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- 2000s: Learn to code 2010s: Learn to code 2020-2022: Learn to code 2023-: Learn to plumb a sink, frame a wall, pour concrete, farm
- CSS at 9AM display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; CSS at 4AM position:absolute; left: -18.245555px; top: -24.99999998px;; margin-left:5.333333px; /* ajdustment */ margin-top: -0px; /* idk???? */
- Running a startup is the fastest way to teach a perfectionist the concept of "good enough"
- When Elon Musk launches a fucking car into orbit and you still can’t vertically align shit in CSS
GIF - How I improved my quality of life by like 900% - Deleted facebook - Deleted all social media apps off my phone - Switched to just one social media presence, Twitter, that I treat like a 90s inbox (= check it a couple of times a day on my desktop and that's it) - Deleted facebook
- Nothing breaks a procrastination habit like running a startup
- Pro tip for anyone who makes things: 1. Make the thing 2. DON'T ship it – yet! Just sit back, take a break 3. Come back to thing 12-48 hours later 4. Fix/polish all the (now glaringly obvious) broken/rough shit you hilariously missed just 12-48 hours ago 5. K now ship it 👍
- Serious pro tip I wish I had internalized in my teens/early 20s: FINISH. THINGS. Starting something is easy, but there are lessons and skills you'll only ever learn if you see it through to the end
- Totals for 2019: 🙋 213k new users 🌐 381k new sites 💵 $308kTotals for 2018: 🙋 133k new users 🌐 208k new sites 💵 $153k
- Building a site on Carrd + need some super nice images/videos? Photos 👉 unsplash.com (free, Unsplash license) Videos 👉 coverr.co (free, Coverr license) Illustrations 👉 undraw.co (free, MIT) Icons 👉 feathericons.com (free, MIT)
- 1998: <blink><marquee>My Home Page</marquee></blink> 2002: <table><tr><td><table><tr><td><table>.... 2006: <div class="sidebar">...</div><br class="clear" /><div>... 2009: <div class="row"><div class="col-6"><div class="row">... 2014: display: flex; 2018: display: grid;
- Realized the most successful folks I know have a natural tendency to simplify everything (work life relationships etc) Least successful meanwhile have a natural tendency to complicate everything instead Probably not always the case but man, having a hard time unseeing it now
