I just read a really good essay on Lifehacker about identifying and learning from mistakes. Honestly, I’m blogging about it so that I can find the link later, but I thought others might benefit from it as well. So often, when navigating our career and life paths, we can abandon a particular path because of a mistake, rather than using that mistake to improve how we walk on that particular road. The key is striking the delicate balance between learning from mistakes and punishing yourself for them. In both programming and design, mistakes are inevitable and learning won’t happen without them.
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I just read a really good essay on Lifehacker about identifying and learning from mistakes. Honestly, I’m blogging about it so that I can find the link later, but I [...]
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I just came across a good article from sixrevisions.com on doing simple, clean web designs, via a Tweet from webdesignshock.com. Unlike many other articles on clean design, excellent as those [...]
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Forgive me that this site is currently rather disheveled looking. I’m flipping to a new theme based on a grid system, and I’m still working out how this will display. [...]
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I’m a big fan of saving energy, living simply and living below my means as a way to increased happiness. With that in mind, I’m always interested in simple ways [...]
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I like to write. And, I’ve been told that I’m passably good at it. I realize that this makes me about as unique as weeds. I published a couple of [...]
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Forgive me that this site is currently rather disheveled looking. I’m flipping to a new theme based on a grid system, and I’m still working out how this will display. [...]
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It’s amazing how much house-hunting can consume every moment of your spare time. But, now that it’s over, I can get back to adding to my to-do list and cranking [...]
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