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Benjamin Hardy: Future Self and Identity-Based Goal Setting Be Your Future Self Now (2022) Benjamin Hardy’s work centers on the revolutionary concept that “It’s not the past that drives us, but rather, it is the future that pulls us.” His framework challenges traditional psychology by positioning the future self as fundamentally different from the current self. Core Frameworks...

2016-05-16T00:00:00-04:00 2016-05-16T00:00:00-04:00 http://jeffdeville.github.io/2016-05-16-managing-multiple-sets-of-aws-creds-in-bash/

Updated: July 2018 autoenv has been replaced by direnv So now you’ll use .envrc files, instead of .env files. Further, the .envrc files are really just bash scripts that will execute. This means export FOO=foo, not just FOO=foo. Direnv has installation instructions at the link above. For multiple AWS profiles then, you just need to: AWS’s cli already supports the concept of profiles. Co...

2016-05-11T00:00:00-04:00 2016-05-11T00:00:00-04:00 http://jeffdeville.github.io/2016-05-11-ruptured-achilles-useful-products-post-operation/

I just had surgery to repair a completely ruptured Achilles tendon, and I thought I’d create some suggestions on how to get through post-op. My surgeon wants my leg elevated over my heart 23hrs/day for the first two weeks, which is stricter than most, but his goal is to rapidly reduce swelling so I can begin rehab in just 2 weeks and avoid complications as well. So how to make those 2 weeks be...

2015-09-24T00:00:00-04:00 2015-09-24T00:00:00-04:00 http://jeffdeville.github.io/2015-09-24-logging-to-the-console-and-a-file-from-bash/

Goals We’re going to provide a drop in script component that will allow you to log output (stdout and stderr) to a file, as well as the screen. In a follow-up, we’ll show how this can also be run through a filter so that your output could be timestamped. We’ll also put in some simple error handling to ensure the logging destination exists. Script with log Code Place this at the top of your ...

2015-08-09T00:00:00-04:00 2015-08-09T00:00:00-04:00 http://jeffdeville.github.io/2015-08-09-how-to-productively-use-15-minutes-of-time/

I’ve got 2 little boys at home. My wife and I enjoy spending a lot of time with them. We’re also jumping into the real estate game, since that seems to be the way to achieve financial independence for our generation. Adding to that a full time job and exercise, and my free time is in pretty short supply. That doesn’t leave much room for my pre-family interests. Software development and entre...