Taylor Otwell

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Simple

Abraham Kim
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I was thinking of an app Taylor Otwell espouses.

Todoist .

Very simple, and that got me thinking while I was making today's coffee about simple.

A to-do list is considered one of the simplest user interfaces, so much so that people akin it to basket weaving of programming. This perception of...

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My recent obsessions

Abraham Kim
Aaron Levie Taylor Otwell Laravel PHP Michael Jordan cloud computing era Arkansas
Here's a list of my recent obsessions. Recent meaning in the past week or so

1.  Aaron Levie being the  Michael Jordan founder of the  cloud computing era
2. People are shortsighted in their desires. They think they want something right away, like to be a designer/programmer/founder right away. But I...
Greatness isn't random.
Boom. 

By the way I was just getting into 
Laravel
at the point when I first found that video by Jeffrey. It made me see 
Taylor Otwell
in a new light and the framework in a new one as well. 

That's when i began recognizing all the simple, seamless interfaces the framework provided and not taking it for granted. Saw how much work and focus it took to actually present such simple interfaces to us regular devs. 

LARAVEL FOREVER
Abraham Kim
Tobi
Also really cool to watch both of our tastes in heroes change. Like I never understood why you looked up to 
Mark Zuckerberg
until I read more about your take on 
Nigeria
. 

I used to look up to 
DHH
a ton. Still find him a great resource but nowadays I look up to 
Taylor Otwell
 more. Although I do find myself looking less up to people themselves and more their practice/values/etc.... disentangling the admirable traits from the human identity.
Abraham Kim