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Last year I started running 1 mile each day. Running is my favorite exercise. I can get enjoy exercise, enjoy nature, and listen to an audiobook. However, in the past I've only run if there's an event to train for. In April, 2017 we had our

Abridged summary from the publisher: Radical Candor is simple, you have to Care Personally at the same time that you Challenge Directly. When you challenge without caring, it's obnoxious aggression; when you care without challenging, it's ruinous empathy. When you do neither, it's manipulative

Just finished listening to this book on Audible (pro tip: Listen at 150% speed). Below are some bullets that really stood out to me. * Business plan - Google initially created a business plan that didn’t actually tie the engineers to anything. In hindsight this worked quite well in allowing

There's some task managers out there, as well as information on productivity and task management systems, whether digital or something analog. I started thinking about what a task manager that works how I think, taking inspiration from all the things I've used over the years. This

Just finished watching an excellent video from James Clear on the small changes you can make in your life to improve over time. This lines up very closely with the daily habits I've been practicing last year. I highly recommend checking out this talk! Sharing my sketchnotes below:

Last week I installed the iOS 11 public beta on my phone. After playing with it on my iPad for a few months I figured it'd be safe enough to add to my daily driver. It's a new OS that adds features to a pretty established

https://make.xwp.co/2017/08/30/contributing-to-wordpress-core-as-a-non-developer/ Sharing a post I wrote for XWP, where I work as a Product Owner / Designer.