(the following is copy pasted directly from my simplenote (https://simplenote.com) journal. I sometimes type at work, sometimes on home computer. Please forgive my types xD )
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Friday. Woke up with enough energy to do my morning routine feeling GREAT. Took a shower. Elon Musk says the biggest factor in making his days better is the shower.
Work was good. 40 year old woman. 103 pounds, 5'2". Arm takes the kids' blood pressure cuff. She was drinking 1.5 pints of vodka daily "Throughout the day to prevent the shakes". Her Blood pressure was 180/137
I got home and cleaned some weeds from my backyard. My friends are coming over this weekend to work out in the back, I want the backyard to look like it's greatest. I stopped when the mosquitos started biting.
I worked on my coding on https://MOOTENS.space
I am happy with how it is right now.
I am going to wake up in 6 hours and do light yard work. Take a shower and drive to Martinez to visit Jacob and Nenes. Then we go to San Fransisco for a festival. Fuck Yeah.
I am updating my wordpress
https://mootens.org/
I love you. Follow me at MOOTENS.space
Also going to do
9749
Thursday. I slept a lot yesterday. I got home at 5pm, talked to Tracie, talked to Mom. I filled the green waste with a bunch of weeds from my front yard. Finished at 6pm, and I just knocked out on the couch. I did not have the feeling to meditate: I was just tired. I fell asleep and woke up at 9pm. 9-915pm I layed on the couch, awake daydreaming about what to do next. I felt groggy, and unsure of what to do next. I knew I wanted to be working on my programming, so I brushed my teeth and turned on the computer. I opened up my projects, but did not have the desire to work on them further. I was unsure of what to do, and what the next steps are in my project. I stepped back and started thinking. I recorded my voice with the hopes of verbalizing my stream of consiousness and understand better why I'm feeling like this and what to do next. I did 2 recordings: both 10 minutes, and bother before 10pm. First one was about how I am not feeling good. Second was about my projects and how I feel lost in the next steps. The verbalization helped for sure, but I did not get the next steps from me talking (which usually happens). I also wrote out how I was feeling, but I did not get far in that: wrote out a page of my stream of consiousness but I hit a block and stopped. I layed back down and thought about what to do next. I was tired already that day (which is why I took that 3hr nap), my muscles sore. I decided to go back to sleep, but talked to Tracie on the phone. Talked to her as she drove from Sacramento. She came home, we both fell asleep. Slept ~12am, woke up 715am. I had set an alarm for 6 hours, but I did not want to get up at 6am. I snoozed the alarm multiple times until I woke up at 715. I feel a certain kind of way right now. I feel like I am dissociating from my body. My thighs are sore, my back is sore. I ate ~8 potstickers yesterday with cheese as my only meal. I am not hungry for food right now. I am drinking fluids. I spilled my tea this morning, but I cleaned it up and refilled the little tea left over with water. Sipping on it now.
Last night I had good dreams. I dreamt about Dasha's husbo: I scrolled through instagram last night and I saw a picture of him. Dreamt he was sleeping in his car and we were in Vero's house in Lynwood. Tracie and I were renovating a huge stadium. I offered for him to stay inside, and hang out, he declined.
Message of dream: while in the middle of HUGE projects, look to who needs help, and offer the best help. Talk.
I also had another dream about coding: I saw what I needed to do was START with the content. The actual difficult part - in my mind right now is the structuring of the content.
health.info domain is available for $12
My project involves health in different terms / spaces / definitions: such as spiritual / physical / mental … but it falls under health.
Health:
The state of being free from illness or injury.
A person's mental or physical condition.
Looks like there is a simpler, paid alternative to my idea of sharing education:
https://www.brainpop.com/math/
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Wednesday. I have been sleeping "more" than usual but getting "less" done. I was putting off writing about it: I talked about it on my podcast, but my funk has not been broken completely. Examples of "sleeping more":
Sleep 11-12, wake up >715am. I feel like I need to be running/ exercising in the morning to counteract it. I feel good throughout the day in terms of energy, but that past few days I have not had the DRIVE to put my 100% energy into advancing my programming skills / myself. I will still do it: like watching a conference talk about programming, reading / researching, working out…but it has been half assed (in a way), because I KNOW I COULD BE DOING MORE, BUT THE ENERGY IS NOT BEING FLOWED EXACTLY HOW IT "SHOULD" (the best way possible).
Plan for today: get home, change,
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Tuesday. 7.5 hours of sleep. Tracie got home >12, I was half asleep at that point, and fell asleep soon after she came home. Fabi and Luis came by yesterday. Started talking about Fabi's and Luis' experience on the weekend
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Monday. Woke up great. I had good rest, woke up before my alarm, snuggled with Tracie more. I thought: yes I could get up and get my day going, but I REALLY want those early mornings where the temperature is nice.
The next step for my coding: I have created the visual UI components. The actual content to be created:
In order to master skill
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Sunday. I wrote my first Javascript code today. First in terms of understanding it, figuring out the most minimal js needed (no frameworks or dependencies), and doing exactly what I wanted it to be doing. Once I understood the code, I felt a sense of "lost". I became unsure of what my next step should be. I have LOTS of different things I could do, but the uncertainty was where to proceed next. I talked it out, recorded it, and posted it on my podcast. Tracie got home, we talked, we did our taxes, she cut my hair. I took a shower, and fell asleep.
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Saturday. Went for a run. Bowled with Nathan. Met new people. Jake, buff, works out no matter how he is feeling: his dad inspires him to continue. Phil, Loves guns, cooks for his wife. Welds and does electrical. Uncle, retiree, travels between his 3 properties "2 properties is best", vacations in cool destinations: pyramids/ northern lights / mysterious world features; "If we are on the plane 17 hours, we are staying for a while". Julio; built a bar at home so he can drink safely.
I worked on MOOTENS.space
Talked to mom and dad. The Ranchito is beautiful with flowers. Plot of land in Perris California. So much potential.
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Friday. Woke up feeling great. My plans for the weekend include hanging out with Jacob and Nenes, going bowling with Nathan who I have not seen in over 3 years (for celebration of new baby coming). If it is not raining, mow the front lawn, and manicure the weeds, make the outside look nice. Mowing grass, pulling weeds, throwing away stuff, taking oil to autozone, etc. Clean the fridge, plat the plants from inside that are ready for the outside.
I worked on the new project website.
battlefield of mind : Book that was recommended by Anthony.
“No matter how much we know in any area there are always new things to learn and things we have previously learned that we need to be refreshed in.”
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Thursday. I woke up feeling great. Slept 2am, set alarm for 7am, woke up minutes before 7, snoozed to 7:15, got up at 713 and cancelled alarm. I feel great, listened to a podcast with Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro: talking about government, people, and politics. Interesting that I "wanted" to listen to the previous podcast they did, but I did not because it was "too old" - posted months ago. I decided not to, as there was other more pressing content I wanted to watch. Nice surprise this morning, and drive to work.
Talked to Lorraine about patient we are going to see today: Patient is very stressed with work, daughter, FOC, life situations.
Lorraine shared with me an article about dying "I remember you were talking about dying, wanted to share this with you" An article from a magazine about a grandma's farewell to her family before she passed. I thanked Lorraine for adding onto my knowledge / ideas.
Helen also shared with me documentation she made in regards to meth use.
This will be included in the repository / MOOTENS db for resources. Under Substances.
Duration of Withdrawal Timeline for Methamphetamine
Days
1 – 3 Symptoms can begin after the 24-hour mark and remain at peak levels during the next seven to ten days. People experience fatigue and sleep more often than normal. Feelings of depression will also set in and can be significant.
• Difficulty with concentration
• Exhaustion
• Hunger
• Longer sleep cycle, that can include dreams of using
• Negative thoughts increase
Days
– 10 After day four, symptoms grow more complex. Strong cravings begin
Users may experience mood swings and find it difficult to concentrate or remain motivated. In some severe cases, paranoia, hallucinations and extreme anxiety may occur.
• Depressive symptoms can get worse, temporary.
• Anxiety can increase, but not always
• Difficulty with mood
• Strong cravings to use
• An inability to concentrate.
• Mood swings.
• Feeling emotionally flattened
• Lacking energy
• Sleeping problems.
• Aches and pains.
• Headaches.
• Increased appetite.
• Paranoia and distorted thinking.
• Hallucinations.
Days 11 – 30 Users will typically start to experience insomnia during this time.
Depression and cravings usually continue.
• Often people report not feeling “anything”
• Motivation for quitting dims
• Still having using dreams
Days 31+ About a month after quitting, most people begin to feel better. Many of their withdrawal symptoms lift, though feelings of depression may remain. Cravings may come and go during this period as well.
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Wednesday. I had a weird ass fucking dream. Literally. The dream revolved around some event / meetup. There was a podcast with Joe Rogan and the host from the podcast "Code Newbie"; except it was that ex Buzzfeed employee: Safiya Na… The podcasts I listen to the most are those two podcasts, and I always picture Safiya as the host of Code Newbie because their voices are similar.
In the dream, I am seeing this conversation between my 2 favorite podcasts. Then the function / meetup is over, go to the girls house. She is living with her parents so have to be quiet. Her room is messy, bunch of stuff on the floor. Then the imagery of a threesome (not with joe rogan) with a girl in a car flashes through my dream. They are all enjoying it. That finishes, then start to think about the age difference. Then I get the prespective of the girl: she had a lot of fun in the meetup, she met lots of people, talked to Joe Rogan, and finished off the night with a sexual escapade.
I did not wake up horny, or envious of the situation. I intially wanted to find out why I had that dream, and what it meant. I took a shower, made my coffee, went to work. But was still thinking about the dream. I am writing out my thoughts about the dream so I can give it a meaning and not let it hold space in my head anymore.
Dream Meaning: Hard work opens new doors for different experiences. I do not want this to happen to ME, but reflecting back on the dream story: about a girl who decided to do a podcast, worked on it, expanded her skills and put her deep work in producing content that helps other people (like me). The meetup event happened where lots of people in the same space was being held, she got to do what SHE wanted to do.
Meaning #2: the other meaning was more personal to me: use everything in life for my advantage to reach my goals and live my best life. I could have not written about my dream, and it would have held space in my mind as it being such a weird dream, but by writing / thinking it out, I am able to apply a message for life that will help me in my life.
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I worked on codepen last night, and was making a simple navigation system.
PROGRESSIVE WEB APPS
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Tuesday.
I woke up rested. I prepped for the morning, but I also enjoyed the mornings for what they are. Example: I went home, ate my cottage cheese / spinach salad, and I had some free time (30 minutes), before I needed to go back to work. I was cold, so I decided to go to bed and meditate. As the alarm rang for 1252, I knew I could have a few more moments for myself, so I started taking DEEP breaths. I started trying to get as deep of breaths I possibly could, and control the exhale. I ended up doing this for 5 more minutes, and I felt better after doing it.
I went to work, returned some missed calls, and went to the behavioral health team meeting. There were a few presentations / announcements that were done, and I gave my input to the group. I gave thanks to Tina for her 25 years service to Communicare. I also offered my idea (taking into account my other coworker's answers when asked): "What would you change in the way mental health care is provided". The answers varied from lowering administrator burden, improving communication between sites, and access to the actual services.
When I think of these ideas throughout the day, I find I do not REALLY think about it. Like, yes I went to that meeting and we talked about this, but I have other things occupying my mind.
Talked to Helen after the meeting: talked about life. Did my Nursing Duties. Work ended, I called family. Talked to family. Let cats outside. I stretched and tried some burpees and jumping jacks. I was not feeling in the mood of doing them, even though I WANTED TO WORK OUT. Like, it was time to work out…but my body was not as aligned as it was. I couldn't get in the mood to bust out 20+ burpees. I got some sunlight, I stretched, I thought about my thoughts.
I started thinking of who I wanted to be.
George the type of nigga to go for a 2 mile run because his body did not feel like working out. I did not stop during my run. I kept on pace, and finished proud. I pushed myself to hold myself to my high standards of what I knew I was supposed to do. Got home, stretched, and took a MEDITATION NAP. I woke up at 715pm. Finished talking to family 5:15pm, got home before 5:55pm. It's crazy as I was proofreading the previous sentence, the song I am listening to: Migos "Slippery" and exactly as I read the sentence, at 0:54: the lyrics "4 o clock, 5 o clock, 6 o clock"
When you commit yourself to the universe, the universe commits itself back to you.
I was thinking about the structure of the layout of the content for MOOTENS productions.
I was thinking of different container like:
- Software
- Physical
- Nursing (Health)
- Substances
- HTML
- SVG
- MOOTENS productions
- LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE
- Artistic
- Financial
- Technical
- Spiritual
- Audio
- Video
- Images
The list goes on an on. I can get very specific in some containers. Specificity matters. Everything can be broken down.
Containers from least specific to most:
Technical | Financial | Artistic
Thoughts | Feelings | Actions
Time | Energy | Space
Software | Physical | Spiritual
Public Health | News | Politics
The idea of reusable content is a recurring theme / thought / idea.
The content that is created is not just "forever lost" with time. The content is constantly dynamic, updating, growing.
They all need to be included.
It is like 4chan's boards. Reddit's subreddits.
Best of both worlds with my own MOOTENS twist.
MOOTENS.space/TechnicalFinancialArtistic
MOOTENS.space/Thoughts/Feelings/Actions
MOOTENS.space/TimeEnergySpace
MOOTENS.space/PhysicalSpiritualSoftware
MOOTENS.space/People "real people"
MOOTENS.space/Hypermedia
There will be "stickys" … like on 4chan, or a pinned thread
There will be a discussion board on the bottom. On page landing / reload:
All of the categories collapse. There are containers that take you to the respective.
MOOTENS.space/Thoughts
MOOTENS.space/Feelings
MOOTENS.space/Actions
MOOTENS.space/Technical
MOOTENS.space/Financial
MOOTENS.space/Artistic
MOOTENS.space/Time
MOOTENS.space/Energy
MOOTENS.space/Space
MOOTENS.space/Physical
MOOTENS.space/Spiritual
MOOTENS.space/Software
MOOTENS.space/People
MOOTENS.space/Hypermedia
MOOTENS.space/Audio
MOOTENS.space/Video
MOOTENS.space/Images
MOOTENS.space/
MOOTENS.space/
MOOTENS.space/
MOOTENS.space/
Basicall, All of the following random ideas for containers that are recurring:
- Software
- Physical
- Nursing (Health)
- Substances
- HTML
- SVG
- MOOTENS productions
- LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE
- Artistic
- Financial
- Technical
- Spiritual
- Audio
- Video
- Images
What is the purpose for all of these repositories for information?
# 9739
Monday.
Woke up feeling great. I followed my Javascript learning progression. I now look at Javascript and try to understand it instead of blindly dismissing it as "too hard to understand". I used to see it as complicated, and potentially going down rabbit holesi was yet not ready to go down (in terms of putting my energy going down that before I work on them eventually). I have been planting seeds in my mind about Javascript from the beginning.
I used to see Javascript in the same light as PHP, ("C sharp" aka C#), C++, C, Python, HTML, CSS, Java), etc.
Now, I know there is a vast difference between Python and C. In terms of the level of complexity in which they are:
simple "Hello World program for C and Python
C
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
// printf() displays the string inside quotation
printf("Hello, World!");
return 0;
}
Python
print("Hello World.")
As I continued on my research, hours, learning, deep work, I started gravitating towards common themes that kept coming up.
I first started from a "Learn Python The Hard Way" because python was one of the most recommended programming languages that beginners should learn.
I learned about the basic structure of programs, started thinking about programming more. I got 15 chapters in when I realized I could literally create anything I could possibly create….so what the fuck was I going to do?
I took a break from programming in my journey of "what do I want to be doing". I understood I needed to use technology to the most I could possibly to do what I wanted to do. I also knew I wanted to be growing with crypto as a technology. I thought of ways in which I can give the most back to the ecosystem: to invest in the technology of tomorrow. I could buy, but I could also grow inside of it. I started doing content about cryptocurrency and sharing it on crypto powered apps like Dlive and STEEMIT.
Then I realized that the growth was very slow, and I could be producing more worth. I could be creating what I want to create. I started thinking about content and the type of content I can create. The type of content that brings the most value, with my own unique twist. The progression of working towards being the best me I can possibly be, who I am today, and who I will be in the future. This is the moment I started to live my best life in terms of putting my 100% best effort in everything I do. I learn more everyday, and working towards mastery in all skills I am using to acheive the life I want to acheive. The life I want to acheive is giving my 100% best effort into everything I want to do that will produce the most value in the most efficient way possible. This is the reason for MOOTENS productions (Improvement Through Hypermedia).
The idea, container, object, function of (MOOTENS productions) is Improvement Through Hypermedia.
Improvement means progressing towards the better. If life were an endless ocean, where we row (towards success is the best route), encapsulates our DECISIONS in this life. What we do every moment of our lives dictate the outcome.
One of my goals is to become a master in the skill of software development.
If I am reading articles, watching videos, writing programs, thinking, dreaming, creating, drawing, looking at memes about software development, the more time I put into that only puts me THAT MUCH CLOSER to that goal of becoming a master.
I will never reach the finish line. No matter how hard I or anyone else tries, no one will ever become 100% master of any skill they devote their life to. There will always be something more to learn, something more to learn and master.
Even though I will never reach 100%, that road to mastery will help me progress the skill in a more efficient way.
If I spend my deep work and energy towards mastering what I WANT TO DO will only get me closer towards my goal of achieving everything I want to do. Everything I want to do is to work the most efficiently in making the world a better place through producing value. I understand the road to do this requires me to be living my best life. By living my best life, I can do what I want to do. I want to make the world a better place. I have to use every tool I have at my disposal in this physical world to achieve what I want to achieve. Not using every tool at my disposal goes directly against my goal of progressing towards my goals in a more efficient way.
This is where using technology / software development comes into view in my journey in life.
IF I SPEND ALL OF MY TIME, ENERGY, SPACE, THOUGHTS, FEELINGS, AND ACTIONS INTO ACHIEVING MY GOALS, THE ONLY RESULT IS ME ACHIEVING MY GOALS.
ACHIEVING ACHIEVING ACHIEVING ACHIEVING ACHIEVING ACHIEVING.
I was starting to use HTML / SVG / CSS to the most use recently so I had put Javascript on the backburner: The more content/ learning / time I spend in programming, and working on the projects I was working on, the more Javascript was becoming a clear need for me to learn it. It joings CSS and HTML as the trio building blocks of the internet.
So I watched youtube videos about javascript, took a course, wrote and debugged code. I look at javascript, and I am not scared anymore. I was scared of going down the rabbit hole and not using my time the most efficiently. Now, it has become the main priority in learning. I am thinking about the best way to progress through my journey of mastering Javascript. I WAS HAVING A MENTAL BLOCK TODAY about starting my javascript learning. I felt like I needed to think more about what I really wanted to do with it. I was starting to draw / write out in my physical notebook, but It was already full of unreviewed drawings I used to fill up the notebook. I have not reviewed fully. I was using it as a working notebook for my ideas of what I wanted my programs / creations to look like. Some of them are very complex with lots of "cool" features that are built upon the actual structure I am currently building. Those "cool" features are not being built yet DIRECTLY (the structure I am creating has those future "cool feature" functions in place so I can more efficiently create what I want to create).
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sunday.
Javascript from a Web Developer's Point of View
basics:
variabl;es
data types
loops
more complex
functions
selectors
and events.
In end, 5 common coding patterns using Javascript.
Writing it inline in html document
onclick="alert('Clicked')"
Dedicated .js file
…
Variables
can start with dollar sign and underscore but not numbers.
case sensitive
-examples-
var item,
item2;
item =5;
item2 = "hello";
9737
Saturday. Mowed the lawn. Recorded it. Rendering it now. Need to know what day alive I am today. 9737.
This is the introduction Tracie and I did late 2018. This was when my microphone set up was in my garage, and I was starting to get the bug to create content. My idea of how to efficiently share my ideas was still developing. It is always changing dynamically (the idea of "How can I most efficiently implement my deep work in expressing and sharing my thoughts, feelings, and actions, so I can improve the world. That is the goal of MOOTENS productions and is why the motto is "Improvement Through Hypermedia". If You are reading this, this is the idea seed I want to implant in you:
DO YOUR BEST. YOU ARE THE HERO TO YOUR OWN JOURNEY. ACT LIKE IT. STAND UP STRAIGHT, CLEAN YOUR SHIT, AND BE OBSESSED WITH WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DO. WHEN YOU ARE YOUR BEST EVERYONE ELSE IS THE BETTER FOR IT. MOST IMPORTANTLY, YOU WILL BE SUCCESSFUL IN LIFE. WORKING TOWARDS MY GOALS IN LIFE IS WHAT GETS ME EXCITED TO LIVE MY LIFE. THE ONLY FINISH LINE IS WHEN YOU DIE. EVEN IF YOU IMPROVE 10% EVERY WEEK, YOU WILL FOREVER BE STUCK IN THE 99.9999999…% LOOP. YOU ARE ONLY DONE DONE WHEN YOU DIE. IT IS SPECIAL WE ARE HERE LIVING IN THIS REALITY. WE ARE LITERALLY LIVING IN THE FUTURE, SO BUCK THE FUCK UP AND WORK TOWARDS EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO ACHEIVE.
ps. Imaging everything you want to acheive and times it by 10x, 100x, 1000x, 1MILx, 1BILLIONx. when I think of the problems and acheivements at 1000x my current mindset, I always encounter the problems to reaching that goal. When I think of the problems my mind automatically looks for the solutions. ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE. I am always looking for other successful people to talk to, to understand their Thought process, Feelings, and Actions, so I can understand Ideas, Emotions, and Actions better, so I can more efficiently grow in my journey to making the most positive impact in the world: MOOTENS productions. Improvement Through Hypermedia.
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Friday. Woke up feeling great. I was waking up sort of tired, and not feeling my best, but I knew I needed to rest, and I rested lots yesterday and today I woke up feeling great. I am still at work, but I have been productive in my role.
I am thinking about the next steps I need to do. I have not been logging CONSISTENLY my dailyLog, and I have been thinking in ways to remedy this. I have this idea for creating dailyLog and connecting the content directly to the STEEM blockchain: so it can be logged in the STEEM database, and people can upvote, and they can make money. My goal is to reduce the amount of steps for the dailyLog to be performed and submitted so it canm be submitted more efficiently and there will be less barriers to entry to actually get it done.
STEEMCONNECT is a way in which this can be done, I need to implement the coding into my site so that the content written can be submitted to the STEEM DB.
I also want to implement a way in which users can connect their github / instagram accounts to allow my service to use technology to the most, and people can easily make a website / landing page so users can post their own content.
I have been thinking about the best way in which I can educate others in the knowledge I have learned (with my own unique way of presenting it), and the idea of education is connected to my Nursing Profession.
The idea in my mind is originally part of Nurse George, but I also want to make it available to everyone. -GPRN
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Thursday. I had my phone interview for the assoiciate director of nursing and it went very well. I did not "prepare" other than doing my best in every aspect of my life. I talked to Yolanda about diffculties she was having as a manager, and the conclusion we came up with was to increase communication: specifically the goal was to get the other "problem" person to talk about the situation as much as possible, instead of asking yes / no questions, or "letting them off the hook" when they give "no everything is fine" when the situation obviously isn't. I feel comfortable with these discussions now: where in the past, these talks would drain me, now I am able to reflect on myself and learn more about other people's behavior and apply that learning to how I interact in this world.
I went home, talked to my aunt *(her birthday today), video chatted, and worked out. I did benchpress, stretched, pull ups, sit ups, Then used the foam roller. I was still sore from my stretching / squats I had done on Tuesday. I fell asleep (did not want to work on the computer), then woke up to Tracie coming home, and fell back asleep.
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Wednesday. I went to a Miguel 's band: sadGhost. It was a very fun experience, and I wanted to make a music video for them:
I talked to miguel and I asked what he was doing: He told me about his band, the next steps for the band was to do a "record deal" in order to get more money. What is going to be done with the money? Tour?Merch? Equipment?,
They want to do a music video so they can attract more people, and increase their fandom.
My initial reponse and thought as he was telling me this was "you guys should do it yourself". I caught myself, and challenged myself to see what I can create myself and that is the reason why I wanted to make a music video.
I went to their show, recorded at different angles / zooms getting lots of cool action shots, and included every band member./
9733
Tuesday. I feel great today. Woke up feeling the best I have in days. Tracie and I watched the Komo documentary "Seattle is Dying" and it related to MAT. Saw the beginning of SuicideBoys interview and thet talked about suboxone.
Researcged Dev Ops, and it looks to be a very bloated and archaic way of making an abomination of code work by adding more abominations or code. All resources I looked at were filled with DEV OPS people complaining of the state their profession is in.
I am glad I looked into this, because the goal is good, it's what I am striving for: the best possible way to run a business (technically / software / etc), but the actual implementation is very strung around / wrapped around itself because they are trying to do it with complicated code. So they add complicated tools on top of the complicated code, and they get the abomination I mentioned earlier. I am going back to basics (which is what I was doing), and focus on not overcomplicating thigs.
Work was good, got a lot done.
Ive been searching stack overflow, and I am distracted by cool features and design patterns I want to implement.
Visual example is the progress bar that updates during scroll:
From the article above:
Kerenidis and Prakash proved that a quantum computer could solve the recommendation problem exponentially faster than any known algorithm, but they didn’t prove that a fast classical algorithm couldn’t exist. So when Aaronson began working with Tang in 2017, that was the question he posed — prove there is no fast classical recommendation algorithm, and thereby confirm Kerenidis and Prakash’s quantum speedup is real.
“That seemed to me like an important ‘t’ to cross to complete this story,” said Aaronson, who believed at the time that no fast classical algorithm existed.
Tang set to work in the fall of 2017, intending for the recommendation problem to serve as a senior thesis. For several months Tang struggled to prove that a fast classical algorithm was impossible. As time went on, Tang started to think that maybe such an algorithm was possible after all.
“I started believing there is a fast classical algorithm, but I couldn’t really prove it to myself because Scott seemed to think there wasn’t one, and he was the authority,” Tang said.
We also have to define “innovation” carefully. An “innovation” is not simply combining two functions into a single product - that’s “integration” and usually doesn’t require any significant innovation (just hard work). In particular, integrating functions to prevent customers from using a competitor’s product is “predation,” not “innovation.” An “innovation” is not a product, either, although a product may embody or contain innovations. Re-implementing a product so that it does the same thing on a different computer or operating system isn’t an innovation, either. An innovation is a new idea. And in this paper, what’s meant is a new idea in software technology.
It’s okay to not be innovative
There’s nothing wrong with a technology or product not being innovative. Indeed, a technology or product should primarily be measured as whether or not it solves real world problems (without causing more problems than it solves). Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, has stated that a pet peeve of his is that “there is a great deal of talk about ‘innovation’ and ‘vision.’ People want to hear about the one big idea that changes the world, but that’s not how the world works. It’s not about visionary ideas; it’s about lots of good ideas which do not seem world-changing at the time, but which turn out to be great after lots of sweat and work have been applied.” Instead, the Linux kernel (which has been wildly successful) is the result of lots of small ideas contributed by lots of people over a long time.
The focus of this paper is innovation, not utility. Do not confuse innovation with utility.
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