Matt Warren

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  • Morning Routine Redux

    Last year I had a morning routing going for a while but after a while I fell back into my old habits of spending the early hours of the day scanning Facebook in bed instead of what I was actually intending to do. Last week I got a tip to never leave your phone in…

  • Fill your mind with good things

    As the father of a 18 month old, it’s been fascinating to try and understand how her little mind works.  Currently she is getting quite good at classification: car, cheese, door, dog. Everything she sees is echoed back. At this early stage in development it’s easy to see that what you say and do have…

  • Personal Key Performance Indicator Dashboard

    There are many things that make corporations work well (in well run businesses) that can be applied to a personal level. KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) are something that I’ve been fascinated by for quite a few years now. Building dashboards full of statistics has been a part of every one of my personal projects.  The…

  • Re-invigorating Old Products

    Sometimes you need to go back and look at the things you’ve done in the past to see if anything is due for an update or refresh.  Leaving old products to go stale is a sure way to let your customers know that you don’t care and don’t provide good customer service. With that in…

  • New Bike and Fractured Rib

    This weekend I picked up a balance bike for Ada to start playing with. These Strider bikes seem like a good way to get a child used to biking and gaining balance skills.  It sort of takes the place of ever needing to go with a tricycle or a bike with training wheels.  Once they…

  • Finishing

    There are plenty of hurdles that you have to make in order to be successful.  Perhaps the most critical is taking something all the way to completion.  When you are not working with a team this is a deceptively difficult thing to do. It takes determination, momentum and accountability to start a project and see…

  • Interstellar

    I love to support movies that I think support positive visions of the future with a constructive, based in reality perspective.  We just purchased Interstellar. which is probably one of the most intriguing movies I’ve watched in a while. Based in a post-war future where the climate of Earth is devolving into a dust bowl…

  • Pycon 2015

    For those of us who can’t take the trip to Montreal this year for Pycon all the talks are on the Pycon 2015 youtube channel. To become the best of the best you have to learn from the best and all the most active and knowledgeable Python developers are at Pycon giving amazing talks that…

  • Organizing Priorities

    One of the books I read recently suggested a best practice for a businesses to have a top 5 list and a top 1 of 5 item that is the most important of that list.  Limiting it to 5 makes things seem attainable and having one singled out as the top priority adds just enough…

  • Eyesight Improving

    Yes, it really is working.  There was a plateau, but with the new lower prescription glasses, When I started this process of trying to improve my eyesight I measured my far point at 17cm. Today I measured 24cm. That’s a pretty significant improvement. I’ve been wearing my new lower prescription glasses for everything except driving.…