The Universe of Joshua Blais
The Universe of Joshua Blais
Joshua Blais
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Strip down all of the things that you own, the brand names you associate with, the car you drive, the clothes you wear. Remove the music that you listen to, the movies that you watch, and the sports teams that you follow. Take away your...
For one week, I want you to give up all forms of consumption. No podcasts, no books, no movies, no television shows, no social media, no music. Does that sound like hell to you? That’s because you are not okay with being bored. You are...
Do you show respect to those that you are meeting with? Are you the last one to arrive? Always showing up “fashionably late”? Or are you there before everyone else, preparing for the meeting, or getting work done while everyone slowly...
There are 3 reasons you are anxious all the time:# 1. Desynchronisity with nature Most human beings are living completely apart from what nature has intended for us. They do not move, they eat garbage, they don’t sleep well, they are...
Here’s why I wear a ’broken’ watch. This watch is right two times per day and In the spirit of the date that that watch symbolizes, I figured I would do a quick piece on why I wear it. The time on the watch reads 9<43>, the date being...
Introduction# We are going to be setting up a Bastion Host (or colloquially a ‘Jumpbox’) for our cloud infrastructure. This should be the entry point for all future server, database, and load balancing systems. The purpose of Bastion...
I Intermittent Fast on a daily basis. For the uninitiated, that means no food until noon, and then I have an 8 hour window to eat and get my food in. I’ve personally found that my mornings are far more productive, I get far less...
Your focus is absolutely horrendous. But, so is everyone’s. I am willing to bet that you couldn’t even make it to the end of this post without looking at your phone once. That’s because you have forgotten the fundamental skill of...
As humans, we border on an OBSESSION of control. We are control freaks - we want everything the way we want it. If we cannot have it that way, we will try to force the universe’s hand Let’s do a thought experiment and see what we can...
Most people care far too much what others think of them. They live lives in which they are “supposed to act a certain way” or “expected to be a certain kind of person”. Worse than this - I can pin point the average person’s personality...
I have a love hate relationship with “Productivity”. On one hand, actual productivity is one of the greatest feelings in this life - getting closer to the goals that you have set for yourself, achieving, overcoming obstacles. The days on...
In a world of overwhelm, why not Simplify? Really Simple Sindication was created in the early 2000’s for the purpose of allowing the end user to aggregate the feeds of multiple websites into a single place, making it far easier to...
From the seatback table between London and Budapest and the train between Vienna and Prague. When you travel, do you notice that more ideas seem to flow through you? Do you notice how the momentum, the “struggle of travel” (if you can...
We all use our phones too much. We can rationalize it with “well I’m using it for work” or “I’d just be using my computer anyway”, but the fact remains that spending 5.4 Hours a Day on a screen held but a few inches from your face is...
I have a 6th gen Thinkpad X1 Carbon, and the thing runs HOT. Lately, I’ve attached my dual monitor setup to it, and have been running temperatures in the high 70’s - and sometimes up into the low 90’s(!) CPU Repaste and Fan clean# As the...