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Accountability is huge - don't have that for any of my projects so that's a great idea.

Early mornings are a great idea too, but my default body clock is night owl, not morning person so I find it very tough to get up and do anything intensive in the morning. I'm sure that can be changed with time/effort, but it's a tough one (especially with a kid that might get up at 5 or 6 any given day)

I live in Newfoundland and here the Puffin (our provincial bird) is doing really well [1]. The town where I'm from I can drive 5 minutes to two separate puffin nesting sites and in the city where I live I can get to a colony of 300,000 in ~20mins. Not trying to diminish the issues seen by the Iceland birds but I'm glad they appear to be doing well here. Great for our tourism too. (Should also note that they can't be hunted here either)

[1]: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/puffins-aplenty-newfoundland-despi...

I love that Chris O'Dowd [1] does the narration. Great mix of calming accent and my enjoyment of the IT crowd.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_O%27Dowd

Procrastination - wanting to accomplish things (technical things - learn new language, stack, technology) in my head but not actually starting/completing them. I've tried to minimize my hobbies and whatnot so that I'm not being torn in too many directions but I guess I just aspire to do more software dev-type activities (in my head) but after a day job related to that I can't quite muster up the energy (default to FO4, Youtube or guitar).

It can definitely be a challenge. My wife and I waited a long time (10 years) before having a kid. There have been a number of unexpected medical things that have complicated the past ~4 years. I love my son a lot, but I also would have been happy to be just a husband. I think you need to decide what's important to you and whether a child makes that better or worse. Having kids to meet some kind of social norm or expectation is definitely not a good plan (although I'm sure it can work out ok in some situations).

Nothing beats putting in the time, no one is a coding pro by default. Sounds like you're on the right path. Try finding a topic or area that interests you and dive in there a bit. Makes it easier to get those daily commits if it's interesting to you.

Interested in knowing what the 'thing' is. Sounds like a good start tho.

great read. thanks for sharing

I see a fallout reference, I upvote

Nike has a huge skate team these days (Koston for example). It's like any major sport now - there's money in it so the big companies have joined in. I'm sure it's great for the skater's incomes and the Nike SB shoes are really quite good. Can't comment on Adidas, but they've been in the game for quite a while now.