Notices by wireSnark :battery_charging: (chuck@linuxlab.sh), page 2

There are stories of Tiger Woods hitting 1,000 balls at the range without a break. And of Jason Williams practicing dribbling for hours on end without ever shooting a ball.

That’s how you become an expert. That’s how you get amazing results.

At least in some fields.

I'm wondering...what would that be in #infoSec? In #programming?

Deliberate practice (https://jamesclear.com/deliberate-practice-theory) is mostly built off of 4 criteria:

Designed and evaluated by an expert
Stretches you and is uncomfortable
Requires your total concentration
Consists of a lot of repetition

Usually, it comes down to exercising one aspect of something. If you want to get good at drawing people, don't just draw 100 people. Draw 100 eyes. 100 noses. 100 hands.

If you want to get good at putts, make 100 putts. From the same spot. Then move a little. And make 100 more putts.

What types of deliberate practice do we have in the tech industry?

ActivityPub Conf's organization has happened from extremely limited resources, but I think at this point I think it's going to be amazing. Looking at the list of people registered and talks already submitted gives me confidence that this is going to be a heck of an event.

There's still slots open if you were thinking about registering, and talk proposals are still open until Monday! https://dustycloud.org/blog/activitypub-conf-2019/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-bought-my-friends-face-for-5/ 👀

Ya know, this BBS thing makes me want to fire up my old board (which I believe still exists in some capacity on some drive somewhere)... It, interestingly now, met the criteria for why WWIV created it's own proprietary network...

I believe the quote from FidoNet admins was "Any WWIV board should be considered a hacker/pirate board and shouldn't be allowed access to Fido). That whole deal was amusing, because it was, at the time, the only board you could get source code for, which lead to a "reputation" much like slackware linux had later (a hacker thing). I feel like Wane and Pat could have been good friends (maybe they were)...