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My dad was a carpenter. Well everyone called him that, but I know him for what he truly was. A craftsman. Be it his work with wood, or the little works of art and craft he made for us or his drawings in my book; everything he did, was slow, and measured, and full of deliberation and intention. Which is why this episode struck such a chord with me. Jocelyn articulates beautifully, exactly what my father did. I still remember his slight rankle, followed by this expression of sorrow, whenever I would rush him, tell him this much was good enough. Thank God, he never listened to me. He may not be here now, but everything he built, makes it like he is. ...

“So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not Ill-supplied but wasteful of it.” […] All things that are still to come lie in uncertainty; live straightway!” ― Lucius Annæus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life Thank you, for sharing my journey with me! ...

via Neil Gaiman chaot1k-daydreams asked: Hey, Mr. Gaiman, sorry to bother you. I just had a couple questions? I’m trying to become a better writer and write more, but I feel like I’m falling out of my own style when I write. I either write too much or too little, over-embellish or make it feel bland, and I’m not quite sure what I’m doing wrong by I feel like it’s both wrong and not what I want to write. I was hoping you might have some advice? ...

2019-08-21 Started with the problem, Need to take in an md file and then generate an html file. Hint given, use a package from PyPI. Decided to use the Markdown package from PyPI. Looks good to me. Was advised to work off a branch while developing. Thank God for friends who teach you good habits. Looking up how to do that in git now. Watched Git videos for about an hour. Learnt lots about branches. Giving up for today. it’s 8 in the eve and i am tired. ...

Seeing as you folks are reading my newsletter, I know I am preaching to the choir, but this article, summarises my thoughts on social media excellently! from the Art of Manliness, At first, it wasn’t so bad. But then I started noticing that I wasn’t seeing all the updates from pages I followed on Facebook. Come to find out, Facebook started changing their News Feed algorithm so that only the content Facebook thought you’d be interested in the most showed up in your feed. Facebook claimed they were just trying to help users sift through the firehose of information being blasted at them. Critics argued Facebook was just trying to keep people more engaged on Facebook because that makes money for Facebook. And that they were trying to force pages to pay money for their content to show up in the News Feeds they had once shown up in organically. I was just ticked that I wasn’t seeing all the stuff from Facebook pages that I had deliberately opted into getting updates from. ...

“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man’s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.” ...