Startups require different skills (aptitude) and mindsets (attitude) than corporations. Simon Wardley identified three essential mindsets necessary for success: Explorers, Villagers, and Town Planners. Companies benefit from having all three mindsets.

You should start a blog. Having your own little corner of the internet is good for the soul! But what should you write about? It’s easy to get hung up …

Below is a list of terminal tools in alphabetical order (A-Z) and updated regularly. Discover CLI, TUI, and more developer tools at Terminal Trove.

goblin.tools is a collection of small, simple, single-task tools, mostly designed to help neurodivergent people with tasks they find overwhelming or difficult.

Semantic Versioning spec and website

/Applications/Python\ 3.11/Install\ Certificates.command

alternately:

uv  pip install --system --upgrade certifi

Killed by Google is the Google Graveyard. A full list of dead products killed by Google in the Google Cemetery.

🔗 See the source.

Changing one's behavior is not easy. There are some simple, universal truths. This article does a good job of walking through many of them.

Doing the best you can – with the resources you have, with the circumstances you’re in and with the mind you’ve inherited – at that moment is all you can ever do anyway.

• The 3-4-50 Framework suggesting that three behaviors contribute to 4 conditions that cause ~50 percent of deaths.
  • 3️⃣ behaviors: tobacco use, poor diet, sedentary lifestyle
  • 4️⃣ conditions: cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic lower respiratory disease, diabetes
• The article references the six phases of change in the transtheoretical model of behavior change.
• The importance and impact of self-forgiveness and self-compassion are mentioned and supported in this article.

In the business world, they say that culture eats strategy for breakfast—meaning that the people implementing the strategy, and the skills, attitudes, and assumptions they bring to it, will make more difference than even the most brilliant plan. In government, culture eats policy.

This article is also a story about the importance of domain knowledge and why it's difficult (and risky) to push back against the norms, especially when it's the right thing to do. As I say: the process is not the point.