Yesterday, I wrote that Writing is a form of Thinking.
On the other hand, we are taught the way to write is
It rarely works that way because as we are fleshing out the details, we will get new insights and …
While reading about note taking philosophies, I came across a sentence which can be paraphrased as follows:
Writing is a form of thinking. When you write, you clarify your thoughts and make it concrete
I can relate to this. I have often said that the best way to learn a …
Divide notes into 4 categories
Projects contain actionable things that you are working on, which have a clear end point. Example: "Hire a Python Developer"
Areas contain broad areas of responsibility and long term goals, but don't involve actionable tasks. Eg: Technical Hiring
Resources are content …
There are two ways of capturing information. I call them Essays and Notes.
Essays are long form articles, that cover a topic in enough detail that a person new to the topic can read from top to bottom to get an understanding of a topic.
Notes are short. A notes …
One critical skill that I have seen in great developers is double-loop learning.
What is double-loop learning?
Good developers are those who keep learning newer, better ways of solving problems. They upgrade their technical skills, learn the latest in the industry and solve problems in the smartest, most efficient way …
As I blogged about in the previous two articles, I recently updated my NeoVim configuration for the fourth time. Although it might sound like a lot of config updates, keep in mind that it happened over a period of four years.
In the previous post, I mentioned how NeoVim can be configured to be more like an IDE. This means features like autocomplete and so on. Let us take a look at some tools which we can interface with NeoVim.
Regular Vim always had support for these to some …
Every conference / unconference should have a rule like this.
The author of the rule, Eric Holscher, has a few more rules that unconference organisers will find helpful.
Was browsing through some old bookmarks and came across my Django screencast tutorials that I did for the site ShowMeDo way back in July 2007. These were some of the first video tutorials for Django and got a huge number of views. Crazy to think that it's been 15 years …