May 19, 2021Goal Hierarchy — What is it and why should I spend time thinking about it?Originally published at blog.suprada.com/goal-hierarchy/ Goals are hierarchical. All goals fall into tiers — you may or may not be conscious of this. There are tactical goals — your To Dos or action items. There are top-level goals — about your identity, meaning and purpose in life or about the legacy…Goals3 min readGoals3 min read
May 14, 2021Continuous deployment via git and cPanel for your Gatsby (or other static) blogDo you run your own static site / blog? Do you still have a shared web hosting service you pay for? Would you like to jump into continuous deployment using just your web host? Sections Today’s manual steps to update site on my web host The automated way I would like …Continuous Deployment6 min readContinuous Deployment6 min read
Aug 12, 2020The Craft of Writing EffectivelyWriting — some of us are good at it, and some of us are not. However, the measurement of being ‘good’ at writing is a useless one. The yardstick we use to measure writing is “effectiveness”. As is any form of communication. For writing is a form of communication. …Writing5 min readWriting5 min read
Apr 18, 2020Untranslatables in the ZeitgeistA certain age, a certain generation has its own unique needs. Each such age sometimes borrows concepts and ideas from other ages and other cultures, sometimes combines them, and very rarely creates its own unique ideas which future generations will borrow or push against. Here are some ‘Untranslatable to English’…Uitwaaien3 min readUitwaaien3 min read
Dec 26, 2019The AstronautThere goes an astronaut Floating through space A moon rock in her pocket, And a grin on her face. Brrring Brrring the com rings It’s her honey from back home. “Honey, I’m at the grocery store. Do we need milk at home?” There goes the astronaut Floating in space. She passes by an asteroid Watching its trail Brring brring the com rings. It’s her boss from back home. “Hey, we need a volunteer to decorate the conference room You can do this right? Let me know by noon.”Space1 min readSpace1 min read
Feb 7, 2019How I moved my blog to GatsbyWhat I just migrated my blog Rope and Tire to use Markdown and React using Gatsby. Why Gatsby As a React developer, the idea of having a blog written in React is appealing — I can maintain and experiment on my blog. …Gatsby2 min readGatsby2 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Feb 26, 2018How to package your React Component for distribution via NPMI wrote a React component, transpiling using Babel, bundling and building using Webpack. I wanted to use it in another application via NPM. My NPM publish package needed to include component behavior, styles and images. So how difficult is it to package my React Component for distribution via NPM? …Java Script4 min readJava Script4 min read
Jan 7, 20172 week experiments and 6 week projectsI treat my entire life as 2 week experiments and 6 month projects because, and maybe this is just the way I cope with life and decision making, but I feel that if you make a 5 or 10 year plan that you can reliably hit, almost by definition, you…Seth Godin4 min readSeth Godin4 min read
