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How do we protect our work? How do we get paid for it? (Or is that really the question we should be worried about when seeking to make our mark. And the importance of writing, of showing up, regularly.) This is what I admire about Seth Godin. His unique ability to get to the heart of the question. The question lies in the q & a after this really awesome episode at around the 22.45 mark. (The episode is a replay of this awesome talk. If you haven’t seen or heard it yet, do me (and yourself) a favour and do so.) ...

Will Vincent, author of Django for Beginners and Rest APIs with Django has his list of book recommendations for the year. Read the latest posts on his website to get at them. If you are a learner like me and wanted a professionally filtered list, (as in too lazy to go hunt them down), this is a godsend. He covers books on Django, React, Flask, & JavaScript and tutorials for Python, Django & React. Also check out his year in review. ...

Learning a new skill this year? Putting your mind to learn programming? Looking to wow folks with your newly acquired French? A professional exam, you want to ace? And yet, as you look back over years of broken resolutions, you think it might not be worth it? That you aren’t cut out for learning physics on your own if you wanted to? That you are “slow”? Maybe that’s just because you haven’t realised that learning itself is a skill? That you need to learn, how to learn? ...

Michel de Montaigne was a year younger than me (thirty eight), when he inscribed this on the wall in his library … In the year of Christ 1571, at the age of thirty-eight, on the last day of February, anniversary of his birth, Michel de Montaigne, long weary of the servitude of the court and of public employments, while still entire, retired to the bosom of the learned Virgins, where in calm and freedom from all cares he will spend what little remains of his life now more than half run out. If the fates permit, he will complete this abode, this sweet ancestral retreat; and he has consecrated it to his freedom, tranquility, and leisure. ...

Today was cautious fun :) What did I do today? I got a rough journal working switched to vscode as my programming editor (still using emacs for my other writing.) will move back to emacs when I have the time to sharpen the saw, because I want an editor that I can use 30 years from now. Right now though, I cannot afford to yak shave. What did I learn? ...

Lots of new concepts today … What did I do today? Watched the videos on how to make a mini journal app. What did I learn? Today was a doozy I learnt about lists, more conditionals, how to use files for storage & write to a disk independent of what os I’m using, how the main() function kicks things off, and how to use different files for different parts of a program to keep things cleaner and more organised. While I began well, I’ve gotten thoroughly confused as the class went on. I know these things individually (I think), but the putting it all together, feels like drawing the rest of the fucking owl. Hope things get clearer tomorrow, as I begin to actually write the program. ...