Tag: #motivation
Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 12 posts
12 posts are tagged #motivation; the most recent was published on 2026-08-16.
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How Not to Wait for Motivation — Drive Is Not So Much the Cause of Action as, Often, Its Result
Why does the plan to start once the drive arrives fail structurally? The order of action and mood as shown by a behavioural activation meta-analysis, the autonomy, competence and relatedness of self-determination theory,
2026-08-16 · 12 min read #mindset#motivation#psychology#self-improvement#2026-08A Manual for Days When You Feel Like Doing Nothing
There are days when you turn off the alarm and still cannot get out of bed, days when you know what needs doing but your body will not move. Read such a day as a failure of willpower and the self-blame begins, and self-b
2026-07-20 · 6 min read #mindset#healing#motivation#rest#self-compassionWake Your Brain With Urgency — Designing Motivation That Beats Procrastination ♪ Listenable
Procrastination is not a failure of willpower. The brain only revs up its focus when it feels urgency. This essay lays out how to trick your brain in a healthy way with deadlines and vivid outcome imagery, while avoiding
2026-06-19 · 42 min read #culture#motivation#procrastination#productivity#habitWorking With Purpose — How the Why Changes the How ♪ Listenable
How purpose creates motivation and persistence, how to find and assign meaning in work, the alignment of values and norms, the wish to be remembered as a good person, and how to guard against purpose obsession, all woven
2026-06-19 · 23 min read #culture#purpose#meaning#motivation#self-managementSelf-Directed Learning Is What Grows Me — Turning Career Hunger into Fuel ♪ Listenable
The anxiety you feel before LeetCode and job postings is actually a good sign. In the end, what grew me was not study someone assigned but study I sought out myself. Here is how to turn career hunger into fuel, and how n
2026-06-19 · 37 min read #culture#self-directed-learning#career-growth#fundamentals#motivationThe Brain Responds When It Becomes Part of Life — Building an Immersion Environment ♪ Listenable
The old saying that you only truly learn a language by living in the country contains a neuroscientific truth. The brain only commits energy to learning once that learning becomes an urgent part of your life. This essay
2026-06-19 · 49 min read #culture#learning#immersion#language-learning#motivationMotivation Comes From People — Turning Desire Into Drive ♪ Listenable
More than half of any work is motivation. This is how I learned to connect healthy desire to learning and growth, why people move people, and how to design my own motivation system without becoming over-dependent on exte
2026-06-19 · 30 min read #motivation#self-determination#growth#habits#careerTake Motivation Seriously — Be the Person Who Designs Motivation ♪ Listenable
Motivation is not something you are born with; it is something you can design. This essay lays out the three pillars of intrinsic motivation (autonomy, mastery, purpose), the limits of extrinsic reward, how to find and a
2026-06-16 · 23 min read #mindset#motivation#leadership#management#burnoutMoved to culture/motivation-why-it-matters (en)
This post has moved to the culture category. See culture/2026-06-16-motivation-why-it-matters.en.
2026-06-16 · 1 min read #mindset#motivation#leadership#purposeLanguage Learning Motivation Guide for Developers: Technical English, Effective Methods, and Global Career ♪ Listenable
Everything about developer language learning! Technical English (code review/PR/issues/docs), effective methods (spaced repetition/immersion/shadowing), motivation strategies, preparing English for global companies, Japa
2026-03-25 · 20 min read #language-learning#english#motivation#developer-english#technical-englishMichael Jordan's Philosophy of Failure: What 9,000 Missed Shots Teach Developers
Michael Jordan's philosophy of failure and Carol Dweck's Growth Mindset research applied to developer resilience. From being cut from his high school team to 6 NBA titles, the story of how failure became a methodology.
2026-03-18 · 9 min read #michael-jordan#failure#growth-mindset#grit#motivationDopamine Betrayal and Reconciliation: A Neuroscience Productivity Guide for Developers
Dopamine is not the pleasure hormone — it's the "wanting" hormone. From Kent Berridge's incentive salience theory to Anna Lembke's pain-pleasure seesaw: how to reclaim sustainable motivation from the technology that hija
2026-03-18 · 8 min read #dopamine#neuroscience#motivation#productivity#developer