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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 3d
Reminds me of Kathy Sierras example of the dog outside of a cage being made to sit expending all its cognitive resources

obviously kids are not dogs and a cage is obviously a no go

also, if all you have to offer is “it’s just a hard season and I’ve been there”

i will gladly take that!!
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 3d
Anyone with kids know how to tap into their intrinsic motivation at 330am so going back to sleep isn’t met with gnashing of teeth

extrinsic motivation doesnt work
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 4d
Just using the @11ty.dev base blog starter

Wrote my first (overview) type article of what I am focusing on with relation to side work moving forward

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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 4d
Just a public thank you to Netlify and Cloudflare for drag and drop deployments. Makes me want to dance. But I'll keep it to myself
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 4d
This x10000 with kids as well. If I can apologize and ask for forgiveness when I raise my voice or don't try to understand them it makes our relationship so much better
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 5d
Will be writing case studies and some deeper personal reflections as well.

But it all ties together for me so I will also continue with my tech blog and the software I get advocate for on a daily basis.
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 5d
Also, its the start of a new focus/direction for my writing and will be utilizing @amyhoy.bsky.social and @alexhillman.com's 30x500 a bunch more for things I am writing about.

I've been dipping my toes back into the counseling world and am leaning in the direction of coaching.
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 5d
Its that time of year again

Rebuilding a blog but this time starting with a base 11ty blog and then will be gradually adding to it while going through @bell.bz complete CSS course.
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 7d
If you predict AI will write all software in 6 months every 6 months eventually you will probably be right and then ego will drive you to say "I told you so."

But what a silly thing to hold to rather than helping people advance in everyway
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 8d
Like every single demo I have ever thought about making would potentially exist if I could make things look as beautiful as they do in my head.
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 8d
So much of my web dev life could have been sped up if I serious design, like @bell.bz and friends teach, would have been taught from the outset.

Now it feels like living and spinning in an never ending cycle crap design without personal skills (due to crazy brain) to make good designs
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 9d
I feel my webby friends would like this. Might be a fun excuse to dabble in random things and show some fun possibilities with your skills!

Thinking of the recent convo with @amyhoy.bsky.social on Javascript.
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Piccalilli @piccalil.li · 9d
A really cool idea: a challenge to build a little website every day in October based on a daily theme.

weirdweboctober.website
Weird Web October
A challenge to try and make a website every day of October, based on the theme for each day
weirdweboctober.website
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 29d
Near to my life in the sense of what can I do today? What good (generous act) can I do today.

Sometimes that is simply, show up, do your work, work hard, serve others, love your family, friends, etc

Sometimes it is something else. But it has to be where you are not someone else.
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 29d
And we see this in religion/spirituality as well.

I have more thoughts but I feel I should stop and just sign off. But for me the aim is to help others and for us to always be moving forward in the "meaningful." I know that definition can become subjective.

But it also has to be near to my life
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 29d
And then it is a sore that festers if no progress is made in a meaningful way.

But we don't ever define meaningful. We don't have a collective definition of "meaingful".

So we fracture and think hope and renewed purpose looks a very singular way and only then will my inner life be refreshed
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 29d
The Progress Principle acknowledges/states that negative momentum, loss of progress (downs in US football, congressional seats, goals in life) is much more powerful than the positive

I don't have the exact answer why but as humans negative events radically destabailize internal equilibrium
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 29d
Lets move on to a bit more macro and yet micro.

Social media and Nations

Obviously everyone knows what is going on in the US cause its at most a foot from your face

This is a general comment

Our (US) system posits "sides" to mean the other gains/looses progress
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 29d
Loss of yards, down, penalties are proverbial 'punch in the gut' to progress. Thus people get drunk

Conversely its why there are bandwagon fans.
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 29d
Games are awesome to an extent because there is an objective and many progress indicators along the way.

In American Football, it is broken down by "and inches". Literal progress will be measured in inches to give the indication of momentum.

Its why negative yards or turnovers suck.
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 29d
Lets start high level and move to personal

Sports. Progress is built into sports and games at a fundamental level. But how do we know?

When your sports team or sport of choice's equivalent to a first down doesn't get a first down, what do you feel?

Pissed off, discouragement, hopelessness?
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 29d
Thread on progress after reading half of The Progress Principle

Progress is, in my mind, becoming one of the clearest metrics of health in individuals.

Progress as referenced in the book is in line with work people do.

But it is much much bigger than that. And I think we see it by is inverse
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · Sep 10
I think there is this “epidemic” of being good but also being so burnt out that something with assumed societal authority makes going on auto pilot so easy

I know for a fact that many medical Practices are enduring their own version of “if You don’t use it you will be left behind”
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Kevin Cunningham @dolearning.dev · Sep 10
Before I teach a single thing, I always start with the same 3 questions.
They set the tone, build trust, and often save the whole course.

Here’s the video: youtu.be/Xsuf0KIEu5g

What’s the first question you ask when leading a group?
The 3 Questions I Ask to Start Every Course
YouTube video by Kevin Cunningham
youtu.be
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · Sep 7
I need to look into prototype js now

But this is helpful. There is a generation of JS developer, like yourself and others I’ve mentioned, who just have such a depth of knowledge/love for it

There is a reverence there just feel I need to look into
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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · Sep 7
I’ve been thinking on this the past few days

I know you outlined a lot of things wrong with modern JavaScript/software

Maybe this is outlined somewhere else but what to you was elegant about js/what did you enjoy in the language?
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