Information Overload? Overcome It with Minimalist Journaling
“What Will I Remember This Day For?”
A while ago, my partner started an interesting journaling practice.
He took up a few pages on his notebook and filled each with a few three-by-three squares. At the end of every day, he fills one square with a few initials and numbers. They all have meaning; they represent moments or important pieces of information related to his day.
Google Provides Free Machine Learning For All
Google's Machine Learning Crash Course has already been delivered to more than 18,000 Googlers and now it it have been made available for free and to all as part of Learn with Google AI, a new educational resource aimed at every developer.
Preflop RFI Strategy - A Simple Way to Open The Action
Which Hands Should Be RFI?
As previously mentioned, hand selection and range construction are the first key components to developing a strong RFI strategy. Given that folding yields an expected value (EV) of zero, you want to choose to raise with hands which will have a positive EV.
Below is a chart outlining the RFI ranges for a 6-max table (taken from our free preflop charts), assuming effective stack sizes are 100 big blinds:
Do These Things After 6 P.M. And Your Life Will Never Be The Same
Reflect on what you learn by writing
Apart from becoming a better writer, blogging can help you organise your thoughts.
Blogging encourages deep thinking.
When you begin to share what you know with others, your ability to communicate gets better.
Blogging helps your brain to stay active.
You will also be able to link ideas and pieces of information better.
Writing Tips: How to Describe Setting using Touch – The Writing Cooperative
Show, don’t tell. That’s what every beginning writer is told. But how is this achieved? And what does it look like when it comes to setting?
In terms of show, don’t tell, there are two broad strategies to think about. When used together they are brilliant tools to really paint a picture in your reader’s mind. The first is to use figurative language (but more on this in another post). The second is to use sensory language — to draw upon the five senses to describe the setting.
Let’s take a look at one of the more underutilised senses: touch.
Hopefully, the Ultimate Guide to a Flat Icon Set
For nerds who have read my article on visual weight and optical alignment. Minimum words, maximum GIFs.
10 Tips for Using a Bullet Journal to Boost Creativity | Webdesigner Depot
You’ve seen some of the beautiful bullet journals on Pinterest, and there’s more to this trend than an exercise in creativity. Using a bullet journal can make you a master of the website universe. And it all starts with a pen and paper.
How to Write Technical How-Tos – Rachel Sobel – Medium
In understanding how to write technical instructions, it’s best to understand how people read them. Most readers will want to know: (1) what you’re doing, and whether it’s relevant to what they are trying to do; and (2) how you did it.
This suggests a simple strategy: first, write about what you’re doing and why, and then, explain how to do it. If you leave out the why, or make it hard to find, your reader will have to closely examine your explanation to understand whether your technique is relevant to them at all. If you leave out the how or make it hard to find, your reader will struggle to replicate your efforts.
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10 cheat codes for designing User Interfaces – Design + Sketch – Medium
- Font hierarchy is just not about small to big font sizes. It is about the right mix of size, weights, and colors that creates contrast. Bigger contrast, the better
- Do the math for understanding colors
- Multiply instead of Drop shadow text
YOW! West 2017 Andy Clarke - Designing inspired style guides
Lots of style guide examples and inspiration
Interesting situation from a bounty tournament
Little and Alex Weldon are wrong calculating how much the bounty is worth based on the starting stack.
Here’s a list of fun apps to build!
Here are 8 fantastic projects to train your coding muscles! The goal is to build each app with whatever technology stack you prefer. Keep it conflict free, use whatever you want!
Carbon - Code image generator
Create and share beautiful images of your source code.
Start typing or drop a file into the text area to get started.
Using Gradients In User Experience Design
Today you’ll learn how to use gradients for a website in Adobe XD through a very useful tutorial.
Always decide on a light source. This will help you decide which are the lighter and darker areas in the gradient.
The Complete Guide to Editing Your First Draft Like a Pro
“…your first draft is only for you. No one is ever going to see it, so you don’t have to worry about it. You’re not going to turn it in. You’re not going to show it to friends to evaluate — because it’s only for you.”
“Nobody creates flawless first drafts. And nobody creates better second drafts without the intervention of someone else. Nobody.”
The 8 best questions to put on your next one-on-one meeting agenda
#1: How’s life?
#2: What are you worried about right now?
#3: What rumors are you hearing that you think I should know about?
#4: If you could be proud of one accomplishment between now and next year, what would it be?
#5: What are your biggest time wasters?
#6: Would you like more or less direction from me?
#7: Would you like more or less feedback on your work? If so, what additional feedback would you like?
#8: Are there any decisions you’re hung up on?
How I construct a pen on CodePen by Sten Hougaard on CodePen
One my prefered playgrounds is SVG. It is Scalable Vector Graphics, which in practice means that you can draw something in the browser using some tags, some stying and some code. How cool is that? Compared with a piece of paper and a pen you can go crazy and the result is generated instantly as you change the elements of your playground in your pen on CodePen.