Bryan Hoffman
Designer & DeveloperAdvice (that’s mostly for myself) II
Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before. Now, view the rest of your life as a bonus. The world can be improved by your actions. It's made better everytime you: Do more with less Give away your surpluses Share good ideas Try to transform yourself for the...
Another Exercise
Write down your plan for EVERYONE to see Well, that's fucking scary... but okay. I have a script written in PHP that will send me a text message programmatically.<?php include('sms.php'); $my_sms = new txtmsg(); $subject = "Journal Reminder"; $body = "Write...
An Exercise
It's been quite a year? Wow. > take a minute and write a page of your guiding principles Okay. Who do I want to be? I want to be conscientious, helpful, valuable, smart, reasonable, exciting, fun to be around, knowledgeable, kind, an expert of somethings, a jack of...
A Road-map for Young Investors – Part II
I wrote a bunch of philosophical garbage and threw it all out. I hope you'll read between the lines and come to the same conclusions without me boring you to death.How to (hopefully) retire before you die What is retirement? Retirement is when you have enough, you can...
A Road-map for Young Investors
You're trying to get somewhere. It's a complex journey and you feel completely alone. The directions you were given were vague, and you're not sure you're going to arrive... alive. I'm talking about retirement. Investing is a good idea if you plan on retiring. The...
Why I write
I started writing seriously a few years ago, but just for myself. I began by writing in a journal as a means of expressive therapy. Sitting with a blank page before me, not knowing what to write, how to write, or even why I was writing was too daunting a set-up. It...
Re-design Coming!
Hi there everyone. I'm currently running a WordPress site. I'm familiar with the platform, and I can cobble something together really quickly with it. This isn't the final version of this site and the coming re-design won't be the last. A little on the domain: Often...
The Why’s and How’s of Starting an Internal Wiki for your Organization
I’ve started a new role and taken ownership of a project that really excites me: an internal wiki. Over time, an internal wiki can become a central hub for an organization. It all boils down to storing, managing and distributing knowledge. Everything can be kept...
Recommencement
It’s peculiar. I want to write, but I don’t. I’ll set out with a strong intent and a dose of seriousness. I’ll try something ambitious. I’ll decide to jump in at 500 words a day. And, I’ll do it for a week. Then I’ll spend a while thinking thoughts like: I’ve got to...
A Language Learning Lie
There are a lot of self-defeating and fatalistic statements that quietly pervade our thinking. Some of these get repeated to the point of cliche, and are nearly axiomatic. These things need to be remedied before we go on living our lives never questioning some of the...
Advice (that’s mostly for myself)
I keep on running into folks who say how important the habit of writing and publishing daily has been to them, and I think: "I need to start doing that... tomorrow." Each and every time, I realize the potential value in adopting the habit, and then rationalize it...
The Neopets Trajectory
In a weird turn of events, Neopets turned me onto computer programming. Neopets was (and probably still is) essentially Tamagotchi on steroids. Much of my childhood got sunk into Neopets, so I’m glad in retrospect I can see some definite, positive effects out of it,...
Distributed Science
The year is 2026. The time is 8:37 AM. A wall-mounted speaker comes on and a male’s voice announces that you’ve just crossed the border into Oregon. Beyond the window myriad shades of green whizz past at 760 mph blurring into a sort of flickering, moss green paint...