Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.
My Ramblings This Week
Last week, I asked what values drive you. Today, I want to double down on the topic by sharing some of my findings.
Cause you needed another nudge to start, huh?!
Yeah, this is still a newsletter about web development. But cultivating timeless skills means going meta and extracting the juicy juice of the craft. And what is more meta than values?
Currently, I defined the following buckets:
- Craft
- Community
- Constitution
- Contemplation
- Cruise (aka exploration but at this point it needed to start with c)
- Cash (aka financial security)
I defined values, recurring activities, and one-off tasks for each of them. For example, in the Craft bucket:
- Values
- Flexible work hours
- Autonomy
- Creating with Code
- Enterprising
- Learning
- Recurring
- Writing
- Sketching
- Calligraphy
- Cooking keto
- Becoming fluent in Polish
- Dusting off my Chilean
- One-off
- Print something in 3D
- Build some electric circuits
- Try wood work
- Launch a product
- Build a cool home office
- Write an ebook
- Record a podcast
It's still a work-in-progress, but it's already made a huge difference.
If you decide to work on your values, remember that all ideas are brilliant.
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(Riccardo: Think about it next time you need to choose a JavaScript framework.)
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