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Ironic Happiness

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It’s hit me a few times in the last couple of weeks: For the first time since I can remember – possibly ever – I’m actually, truly, fully, HAPPY. I mean the kind of happy where you fall asleep with a smile on your face and wake up ready to dive into the next day with nothing but excitement and determination.

Which is totally nuts, when you think about it. Right now I should be totally stressed out and panicky. I don’t have a “real job.” I don’t have any sort of income. I’m living on a very specific budget. Despite that, between living expenses and expenses for Accompl.sh, I’m still pretty quickly emptying out my savings account.

When I left Etsy I said I was giving myself until March to get my act together. It’s March and, well, my act still isn’t together, but for the first time everything seems like it’s starting to come together. My development skills are the best they’ve ever been, I have a super clear picture of where I want to take Accompl.sh in the future, my relationships with friends and family have never been stronger, and my health is in a much better place and still improving.

I find myself working from 10 or 11AM straight through until 3 or 5AM and I can’t think of anything else I’d rather be doing. It’s the most amazing feeling in the world.

Apparently money can’t buy happiness. But having enough money to sustain being able to do what I love for the last 5 months has made me so incredibly happy and fulfilled. I don’t have a yacht or a penthouse or even a new iPad, but I wouldn’t trade these last 5 months for ANYTHING and I’m going to do everything possible to make sure that I can buy this kind of happiness for the rest of my life.

The Fruits of Persistence

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I mentioned in my last post that these last few weeks have been amazingly productive on the Accompl.sh front. In fact, I got so “in the zone” with what I was working on last night that I ended up pulling an all-nighter.

Lately I’ve found myself experimenting a lot more with what I’ve been building – trying to develop more efficiently, building things that aren’t necessarily needed but are nifty and challenge me to try stuff that’s outside of the usual features and functions.

I’ve been having so much fun just seeing if I can actually implement a lot of the random ideas I have. They’ve taken a few hours out of my afternoon, but by the end I am so ridiculously happy with actually building something that I didn’t think I could.

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Take these goal placards (still haven’t come up with a good name for them) that I added to the site a few days ago. I’ve wanted to create some sort of shareable image for each goal so that people could pin them, tumble them, tweet them, whatever, but I figured it’d be way too complicated and not worth my time. After getting a great tip from Kastner to check out GD Library, I spent a few hours one afternoon putting these together.

It starts out simple: Let me put some text on background and save that as an image. That grows into “OK, I need to deal with multi-line text.” Which turns into “Crap, what about long words?” And, finally, “Oh, you know, I should probably put a logo on these! How do I put an image on an image?”

Each time I get a little better at it and it’s slightly less frustrating.

I think I’ve finally reached a point where I can have an idea and just set about building it instead of being intimated by whether I can actually do it. It’s an amazing feeling.

Coding is actually fun for me now. Maybe it’s that I’m coding something I really care about. Maybe it’s that I need to up my game and try to build things that are more complicated, but for the first time I feel completely literate – like I’m just waving my hands over the keyboard and the code comes out without having to think about it.

So that got me thinking: Where does the Accompl.sh codebase stand right now?
I ran sloccount to find out:

Totals grouped by language (dominant language first):
php: 33801 (99.25%)
xml: 159 (0.47%)
python: 95 (0.28%)

Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) = 34,055
Total Estimated Cost to Develop = $ 1,097,568
(average salary = $56,286/year, overhead = 2.40).

34,000 lines of code.

I found an old sloccount output from the end of October 2011. According to that I’ve written about 10,000 lines of code since I left Etsy. That’s not even counting all of the terrible and redundant code that I’ve deleted in the last few months. Even discounting the few libraries I have on the server (to hook up to things like AWS and SendGrid plus some JS/jQuery things), it means I’ve written about 30,000 lines of code over the last 2-ish years.

Granted, I have no idea how this compares to other web apps, and the number of lines of code != a great app, product, etc, but those 30,000 lines of code have finally gotten me to a place where I feel like I actually may know what I’m doing. Maybe.

(P.S. Want a sneak peek at another one of my experiments? Check out the visual list page.)

Making Time for What Matters

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Over the last few months of working on Accompl.sh full-time, I’ve been on a bit of a roller coaster of emotions, productivity, and success/failure. It’s helped me to better understand what I need to do to keep myself on task. This last week alone I managed to launch a redesign of nearly the entire Accompl.sh site AND watch 8 out of 9 of the movies that were nominated for Best Picture (one of my goals for 2012 – I had already seen The Help) on top of whatever else was already on my calendar. It’s entirely possible to get a good night’s sleep on a startup schedule and still make time for fun. Here goes:

1. Figure out what matters.

An obvious first step, but an important one. If you don’t know (or aren’t told, as the case may be) what’s important to you, it’s pretty impossible to focus on it. These days there are a few things that matter to me:

  1. Growing Accompl.sh (70%)
  2. Cooking more / Eating better (15%)
  3. Growth / Learning (15%)

Knowing what you want to and need to focus on helps to filter out all of the noise and distractions. Assigning a weight to a certain bucket in your ‘what matters’ list helps to eliminate the need for a lot of time-consuming decision-making.

2. Figure out what’s hogging your attention

There are two ways to attack this one: Become extremely self-aware or use an app that does it for you. A combination of both is most effective.

Start paying attention to how you spend your time. How many times a day do you check Twitter? How many days a week do you find yourself sucked into the 8-11PM TV shows? How many times did you check Facebook before your morning coffee? I’ve been using RescueTime for a while now and though I don’t actually check on my stats very often, two things are working in my favor: 1) I know I’m being tracked so I’ll tend to be on my most-focused behavior and 2) When I DO check my stats, I can see where my huge time-sinks are.

3. Kill those things.

Get them out of your life. Or at least minimize their potential for distracting you. Notifications / status icons are a gateway drug. You THINK you can just check one or two, but before you know it an hour has gone by and what have you accomplished? Nada.
Some things to consider killing:

  • Growl notifications – I turned these off during college and never looked back.
  • Twitter notifications – You know – the ones that make the icon in your menu bar turn blue whenever there are unread tweets? Disable that now.
  • Alert Sounds – My exception to this rule is the “first IM received” notification in Adium. You’ll especially want to kill things like the sign-on/sign-off alert in your IM client.
  • Your TV – If you have one: unplug it from the wall. It makes it a lot more difficult to just casually flip it on for a show and get caught up from 8-11PM.

4. Get Stuff Done

Now that all of the distractions are out of the way: get to work! You’ll be amazed at how much more time you have in your day now. Maybe you’ll use it to get more work done, maybe you’ll finally get to go out to dinner with those friends you’ve been ignoring for the last few months, or maybe you’ll find a new project. The options are endless! Enjoy it!

Rinse and Repeat

Keeping your time in check is an ongoing process. Every couple of months (or couple of weeks if you feel yourself slipping), stop and take an audit of your time again. If you have something like RescueTime running, you can just check in on your stats and adjust as needed.

Don’t forget to have fun

Productivity is great, but balance is better. Don’t forget to build in time for play. Not everything you do needs to fit into your ‘what matters’ buckets. Sometimes you just have to turn off your brain. Burnout is a much bigger problem than losing a few hours to a movie or aimlessly poking around Facebook. Don’t forget to have a social life. Don’t forget to water your plants. Don’t forget to have fun. Most importantly: Don’t burn out.

I’d love to hear how you manage your distractions or what you’re doing with your new-found extra time. Leave your tips/updates in the comments! ↓

Fruits & Veggies

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I’ve learned over the course of the last few years (mostly thanks to farmers markets and Eatsy) that I don’t mind most fruits and vegetables if they’re masked blended into a delicious juice.

Earlier this year when I was at my aunt’s house in Connecticut she made some fresh orange & carrot juice for breakfast with a juicer. I thought it was pretty much the best thing since sliced bread and started to research juicers online. I’m not a fan of single-purpose appliances and I was also trying to REDUCE the amount of stuff in my life, not add to it, so I put it on the wishlist and carried on.

Fast forward a few more months and a series of unrelated tweets from unrelated friends got me thinking about the juicer again. Combine that with the fact that the only fruits and veggies that are out nowadays are gross things like kale and beets and I started to reconsider my original stance on the single-purpose appliances.

I remembered a $100 amex giftcard that I’d gotten a few years ago that I kept tucked in the back of my wallet because I couldn’t think of anything fun to get with it. BINGO! I found a $99 Breville juicer (this one) on Amazon and in a few clicks (yay Prime!) it was on its way to my door.

In anticipation of its arrival I hopped on FreshDirect and ordered basically one of everything from their produce section. OK. I exaggerate. But let’s just say that my fridge currently looks like I held up a farmer’s market. Apples, oranges, grapefruits, lemons, kale, celery, cucumbers, beets (yes, beets!), ginger, carrots, and who knows what else are now filling every which crevice of my fridge. Not a bad deal, actually. I’d rather have that stuff filling my fridge than a whole bunch of soda and prefab food.

P1000014.jpgThe juicer arrived yesterday and I immediately set it up and started chopping up my fruits and veggies.

First up? A juice that I get from the Green Pirate truck during the summer – I think they call it their Pink Lemonade. I actually didn’t think to look up the ingredients in advance, so it turns out that I missed a few, but it was still pretty delicious!

This one had: 2 apples, 1 lemon, about 1″ of ginger and 1 small beet. (yes! BEETS!)

Fast forward about 30 mins and I went a bit overboard, making 2 other juices, at least. My kitchen looked like a war zone. There was pulp everywhere! I haven’t quite mastered my timing with getting the fruit/veggies in with the plunger quickly after and I wanted to try ALL THE COMBINATIONS!

The final product (not counting the amount of juice I drank while trying them):

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From left to right:

  • Juice 2: (henceforth dubbed: delicious pea soup) 2 apples, 1 lemon, ~1″ ginger, 2 stalks of celery, 1 stalk of kale (wasn’t sure how strong it would be). I think the pink color comes from the leftover beets at the bottom of my pitcher. Not going to lie, Juice 2 kind of looked like poop when it first came out of the juicer, but it tasted DELICIOUS. It’s all separated in this photo and looks much more pleasant!
  • Juice 1: attempt at the green pirate truck pink lemonade (I forgot the cucumber! and used a lemon instead of a lime)
  • Juice 3: 1 apple, 1 orange, 4 stalks celery, a bunch of kale, 1 cucumber, a bunch of baby carrots, 1 lemon, ~1″ ginger. This one was a former coworker’s recipe (Hi Jenny!) and it originally tasted a bit too vegetable-y for my taste. The original recipe called for half a lemon but I added the 2nd half in and was able to drink it. It produced about 3x the amount of juice as the previous 2 so I think I’ll be drinking this one for a while.

So that’s the first bit of my juice adventure. I swear I used oranges in something else so maybe there’s another juice that I drank down without even realizing. I’ve read and heard that these juices don’t keep well so perhaps by the time you’ve read this I’ll have finished them ALL and will be on to my next attempt! Leigha may be coming over this weekend for a juicing extravaganza. I get the feeling there’s a lot of juice in my future…

Variables

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I’m generally the type of person that does best lots and lots of under pressure. I usually set up the circumstances for myself: waiting until the very last minute to start writing a paper, having a whole ton of commitments at the same time, you know the deal. It’s probably why I loved working in the newsroom of a daily paper – it’s a pressure cooker.

I have a pretty high threshold for what kind of pressure I can work under – but there’s one type of pressure that’s just the breaking point for me: having too many variables in my life at the same time. When I know exactly what’s going on, what needs to be done, what the pros/cons, consequences, etc., I’m just fine and dandy (now do you see where my list-making tendencies come from?). Throw in a few major uncertainties – say, not having a job, not having income, and having to move? Yeah… not the best recipe for a healthy, sane Jenn.

The whole wanting to find another apartment thing was really wearing on me. I could tell it was a problem because I was completely avoiding/ignoring it. While I should have been out and about looking at new apartments last weekend, I holed myself up in my current apartment and came up with every excuse possible not to go out and do it.

A few days of stewing on the weirdness of my behavior and I realized the problem: finding an apartment in my current state would just be WAY too much of a hassle. Like I said: I don’t have a job, I don’t have any income, and I have a dog. That’s not exactly a shining rental application.

So I had a thought. I called my landlord and asked for a 6 month extension on my lease. Time to think. Time to figure out the next steps in my life. THEN I would have a better idea of what I want/need in an apartment, I’d hopefully have some form of income, and I could make a less hasty decision.

I wasn’t sure if he’d go for it. I was waiting on a call back. Meanwhile, I decided that if he said no, I’d renew my lease. Even the thought of the 6-month extension was enough stress-relief to make me realize that staying here is the right decision, despite the high rent that I was trying to get away from.

Thankfully, I got a call back today. He offered me what basically amounts to a month-to-month lease. Which is absolutely perfect and even better than I had asked for. Now I just have to give him 30 days notice and I can leave with no penalties on my 1-year lease. This means I can stay here for a month or I can stay here for 8 or even the whole year. I have all the wiggle room in the world. Phenomenal.

Things immediately fell back into place. That whole part of my brain (apparently a large portion considering I was basically sitting on my couch for 3 days with analysis paralysis) was freed up and I found myself getting back into the things I SHOULD have been paying attention to: working on Accompl.sh, thinking up new projects, re-acquainting myself with old hobbies.

I feel like I’m back. I didn’t realize what an affect that one added variable of needing to find a place to stay was having on me. Apparently other people were feeling it too. After talking to my mom today she mentioned that I sounded completely different and less snappy.

So lesson learned: Keep the unknowns in my life to a reasonable number. There’s only so much a person can handle at once. Sometimes you have to take the loss of paying more rent than you’d like just to keep your sanity. Also: ask for what you want. It worked out even better than I thought it could have!

Phew.

Reflection and Direction

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I found myself reading through old posts on forever-digital this evening. With 2012 just about 24 hours away I’ve been feeling kind of… adrift. I thought I’d go back and read some of what I’ve written in the past to see if it helps me uncover some sort of forgotten dream or direction.

It’s weird. Having taken myself off the standard path to work on my own stuff, I’m finding that as time passes I’m getting more and more confused about what it is I should be doing with my life. I realized this a few weeks ago, but now that I’m sitting down to write my 101in365 for 2012, I’m starting to see that so much of my life is just up in the air at the moment: I’m technically unemployed (considering Accompl.sh doesn’t provide me with any real income at the moment, so I’m living off of my savings), my lease is up at the end of January so I’m starting to look for a new place, and I generally have NO IDEA where I’m going to be in the next 2-3 months let alone 10-12 months from now!

I’ve been trying to figure out where I’d like to be this time next year, hoping that it would give me some sort of direction, but all it’s really revealed is that I’m completely out of sorts. I’ve pondered the idea of selling everything and traveling for a bit. I’ve pondered the idea of applying for grad school (especially now that Cornell got the NYC tech campus). I’ve pondered the idea of buying a farm in the middle of nowhere, working completely remotely and growing vegetables. And, of course, I’ve pondered the possibility of getting a job again. But that’s a whole other level of confusion.

So this got me into looking back at my 20- and 21-year-old self to try to get an idea of what she wanted and to see if I’ve somehow strayed from that. While digging through the archives I found a line that piqued my interest:

I really loved being involved in the production of anything – books, websites, music, videos, newspapers, you name it. I like to see how all of the pieces fit together and spend more time watching “behind the scenes” bits from movies than I do the actual movies. I’d love to have a production company some day that lets me dabble in a little of everything. – 25 things, Feb 2009

And it’s totally still true. It’s why I enjoyed Product Management so much – it was more of a production role. It got me thinking that maybe it’s not that I don’t like being a PM anymore, but that maybe I should look into producing something else – something besides a website? Anyway… it’s just a thought that I’ll have to stew on. Thanks, 22-year-old Jenn, for the reminder.

Direction is something I’m really struggling with lately. So I’m going to try Reflection and hope that it gives me some sort of Direction or inspiration at the very least. I found this in my forever-digital archives from the end of 2008 and figured I’d give it a try to see what’s changed 4 years later: (edited out a few questions that don’t really apply to my mission here, but here are my original responses from 2008 for reference)

1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before?
A few different things: Moved to NY, quit my job, went skiing for the first time.

2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Ha! Well I don’t make resolutions so much as goals, but yes, I kept to them. I actually did better on this year’s goals than I have any previous year. So yay! I’ll obviously be making another list of goals for this year… hence this post.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No humans, thankfully. We did have to have Buddy put down in January, though.

5. What countries did you visit?
I’m kind of upset about not completing this goal. I didn’t travel outside of the US this year. Boo.

6. What would you like to have in 2012 that you lacked in 2011?
Strangely my response is exactly the same as it was in 2008: love, travel, new experiences.

7. What dates from 2011 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
There actually weren’t many specific dates that stand out for this year. A few that stand out (after looking through my flickr stream)
01.10 – my first day at Etsy.
07.04 – fourth of july in a cabin in maine. sparklers, bbq, relaxation.
10.18 – erin and I went to see Hanson in concert. (yes, seriously.)
10.26 – my last day at Etsy.

Everything else just sort of melds together!

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Hmm… I’d say maybe 2 things: 1) launching Etsy Shopping pages (which continue to be awesome) and 2) getting up the guts to do what I’ve wanted to do my whole life. (Even if it has created all of this confusion about things!)

9. What was your biggest failure?
I’d say missing a few close friends’ weddings, not reaching my fitness goals, not traveling anywhere.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I had pneumonia which kicked my butt for over 2 weeks in December. Still getting over it, but that was pretty un-fun.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
I actually had a very specific goal about valuing experiences over material things this year. I can’t think of anything un-necessary that I bought this year…

14. Where did most of your money go?
Mostly the same as 2008: living expenses. Add in college loans and accompl.sh stuff this year too.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
I was really excited about getting to work at Etsy. I was still excited when I left. I also got really excited about working on my own stuff. I’m still pretty excited now, but also slightly stressed over it!

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder?
Happier, definitely.

b) thinner or fatter?
Thinner.

c) richer or poorer?
Richer, but if I keep things up at the current pace that probably won’t be true for much longer!

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Traveling. Spending time with friends. Taking photos.

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Worrying, stressing, eating, and more worrying.

20. How did you spend Christmas?
At my mom’s. With pneumonia.

21. Did you fall in love in 2011?
I thought I did for a little while. But no.

22. What was your favorite TV program?
Glee. Hands down. (How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory are also in the running, but not nearly as high on the list as Glee).

24. What was the best book you read?
I technically finished Tuesdays With Morrie on new years eve last year, but it was a fantastic book. I bawled at the end. I also really liked The Help.

26. What did you want and get?
Freedom from “the grind.” New friends. A better relationship with family members.

27. What did you want and not get?
Clarity. Love.

28. What was your favorite film of this year?
Water for Elephants. I actually haven’t seen many of the movies that came out this year. I’ll have to wait for them to come on Netflix.

29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 25. It was during Yom Kippur so a good number of my friends were out of town / fasting. Got to hang out with a bunch of friends at various places on the Lower East Side. Good night overall!

30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Traveling. Making more progress with Accompl.sh than I did. Spending more time with friends.

31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2011?
“Growing out of geek”? I rarely wore startup t-shirts. My work wardrobe was actually pretty similar to what I’ve worn in the past, but I’ve gotten better at not looking like a web nerd when I go out.

32. What kept you sane?
Different things at different times. Accompl.sh sometimes. 750 words occasionally. Friends at other times.

37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2011.
Happiness isn’t about things. It’s about creating the circumstances that help you do what you love. Happiness follows.

Not sure if that actually helped anything, but it didn’t hurt to try. The questions about what do I wish I had more of or what I didn’t get were probably the most helpful: I obviously need to do more traveling in 2012. I also need to take more photos. Clarity… that’s going to be a tricky one.

So I guess it comes down to this: time to put up a flag somewhere out in the distance and head toward it. Have some direction, even if it’s not the perfect direction, is better than no direction at all. I need something to aim for. The question is… where will I put that flag…?

Minimizing

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Catbird, a long-time user, posted a Challenge on Accompl.sh a few days ago that’s had me thinking ever since – Shed 100 possessions in 6 months.

I tend to do something drastic in my life around new years – typically I’ve either completely rearranged my room, painted it, rearranged my apartment, or up and moved to another coast. This year I’m planning to move into another apartment in NYC, but only because this place was a one-year holdover until I figured out where I wanted to live!

I’ve been thinking of downsizing the “stuff” in my life for a while now, but this Challenge plus some of the points in a book I was reading this morning (Tynan‘s Life Nomadic
), were the tipping point and I decided to take the idea more seriously. Plus, I love making a good list. So here goes: an attempt at shedding 100 possessions in 6 months. By August 4, 2012 I should be at least 100 possessions lighter.

This post will track that. Possibly sometimes with photos. I’m still debating that.

So far:

  • 5 old issues of Lucky Magazine
  • 1 random, crappy giveaway notebook
  • 1 somewhat broken umbrella that I was going to try to fix.
  • 2 old issues of Wired Magazine
  • 1 somewhat broken umbrella
  • 1 iPad cover I wasn’t using
  • 7 books
  • 1 knickknack eyeglass thing
  • 1 fancy, but overly girly hair clip
  • 1 large picture frame I never filled
  • 25 bits of clothing (donated)
  • 1 Aerogarden (sold on craigslist)
  • 1 acoustic guitar I never used (sold on craigslist)
  • 1 violin (actually just sent it down to my mom’s house for safe keeping)
  • 1 decorative plant vase looking thing
  • 4 clocks. yes, 4.

OK, so that’s a pretty slow start – just a few things that were in plain sight. Good thing I have 6 months for this…

Music

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One of my favorite things about being a bit of an internet junkie is that I often forget that I’m feeding data into a particular service until one day it comes back to surprise me. This happened today when a friend asked me if I had a flavors.me profile. I do, and went to check it for the first time in ages. One of the sites I had linked up to my flavors.me was last.fm – another site I haven’t used in a good 2-3 years. I almost disconnected the link, but my curiosity was piqued and I went to check on my account.

It turns out that I’ve been unknowingly scrobbling every single song that I’ve listened to for the last who knows how many years! I’m trying to figure out how to get an export of that data because I’m dying to dig into it!

Anyway – I was setting up my Christmas music playlist on Rdio and got to talking to that same friend about favorite songs, etc. I realized that I don’t particularly have one. It just sort of depends on the genre and my mood. But I went off to find one anyway. There has to be SOME song that I just absolutely love.

This whole thing sort of spiraled into me spending about 3 hours with my headphones on just going through all sorts of songs that I haven’t listened to in ages. It was the first time in a good, long while that I just sat down and listened to music for entertainment’s sake instead of as background music or to drown out the noise around me. I’d forgotten how much I love just listening to music!

There really isn’t a point to this post other than to say that I’m still in search of a favorite song and as I was looking through my last.fm profile to see if it would tell me what my most played song was (I figured that may be a good indicator) it showed me this:

Save for some missing Adele/P!nk/Florence and the Machine and Bon Iver/Muse/Arcade Fire type music, it actually sums me up really well!

Gotta love when the internet acts as a giant mirror.

I may pop back in here when I finally figure out what my favorite song is. Or maybe not. We’ll see. (But if you’re curious, current contenders include Pavarotti’s Nessun Dorma and Bab’s Piece of Sky from Yentl, but there are still thousands of songs to go through!)

Rudimentary, My Dear Watson.

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Today marks the end of my second full week of being self-employed. I have NO IDEA where those two weeks went. Well, actually, it’s possible they went 2 places: 1) getting ready for and then going to my friend’s wedding and 2) increasing my nerd-cred.

Wedding aside (story for another time), when it comes to nerd-cred I had a few learning curves to adjust to:

  • I moved to Linode – my first non-managed server. (with the indispensable help of kastner)
  • Being on Linode also means I need a pretty solid grasp of Unix commands. Going into this I was a master of cd, ls, pwd, and the occasional rm.
  • Using the Terminal so much more means that I also had to get a lot more comfortable with vim. Luckily I had a pretty good primer in vim at Etsy.
  • I moved to github – which I’ve now come to realize is the best. thing. ever.

I’m pretty sure I’ve leveled up in nerd-cred at least a few notches.

So that’s the elementary part. What’s this about “rudimentary”?

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Leap of Faith

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I did something kind of crazy.

I left my job. My awesome, amazing, fantastic, ridiculously cool job where I got to work on interesting things with even more interesting people.

WHAT?! WHY!?

Yeah. That’s been the common reaction. And honestly, I think the answer only makes sense to me, since it’s something I’ve been thinking about for quite a long time now, but here’s the gist:
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