{"id":75,"date":"2015-03-16T18:30:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T00:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2015-03-16T17:18:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T23:18:29","slug":"one-a-day-keeps-mediocrity-at-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/one-a-day-keeps-mediocrity-at-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"One-a-Day Keeps Mediocrity at Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why am I posting every day? Well, I&#8217;m actually not. I&#8217;m posting every day except for Sunday. Gotta take a break sometime, right?<\/p>\n<p>People popularly attribute to Jerry Seinfeld the notion that if you want to be good at something, you have to do it &#8212; at least a little bit &#8212; every day.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve put this to the test several times. For example, in the beginning of 2014 I felt like I was losing touch with code. So, I made a goal to\u00a0check-in new code to GitHub every day.<\/p>\n<p>After 100 days I felt myself going a bit nuts. (&#8220;I HAVE TO KEEP THIS GOING!&#8221;) I would wake up in the middle of the night, &#8220;<em>MWAH!<\/em> Did I check-in today?&#8221; I didn&#8217;t set a limit on this crazy goal. Finally, with the troop week-long camp coming I decided that I would end on 128 days of continuous check-ins.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The one-a-day structure was very effective.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s easy to remember something you do every day, even if it&#8217;s only for a few months.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s easy to do just a little when that&#8217;s all you can muster.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to build up ManagerJS.\u00a0 I&#8217;m using the one-a-day mantra again. This time I&#8217;m taking Sundays off to try and keep the mania in check.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure I won&#8217;t keep this up forever. After a while I plan on paring down to once a week, or so.<\/p>\n<p>My real goals are\u00a0to<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>think clearly by writing,<\/li>\n<li>give resources to people who want to be (better) web developers &#8212; particularly those that interview with me<\/li>\n<li>give resources to anyone else trying\u00a0to be a dev manager.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Find something you want to be better at. Give it 10 minutes a day for a few\u00a0months. See what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why am I posting every day? Well, I&#8217;m actually not. I&#8217;m posting every day except for Sunday. Gotta take a break sometime, right? People popularly attribute to Jerry Seinfeld the notion that if you want to be good at something, you have to do it &#8212; at least a little bit &#8212; every day. I&#8217;ve&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/one-a-day-keeps-mediocrity-at-bay\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One-a-Day Keeps Mediocrity at Bay<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-executive","tag-improvement","wow fadeInUp","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}