In no particular order, a list of the skills, tools, coding ideas, guidelines, and learning goals I have on my mind right now…
- Always be deploying
- Build stuff that is small and useful
- Don’t let politics get in the way of trying things
- Emacs
- Mac
- Lisp
- PowerShell
- Python (especially on App Engine)
- Big data views of my personal data via Google Apps Script
- Share information and ideas as publicly as possible
- Functional programming
- Scala
- Testing, testing, testing
- Document only what is useful
- Don’t wait and hope for what you can’t control
- Show, don’t tell
- Data buckets
- Scripting
- Minimalism
- Throwing out commitments and renewing the important ones daily
- Kindle books
- and… Minecraft 🙂
This post is just a mind dump. It makes sense to me. If you are out there on the Internet somewhere reading it and not “getting it” – that’s okay, the idea is for this list to be evocative of the sorts of ideas that are important to me (and which I think are generally important for others as well). I’ve written other posts on similar topics on this blog which are more “coherent.”
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