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Mon 20 December 2021 123gtd

Not much to share, but after a bit of wrangling with Amazon's Serverless Applicaiton Model settings, I finally have been able to push a version 0 of 123gtd to https://123gtd.com with an API at https://api.123gtd.com/v1. It's not to look at yet, but I've got …

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Tue 30 November 2021 123gtd

I've been thinking about building a social productivity app for years. Well, I'm starting it today. I don't have much to share ... yet... except that I've registered the domain name and put $12 of skin into the game. I'll be building it up at 123gtd.com over the next few …

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Tue 26 January 2021

So, my wife and I are doing the #75hard challenge. The goal is to develop mental toughness by doing 5 things every day for 75 days in a row:

1. Follow a diet. Zero cheat meals for the entire 75 days.
2. Work out twice a day for at least 45 minutes …

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Tue 12 September 2017

Up until yesterday, this blog was hosted on Github pages, and was built using Jekyll. There were no comments, and I had no analytics.

Way back in 2015, I read an article by Joe Buhlig where he migrated from WordPress and Google Analytics to Jekyll and Piwik. Jekyll is a …

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Wed 23 August 2017 money debt

I’m worth more than a $100 trillion in Zimbabwean dollars! Now before you tell me that the currency isn’t worth the paper it’s written on, I want to mention that until yesterday, I had less money than a homeless person. On August 22, 2017, I received a …

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Wed 21 June 2017 hacks

On the quest to find the ultimate app, I believe I have arrived at a sublime truth. Productivity and efficiency are not software problems. If they were, you'd be able to assemble enough code to do a persons job for them, so that they wouldn't have to do anything. While …

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Mon 06 March 2017 procrastination psychology

I get it. Images are nice to look at. But the problem is that I'm not a full time blogger. I'm a full time student. When blogging is your side hustle and there are no due dates, it's easy to find excuses to procstinate. That's why I'm no longer putting …

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Thu 17 November 2016 networking travel

Airplanes are a tricky thing. You're boxed up with a bunch of other people, most of whom are really interesting but travel protocol makes it hard to get to talking with someone you don't know.

I've gone back and forth for several years now on how intentional to be while …

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Tue 08 November 2016 ownership

When November rolled around in 2012, I was a politically ambivalent sophomore at Andrews University. I grew up in Wisconsin, but was studying in Michigan, and the hassle of registering to vote seemed like too much work to spend an hour or two on election day casting a single vote …

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Sun 25 September 2016 poetry

'Twas the night before Stanford I did hardly believe
The events that transpired that led to that eve.

My laptop was nestled quite snug in my pack
Contented to live near the birthplace of Mac

When all of a sudden there arose a vibration
I unlocked my phone for the …