Ideas & drafts.
| Unchanged: Ideas & drafts. | Unchanged: Ideas & drafts. | |
| Deleted: - fighting for the blog | ||
| Deleted: - I'm not a dev, I'm a hobbyist at best | ||
| Deleted: - when there were SQL injections I was mortified, I know it's (sadly) part of the we these days but it felt personal, like someone was trying to ruin what I'd worked so hard for | ||
| Deleted: - so I made it a priority to save what I'd done, there was no way that, what was likely just an automated bot set to trawl the web for MySQL vulnerabilities, was going to make me give up what I'd spent ages building and refining | ||
| Deleted: - I'm looking at the flip side of it now, the "attack" (you can't _really_ call it that but that's how it _felt_) made me strengthen my code, made me learn more | ||
| Deleted: - it really was a case of learning by doing, something that was always on my /now page and is still on my /about page | ||
| Deleted: **Reading** | ||
| Deleted: Made a point of building a habit to read before going to sleep each night and what better book to start with than Atomic Habits by James Clear - this is a direct example of the first rule: make it obvious (habit stacking): | ||
| Deleted: - when I get in bed I will read a section of the book - it's working nicely so far, AND I came up with the idea BEFORE starting the book so bonus points for me | ||
| Deleted: - stage of habit formation - make it easy, ties in with why I prioritised the blog over the writing project and training | ||
| Deleted: - also feels like I'm being productive, like I'm tricking myself into believing that I'm doing something worthy even though there are more important things to be doing | ||
| Deleted: - although I do get a lot of value from doing this: I'm learning, I'm achieving something and that helps with my self esteem |
Last update: 06:32, 19/01/21
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