Fred Yankowski

Distinguishes happiness of "experiencing self" from that of "remembering (reflective) self". - Fred Yankowski

"One of the challenges with automating deployment is the cut-over itself, taking software from the final stage of testing to live production. You usually need to do this quickly in order to minimize downtime. The blue-green deployment approach does this by ensuring you have two production environments, as identical as possible. At any time one them, let's say blue for the example, is live. As you prepare a new release of your software you do your final stage of testing in green environment. Once the software is working in the green environment, you switch the router so that all incoming requests go to the green environment - the blue one is now idle." - Fred Yankowski

"whenever we try not to think about something that something gets trapped in the mind, stuck in the recursive loop of self-consciousness. Our attempt at repression turns into an odd fixation." "This human frailty has profound consequences. Dan Wegner, a psychologist at Harvard, refers to the failure as an "ironic" mental process. Whenever we establish a mental goal -- such as trying not to think about white bears, or sex, or a stressful event -- the goal is accompanied by an inevitable follow-up thought, as the brain checks to see if we're making progress. The end result, of course, is that we obsess over the one thing we're trying to avoid. As Wegner notes, "The mind appears to search, unconsciously and automatically, for whatever thought, action, or emotion the person is trying to control. ... This ironic monitoring process can actually create the mental contents for which it is searching." - Fred Yankowski

Outlines using NodeJS along with a Rails app to handle file uploads and processing. - Fred Yankowski

"Students who received a supportive touch on the back or arm from a teacher were nearly twice as likely to volunteer in class as those who did not, studies have found. A sympathetic touch from a doctor leaves people with the impression that the visit lasted twice as long, compared with estimates from people who were untouched. Research by Tiffany Field of the Touch Research Institute in Miami has found that a massage from a loved one can not only ease pain but also soothe depression and strengthen a relationship." - Fred Yankowski

"The strategy of rapid learners is different. Instead of memorizing by rote, rapid learners store information by linking ideas together. Instead of repetition, they find connections. These connections create a web of knowledge that can succeed even when you forget one part." - Fred Yankowski

Following the rules. Definition of success. Letting feat enslave you. Being greedy. Destroying you body. Having fuzzy goals. Being comfortable. - Fred Yankowski

Includes great story of Ray Bradbury writing for 30 minutes at a time on a rental typewriter, producing "Farenheit 451". - Fred Yankowski

This transcription of a speech at Harvard covers 24 standard causes of human misjudgment. - Fred Yankowski

Recommends ten deep books on programming. - Fred Yankowski

"“wisdom” may be defined as the ability to not be dangerous. So what then is the point of education and experience? Your professors and teachers (and typical exam structure) would lead you to believe that you must cram as much information as possible into the shit you know category. I am going to be bold and suggest that this is wrong. The goal isn’t to put as much as possible into the first category, it’s to take as much as possible out of the third category [shit you don't know you don't know]." - Fred Yankowski

Intense. Words fail me. - Fred Yankowski

"Children understand that the fun part about the journey of life is throwing caution to the wind and trying new things to see how they identify with you, and swimming in the joy of feeling yourself get lost in the things you have a passion for. And once you realize they’re within you, you’ll feel an impenetrable calling to them, as if they’re part of your destiny. When you find something like that, nobody can pay you to give it up." "Time is wealth. You spend it every day whether you want to or not. Nothing is more satisfying than spending that wealth doing the things that define you and make up who you are; how valuable is living out your movie to you? The only thing preventing you from doing the things that define you is the value you put on your own life." - Fred Yankowski

"A practical takeaway from this study is that we’re all liable to take for granted the familiar people and things in our lives when we’re feeling good. But our usual assumption that this has something to do with those people or things is off base. It’s not them but us that changes how warmly they glow. And when times get tough, it should come as no surprise that their warmth suddenly feels indispensable, like the only fire keeping us from dying in the cold." - Fred Yankowski

Breathing, self-hypnosis, change position, get moving. - Fred Yankowski