The Universe of Joshua Blais
The Universe of Joshua Blais
Joshua Blais
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A guide to install gitea on Debian 11# Here is a quick guide to Install Gitea with Postgresql on Debian 11 Start with a quick system update: sudo apt-get update -ysudo apt-get upgrade -y Setup postgresql# sudo sh -c 'echo "deb...
Burnout is not real. What is real is you lack passion in what you are doing. If you were doing the things you were meant to be doing there would never be any sort of “burnout” in your life. If you were gaining energy from the activities,...
If you live to ~80 years old (about the average in the modernised world): You’ll have 29,166 days… 700,000 hours… 42,000,000 minutes. What are you doing with each and ever single one of those minutes? Each minute on the clock ticking...
For the first 30 minutes of your day, everyday, I implore you to attempt the following: No screens whatsoever Get water in with salts Get a sweat on I love Sun salutations as my opening exercise, opening up my hips and lower back, I...
With various new social media channels coming online where you can waste more of your ever-shortening life, let me recommend a way that you can break free from the strangle hold that these apps are designed to have on you: Set a timer...
As a professional vagabond - I travel tremendously light. Last year, we spent nearly a month between Europe and Toronto for a friend’s wedding. Both Rebecca and I each took a single carry on and a backpack for the whole trip where we...
The only piece of advice I would give someone who is not where they want to be in life would be: Create more What do I mean by this? Simple. Most of us consume more than we create. In the game of plus/minus, most of humanity is in the...
You are only ever going to have the current moment to change your life and ways. There is no opportunity outside of the here and now to do so. When you look at your life, it is simply a culmination of the choices up until this moment...
I have been going down the vaporwave/synthwave rabbit hole and found that it truly is the pinnacle of focusing music. A little vaporwave to begin Some more futuristic dystopian music Some InitialD to round us out Where would I be without...
Here’s a million dollar tip to those that would offer their products or services to me (or anyone) via cold outreach. Show me what you can do. I cannot count how many times I have had someone reach out and tell me about their service,...
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman’s Odyssey Much of my life has been greatly improved as of late through the utilization of...
Perhaps the greatest change in my life came from when I simply asked myself “am I creating, or am I consuming?” Once I began asking this question, I started to observe my activities from a 5,000 foot view. This automatically led to...
My ’tech hot take’ was featured in an MKBHD video this week, to the tune of 2.3 million views at the point of writing this post. Although he didn’t talk about my tweet - it was featured in the beginning as a ’worst take’. However, with...
I saw a great post the other day from Sneak Berlin about some of the great ideas that have shaped his outlook. I figured I would do something similar and talk about ideas that have shifted my own. This will be a living document and...
For much of my adult life, I was guided by Lust. Lust for cars, or money, or technology, but mostly - lust of women. I would view women as objects to simply meet my desires and then to be cast aside as I moved through life. It was a...