Recommendations please for good blogs around the following topics: Web Development, Agile practices, Ruby, Rust and writing.
Cheers!
Rails app migration from Cloud66 to Heroku done. Time for bed now.
First Competition of the Year for Ethan
Ethan played in his first competition of the year at Paisley Golf Club. He’s still struggling with the longer tees in these competitions but he enjoyed the challenge. Looking forward to seeing him out on the course a lot over the rest of the year and getting his handicap down.
Book Recommendation from Curtis
If you want to tip the daily balance from shallow work to deep work, my buddy Curtis in British Columbia recommends Cal Newport’s book, Deep Work.
In Deep Work, Cal Newport wants to convince us to step away from the ever-increasing series of distractions — those latest and greatest things that pull away our focus and keep us from doing deep work. Newport doesn’t just stop in telling us that distraction is harming us, but goes on to give us four rules to achieve a state of deep work with more regularity so that we can truly produce work that’s industry leading (without working evenings and weekends).
— Accomplish more of worth and suffer from less distraction: Deep Work by Cal Newport by Curtis McHale
Going by Curtis’ review (and the fact I highly value his recommendations), I’m definitely adding this book to my reading list.
I’ve found it hard to maintain a steady level of posting. Seems like I’m in a continual state of rebooting.
I don’t always have an acceptable reason why this happens, but I’m glad to identify a few of these reasons by Adam Keys.
Courtesy of Nicholas Bate.
Update: Some links in this post pointed to pages that no longer exist and have been removed.
I applaud Moleskine for their determination to break into the digital world with their new Smart Writing Set but I think they’re better off sticking to just plain old pen and paper.
It’s been a quiet here. I’ve got the week off and I’m enjoying some time away from the computer. It’s been good so far.
Installed aText, migrated snippets across and uninstalled TextExpander. Time to move on now.
I’d rather have one of these in the driveway.