a habit enforcement system. everything here is real.
most of it is free. nothing here needs an account.
| Resource | Cost | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Diátaxis | free | diataxis.fr |
| Teaching Tech Together | free | teachtogether.tech |
| Google Technical Writing 1 & 2 | free | developers.google.com/tech-writing |
| Google Dev Doc Style Guide | free | developers.google.com/style |
| Write the Docs guide | free | writethedocs.org/guide |
| Make It Stick | ~$15 | owned — Kindle |
read the docs themselves as primary texts too — stripe, supabase, twilio, django. name which Diátaxis type each page is attempting, and what it gets wrong.
three timed sprints, a 150-character logline, three acts, and you leave with a finished 100-word story. nothing to sign up for and nothing saved off your device.
how to teach adults who did not choose to be in the room. built from 500+ instructional hours with 70+ mid-career students. you leave with a 20-minute lesson on something you already know.
how to tell whether the thing you made actually worked, and what to do when the number says no.
both kana sets, using spaced repetition — written while learning them, so it remembers what was hard.
it lands on my mission board. if i accept it, it goes public and it is worth XP.
it must be doable in 7 days. the clock starts the moment i accept. if it is still unfinished on day 8 it fails in public and it costs me XP — so "run 100 miles this week" is not a challenge, it is a trap, and i will decline it. food challenges: "cook this dish" only.
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