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Do you try hard?
It’s easy to put in the minimum effort required to get the job done, but nothing great has ever come from putting in the minimum amount of effort. What if you tried hard?
I get, and in many ways support, the quiet quitting phenomenon but if you want to stand out in your field you do have to put in effort. Maybe your trying hard is the blogging you do with the stuff you learned at work, that’s how I got known in the WordPress community and none of you would get this email or read my site if I didn’t try hard to think and write.
Good stuff doesn’t come easy. It’s been hard work, sometimes so hard quitting feels like an easy choice, to have a decent marriage for 21 years.
I spent time crying in front of my screen early in my career as I worked hard to understand programming.
You can’t work hard on everything all the time, but what are you going to work hard on?
Why don’t adults read
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Ugh, number 3 has been hitting my hard in the last half of this year. 3 kids each going to events for a total of 6 days a week of me driving kids around solo1. I just feel tired.
Also I added a bunch of other videos from The Book Guy to my backlog so expect some more links.
Ah Geocities
The first site I ever built was on Geocities around 1996. My dad worked at IBM in Toronto so we had computers and internet fairly early. This article remembering Geocities brings back memories of figuring out <blink> and copying “cool stuff” from other people’s sites.
Check out the gallery to see examples of the sites we built back then.
- My wife works after school coaching 2 of my kids figure skating ↩︎