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Steven Poulton @ Aika
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Jun 12, 2021

Cost, Value and Self-Investment

Good morning, Timeboxers. How are you feeling? Have you blocked out your day? I’m writing this late Saturday night but you can see my schedule for Sunday by clicking here. I recently bought an “Ooler”. You may be more familiar with it’s predecessor, the Chilipad, made famous by Tim Ferris…

Timeboxing

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Cost, Value and Self-Investment
Cost, Value and Self-Investment
Timeboxing

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Jun 12, 2021

The importance of downtime.

Good evening, timeboxers. Today I’d like to talk about downtime and how I integrate it into my productivity system. If you’d like to see my schedule for the day you can click here. When I talk to people about the way in which I’ve tried to design my life, I…

Timeboxing

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The importance of downtime.
The importance of downtime.
Timeboxing

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Jun 12, 2021

How I Stay Motivated

Good afternoon, timeboxers. I hope you’ve all scheduled in a full and exciting day! (If you’d like to see my schedule for the day you can click here). I wanted to share with you something that keeps me pushing myself even when I want to stop. …

Productivity

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How I Stay Motivated
How I Stay Motivated
Productivity

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·Mar 27, 2018

Decouple Deployment from Release

In a lot of organisations, release and deployment happen at the same time. That is to say that the release of a new feature to your user base is triggered by deploying your application to the server. …

Software Development

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Decouple Deployment from Release
Decouple Deployment from Release
Software Development

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·Mar 22, 2018

Agile Theatre is Doing More Damage Than Waterfall Ever Did.

Every company moving from a primarily waterfall-driven process to an agile mindset has a transitional period. It’s inevitable. This transitional period is usually punctuated by confusion, anger and a lot of mistakes with the self-appointed company agile aficionado screaming “Don’t panic! This is how it’s supposed to work!”. This period…

Agile

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Agile Theatre is Doing More Damage Than Waterfall Ever Did.
Agile Theatre is Doing More Damage Than Waterfall Ever Did.
Agile

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·Sep 14, 2017

5 Small Steps to a Better Web API

One of my favourite things to do as a web developer is design and build Single Page Apps. This means that I work very closely with Web APIs on a fairly regular basis. I have even designed Web APIs myself with varying degrees of success. There are a lot of…

API

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5 Small Steps to a Better Web API
5 Small Steps to a Better Web API
API

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·Aug 15, 2017

Designing better CSS with a single step

CSS preprocessors like SASS and Less gave us a whole slew of new syntax designed to reduce computer-reproducible bloat within our style sheets. We got variables for our colours and dimensions, we got loops for our grid systems and complicated typographic boiler plates and we got selector nesting for syntactic…

CSS

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Designing better CSS with a single step
Designing better CSS with a single step
CSS

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Jun 14, 2017

The best code is someone else’s problem

Possibly my favourite thing about modern Javascript is something that I often seem maligned by other programmers. I don’t understand how such an awesome feature can get so much vitriol. Its sole purpose is to remove the burden of extra cognitive load from us lowly developers and (at least partially)…

JavaScript

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The best code is someone else’s problem
The best code is someone else’s problem
JavaScript

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Jun 12, 2017

Why I Chose React Over Vue

Have you noticed my overly diplomatic title? It’s an attempt to frame this conversation in terms of what I prefer rather than what I believe to be objectively better in hope of diverting a flame war. I imagine it will not work. React and Vue are ostensibly very similar and…

JavaScript

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Why I Chose React Over Vue
Why I Chose React Over Vue
JavaScript

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Apr 18, 2017

What I’ve Learnt from Business Books

I have a guilty secret. I enjoy business books. I’m not talking about high-level economics tomes here, I’m talking about books that tell you, as an individual, how to “make it big” (side note: I have yet to make it big). For the record, some of these books are actually…

Entrepreneurship

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Entrepreneurship

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Steven Poulton @ Aika

Steven Poulton @ Aika

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Productivity expert, CTO of Coaching Culture and Founder of Aika. https://www.aikahq.com

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