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My advice to anyone who writes: Try writing one sentence per line. I’ve been doing it for twenty years, and it improved my writing more than anything else. New sentence? Hit [Enter]. New line. Not publishing one sentence per line, no. Write like this for your eyes only. HTML or Markdown combine separate lines into one paragraph. Why is it so useful? It helps you judge each sentence on its own. We
I write almost everything important in my life: thoughts, plans, notes, diaries, correspondence, code, articles, and entire books. They are my extended memory — my noted self — my organized thoughts. I refer to them often. I search them, update them, and learn from them. I convert them into HTML to make websites, or LaTeX to make books. My written words are my most precious asset. They are also a
2015-05-04 If you are a web or API developer, programming code that uses an SQL database, this is for you. I’ve found a very different and useful way to structure code. It’s made such a big difference for me that I had to share it here. How things are Most web development — whether custom or using frameworks like Rails, Django, Laravel, Sinatra, Flask, and Symfony — tends to work the same way: At
When a friend says something interesting to me, I usually don’t have a reaction until much later. When someone asks me a deep question, I say, “Hmm. I don’t know.” The next day, I have an answer. I’m a disappointing person to try to debate or attack. I just have nothing to say in the moment, except maybe, “Good point.” Then a few days later, after thinking about it a lot, I have a response. This p
2014-01-19 This essay is adapted from an excerpt of the great book “A Geek in Japan” by Héctor Garcia. It is the first chapter of my new Japan 2014 book. If three Japanese people are talking together, and a fourth one joins the conversation, he will apologize upon approach for breaking the harmony of the group. Why? In Japan, everything looks like it works to perfection. People do what they’re sup
2014-01-16 I had just moved to Singapore when I met the brilliant Benjamin Joffe. He’s a startup consultant and investor from France, who has spent the last 13 years living around Asia — a few years each in Korea, China, and Japan. I asked him if he could tell me the most important thing he learned from living in these different countries. He said, “Even though we are all using English as a common
Since I mentioned that I learned JavaScript, people have asked me how and what I recommend. So here’s my experience and best advice for 2024. Learn plain JavaScript First, it’s important to learn plain JavaScript. Don’t depend on a library of shortcuts. JavaScript will be around for many years, while libraries and frameworks come and go every year. How to begin Don’t just learn from little bits of
Memorizing a programming language using spaced repetition software 2013-01-06 I’ve been doing this for a year, and it’s the most helpful learning technique I’ve found in 14 years of computer programming. Background: I’m an intermediate programmer. I didn’t go to school for it. I just learned by necessity because I started a website that just kept growing and growing, and I couldn’t afford to hire
2012-12-09 I used to get mad at people. They lied. They betrayed me. They disappeared. Do you hear the pattern? “They this. They that.” When someone upsets you, it’s human nature to feel it’s their fault. But one day I tried thinking of everything as my fault. I created the environment that made them feel they had to lie. I mistook their neutral behavior as betrayal. I made it more appealing for t
2012-12-02 You can focus your time locally or globally. If you’re local, you focus on your community, doing things in-person. But this means you have less time to focus on the rest of the world. If you’re global, you make things for the whole world. But this means you have less time to be part of your local community. Neither approach is right or wrong, but you need to be aware of the trade-off. I
2012-08-13 I’m 40 meters underwater. It’s getting cold and dark. It’s only the third dive in my life, but I’m taking the advanced scuba course, and the Caribbean teacher was a little reckless, dashing ahead, leaving me alone. The next day I’m in a government office, answering an interview, raising my right hand, becoming a citizen of Dominica. I’m backstage at the TED Conference, about to go on, b
2011-06-19 Fish don’t know they’re in water. If you tried to explain it, they’d say, “Water? What’s water?” They’re so surrounded by it that it’s impossible to see. They can’t see it until they jump outside of it. This is how I feel about culture. We’re so surrounded by it that it’s impossible to see. Many things we think are true are really just our local culture. We can’t see it until we get out
2010-11-11 In May 2003, Apple invited me to their headquarters to discuss getting CD Baby’s catalog into the iTunes Music Store. iTunes had just launched two weeks before, with only some music from the major labels. Many of us in the music biz were not sure this idea was going to work. Especially those who had seen companies like eMusic do this exact same model for years without big success. I fle
2011-01-23 Most self-employed people get caught in the delegation trap. You’re so busy, doing everything yourself. You know you need help, but to find and train someone would take more time than you have! So you keep working harder, until you break. Here’s my little tale of how I broke into the delegation mindset. In 2001, CD Baby was three years old. I had eight employees but I was still doing ev
2010-11-21 Any creator of anything knows this feeling: You experience someone else’s innovative work. It’s beautiful, brilliant, breath-taking. You’re stunned. Their ideas are unexpected and surprising, but perfect. You think, “I never would have thought of that. How do they even come up with that? It’s genius!” Afterwards, you think, “My ideas are so obvious. I’ll never be as inventive as that.”
2008-09-05 This is a talk I gave to incoming first-year students at Berklee College of Music today: September 5, 2008. #1 : Focus. Disconnect. Do not be distracted. My favorite part of the movies is the training sequence, where a young Bruce Wayne, Neo, or Kung-Fu Panda goes to a remote location to be trained relentlessly, nonstop, past all breaking points, until they emerge as a master. The next
2010-07-01 Ninety-six percent of cancer patients claim to be in better health than the average cancer patient. Ninety-four percent of professors say they are better-than-average teachers. Ninety percent of students think they are more intelligent than the average student. Ninety-three percent of drivers say they are safer-than-average drivers. When I learned this, it shook my soul. At first, like
2010-06-29 In my 15 years running two companies and two bands, I’ve employed about 100 people. So from an employer’s point of view, here’s my best advice on how to get hired: Focus on one company Do some soul-searching to decide what you really want to do. Then find the company in your area that you feel is doing it the best. The company needs to be near you already. If you don’t live near them, m
2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Many of my friends have been in the same position, so here’s my best advice, below. 1. Reduce your big idea to “Version 1.0”. First read my short “Version Infinity” article. Dream the big dream of everything your site/service/company might be some day, and write it a
Time line for context: 1969: born in Berkeley, California 1971: moved to Chicago 1973: moved to Menlo Park, California 1975: moved to Abingdon, England 1976: moved to Hinsdale, Illinois 1977: started playing piano, viola, and clarinet 1979: got a TRS-80 computer and dove deep into programming in BASIC 1983: started playing guitar, decided I wanted to be a successful musician 1987: moved to Boston
2010-02-11 ( I gave this short 3-minute talk at the TED Conference yesterday and got a standing ovation! They call it “How to Start a Movement” ) Click here to download the video. Transcript: If you’ve learned a lot about leadership and making a movement, then let’s watch a movement happen, start to finish, in under 3 minutes, and dissect some lessons: A leader needs the guts to stand alone and lo
2009-12-01 Whether you’re a student, a teacher, or a parent, I think you’ll appreciate this story of how one teacher can completely and permanently change someone’s life in only a few lessons. I was seventeen and about to start my first year at Berklee College of Music. I called a local recording studio with a random question about music typesetting. When the studio owner heard I was going to Berk
2005-08-16 It’s so funny when I hear people being so protective of ideas. People who want me to sign a non-disclosure agreement to tell me the simplest idea. Ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions. Explanation:
Japanese addresses, Chinese doctors, Nigerian music, and an upside-down map. My first TED talk. In India. Still my favorite.
2009-09-01 I was at a Kurt Vonnegut talk in New York a few years ago. Talking about writing, life, and everything. He explained why people have such a need for drama in their life. He said, “People have been hearing fantastic stories since time began. The problem is, they think life is supposed to be like the stories. Let’s look at a few examples.” He drew an empty grid on the board, like this: Ti
2009-07-11 I was recently in Vancouver Canada for a week, considering moving there, when my friend Ariel Hyatt said, “You have to meet this amazing guy Tom Williams. He got hired by Apple when he was only 14. I think the company had to, like, legally adopt him to do it. He’s a go-getter like you. Plus his wife, Jessie is an awesome country artist.” I met Tom for dinner, loved his story, and wanted
Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them 2009-06-16 Shouldn’t you announce your goals, so friends can support you? Isn’t it good networking to tell people about your upcoming projects? Doesn’t the “law of attraction” mean you should state your intention, and visualize the goal as already yours? Nope. Tests done since 1933 show that people who talk about their intentions ar
Japanese addresses: No street names. Block numbers. 2009-06-22 I love learning something that flips my head upside down. So, let’s look at one of the coolest head-flippers I’ve found: Japanese addresses. Imagine you’re standing in Chicago and a Japanese man asks you, “What’s the name of this block?” Thinking you’ve misunderstood the question, you say, “This is Erie Street. We’re between Wabash Ave
2009-06-10 We all need a place to play. Kids need playgrounds and sandboxes. Musicians need an instrument. Mad scientists need a laboratory. Those of us with business ideas? We need a company. Not for the money, but because it’s our place to experiment, create, and turn thoughts into reality. We need to pursue our intrinsic motivation. We have so many interesting ideas and theories. We need to try
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