your own circle'. Make your own particular thing that you have in mind.

Some good advice on finding ways of enjoying work or life or both, and being wary of taking advice from entrepreneurs - they've gambled and won.

Advice gathered by someone smarter than me. My top three of their picks:

• minor barriers aren't minor
• remember what used to work, then do it again
• when choosing a life path, think about what contexts it puts you in

First two from Chris Sparks, third from Devon Zuegel

this response about summarizes my own reaction - how does she make the best website every year?

This one got me thinking about a lot of things, maybe just due to the infinite zoomy nature of it al.

Lovely memorial about his amazing dad.

Thoroughly enjoyable listen.

Was great hearing the earlier/wip versions of things (also related to him being a data hoarder! Though he's done much better at it than me), and going through the various iterations, both good and terrible, seeing what works together and just that process of experimenting.

Really just hearing someone talk about their passion. Him realising that he really enjoyed messing around in garageband, making joke songs and jingles. Sometimes just saying random words to get the sound of something.

Phenomenal website. The color choice, the layout, the color and type selector in the header! All amazing stuff.

Can't remember who linked to this. Was in some article about CSS, author linked to Miriam and said she was doing great work.

tldr: Do things.

Confidence comes from past performance
Recent past performance is more important than the stuff you did 5–10 years ago
You can’t ride the wave of old confidence for too long