Side Projects: One Pomodoro a day.
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I’ve been thinking a lot about finding time for side projects.
Finding time to build stuff in your free time is hard and you need to balance it against other stuff – for me, a 27 year old post grad, that includes balancing it against several things, in order of priority
- My girlfriend and my family
- My friends
- My job
- My own need to relax and watch Lost.
where's the self actualization?
Where does the self actualization happen? Is coding a means to an end, or an end in itself? Well one way I like to figure stuff out like this is to look at the people I admire and see what it is that I admire about them. So let’s look at some present and past day coders that I admire and what to be like.
1st up – Jeff Atwood & Joel Spolsky
DHH & Jason Fried
It’s not good enough to
It’s not enough just to be a good programmer. You need to make useful stuff and work for yourself these days to really be the bomb. What can you get done in 25 minutes a day?
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