PART A) Pre-Contemplation: Your thoughts about the given task and its context. These internal thoughts will be displayed in part 1 and describe how you take the task and get the solution, as well as the key practices and things you notice in the task context. You will also include the following: - Any assumptions you make about the task and the context. - Thoughts about how to approach the task - Things to consider about the context of the task that may affect the solution - How to solve the task

PART B) The Solution: the answer to the task.

I’ve been keeping track od my prompt stuff here: https://christianadleta.com/prompts

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37013938

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I just started building it recently. Haven’t even gotten made a way to display all the posts just yet

I probably need to be more diligent in working on the feasible. I think my default is to assume everything must be optimized, and not that everything could just ‘be done’.

I've started to examine my approach to solving problems in both design and development. This caused me to notice that I often spend a lot more time thinking about, and around a problem than is actually required to solve the problem, or at least get started on it. I'm curious to hear what your perspectives and advice is for dealing with this.

I can't tell if it is that I find thinking about the problems more entertaining than solving them. Or if that I use this pondering time as a form of procrastination. It feels productive, but ultimately, most of the time, this pondering doesn't lead to any more break throughs or ideas than actually writing a solution.

What are your thoughts? Have you faced this before?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36481621

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Here is a sample one that I use to get out of work mindset: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r65gi7tk4str2h7/After%20Work%20Med...

Any book recommendations, feedback or advice is welcomed.

Here is a link to the WIP version: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XA3DDaZsMhBHjWt76Mt05we5...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35689251

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If I were just following the course material I wouldn’t expect too much from what you can learn from course work.

I have even become slightly addicted to learning everything I can about building software. From reading (3 of Robert C. Martins books, and a few other popular ones from hacker news’ top 100 reads) and taking Udemy courses[0] in my free time.

I also have been working at a small teacher resource website for the past few years, to get some on the job knowledge.

Even then I still don’t feel like I’ve got the best understanding of SQL, networking or concurrency. I spent most of my time learning specific languages and practices and principles like Agile and spec docs. I’m working on building my own web app and have been creating a dev log for it[1], as well as building an arguably crappy personal website[2].

[0] https://www.udemy.com/user/legozombieking/ [1] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeFBzv7SGgs903uH6Mfm34J94... [2] https://www.cadleta.dev/

What do you think? Has there been a time where you have had to stop yourself from building out a passion project?

[0] https://tooldobox.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34525825

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Can’t say that what it generated was particularly insightful, however it was helpful to reach an obituary word count.

Not giving anyone ideas or anything, but if you feed it your previous assignments and it learns your writing style it should be hard to detect with minor editing.

I realized that the hardest thing is getting the long term goals to feel like a simple activity for today, bringing the 3+ month goal into a simple “read a few pages today” type of habit.

I also created a simple spreadsheet app that focuses specifically on the progress you made today in relation to your goal. The progress you make today is a different color. Instead of estimating how long it will take to complete the goal with your average, I use the amount done today. So after every addition page read you can see the amount of days left to finish the book go down.

I also added a little bit of motivation text that says “if you read X more pages you will be done Y days faster.

If you use the “MIT”(Most Important Task) type of system , then you could make it a daily habit to complete your top 2-3 MITs for the day.

Is this really a crime against humanity, or is this just an aggressive anti-google writer?

I honestly do not know, which is why I seek more information and opinions from others