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Keeping the Most Important Problems Top of Mind

David Wynn published on 2020-04-30 included in Personal Knowledge Management

It’s funny how once you start practicing something, you notice it everywhere. On of the exercises in Building a Second Brain is to keep a list of your 12 most important questions explicitly listed somewhere so they can percolate in your brain as you move through the world. One of my favorite media professors, Jay Rosen, posted a refresher to his top problems in Pressthink, which I’d forgotten he regularly does.

Moving to Write.as

David Wynn published on 2020-04-28 included in Technology

I’m beginning the process of moving my blog to write.as.

Creating a POST API for Hugo

David Wynn published on 2017-12-29 included in Technology

As part of my effort to improve the posting flow (and to tinker with GCP tools), I decided to make an api that would allow me to post to Hugo from other clients in the wild. The adventure was… enlightening? Is that what we say at the end of these journeys?

Advice for New Parents

David Wynn published on 2017-12-20 included in Parenting

As more and more of my friends hit the age where they seriously debate and then start having kids, I thought I would share what meager advice I’ve accumulated so far in my first few months of being a father.

What Makes A Good Star Wars Movie

David Wynn published on 2017-12-18

As The Last Jedi starts to hit theaters, it seems appropriate for me to write down what makes a good Star Wars movie. My take is a simpler metric than others might consider, completley disregarding plot and character development. It goes like this:

CICD for Hugo: Speeding up the Static Site Flow

David Wynn published on 2017-11-25 included in Technology

As I was putting this site together, I realized there were some boilerplate workflows I wanted to improve.