The Swyx Mixtape

Listen to Deep Questions: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/deep-questions/ep-184-replay-the-y_ucZrt6CDB/

1. Time Block Plan - give every minute a job
2. Setup Task Boards - keep track of every task and their status
   1. this week
   2. ambiguous
   3. major projects
   4. waiting to hear back
3. Full Capture - by end of day - every obligation is out of head, in a trusted system
   1. Email inbox
   2. Calendar
   3. Task Board
4. Weekly Plan - at beginning of each week, build plan for week
   1. block time for critical things
   2. interfaces with daily Time Block Plan
5. Strategic Plan
   1. The Vision for your professional life (for quarter)
   2. Vision interacts with weekly plan
6. Automate and Eliminate
   1. reduce amounts of context switches
   2. batch stuff, handing off, outsourcing
   3. say no, leave, step away
7. Go for it
   1. take really ambitious projects, big swings

Listen to Deep Questions: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/deep-questions/ep-169-how-do-i-manage-my-time-gTNFVbZvLQA/

• Three requirements of time management
  • Capture: don't store anything in your head. Your ideas, info, commitments, plans.
  • Configure: make effort organizing. Gather relevant info in one place.
  • Control: proactively make a plan for your time in advance: quarterly, weekly, daily
  • Constrain (bonus!): figure out how to automate, consolidate interruptions with office hours
• Actual tools used
  • Capture
    • workingmemory.txt
    • shutdown: -> go thru workingmemory -> trello, gdoc
  • Configure
    • separate kanban board for every role - researcher, etc
    •  columns
      • "to be processed"
      • "waiting to hear back from"
      • "persistent initiatives"
    • daily: just add stuff
    • weekly: reorganize and review
  • Control
    • daily, weekly, quarterly, time blocking

Listen to Deep Questions: https://overcast.fm/+b1V3EeycY (8mins in)

Listen to JSParty: https://changelog.com/jsparty/226

Reactathon talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGnlBU3K_eM

In 2020, Shawn (swyx) Wang wrote:

We’re now in year three of this third age and Swyx joins us to look back at what he missed, look around at what’s happening today, and look forward at what might be coming next.

Notes & Links

• Reactathon
• swyx’s talk at Reactathon
• The Third Age of JavaScript
• Lydia Hallie’s talk on rendering patterns
• analytics.usa.gov
• The Birth and Death of JavaScript
• The Rise of WebAssembly (Infoworld)
• Ryan Dahl on JavaScript containers
• swyx on The Changelog #467
• The other thing I like about esbuild is that it’s a static Go binary, so I feel more confident that I’ll be able to get it to work in the future than with tool written in Javascript, just because I understand the Javascript ecosystem

Starter: How Will I Know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOez2zaLHvg

Songs

• Trouty Mouth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zEd9Zioo2U
• Songbird https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJUgLEtA-74
  Girl on Fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DuVml2-Bfw
• Rain on my Parade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvnxXj9K_74
• Brave https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py3WJIR-N7c
• Someone Like You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3BjcKq5w2A
• If I Die Young https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlWHTfrGhoY

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Naya_Rivera

Couldn't fit it in

• Dance with Somebody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Q9AH9ou5A

From the Moth: https://themoth.org/radio-hour/live-from-the-united-palace

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/business-breakdowns/mckinsey-company-the-first-pAbhz6JnPGv/ (28mins in)

Listen to SDT: https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/365

• Acquired: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/american-dynamism-with-katherine-boyle
• All-in Summit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK0NfL2M5L4

When people ask about how I got started, I send them to this podcast. Here is the audio, edited for ums.

source: https://podcast.freecodecamp.org/ep-59-shawn-wang-left-a-350kyear-finance-job-to-learn-to-code