While on a road trip recently, I had some time when the car was quiet to reflect. As my mind wandered through life events where I grew the most, I wondered how I got into these places of great learning. I aimed to escape a little learning slump I may…

Time management is a crucial skill that we all need to master to be successful in our personal and professional lives. With so many things to do and so little time, it can be overwhelming to keep track of everything. As discussed in previous posts, I…

Time for a check-in. Time to be held accountable for an experiment, nay, a change in managing work. A couple of months ago, I began experimenting with timeboxing my efforts. Big or small, I wanted to timebox them all. That write-up can be found here.…

If you have been following along this year, the theme of all blog-related work is to reduce the friction in the writing process. If not, check out this to get caught up. Some of the friction experienced in the past is keeping up with the pace of a…

I want to start very clearly. The following is not a post on how to get started with Docker and Gatsby. It is to document the path I took to containerize this blog. Given what I learned in the previous post, I started with a .dockerignore file that…

For the past couple of weeks, I have been honing skills in other areas of software development. With all new-ish adventures, there will be learning, with a high probability of banging one's head on the desk. The following is a story of the latter. My…

All of this is part of being a unique human. Everyone is different. There are tools that you use and do not work for others. The means of the person next to you may not work for you. One time management device I have been aware of for quite some time…

As we grow in our respective careers, there is always someone ahead of us to guide us. Just as our mentors helped get us to where we are, the class behind us needs mentoring. For me, this has caused division and stress in my career. I know mentoring…

It's always time to learn something new. If one can couple learning something new and removing a dependency, why not? The target for this learning? Remove react-bootstrap from this site, replacing it with vanilla CSS. In my day job, I have focused on…

The power of automating a task is one that I often overlook. Given the industry I am in automation is what I do. Day in and day out, automate this then automate that. But when you can quickly automate away some of the friction that you have been…

If you have been following along, you may have a sense that Gatsby has been fun for me. In a previous post describing how to use markdown files to create pages within a Gatsby site. From the perspective of reducing the friction in maintaining this…

As discussed in my review of the last year of blogging, the theme for this third year is to reduce the friction in the writing process. An area that requires time and effort is managing the site. There is difficulty in maintaining the shell of the…