Here's an actionable framework for yearly goal planning that's consistently produced results for me:
— Mark M (@offlinemark) January 8, 2021
1. Identify focus areas
2. Set specific goals
3. Plan targeted habits
4. Design your environment
Here's a thread explaining each step and the results I've had:
Twitter’s length limit is deceptive. At a glance, it suggests that writing tweets should be easy and quick. This is true for superficial tweets, but does not mean all tweets are written quickly and with little effort.
Twitter is actually a platform for concise writing, and writing concisely is harder than writing verbosely. There are certain tweets I spend a lot of time on and it’s shame to have them get lost in my feed. So I’m storing them here.
Continue readingWrote a twitter thread about this:
, Productivity
Are you one of those people that believes their time is their most valuable resource?
I think this is wrong. Your time is valuable, but what’s most valuable is your decision making & creative energy.
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Most people thought I was crazy for doing this, but I spent the last few months of my gap year working as a short order cook at a family-owned fast-food restaurant. (More on this here.) I’m a programmer by trade, so I enjoyed thinking about the restaurant’s systems from a programmer’s point of view. Here’s some thoughts about two such systems.
Continue readingMost people thought I was crazy for doing this, but I spent the last few months of my gap year working as a short order cook at a family-owned fast-food restaurant. Here’s a short reflection on 2 things I learned from the experience as it pertains to my gap year. If you’re a programmer you’d probably be more interested in this post instead. Of course, I learned much more than this, but the rest is basic food service industry lessons that would be cringy to write about, so I’ll keep it to myself.
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This post details my adventures with the Linux virtual memory subsystem, and my discovery of a creative way to taunt the OOM (out of memory) killer by accumulating memory in the kernel, rather than in userspace.
Keep reading and you’ll learn:
Note: Victor Michel wrote a great follow up to this post here.
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, Linux Kernel
Congratulations! You just finished developing your first contribution to the Linux kernel, and are excited to submit it. The process for doing so is tricky, with many conventions that the community has developed over time, so here is what I learned after doing so for the first time. This is intended to be a succinct supplement to the official contribution documentation.
Continue readingHere is everything you need to know to set up a minimal Linux kernel dev environment on Ubuntu 20.04. It works great on small VPS instances, is optimized for a fast development cycle, and allows you to run custom binaries to exercise the specific kernel functionality being developed.
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