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My First Marathon – Greg Baugues

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Lives in New York and serves on the developer evangelism team at Twilio. I ran the Chicago marathon today. It took me over five hours, but I finished, and it was amazing. When signed up back in April, my goal was:. Run faster than a 4:00. A friend put me onto the Non-Runner’s Marathon Trainer. Nine years ago, a year after I moved to Chicago, I ran the Shamrock Shuffle. The lesson I’ve learned most from running is that the secret to getting good at anything is to do it consistently, and to do a little mor...

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Working was Sebastian was fast, easy and pleasant. We went from Skype consultation to initial concepts, through several revisions and onto a finished product in just a matter of days. If I write another book, I'll have Sebastian do the cover without hesitation. Depression is a serious topic that is usually swept under the rug. It's very encouraging to see people like Greg pushing this subject forward. His writing is fantastic, you should peruse his site: http:/ devsanddepression.com/.

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Merhaba - Greg Baugues

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Today, Rachel and I hiked through Cappadocia’s Rose Valley, where vacated homes and fourth century churches are carved out of the sandstone rock formations. Well, he saw us. He waved, I waved back, and continued to fork left on the path away from him. He waved again, then waved us towards him. I just waved again, pretending I didn’t see the second movement, but he insisted. Ldquo;He’s telling us to ‘come here,’” I said to Rachel. Ldquo;Merhaba,” he said. One of ten Turkish words I know. We got in, making...

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Assumptions - Greg Baugues

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Last week, I made two purchases off of Craiglist. The first is a table from a family in Logan Square. When I get there, the husband is wearing a Google shirt. I ask, and it turns out he works on the search team here in Chicago. This leads to several “how many developers does it take to move a table” jokes as we attempt half-a-dozen configurations to get the thing through the front door. Ldquo;This seems like a great place. Why are you moving out? Ldquo;We’re leaving the city.”. Ldquo;Where are you headed?

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Developer Evangelists and Burnout - Greg Baugues

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Developer Evangelists and Burnout. When I first saw the listing for the Twilio developer evangelist job, I said, “That looks like a job I would enjoy. Unfortunately, I also enjoy being married and I don’t think I can do both at the same time.”. The industry standard seems to be that a developer evangelist flies over 100,000 miles a year and quits after 18 months. This strikes me as odd for a couple reasons. Has the patience to teach. Can work more or less independently. Who told me that over half the eva...

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Code Like a Chef: Work Clean - Greg Baugues

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Code Like a Chef: Work Clean. There are a dozen opinions on any given cooking technique, but in the Alinea kitchen, when you say “TK says…” that’s the end of the discussion. Thomas Keller is considered by many to be the best chef in America, and almost certainly the most influential. His NYC restaurant, Per Se, is ranked the sixth best restaurant in the world. In Ad Hoc at Home. When I peel an onion, I get rid of all the onion skin before I begin slicing it… When you finish with a pot, wash it&#46...

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Farming Rocks! - Greg Baugues

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God the Creator had made man into His own image, and that meant that every man and woman who dwelt under God’s light was a creator of some kind, a person with an urge to stretch out his hand and shape the world into some rational pattern. -Stephen King,. At first, the hardest part of the work on Josep’s farm. Rachel cleaned the stables. This involved shoveling caca into piles that were loaded into the tractor and then dumped onto a mound in the middle of the field, later to be used as fertilizer. Like a ...

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I am a Christian and I Support Gay Marriage - Greg Baugues

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I Am a Christian and I Support Gay Marriage. This raised an interesting question: if we declare our commitment before God in a ceremony officiated by an ordained minister and witnessed by fellow believers in Christ, but our marriage is not yet recognized by the State due to a legal formality, are we committing sin by having sex on our wedding night? I lost exactly no sleep over it, because our marriage is between us and God, not the State. Jesus says, “whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual i...

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Depression - Greg Baugues

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Here’s the video of my Developers and Depression talk from the Business of Software Conference. If this stuff is interesting to you, you can subscribe to the weekly Developers and Depression newsletter. Or read some posts I’ve written on the subject:. How to Find a Physciatrist. Using it as a Crutch. Here’s some readings you might find helpful:. Open Sourcing Mental Illness. Aaron Schwartz’ blog post on depression and other illness. If you ever feel alone in this world. The Book of Ecclesiastes.

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My First Marathon - Greg Baugues

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I ran the Chicago marathon today. It took me over five hours, but I finished, and it was amazing. When signed up back in April, my goal was:. Run faster than a 4:00. A friend put me onto the Non-Runner’s Marathon Trainer. Based off “The Marathon Class” at University of Northern Iowa. 98% of the students who have taken the class have passed the final by finishing a marathon at the end of the semester despite a prerequisite of having never run a distance greater than five miles. That’s the hack. I’ve...