TASKY TUESDAY
Hi guys today was tasky and groovy Tuesday. A mix of tasks and groove (music 🌝) I played music while i was coding I don't know why I love it but it's fun. Let's get to what I did today
Bookworking
I started reading Almanack of Naval by Eric Jorgensen it's a book basically about wealth and happiness it's a compendium of naval's tweets, podcasts, interviews, blog posts on these topics. Naval is a great guy and I think he is one of the brightest minds we in the 21st century. He's an investor, engineer and introspective founder according book. The book was divided into two parts WEALTH AND HAPPINESS... and it stated that you can start reading from anywhere, not like many conventional books and the first chapter was BUILDING WEALTH there are so many sub-chapters so i read just one sub-chapter and here are few things I learnt
UNDERSTAND HOW WEALTH IS CREATED
📖 Getting rich is about knowing what to do, who to do it with, and when to do it. It is much more about understanding than purely hard work.
📖 Learn to figure things out yourself and focus more on Understanding before grinding at hard work. Sometimes what matters is how well you understand not how hard.
📖 You have to own something; a business, equity to get rich you also have to find an industry where you can play the long term game.
📖 Relationships are very important. Who is your business partner? Who do you share and execute idea with? Value relationships.
📖 Learn to build, learn to sell ( if you know both, you're unstoppable). Arm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability and leverage.
📖 Build specific knowledge, something you learn out of curiosity and passion. It cannot learnt in school and cannot be automated or outsourced it is highly technical and creative.
📖 Money is how we transfer wealth. Money is social credits. It is the ability to have credits and debits of other people’s time.
📖 Technology democratizes consumption but consolidates production. The best person in the world at anything gets to do it for everyone.
📖 Figure out what the society wants but it doesn't know yet. Build one scale it and build thousands. Figure out what and how to build, then figure out to scale.
If I wanted to highlight all I learnt you wouldn't leave finish this in the next decade (😏) because everything in that book looks like gem bit these ones are enough. I would summarize everything as
Just figure how to build things the society wants but doesn't know they even want, with your specific knowledge leveraging on technology and relationships then consequently figure out how to scale why you have build in the long run (long term game).
Articles × Blog-posts
I read more than one blog-post a day but analyzing everything here would make this post unnecessarily long I'll drop links to the ones I find important. Here's the beautiful piece I read today from my friend
DEAR DIARY
I read a beautiful piece by a friend of mine. Do you ever wonder how many humans live in a shadow of themselve? people who live on the edge, people who live the. It is a short piece that depicts and makes you think of how a lot of humans including me and you are not living the reality, not our choice though but we tend to live the opposite of what we show.
" Pretty but fake"
"Skinny but hungry"
"Smiling but depressed" `
Just read it to see what I'm talkingabout.
I also read consonance club's newsletter(getrevue.co/profile/consonanceclub/issues/i..) it was so humorous 😅
CodeXperience
After taking breakfast 🤔 I wrote a few lines of code before i remembered breakfast, so i went to eat for some minutes and resumed work. So what did I do today I completed a front-end mentor challenge I was working on,. It was an article preview component page with a share button that displayed and hid icons and elements.
• It was my time to shine and flex my Javascript skills. I knew I needed evenlistners and functions and a little bit manipulation of CSS to solve that problem.
• I tried writing the code, It didn't work 😢. I googled "How to use Javascript to manipulate CSS" I saw something from w3Schools and checked it.
• I copied the code i saw on the W3SCHOOLS result and applied it. It worked but didn't do all what I wanted to achieve, I continued tweaking and trying out other ways and methods to do it.
• After 30 mins of tweaking, brainstorming CTRL +V and Backspaces. I finally got it 🥵 and one big lesson i learnt is not even not how to use event listeners but
Understanding when to quit a problem and jump on another... Deciding if this problem is worth facing now or it's something you should chill out and come later I'll rephrase this popular quotes which say
Winners never quitters as
Winners know when to quit and when to persist ......
After that I hopped on completing a front-end mentor project and it includes validating a form... I was trying it when electricity went off and that's was all maybe I'll continue later in the night or midnight.
$B Ideas × Thoughts
This may not be billion dollars but it's trillion dollars 💴💴.
So while I was taking a walk in the evening( Hmm... Did I say take a walk? when i was my couch rather🌝. I didn't even go out today)I was thinking of my journey so far in learning to code my challenges, adventures, things i wished I could do again and the experience. I had an idea of organizing a bootcamp or training in front-end development( HTML, CSS and JavaScript) for folks as a way contributing to the community and improving my skills. I visualized the ciriculum in my head, resources and how the program would run it should run for a minimum of 8 weeks and yeah OxyGEN 1.0 🚀:
learn front-end bootcamp is ready to launch (😅 Omooo not so easy) but I'll start working it as soon as I get some Javascript projects done... Expect a OxyGEN 1.0 bootcamp this year 😉
That's all for today see you tommorow