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I quit contracting 6 months ago

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Re: I quit contracting 6 months ago

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Post by michael_forrest »

andrewingram wrote: post #29
quickthrower2 wrote: post #28

Wow, a simple blog post that could be served and rendered to me in less than a second (mobile iOS) takes ages to load with a spinning disc, ages to render everything and some charts are lazy loaded when in view and take a long time, and an unresponsive scroll bar. I suggest get your posts on your own domain not this coda thing whatever that is. Stick on CDN hosting like netlify for free. Use simple images or svg. Esc…

Coda is a knowledge base, much like wikis such as Confluence. It's mostly used inside businesses, so I imagine he just made this page public. Making it hyper optimised for anonymous web traffic is almost certainly a non-goal.

Exactly. I know it's an awkward and inefficient way to share a blog post but I liked the idea of people being able to explore all the data.

Re: I quit contracting 6 months ago

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Post by setr »

ggggtez wrote: post #24
sicromoft wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some friendly advice: you called his charts utterly meaningless but didn't give a single specific issue you had with understanding them. While it would've helped to have unit labels on the Y axis, I was able to understand all of them. Also, "wall of text" generally refers to a long piece of text lacking formatting, punctuation, and separation into paragraphs and sections. This article, while long, does not have those…

The advice doesn't seem friendly, and ignores valid points. I agree with the above poster. The article is long and meandering. Let's raise some specific complaints: >So if you see "2 days 18 hours" that means "66 hours total time spent on this activity". Completely superfluous. He goes on for 3 sentences explaining that a day contains 24 hours. WOW! AND he couldn't figure out how to keep his units, or make it unitles…

curiously, that third graph for me has order 7/7 7/14 8/18 8/25 7/21 8/4

If you didn't mistate the dates, then it might even be changing its random distribution :-)

Re: I quit contracting 6 months ago

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Post by davidwparker »

Thanks for the write-up. It speaks to me a lot, and serves as a warning for doing too many things rather than focusing on just a few.

Side Note: as someone who already has a ton of graphics videos on YouTube already, you shouldn't expect to get a lot of views there...

Re: I quit contracting 6 months ago

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Post by narag »

michael_forrest wrote: post #38

Thanks for all the comments so far. I know Coda isn't designed as a blogging platform but I liked being able to directly connect the interactive charts. It's better on desktop than mobile. That said, I did spend quite a while copying it over and reformatting it for Medium this afternoon - there's a link right at the top - just in case people didn't want to deal with Coda! I would have liked to make the charts a bit c…

There is a chinese proverb, at least that's what I was told it was, that says that if you want something done, give it to a busy man. It seems accurate to me. Someone that can deal with a lot of stuff is a good bet to accomplish a task.

As suggested by someone else, I'm going to subscribe to your videos, let's see if I get infected :)

Re: I quit contracting 6 months ago

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Post by dasil003 »

notJim wrote: post #31
psim1 wrote: post #12

There is high value in pieces where the author uses himself as a case study in achieving something and provides a lesson for others to learn from. In this case, however, it just reads like braggadocio. What's the take-away for us?

To me it reads more like a diary than a hyper-focused advice piece. Not everything has to be written like a business book, sometimes it's interesting just to read about what someone else has been up to.

Indeed. I'm not generally interested in pointed advice from bloggers, there are so many assumptions and presumptions that go into reducing something down to a single thesis, and it becomes tiresome after a while. Give me some more color so I can consider how it relates to my own life and value—that's food for thought.

Re: I quit contracting 6 months ago

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Post by michael_forrest »

narag wrote: post #44
michael_forrest wrote: post #38

Thanks for all the comments so far. I know Coda isn't designed as a blogging platform but I liked being able to directly connect the interactive charts. It's better on desktop than mobile. That said, I did spend quite a while copying it over and reformatting it for Medium this afternoon - there's a link right at the top - just in case people didn't want to deal with Coda! I would have liked to make the charts a bit c…

There is a chinese proverb, at least that's what I was told it was, that says that if you want something done, give it to a busy man. It seems accurate to me. Someone that can deal with a lot of stuff is a good bet to accomplish a task. As suggested by someone else, I'm going to subscribe to your videos, let's see if I get infected :)

Love that :)

Re: I quit contracting 6 months ago

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Post by piva00 »

eveningcoffee wrote: post #33
ping_pong wrote: post #6

Some friendly advice: your charts are almost impossible to understand. They may make sense to you, but they are utterly meaningless to most anyone else. I suggest that as you continue writing, you should take a step back and try to read it from the point of view of someone that has no previous knowledge of anything about you. This could help you focus what you write about and make things more succinct, because most p…

I don't know, these charts were quite intuitive for me. Of course these are not without faults. First one is obvious. Second one becomes quickly clear when you realize that it has to be total of hours over some period of time. Otherwise it would not make sense. Third one is quite interesting. It is very informative and interesting to observe. These charts could be made better naturally. Title and short description wo…

The charts aren't intuitive at all when I got to the stacked bar charts, the labelling threw me off quite quickly and I couldn't track the changes or what they meant overtime.

Re: I quit contracting 6 months ago

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Post by [deleted] »

eveningcoffee wrote: post #33
ping_pong wrote: post #6

Some friendly advice: your charts are almost impossible to understand. They may make sense to you, but they are utterly meaningless to most anyone else. I suggest that as you continue writing, you should take a step back and try to read it from the point of view of someone that has no previous knowledge of anything about you. This could help you focus what you write about and make things more succinct, because most p…

I don't know, these charts were quite intuitive for me. Of course these are not without faults. First one is obvious. Second one becomes quickly clear when you realize that it has to be total of hours over some period of time. Otherwise it would not make sense. Third one is quite interesting. It is very informative and interesting to observe. These charts could be made better naturally. Title and short description wo…

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