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Is it generally easy for people to get permission from their day job to code on the side, without assigning all rights to the employer?
This is excellent advice. Just by doing something, the habit gets created and the longer it gets, the easier it is to get started.
This has literally never worked for me with any habits I've tried intentionally cultivating. I'll pick something and do it every day for several weeks. Then I stop. Am I doing it wrong? Am I just weird that I can't seem to form good habits? I sincerely think I wouldn't remember to brush my teeth in the morning if my mouth didn't feel so gross, and I've been doing that every morning for over 30 years!
20 minutes a day is over 100 hours a year. 0 minutes a day is 0 hours a year.
Reminds me of the book atomic habits. It emphasizes the compounding gains of small wins.
It's less of a 20 year olds book of lifehacks and more of a science based approach.
Power of Habit book changed my life, quit all drugs and video games. Now I just read nonfiction books.
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This has literally never worked for me with any habits I've tried intentionally cultivating. I'll pick something and do it every day for several weeks. Then I stop. Am I doing it wrong? Am I just weird that I can't seem to form good habits? I sincerely think I wouldn't remember to brush my teeth in the morning if my mouth didn't feel so gross, and I've been doing that every morning for over 30 years!
Have you considered you might have some disorder that affects your executive function capacity like ADHD and therefore requires alternative strategies to organize and cultivate habits?
1. I see you're on v.0.21 - how stable is this? I know the point of the article is that you don't set deadlines, but I'm anxious to implement something that may have breaking changes.
2. How can I pay you? I'm implementing search now, considering Algolia or PG_Search. I want to give you a shot, but I also want to pay you.
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Don't ask for permission if you can get away with begging for forgiveness ;)
This is one of those times that this adage applies. In the worst case, "begging for forgiveness" does not mean asking your manager for an exception. It means losing an expensive court case with your former employer about who owns your IP.
Is it generally easy for people to get permission from their day job to code on the side, without assigning all rights to the employer?
Much harder to win in court when they knowingly added a line that lets you work on your own projects.
The Grand Canyon was created by little drops of water bouncing off rocks for millenia. Consistent effort over time is one of the greatest forces in the world. Persistence beats focus, inspiration, and genius 90% of the time.