So You Want To Be A Breaker, Pt. 1: Web Security – I. Altucher Confidential. Gary Vaynerchuk - The Home of Gary Vaynerchuk Online. Mostly harmless by Alex MacCaw. I recently decided it was finally time to part ways with TextMate, my trusty companion for these last few years, and start the hunt for a new editor.
After a quick Twitter poll the unanimous advice was that I should try Sublime Text 2. After a few weeks of using Sublime Text I can safely say that it’s the best editor I’ve used. It’s fast, extendable and hasn’t ever crashed on me. That said, that no editor is perfect and Sublime Text does require a fair bit of initial configuration. After you’ve downloaded & installed the editor, the first step to configuring Sublime Text 2 is to install the package manager. Once the manager is set up, you can install packages with ⌘⇧p (command shift p) and typing Install Package. Theme - Soda Sublime’s initial look leaves a lot to be desired.
To activate the theme, open Sublime’s preferences ⌘, (command comma), which is a JSON file, and set the "theme" key to "Soda Light.sublime-theme" (Remember to check commas). Extending the editor Tabs & Spaces Icon Pasting. You should blog even if you have no readers. Spencer Fry wrote a great post on "Why entrepreneurs should write.
" I would further add that the benefits of writing are so extraordinary that you should write a blog even if you have no readers (and regardless of whether you're an entrepreneur). I have over 50 unfinished drafts. Some of them are just a few ideas scribbled down arguing with myself. Most of them will never be published, yet I got value out of writing all of them.
Writing makes you a better reader Blogging has changed how I read other people's writing. In struggling to find the right ways to structure and present my posts, I am much more attuned to what makes a good argument and what makes a bad argument. At the same time, when reading I am less likely to fall into the trap of discrediting a post with weak counterclaims. I'm also more aware of the style of good writers. Writing makes you smarter Writing reveals holes in your thinking. Writing helps you organize your thoughts in a coherent way. Productivity vs. Uncertainty & Apathy. If you're not getting shit done, it may not be because you suck.
Traditionally unproductive workers get nailed with labels like undisciplined, lack of focus, or poor work ethic, but in my experience these are not nearly as influential as I'd thought. Over the past two decades of coding, including stints in management/as a lead/and being self-directed with no immediate manager, I've come to the conclusion that the main issues that impact productivity are uncertainty and apathy. When uncertainty kicks me in the nuts, it's usually in one of several flavors: high-level uncertainty, strategic uncertainty, and low-level uncertainty. High-level uncertainty, aka "Where am I and what an I trying to do? ", is when you have a general goal that comes with a set of implicit assumptions. Solution: Constrain your problem so that what was once vague is now extremely well specified. Or, using our lost in the woods analog, get a goddamn map. Now you have to come up with a technical solution. How to Write an Opening Sentence.
When I was a 25-year-old Senior Editor of The Mother Earth News, I did a lot of rewrite editing.
And when I say rewrite editing, I mean burn-the-original-and-start-over editing. This was back in the day when John Shuttleworth (Mother's founder) was alive. Shuttleworth believed in total rewrites of everything. John was a stickler for what he imagined was inventive, original writing, and I got in trouble countless times for being unimaginative. 2X Entrepreneur Turned Venture Capitalist.
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