Patrick Rhone's Writing Steps
It's easier than you think. Just read step one.
A new rule for ideas ...
... give them a 2 week shelf life.
This is just an idea for a new blogging platform, but i love the idea for the simple fact that your posts are written using Markdown.
The Myth of Success ...
... with Caesura Letters.
Let us expose the conspiracy: success is an illusion. To be sure, the human experience is full of tantalizing tokens, symbols and rituals to represent this highly-sought status. But every diploma, certification, award, medal, pay-grade promotion and recognition is simply another construct of this brilliant mythology: ‘success’ is nothing but a humanly crafted religion that teaches us how to revere one another.
— The Myth of Success by Caesura Letters
Caesura Letters is the one bit of email I look forward to reading every day. Make it yours also.
Fixie Friday - All-City Thunderdome
Behind the scenes of ...
... Raiders.
I loved this movie as a kid, but equally amazing is that my oldest son also loves this movie. It's a real testament to a movie when it can be appreciated across multiple generations.
Wishlist Wednesday - A portfolio career
While I would love to work with some programming languages full-time I know that it will unlikely be the case. However, being able to split my job into smaller jobs seems like a more feasible idea. My bread and butter is Dynamics NAV, but I also like working with Ruby, Go, Dart and Coffeescript.
This is where having a portfolio career would be nice.
Working a couple of days a week doing Dynamics NAV work, then a couple of days a week working with Ruby and then hopefully leaving myself the Friday to work on my own products would be a great way to balance the week out. It also means of course that I keep a broader range of skills updated rather than focusing on just the one.
Fixie Friday - LOW x Pepper Riser Bar
Execupundit has an assignment for you ...
... idea books. Think of it as topical journals. I currently post everything into the one journal, but I do leave a few things out as I feel they should be elsewhere. Taking a note of this to try from next month.
Two sentences is all it takes to keep a journal
Seriously, who can't write two sentences every day? That's all it takes to keep a journal for yourself going. Just two sentences. What's stopping you from keeping a journal?