- Daily Log:
- til2021 Peanut Butter
- Originally invented by the Incas, but re-popularized by John Harvey Kellogg
- Kellogg made this compound for patients at the Battle Creek Sanitarium as it is easily digestible
- Kellogg promoted plant-based diet over meat and with his clientele of Amelia Earhart, Sojourner Truth and Henry Ford helped establish peanut butter as a delicacy
- During WWI, there was meat rationing so Americans substituted meat with peanut butter
An average American kid eats ~1,500 pb&j sandwiches before graduating high school
- Lessons from a lifelong software engineer
- Source: https://www.bti360.com/what-ive-learned-in-45-years-in-the-software-industry/
- Beware of the curse of knowledge
- Try to understand your audience - from a POV that have never heard/seen this particular topic before
- Focus on the fundamentals
- Technology will continue to advance and change but how we approach to problem solving with teamwork, trust, communication, seek consensus, automated testing, clean + understandable + navigable code will stay
- Simplicity
- Solutions should be as simple as possible
- quotes “A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Seek first to understand
- First understand your teammates before conveying your ideas
- Beware of lock-in
- New technology is not always better because hiding behind the promised increase in productivity lies up-front costs or constraints that you might not fully consider
- Be honest and acknowledge when you don’t fit the role
- A bad fit is not your fault
- You can fix this by evolving or redefine the role
- Retrospective::
- Daily Stoic::
- Who are we and what we are truly defined by is a lifelong question that we should spend our time answering