64: Themes

We layout our themes for the upcoming year, not to be confused with resolutions or goals, these are a bit different than you might be used to.

What is a Theme and why it’s important First themes are not New’s Years Goals, more of an over arching Idea I’ve seen some good and interesting conversations around social media posting themes and sharing them Cortex Podcast I’d laid out somewhat of a plan for 2019, but rather than in my head, always better to get it out on paper and in my case podcast it to everyone. I’ve got 2, so and we’ll cover them one by one Creating Content

The basic idea is I would like to produce, create, out pour more content that I consume this year.

That means mindless twitter.

Set a 30 minute limit on iOS for twitter a while ago

Clean and prune my RSS feeds and Podcast feeds, which at this point are getting really, really out of control. I don’t think I ever actually finish them..

This might be a variety of outlets.

This podcast for one newsletter daily / weekly blogging live streaming on twitch while I work AMA Tutorial Videos on things I don’t know, or things I want to know Conference talks Exception, I’ve made a hard goal here of 20 rejections from conference speaking Call for Papers 2019 Why 20 rejects and not acceptance talks? That’s a good question. Stress, and just doing the thing This could be subtitled, just doing the thing And this circles around the this show. I really enjoy working on this show, learning for this show, and sharing the successes and failures with everyone. And frankly more of that sounds pretty good. Simple Automation This might be a sub-theme of creating content, I want to streamline as much of the creation process as I can. This one particularly is a double-edged sword for me. I have, like maybe many of you, set up elaborate blogs at one time or another. I will tell you now, I avoided finishing the show notes for this so I could figure out how to trigger a wordpress action on ‘publish_post’ to hit Netlify webhook and run a new build of the site Wordpress - simple standard Gatsby - Static Fast I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel, Things like this should be a set it and forget it type deal. And that brings us back around to themes, not goals. The idea, whenever I start in on something overly complex or silly. I’m not looking for a Rube Goldberg machine, the exact opposite. I can think, “does fit in my theme of create content with simple automation?” and if the answer is not a resounding YES then I can skip it. Get Programming With Haskell Follow

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