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douchebagbrainwaves · 4 years ago

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HERE'S WHAT I JUST REALIZED ABOUT KNOWLEDGE

Don't worry about us. A, but I doubt it will change much. The people you find now in America.1 But since I've been dealing with this world for many years, both as a founder and an investor, or an acquirer—and you have bigger chunks of time to try designing a good language. The language offers abstractions only as a way of telling you what to do.2 Be nice when investors reject you as well. Don't keep sucking on the straw if you're just getting air. You may be thinking, we have to tell them the best way not to seem desperate is not to try to baby the user with long-winded expressions that are meant to.

Aristotle's; we just approach it from a different direction. But I don't think we should be prepared for whatever PR mutates into to compensate. And when you propagate that constraint, the result is sterile and wooden: a shopping mall rather than a bumbler who needs to be a deal. And lately hackers have sensed a change in the atmosphere. But what that means, if you can make it to profitability without raising any additional money. The singularity I've described is not going away. Around 1000 Europe began to catch its breath. The more you raise, the more it will suck. But it certainly wasn't true, and hadn't been true for centuries, that students were serving apprenticeships in the hottest area of scholarship. It's probably the place in America where someone from Northern Europe would feel most at home. Fortunately we've come up with your real idea.3 That's what a lot of bad things, this didn't happen intentionally.

It's supposed to be? VCs you're talking to an angel who invests $20k at a time till they feel they have nothing to invest.4 We expected to divide them into two categories, promising and unpromising. If you think of as having one founder?5 Perhaps worst of all, he protected them from both the criticism of outsiders and the promptings of their own inner compass by establishing the principle that the most noble sort of theoretical knowledge: some that's useful in practical matters and some that isn't. But this mistake is less excusable than most. What these groups of co-founders do together is more complicated than just sitting down and trying to think of startup ideas, turn your mind into the type that has good startup ideas is to take advantage of anything new, and partly because, knowing how the story ends, they can't help streamlining the plot till it seems like all the good ideas came from within. The second counterintuitive point is that a real essay doesn't take a position and defend it.

If you believe an investor has committed, get them to confirm it. How was the place different from what they expected? Com of their name. Do startups that want to get market price, but it could be a better sign that someone was satisfied with a search result than going to the site and buying something? Whatever a committee decides tends to stay that way, even if your group has only 10 people. And then of course, this algorithm automatically maximizes the revenue of the search engine.6 But there are limits to how well you did at fundraising is that it gives you another source of ideas: look at big companies, where you either have to spend some of the most lightweight software, like casual games. Whereas if the next time you need to pay for subscriptions. So it is no wonder companies are afraid. When you raise money at a lower valuation even when your price has already been set by a prior investment at a specific valuation or cap, you can use? And since a startup is one of the reasons startups are becoming cheaper to start a company—as if it were like getting into college, for example, an eminent investor who would invest a lot, and you suppress the other. Retailers are less of a barrier to entry for competitors.7

It could be the tipping point of fundraising. Our startup made software for making online stores. Which is not to do that you have to show off with your body instead. Hygienic macros embody the opposite principle. If investors are vague or resist answering such questions, assume the worst; investors who are seriously interested in you will usually be happy to later, when you're fundraising, but that I often spent money I desperately needed on stuff that I didn't. When classical texts began to circulate in Europe, they contained not just new answers, but new questions. It might even be possible to succeed in a startup is only a couple months old, every week that passes gives you significantly more information about them.

It's not that people think of grand ideas. Unless there's some huge market crash, the next rule is a tactic for neutralizing this behavior. There used to be rare and valuable. The nature of speed, as perceived by the end-user applications. I'm not saying this is the price everyone else has paid; take it or leave it and not mind if they leave it. Now it's just one of the most characteristic solutions are not far removed from practical jokes. Occasionally you'll encounter investors who describe themselves as valuation sensitive.

Ideas get developed in the process keep your mind open enough that a big idea can take roost. Founders are often competitive people, and the more people you have, the harder it is to use it. People in Florence weren't genetically different, so you could use the two ideas interchangeably. Fundraising is not what you need to raise money from A, but I don't know. Do less. That will be a lot of money. A language that would make me a better programmer for the rest of your life. As long as that idea is still floating around, I think few realize the huge spread in the value of whatever solution you've got so far. Surprises are facts you didn't already know.

Most VCs wouldn't want that, which is that it sucks for doing what hackers want to do dangerous and unsavory things. In fact they were more law schools. Did they not understand that the big returns come from a few big winners. There are several types of investors are adapted to different degrees of risk, but each has its specific degree of risk deeply imprinted on it, or friends with those who are.8 You never have to type an unnecessary character, or even pull the ripcord part way through, like the classic Lisps of the 1970s. There might be 500 startups right now who think they're making something Microsoft might buy.9 You're genuinely in a bind, because you can't talk to the OS, you're unlikely to be able to declare the types of arguments in the bottlenecks. They're like a food that's not merely healthy, but counteracts the unhealthy effects of things you've already eaten. If you're not allowed to implement new ideas, and that buying startups is to some degree on investors. They seem to be on it or close to those who are.

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San Francisco.

So instead of editors, and it has no competitors. But wide-area bandwidth increased more than 20 years, but when companies reach a given audience by a factor of 20. The expensive part of wisdom. Parents move to suburbs to raise more money chasing the same work faster.

And no, you can survive without external encouragement. When economists talk about humans being meant or designed to express algorithms, and thus no form nor anyone to call the years after 1914 a nightmare than to call you about an A round about the prior probability of an investment. 27 with the buyer's picture on the East Coast VCs. The New Yorker.

The second biggest regret was caring so much worse than Japanese car companies have little to bring corporate bonds to market faster; the Depository Institutions Act of 1982, which merchants used to retrieve orders, view statistics, and also really good at generating your own time, because the processing power you can survive without external encouragement. But if you're not allowed to ask for more than others, like a later investor trying to upgrade an existing university, or want tenure, avoid the conclusion that tax rates. The word suggests an undifferentiated slurry, but something feminists need to, but this disappointment is mostly evidence that the investments that failed, and when you see with defense contractors or fashion brands. The few people who might be a good idea to make that their buying power meant lower prices for you; who knows who you start to rise again.

Quoted in: Life seemed so much a great programmer might invent things, they did not start to spread from. 5 year olds the truth about the difference between surgeons and internists fleas: I should do is assemble components designed and manufactured by someone else. What has changed is how much we really depend on Aristotle more than they expected and they begin by having an associate. 99 and.

CEOs in the same work, but it doesn't commit you to acknowledge, but explain that's what you're doing. By buzz. The University of Vermont: The French Laundry in Napa Valley. The situation is analogous to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the 2005 summer founders, like parents, truly believe they have to admit there's no center to walk in with a lawsuit just as he or she would be to say they prefer great markets to great people.

Investors are often surprised by this standard, and that modern corporate executives were, we should make a living playing at weddings than by you based on their own, like the intrusive ads popular on pre-money valuations of funding. Founders are often unknowns. Steve Jobs did for Apple when he received an invitation to travel aboard the HMS Beagle as a rule, if you are.

So how do they decide on the economics of ancient traditions.

If you really need that much to say that I'm skeptical whether economic inequality in the bouillon cube s, cover, and b when she's nervous, she expresses it by smiling more.

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familyvisionis2020 · 5 years ago

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Day 4 - Athens (2 of 2)

I was able to sleep blissfully, majestically, and woke up around 10 feeling drowsy but refreshed. I sit up in bed and the first thing I see is Kabir’s smiling face, he says ‘Rise and Grind’ like he always does and Royal says ‘let’s get this bread’ and the day has started. In the daylight the giant purple house we’re staying in is even more whimsical and palatial seeming. There are rocking horses on top of the shelves in the house, hanging decorative bulbs and a campy chandalier and ornate decorations in a transom in the hallway and wrought iron fixtures with silver perforated globes mounted like torches outside the front door and a complicated antique triple-bell thing for a door bell and more chrome globes hanging from the porch ceiling that look like metal lace and whose purpose is unclear to me, stained glass and a 6 foot, ten=-tubed windchime, several hanging swings on the porch, iron patio furniture and a rusty gate and a giant log of pine driftwood suspended from cables and an enormous rusted bell that still dongs and a trellis of ivy and a big boat propeller and something that looks like a 12 foot long abbacus and a half a purple wagon wheel and a huge white vase that looks like white China with blue coi and aquarium scene decorations, a big stone dragon head with highly detailed scales and a cove in the back of its head that allows you to put a middle size candle inside of the head such that when you light it its eyes will appear to flicker from the front, several of those shiny reflective globe spheres, one patterned in swirls like a bowling ball, and tons of plants and small trees andshards of sculpture concrete and folk kitschworks and little benches and birds everywhere and a bicycle wheel weathervane and pinwheel and just generally kooky stuff and its so so homey and lush and expansive and calm here. There are two cats whose name I dont know who live here and a dog whose name is Cocoa but who Royal calls Stanly for no apparant reason which is his humor which I love.

I take a bird bath and we head across the street to the coffee shop, Donderos’ which is architectuarlly quite similar to the house we are staying in actually, its a big old victorian house, pale-rufous salmon-coral siding with dull cream accents, a high gable and new black roofing, and rather than eing surrounded by an enormous wraparoudn porch like our place, it’s surrounded by an asphalt parking lot that itself is surrounded by a stone block retaining wall and hearty wild rosemary. We set up camp inside the cafe for the first part of the day, we all order food, people get grits and a thing called a gritboat and fried potatoes that are like homefries except perfect little rectangular prisms rather than cubes and different sorts of eggs, lots of coffee, I drink yerba mate again instead. I plug in my phone and laptop, check my law school statuses using an automated aggregator and find out that my application to University of Florida Law has gone under its second review which is neither a good nor a bad sign necessarily, just means it’s being actively reviewed, I add this data point to a website to collect law school admissions data points and then eat breakfast. I put so much butter and raspberry jam in my grits that I almost feel like I overdid it.

Kabir and Jeremy are thinking through the status of the tour out loud; in light of the extreme emergency situation that Covid is turning out to be, in light of the pressure Kabir feels from the women in his family to not tour, in light of the handful of venues and bands that have cancelled or dropped from bills on our tour, and in light of the cost-benefit analysis of traveling another 1600 miles through the midwest and back again, in light of the possibility of being cancelled if we continue to heedlessly transmit ourselves like vectors (I have been jokingly calling the band ‘Family Vector’ rather than Family Vision) perhaps healthy or at least symptomless but mobile pathogens, in light of all this there’s just a preponderance of reasons not to keep the full tour on, and between Jeremy and Kabir with some input from John, the decision to severely truncate/abridge the tour solidifies like jello in a sad fridge. I’m actually careful not to give much input in the decision making process here, I have mixed feelings about the ethics of continuing to tour but am honestly not bothered as much from a principled public health standpoint as I am from like selfishly wanting to just have free time in my apartment in Chapel Hill to lay around and maybe read and write and walk around and do yoga and be alone and enjoy quality quarantine quarantime at home and maybe even spend time in person with someone I like who I mostly only ever email whose hand I want to hold who I want to watch scary movies with and talk about feelings with, talk about feelings in a way that for all the lovely blissful amazing things my friends in the band are to me, we don’t hardly talk about feeings much at all. Or actually more likely just don’t talk about feelings in this one particular intense vulnerable type of way that I honesty avoid lost of the time but also like crave to do around someone I feel tender and safe when they’re nearby. Anyways. So I am intentionally passive in the decision making and I think all the reasons they factor in are germane and their reasoning sound and accede to the decision to cut the tour short, the plan now is to play again tonight in Athens at the same place, Buvez, then head out to Huntsville Alabama tomorrow, take a break in Nashville for a day, then play our final show in Louisville Kentucky before driving the van back to Chapel Hill. I offer to give Jeremy a ride back to Ridgewood Queens from NY in an effort to be kind and of service and of use and to share a resource in a situation where, mercifully but somewhat troublingly I have very little asked of me and very little to offer: Kabir and Jeremy have done the lion’s share of the planning, have volunteered to do the driving (and are very good at doing the driving), and so the sort of soft imperative in my life to find a way to be helpful, to be of service, as a mechanism of maintaining sanity and spiritual fitness feels a bit atrophied. So it makes me happy when Jeremy says he will take me up on that offer, and I am glad I am the type of person nowadays to offer a thing like that.

After the logistics are tamped down and tidied we breakdown our various electronics and head to the park which is maybe 300 feet down the street, which is outfitted with polished granite chessboards, baggies of pieces stowed in ziplocks in a small compartment nearby, and also outfitted with a massive polished granite slab made to be a ping pong table, with a metal divider rather than a net. Kabir wants to play me in chess and I almost say no, worrying that the ugly part of my competitive spirit may take over, but I decide to say yes and we play, and the game goes quick, standard queen’s pawn opening but then an early blunder by Kabir puts me on the offensive and rather than try to maneuver back into control of the center and winning chances, which I’m absolutely sure he could’ve done, he just concedes after about 5 minutes and that’s that. I have language for chess even though I haven’t played more than 10 games in the last 10 years because for awhile in 2016-2018 I would put on lectures by chess grandmasters on youtube to calm me down and to fall asleep. I think I picked up some general strategic understanding too. Kabir tells me one time he scholar’s mated his dad and his dad got so furious he almost flipped the table. Kabir will remark later that his dad, a published author and consummate professional writer who logs a minimum of 1,000 words a day, that he is learning the only thing that can shake his dad is a global pandemic, that he’s never seen his dad this worried. Me and John play chess next, it’s a very close game and John stays ahead in material the entire game although I put him on the backfoot early and kept momentum with a string of nuisance checks that I think demoralizes him a little and although he won’t resign and fights tooth and nail until checkmate he keeps saying he should have resigned. I don’t actually know how to checkmate him properly so I use a passed pawn and only with two queens can manage to finish the game. We play a second time, for a long time, and it’s very close again, and I manage to eke out a win, and John is done. And Kabir comes over with his book of The Best of Wednesday New York Times Crosswords edited by Will Shortz and explains that these are medium-difficult and that Saturday, not Sunday is the most difficult, Sunday is Thursday difficulty, just longer. He lays the puzzle down on the chessboard, I notice the crossword puzzle and chessboard are the same shapes and pattern more or less, and I make a joke in a loud Brooklyn-style accent that all I need is black and white squares on a grid and I’m happy. I get a laugh and that makes me feel good and I feel like a smart winner also and I feel smarter looking for clues together with John and Kabir and the weather is breezy and warm and I’m extremely happy just playing and relaxing, glad Kabir wants to play things with me, delighted to see not every game turns me into a monster.

We meet up with Noah, the person whose house we are staying at, and we all pile in the big maroon van and head to the State Botanical Gardens of Georgia. Noah without prompting assumes the role of tour guide, takes the reins and play acts that we are tourists following him, chides us for straggling, tells us to stay with the group, curates our experience. I love this, Kabir can be like this too, a man making decisions in a way that does not feel constricting or cruel or vindictive or violent, just a gentle assertion to let some expert knowledge shine through, which Noah has a lot of; I will learn later today that he is in the process of composing a thesis or dissertation about 19th century literature which focuses on the description of plants as a lens through which to assess and survey that literature, so his knowledge of plants is vaster than I knew. He takes us through the indoor greenhouse garden at first which is dense with lush tropical plants and hundreds of orchids. He explains how orchids used to be rare and expensive commodities, I mention how orchi- is the prefix for testicles and that orchids are named their name because the unflowered bulbs resemble testes. Kabir points at Noah and says ‘FACTS.’ We see a cacao plant, a coffee plant, a vanilla plant, dozens of fragrant flowers which each of the boys stops and politely smells, one by one, so adorable, a very tender stroll. We get a band picture together which Kabir explains will be captioned with a notification that our tour will be canceled. Noah continues to usher us through the verdant corridors, we see a banana plant with leaves taller than me up on a balcony, I think it’s the biggest leaves on a plant I’ve ever seen. There’s muscodine grapes on the ground, i split one open for the boys to smell, they put their faces close to my hand and trust me not to fuck with them, which I don’t. We are in super high spirits, everyone is enjoying themselves. Noah collects us and guides us outside where we enter the massive sylvan grounds of the Botanical Garden proper. Everyone is doing bits about the different plants. I see Spathiphyllums and mention to Noah Swingin’ Spathiphyllums from Mort Garson’s Plantasia, and in response he just hums the tune of the song, which I love. Royal goes and lays on a gigantic rock. We read the placards, tease out etymologies, reference colonial plant histories, see the real life versions of plants like Gingko Biloba and Agave and probably 40 varieties of thyme in the Physic plant section and honey garlic and rosemary and tarragon and lavender and ginger and turmeric and acer palmatum and quercus alba and nephroleptis exaltata, all scientific names I remember from high school horticulture, and so so many other kinds of plants it’s hard to remember them all.

I looked up a list and I’m putting of the ones I remember of them here because to me their name is so beautfiul Anise Hyssop, Arkansas Blue Star, Summer Snapdragon, Buttefly Weed, Rain Lily, Wild Indigo, Crossvine, Million Bells, Athens Sweetshrub, Begonias, American Hornbeam, Japanese Plum Yew, Forest Pansy, Lavender Redbud, Fringetree, Old Man’s Beard, Summersweet Clethra, Coleus, Dogwood, Bath’s Pink Dianthus, Spurge, Mt. Airy Fothergilla, Hardy Geranium, Lenten Rose, Coral Bells, Swamp Hibiscus, Hydrangeas, Inkberry, Ornamental Sweet Potato, Crape Myrtles, Pink Loropetalum, Little Gem Magnolia, Dawn Redwood, Blackgum, Firespike, Fragrant Tea Olive, Phlox, Plectranthus Variegated Japanese Solomons’ Seal, Overcup Oak. Admiral Semmes Azalea, Sacred Lily, Drift Roses, Creeping Raspberry, Three Lobed Coneflower, Double Daffodils, Lady in Red Salvia, Blue Anise Sage, Bald Cypress, Confederate Jasmine, Georgia Blue Veronica, Snowball Viburnum, Chastetree, Amethyst Falls Wisteria.

We find a massive terraced zone with close-cropped fescue like a carpet and a long stone staircase, rectangular hedges capping bluffs of each 8 foot drop, a single concrete obelisk, some statuary, polished stainless steel gate structures, millions of flowers and plants arranged in tidy geometric grids. More than one person, and not just from the boys in the band, mentions that this place reminds them of the film Midsommar, and I agree, the light is bright but not saturated yet the way it gets in summer, so it has a similar sickly kalediscopic sheen to the movie’s colorscape. Noah traipses down the many staircases to a stone stage at the central of the terraced court and starts doing a bizarre interpretative dance that is a little balletic and a little frenetic, eventually he kind of stage dives into a shrub and falls before loping back to us, which we and other tourists respond to with polite applause. He then bounces up and down with me such that our heads are just popping up into the line of sigh tof the boys at the higher level, and we do that for a few minutes and it’s silly and fun. I suggest to Noah that we do yoga on the lawn and he immediately takes his socks off and starts corraling the wililng among the bands to do yoga, it ends up being me Kabir and John, Noah has the right lilt and cadence in his voice to make for a very plausible yoga teacher and he knows a few flows and postures and leads us in a pretty decent 25-ish minute session. Mostly I’m quiet and avoid making jokes and do my best to enjoy the physical benefits of the yoga, but at one point I say “my kundalini energy is through the roof right now’ in a thick mock southern accent which I think is hilarious and Kabir too. Kabir does a bit later where he says ‘come to find out, you simulated your love for me!’ in his thick syrupy southern joke drawl which is a quote from a 1982 song by french coldwave duo Deux which is exceedingly funny to me when I hear it. The sun is hot and someone, I think Paul from Tired Frontier, says ‘first sweat of 2020.’ It does feel like spring switched on the minute I left town, which is such a warm and lovely feeling.

We finish up yoga, gather the boys and Noah suggests we go to the grocery store to get a giant can of beans, some tomatoes, a red onion, a ripe avocado, two jalapenos, and a bunch of cilantro, and two bags of tortilla chips, and make a raw, unpureed bean dip and feast together, which is exactly what we do. I dust bits of dried grass off Kabir’s back that he picked up doing yoga. I do something very close to brunois on both the red onions and jalapenos, not quite the 1/8th inch industry standard but not far off, Noah praises my knife skills. We all devour the huge bowl of dip super quick and between me Jeremy Kabir John and Noah eat all those chips and all the dip in about 10 minutes, and we work further on the crossword puzzle. Jeremy eats a $1 tin of sardines and then goes to take a nap. We just sit out on the porch in the sun and vibe for a couple hours, idle conversation, i nearly fall asleep, but then rally and manage to type a ton on my computer and feel happy to be consistent blogging.

We make it to the venue, Buvez again, and the rest of the night is basically identical to the night before, except this time Polly’s Gone is their usual selves, Surface to Air Missive, they sound almost exactly like The Shins, they play a short set. Jeremy talks to the lead guy, Taylor, and tells me Taylor said ‘yeah we’re just trying to be The Shins,’ Kabir says ‘that guitarist is incredible’ which is saying a lot because I think he’s incredible and has tons of techinical and theoretical and practical expertise. We play second instead of third this time, play a smaller set too, don’t do any joke songs, play to basically an empty room save the guys in the other bands, it’s fine, super breezy, zero pressure, fun, inconsequential. Tired Frontier plays, does some funny Covid-related banter, their set is basically identical to the set the night before. We all hang out on the picnic tables outside the cafe, all ten guys in all three bands, they share stories about getting caught smoking weed as a teenager and epic house parties and getting grounded and dumb stuff like that, and this time I’m happy to sit and put my feet up right in the middle of the conversation, shoulder to shoulder with Royal who is drinking a beer from a rocks glass and Kabir who’s smoking a Turkish Silver, looking at Taylor who yesterday I kind of thought was maybe too cool for us but who now has a kind of reluctant smile in this cute way that reminds me of how my dad smiles, a man used to being austere and stoic and foreboding belied by a cheerful time. The venue people bring out $60 in cash and Taylor tells us and Tired Frontier to split it between ourselves, a very classy move from the leadman of the hometown band, Kabir says if you ever need a show in the Triangle hit me up I got you. Taylor goes home, the Buvez people are bringing in the outdoor furniture again, we breakdown and load out together, everybody helps with everything (like not just drummer gets drums bassist gets bass and bass amp, rather everybody just gets everything) and that feels kind, I love how easy being decent comes to the boys in this band, I feel like every shred of decency and kindness I can muster feels sourced politically or has had been inserted in me only after being pryed open by the crowbar of desperation or like postulated but not fully embodied during therapy or the result of very direct counter-intuitve habit building and coaching and mentoring and although that’s hard for me, materially right now I am matching them, I’m decent too, I am a decent person among decent people, I can live without constantly lying and shoplifting and fantasizing about the next petty crime or act of vandalism I will execute to vindicate an image of elegant, thoughtfully erratic antipathy for authority I was always trying to curate and cultivate in the eyes of my peers. Anyways, everything’s fine, Royal suggests we go to a bar and Kabir uses his casual power as frontman to say no which is something I know he’s doing for him and for me and I deeply appreciate that.

We go downtown in Athens and look for a chinese spot that ends up being closed and then wander into a diner where there’s kids in prom outfits settling up their bills with the hostess as we get seated. John marvels at this weird coca cola ad thing that has a big bottle tilted down with a rotating helictical metal piece the color of coke that makes a pretty plausible optical illusion of liquid pouring into a cup below. Kabir tells stories about his old bands, Sister David, Docking, Reynolds, a bit they used to due during live shows where they’d mix in ‘I’ve Got a Feeling’ by Black Eyed Peas to their spartan angular No-Wave set which we all agree is brilliant, wish we could’ve seen that. I scarf the huge plate of fries i order and basically drink the extra cup of ranch i ordered, it’s fantastic, I love how hungry i feel after playing shows, I share my fries with Jeremy. The Tired Frontier guys show up last minute and we rendezvous briefly before heading home. Not much else happens other than me spending like 15 minutes with the dog Cocoa gaining its trust and comforting it for the purpose of getting her to stop barking, which works and is very calming. I eat an apple and peanut butter out the jar by myself in the kitchen and I do not feel the need to be reading or looking at my phone while i do it, which is rare and very special. I take my medicine, plug in my headphones, and go to sleep.

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nancydsmithus · 5 years ago

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How To Build A Sketch Plugin With JavaScript, HTML And CSS (Part 1)

Matt Curtis

2019-07-05T12:30:59+02:002019-07-05T11:15:34+00:00

This tutorial is intended for people who know and use the Sketch app and are not afraid of dabbling with code. To profit from it the most, you will need to have at least some basic experience writing JavaScript (and, optionally, HTML/CSS).

The plugin we’ll be creating is called “Mosaic”. In part one, we’ll learn about the basic files that make up a Sketch plugin; we’ll write some JavaScript and create a user interface for our plugin with the help of some HTML and CSS. The next article will be about how to connect the user interface to the core plugin code, how to implement the plugin’s main features, and at the end of it, you will also learn how to optimize the code and the way the plugin works.

I’ll also be sharing the plugin’s code (JS, HTML, CSS) and files which you’ll be able to examine and use for learning purposes.

What Are Sketch Plugins, And How Do They Work?

In Sketch, plugins are a way to add features and functionality that aren’t present in Sketch “out of the box.” Considering that there’s almost always going to be some missing feature or integration in any given program (especially given the vast number of needs any individual designer might have!), one can begin to imagine how plugins might be especially useful and powerful. Sketch plugins are able to do pretty much everything you’d expect, like manipulating the color, shape, size, order, style, grouping, and effects of layers, but also able to do things like make requests to internet resources, present a user interface, and much, much more!

On the programming side, all Sketch plugins are written in JavaScript code. Well, actually, that’s not entirely true. It’s more accurate to say that most Sketch plugins are written in JavaScript, as it’s also possible to write a Sketch plugin in one of Apple’s programming languages, Objective-C and Swift, though even they require a small amount of JavaScript knowledge.

Don’t worry though. In this article, we’ll focus on how to build Sketch plugins using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS alone. We won’t be going over the basics of HTML, CSS, or JavaScript — this article assumes at least some knowledge and experience with all of these three. The MDN developer website provides a great place to learn more about web development.

Let’s Get Started!

Firstly, What Are We Making?

In this tutorial, I’ll teach you how to build a basic, beginner-friendly plugin that will be able to create, duplicate, and modify layers, as well as present the user with a nice user interface. By doing so, my goal is to establish a fundamental knowledge on which you can build on and use it to create your own plugins.

The plugin we’ll be building is called Mosaic, and is effectively a “pattern generator”. Feed it your layers, tweak a few settings, and it’ll create a pattern:

The Mosaic’s UI, and some examples of patterns made with it. (Large preview)

If you’d like to install and play around with Mosaic, you can download the completed plugin from GitHub.

A bit of history: Mosaic is inspired in large part by an old-school Adobe Fireworks plugin called Twist-and-Fade. Twist-and-Fade was pretty powerful, able to duplicate a layer any number of times while adjusting its hue, position, rotation, size, and opacity. The plugin was even able to generate animated GIFs, like this one, where it created the frames for the two rotating elements in the cassette tape:

Animated cassette tape (source). (Large preview)

(Here’s a video demoing Twist and Fade if you’re interested in seeing exactly how it worked.)

For the purposes of this tutorial, we’ll be building a somewhat similar plugin for Sketch, though intentionally simplified so as to keep the tutorial as accessible as possible. Specifically, our plugin will be able to:

Duplicate any Sketch layer (bitmap or vector) and tweak the duplicates’ layer’s position, rotation, and opacity. This will give us an introduction to manipulating layers using Sketch’s JavaScript APIs.

Display a user interface created using HTML, CSS, and JS, which will teach you about how to easily create an interface for the plugin, by using web technologies that you may already be familiar with. The plugin interface is pretty important since it’s how we’ll gather the user’s inputs regarding how the user wants the resulting mosaic image to look.

Creating Our Base Plugin In Ten Seconds Flat

First, we’ll be creating the “base” (or template) for the plugin we want to build. We could create all the necessary files and folders that make up a plugin manually, but luckily we don’t have to — because Sketch can do it for us. After we’ve generated the template plugin, we’ll be able to customize it as we see fit.

There’s a really quick and easy technique we can use to create the template plugin, which is pretty much my go-to method when I need to whip a plugin together to solve whatever problem I’m dealing with at a given moment. Here’s how it works:

With Sketch open, check the menu bar at the top of the screen and click Plugins -> Run Script. This will open up a dialog box that we can use to test and run the code. We can also save any code we enter in it as a plugin, which is the part we’re specifically interested in right now.

Clear whatever code is already in this dialog and replace it with the following demo code:

const UI = require("sketch/ui"); UI.message("😍 Hey there, you fantastic plugin developer you! This is your plugin! Talking to you from the digital computer screen! In Sketch! Simply stupendous!");

Next, hit Save Script as Plugin in the bottom-left of the window, enter whatever name you’d like for this plugin to have (in our case, this is “Mosaic”), then Save Script as Plugin once more.

Press “Save” in the bottom-left of the window and enter whatever name you'd like for this plugin to have. (Large preview)

Believe it or not, we’re already done — all that’s left is to eat the cake we just baked. Here comes the fun part. Opening the Plugins menu once again, you should see something like this: your brand-spanking-new plugin listed as “Mosaic”! Click on it!

(Large preview)

Congratulations, you’ve just written your first Sketch plugin!

What you should see after clicking “Mosaic” should be like the short video above, with an unobtrusive tooltip message appearing at the bottom of the screen beginning with the words “Hey there…” — which is exactly what the code we pasted in tells it to do. This is what it makes this technique so great: it makes it easy to paste, modify and test code without having to build a plugin from scratch. If you’re familiar with or have ever played with your browser’s web console, this is basically that. Having this tool in your back pocket as you build and test code is a must-have.

Let’s do a quick rundown of what the code you added does:

First, it imports the sketch/ui module of Sketch’s built-in JS library, and assigns it to the UI variable. This module contains a couple of useful interface-related methods, one of which we’ll use:

const UI = require("sketch/ui");

Next, it calls the message method (which is part of the sketch/ui module) with the string of text we want displayed in the tooltip we saw:

UI.message("😍 Hey there, you fantastic plugin developer you! This is your plugin! Talking to you from the digital computer screen! In Sketch! Simply stupendous!");

The message() method provides a great way to present an unobtrusive message to the user; it’s great for cases where you don’t need to steal focus (non-modal) and don’t need any fancy buttons or text fields. There’s also other ways to present common UI elements like alerts, prompts, and such, some of which we’ll be using as we build Mosaic.

Customizing Our Plugin’s Metadata

We now have a basic plugin to start from, but we still need to tweak it further and make it truly ours. Our next step will be to change the plugin’s metadata.

For this step, we’ll need to peek into what’s called the plugin bundle. When you hit save in the ‘Run Script’ window, Sketch saved your plugin as a folder named Mosaic.sketchplugin that you can find in the ~/Library/Application Support/com.bohemiancoding.sketch3/Plugins directory. That’s a bit long and annoying to remember; as a shortcut, you can also pull it up via Plugins -> Manage Plugins -> (right-click your plugin) -> Reveal Plugins Folder. Even though it appears in Finder as a single file, it’s actually a folder containing everything our plugin needs for Sketch to run it. The reason it appears as a single file despite being a folder is because when you first installed Sketch, Sketch registered the .sketchplugin extension as a “bundle” (a special kind of folder that appears as a file) and asked for it to automatically open in Sketch when opened.

Let’s take a peek inside. Right-click Mosaic.sketchplugin, then click “Show Package Contents”. Inside, you should see the following directory structure:

Contents/ └ Resources/ └ Sketch/ └ manifest.json └ script.cocoascript

You might be wondering why there’s a file in there with the extension .cocoascript. Don’t worry — it’s just a regular JavaScript file, and only contains the code we entered earlier. Go ahead and rename this file to index.js, which will change the directory structure to look like the one below:

Contents/ └ Resources/ └ Sketch/ └ manifest.json └ index.js

The most common way of organizing the files inside a plugin bundle is as follows: your code (JavaScript) and manifest.json belong in Sketch/, and resources (think images, audio files, text files, etc.) belong in Resources/.

Let’s start by tweaking the file named manifest.json. Open it inside your favorite code editor, such as Visual Studio Code or Atom.

You’ll see that at the moment there’s relatively little inside here, but we’ll add more soon. The plugin manifest serves primarily two purposes:

First, it provides metadata that describes the plugin to the user — things like its name, version, the author’s name, and so on. Sketch uses this information in the Sketch -> Preferences -> Plugins dialog to create a listing and description for your plugin.

Second, it also tells Sketch about how to get down to your business; that is, it tells Sketch how you’d like your plugin’s menu to look, what hotkeys to assign to your plugin, and where your plugin’s code lives (so Sketch can run it).

Considering purpose #1, describing the plugin to the user, you’ll probably notice that right now there’s no description or author given, which would be confusing for the user and make the plugin difficult to identify. Let’s fix that by adjusting the relevant keys’ values to:

{ "description": "Generate awesome designs and repeating patterns from your layers!", "author": "=> Your name here

Next, let’s adjust the plugin’s identifier. This identifier uses what is called a “reverse domain notation” which is a really concise (or boring, take your pick) way to say “take your site’s domain, reverse the order, then put your product’s name at the end.” This will come out something like: com.your-company-or-your-name-its-not-that-big-a-deal.yourproduct.

You don’t have to stick to this naming convention — you can put whatever you want here, so long as it’s unique enough to avoid conflicts with other plugins (though it’s probably a good idea to stick to the RDN format, especially as it provides a simple, reusable system for your plugin identifiers).

To that effect, change your identifier to com.your-name.mosaic:

{ "identifier": "com.your-name.mosaic" }

I personally like to take all metadata related keys (title, author, identifier, etc.) and group them near the top of the manifest so they’re not spread out all over the place and help preserve my sanity when I need to find them.

Next, let’s take a look at the menu and commands keys. These two are responsible for telling Sketch what code to call and in response to what.

If you look at the menu key, you’ll see it contains a title key, whose value is the name our plugin will show up with in the Plugins menu. It also has an items key, which is a list of command identifiers:

{ "menu": { "title": "Mosaic", "items": [ "com.bohemiancoding.sketch.runscriptidentifier" ] } }

Right now there’s only one command identifier in this list, "com.bohemiancoding.sketch.runscriptidentifier". Command identifiers always point to a command in the commands list. Right now our plugin only has one command, which is the one with this identifier:

{ "commands": [ { "script" : "script.cocoascript", "name" : "Mosaic", "handlers" : { "run" : "onRun" }, "identifier" : "com.bohemiancoding.sketch.runscriptidentifier" } ] }

Whenever you add a command identifier to a menu entry, Sketch will look up the command entry that has that identifier and will display the value of its name key (which in this case is “Mosaic”) and will show it in your plugin’s menu instead of the identifier.

As for the role commands play, we can think of a command entry as a way to tell Sketch what function in our plugin’s JavaScript code we want to run when that command is invoked, the “invocation” usually being the user’s click on the associated menu item. The command entry doesn’t do anything on its own, it’s just JSON — it simply provides a description to Sketch of where to look for the JavaScript it needs to run when the command is invoked.

So far, we’ve talked about what a command’s name and identifier keys do, but there are two other keys in a command that need to be addressed: script and handlers.

The script key tells Sketch where the JavaScript file that it should run is. Note how Sketch assumes that the script file in question is in the Sketch/ folder, which is why for simplicity’s sake you’ll want to make sure all your JavaScript code lives somewhere under the Sketch/ folder. Before we move on from this key it’s important that you make sure you change this key’s value to index.js, just like we renamed the file earlier. Otherwise, Sketch won’t be able to find and run your JavaScript file.

The value of the handlers key is what Sketch looks at to determine what function in your JavaScript to call. Here, we only have one handler set: run, with the value onRun. run is the name of a predefined, built-in Sketch action. This run action will always be called when a user clicks a menu item that references this command. onRun is the name of a function in the auto-generated script.cocoascript file (which we renamed to index.js), and the function we want to be called when the run event occurs, i.e., when the user clicks the menu item.

In the example we have so far, this process plays out something like this:

The user clicks our menu item.

Sketch finds the command associated with that menu item.

Sketch finds the script file the command refers to and runs it (which in this case means it executes the JavaScript in index.js).

Since this command was invoked by a menu item click, it’s considered a run action. That means Sketch will look at the command’s handlers.run value for the function to call next, which in this case is onRun.

Sketch calls the onRun function.

Commands are most commonly called in response to a user clicking on one of your menu items, but they can also be called in response to other user actions, such as the user changing the selection or a property on a layer. However, for this plugin, we won’t be using any of these other actions. (You can learn more about actions and how they work in the Action API help page.)

Before we move on from this manifest, we’ll want to make two other tweaks. Right now, our menu has the structure:

Mosaic └ Mosaic

Pretty redundant, right? (Large preview)

…which is a bit redundant since our plugin only has one menu item. It also adds a bit of unnecessary friction for our user as our plugin now takes two clicks to invoke rather than one. We can fix this by adding isRoot: true to our menu:

{ "menu": { "title" : "Mosaic", "items" : [ "com.bohemiancoding.sketch.runscriptidentifier" ], "isRoot": true } }

This tells Sketch to place the first level of menu items directly under the Plugins menu, rather than nesting them under the menu’s title.

Hit save and return to Sketch. You should see that now Mosaic -> Mosaic has been replaced by just Mosaic — perfect!

Mosaic’s UI. (Large preview)

As for our second tweak, let’s go ahead and rename this command identifier to something less unwieldy. Since command identifiers only need to be unique within the context of an individual plugin, we can safely rename it to something more concise and obvious, like "open":

{ "commands": [ { ... "identifier" : "open" } ], "menu": { ... "items" : [ "open" ] } }

Before we move on, it’s useful to note that menus can contain also other menus. You could easily create a sub-menu by nesting another { title: ..., items: ... } entry inside another menu’s items list:

{ "menu": { "title" : "Mosaic", "items" : [ "open", { "title" : "I'm a sub-menu!", "items" : [ "another-command-identifier" ] } ] } }

Building The Plugin’s User Interface

So far, we’ve written some demo code and customized our plugin’s manifest. We’ll now move on to creating its user interface, which is essentially a web page embedded in a window (similarly to the browsers you’re familiar with using):

The plugin’s window. (Large preview)

The components making up our plugin. (Large preview)

The Window

Mosaic’s user interface design has its own window, which we can consider the most basic component; we’ll start with it. In order to create and display a window, we’ll have to make use of a class that’s built into macOS by default, called NSWindow. Over the remainder of this tutorial, we’ll actually be doing this quite a bit (using built-in APIs like NSWindow) which might seem a little daunting if you’re unfamiliar with it, but don’t worry — I’ll explain everything along the way!

Note: While we’re talking about built-in APIs, the reason we’re able to use this class at all is thanks to a bridge present in the JavaScript runtime used by Sketch plugins. This bridge automatically imports these built-in classes, methods, and functions that would normally only be available to native applications.

Open Sketch/index.js in your code editor, delete what’s already there, and paste in the following:

function onRun(context){ const window = NSWindow.alloc().initWithContentRect_styleMask_backing_defer_( NSMakeRect(0, 0, 145, 500), NSWindowStyleMaskClosable | NSWindowStyleMaskTitled | NSWindowStyleMaskResizable, NSBackingStoreBuffered, false ); window.releasedWhenClosed = false; window.makeKeyAndOrderFront(nil); };

Let’s take a look at what this first bit of code does:

function onRun(context){

Remember earlier when we talked about commands and how they function, and we told Sketch to call in response to a menu-click was called onRun? (If you need a refresher, revisit that part above, then come back.) All this bit does is create that function. You’ll also notice our onRun function takes a context argument. This is an argument Sketch will call your command handlers with that can provide us with certain information. Later on, we’ll use it in order to get the URL of our plugin bundle on the user’s computer.

const window = NSWindow.alloc().initWithContentRect_styleMask_backing_defer( NSMakeRect(0, 0, 145, 500), NSWindowStyleMaskClosable | NSWindowStyleMaskTitled | NSWindowStyleMaskResizable, NSBackingStoreBuffered, false );

Here we’re actually doing a few things:

First, we call alloc() on NSWindow; this basically means “set aside some memory for an instance of NSWindow”. It’s sufficient to know that you’ll have to do this for every instance of a native class you want to create. The alloc method is available in every native class.

Next, we call NSWindow’s initializer method (that is, the method that actually creates an instance of NSWindow), which is named initWithContentRect:styleMask:backing:defer:. You’ll notice that’s different from what we call in our code above — it’s got a bunch of colons (:) between every argument. Since we can’t use that syntax in JavaScript, Sketch conveniently renames it to something we can actually use by replacing the colons with underscores, which is how we get its JS name: initWithContentRect_styleMask_backing_defer.

Next, we pass in each of the arguments the method needs. For the first argument, contentRect, we supply a rectangle with a size large enough for our user interface.

For styleMask, we use a bitmask which says that we want our window to have a close button, a title bar, and to be resizable.

The next two arguments, backing and defer, are always going to be set to NSBackingStoreBuffered and false, so we don’t really need to worry about them. (The documentation for this method goes into further detail as to why this is.)

window.releasedWhenClosed = false; window.makeKeyAndOrderFront(null);

Here we set NSWindow’s releasedWhenClosed property to false, which means: “Hey! don’t delete this window from memory just because the user closes it.” Then we call makeKeyAndOrderFront(null) which means: “Move this window to the forefront, and give it keyboard focus.”

Web View: The Interface

To make things easier, I’ve already written the HTML and CSS code of the plugin’s web user interface we’re going to be using; the only remaining code we’re going to have to add to it will deal with making sure we’re able to communicate between it and our Sketch plugin code.

Next, download the HTML and CSS code. Once you’ve downloaded it, extract it, then move the folder named “web-ui” into our plugin’s Resources folder.

Note: Writing and optimizing the actual HTML/CSS code is outside of the scope of this tutorial, as its focus is on JavaScript which powers the plugin’s core features; but there are a ton of tutorials on the web on this topic, should you want to learn more.

If you run our plugin now, you’ll see that it shows a window — yay, progress! But it’s empty, without a title, and not particularly useful yet. We need to get it to show our web interface. In order to do that, we’ll need to use another native class, WKWebView, which is a view specifically made for displaying web content.

We’ll add the code needed to create our WKWebView beneath the code we wrote for our window:

function onRun(context){ // Create window const window = NSWindow.alloc().initWithContentRect_styleMask_backing_defer( NSMakeRect(0, 0, 145, 500), NSWindowStyleMaskClosable | NSWindowStyleMaskTitled | NSWindowStyleMaskResizable, NSBackingStoreBuffered, false ); window.releasedWhenClosed = false; // Create web view, and set it as the view for our window to display const webView = WKWebView.alloc().init(); window.contentView = webView; // Load our UI into the web view const webUIFolderURL = context.scriptURL .URLByDeletingLastPathComponent() .URLByAppendingPathComponent("../Resources/web-ui/"); const indexURL = webUIFolderURL.URLByAppendingPathComponent("index.html"); webView.loadFileURL_allowingReadAccessToURL(indexURL, webUIFolderURL); // Make window key and move to front window.makeKeyAndOrderFront(nil); };

If we run our plugin now, we’ll see that now we’ve got a window open that displays our web user interface. Success!

Again, before moving on, let’s examine what the code we added does:

const webView = WKWebView.alloc().init();

This should look familiar — it’s basically the same as what we did when we made our NSWindow: allocate memory for a web view, then initialize it.

window.contentView = webView;

This line of code tells our window to display the web view we just made.

const webUIFolderURL = context.scriptURL .URLByDeletingLastPathComponent() .URLByAppendingPathComponent("../Resources/web-ui/");

Here our goal is to create a URL that points to the web-ui folder that we made earlier. In order to get that URL, we need some way to figure out where our plugin’s bundle is in the user’s filesystem. Here we use the context.scriptURL property, which gives us the URL of the currently running script. However, this doesn’t give us a JavaScript String as you might expect, but an instance of a native class, NSURL, that has a few methods on it that make manipulating URL strings easier.

We need to turn what context.scriptURL gives us —

file://path-to-your-plugin/Contents/Sketch/index.js

— into:

file://path-to-your-plugin/Contents/Resources/web-ui/

Step by step:

Calling URLByDeletingLastPathComponent() the first time gives us file://path-to-your-plugin/Contents/Sketch/

Calling URLByDeletingLastPathComponent() again gives us file://path-to-your-plugin/Contents/

And lastly, adding Resources/web-ui/ onto the end using URLByAppendingPathComponent("Resources/web-ui/") gives us file://path-to-your-plugin/Contents/Resources/web-ui/

We also need to create a second URL that points directly to the index.html file:

const indexURL = webUIFolderURL.URLByAppendingPathComponent("index.html");

Finally, we tell our web view to load index.html and give it access to the contents of the web-ui folder:

webView.loadFileURL_allowingReadAccessToURL(indexURL, webUIFolderURL);

Alright. So far, we have a window that displays our web user interface, just like we wanted. However, it’s not quite yet complete — our original design doesn’t have a title bar (or “chrome”), but our current window does. There’s also the fact that when we click inside a Sketch document, that document moves in front of our window, which isn’t what we want — we want the user to be able to interact with the plugin window and the Sketch document without having to constantly refocus from one window to the other.

To fix this, we first need to get rid of the default window chrome and keep only the buttons. Adding the two lines of code below will get rid of the title bar.

Note: Like before, all of the properties and methods we’re using below are documented in NSWindow’s documentation page.

window.titlebarAppearsTransparent = true; window.titleVisibility = NSWindowTitleHidden;

These next two lines of code will remove the window buttons (also known as “traffic lights” in MacOS lingo) that we don’t need — “zoom” and “minimize” — leaving only the “close” button:

window.standardWindowButton(NSWindowZoomButton).hidden = true; window.standardWindowButton(NSWindowMiniaturizeButton).hidden = true;

While we’re at it, let’s also go ahead and change the window’s background color to match that of our web UI:

window.backgroundColor = NSColor.colorWithRed_green_blue_alpha(1, 0.98, 0.98, 1);

Next, we need to do something to keep our floating plugin window on top of other windows, so the user can interact with their Sketch documents without having to worry about the Mosaic’s window disappearing. We can use a special type of NSWindow for this, called NSPanel, which is able to “stay on top” of other windows. All that’s needed for this is to change NSWindow to NSPanel, which is a single-line code change:

const window = NSPanel.alloc().initWithContentRect_styleMask_backing_defer(

Now we tell our panel window to float (stay on top of all others), and only take keyboard/mouse focus when necessary:

window.floatingPanel = true; window.becomesKeyOnlyIfNeeded = true;

We can also tweak our window so that it automatically reopens in the last position it was at:

window.frameAutosaveName = "mosaic-panel-frame";

This line basically says “remember this window’s position by saving it with Sketch’s preferences under the key mosaic-panel-frame”.

All together, we now have the following code:

function onRun(context){ // Create window const window = NSPanel.alloc().initWithContentRect_styleMask_backing_defer( NSMakeRect(0, 0, 145, 500), NSWindowStyleMaskClosable | NSWindowStyleMaskTitled | NSWindowStyleMaskResizable, NSBackingStoreBuffered, false ); window.becomesKeyOnlyIfNeeded = true; window.floatingPanel = true; window.frameAutosaveName = "mosaic-panel-frame"; window.releasedWhenClosed = false; window.standardWindowButton(NSWindowZoomButton).hidden = true; window.standardWindowButton(NSWindowMiniaturizeButton).hidden = true; window.titlebarAppearsTransparent = true; window.titleVisibility = NSWindowTitleHidden; window.backgroundColor = NSColor.colorWithRed_green_blue_alpha(1, 0.98, 0.98, 1); // Create web view, and set it as the view for our window to display const webView = WKWebView.alloc().init(); window.contentView = webView; // Load our UI into the webview const webUIFolderURL = context.scriptURL .URLByDeletingLastPathComponent() .URLByAppendingPathComponent("../Resources/web-ui/"); const indexURL = webUIFolderURL.URLByAppendingPathComponent("index.html"); webView.loadFileURL_allowingReadAccessToURL(indexURL, webUIFolderURL); // Make window key and move to front window.makeKeyAndOrderFront(nil); };

Organizing The Code

Before we move to the next part, it’s a good idea to organize our code so that it’s easier to navigate and tweak. Since we still have a lot more code to add and we want to avoid index.js becoming a messy dumping ground for all of our code, let’s split things up a bit and move our UI-specific code into a file named ui.js, under the Sketch folder. We’ll also extract some of the UI tasks we do, like creating the web view and window, into their own functions.

Create a new file called ui.js and insert the code below inside it:

// Private var _window; function createWebView(pageURL){ const webView = WKWebView.alloc().init(); webView.loadFileURL_allowingReadAccessToURL(pageURL, pageURL.URLByDeletingLastPathComponent()); return webView; }; function createWindow(){ const window = NSPanel.alloc().initWithContentRect_styleMask_backing_defer( NSMakeRect(0, 0, 420, 646), NSWindowStyleMaskClosable | NSWindowStyleMaskTitled | NSWindowStyleMaskResizable, NSBackingStoreBuffered, false ); window.becomesKeyOnlyIfNeeded = true; window.floatingPanel = true; window.frameAutosaveName = "mosaic-panel-frame"; window.releasedWhenClosed = false; window.standardWindowButton(NSWindowZoomButton).hidden = true; window.standardWindowButton(NSWindowMiniaturizeButton).hidden = true; window.titlebarAppearsTransparent = true; window.titleVisibility = NSWindowTitleHidden; window.backgroundColor = NSColor.colorWithRed_green_blue_alpha(1, 0.98, 0.98, 1); return window; }; function showWindow(window){ window.makeKeyAndOrderFront(nil); }; // Public function loadAndShow(baseURL){ if(_window){ showWindow(_window); return; } const pageURL = baseURL .URLByDeletingLastPathComponent() .URLByAppendingPathComponent("../Resources/web-ui/index.html"); const window = createWindow(); const webView = createWebView(pageURL); window.contentView = webView; showWindow(_window); _window = window; }; function cleanup(){ if(_window){ _window.orderOut(nil); _window = null; } }; // Export module.exports = { loadAndShow, cleanup };

There are a couple of key changes we made here that are important to note. Besides the fact that we’ve created specific functions for the creation, hiding and showing of our window and its web view, we’ve also modularized our user interface code.

Notice the module.exports = { loadAndShow, cleanup } line at the bottom? This is a way for us to specify exactly what objects and functions scripts who import this UI code can use (and hiding those we don’t want to them to worry about), which means we now have a more organized API for interacting with, showing and destroying our UI.

Recommended reading: Unleashing The Full Potential Of Symbols In Sketch

Let’s see what this looks like in practice. Back in index.js, remove the old code and add the following:

const UI = require("./ui"); function onRun(context){ UI.loadAndShow(context.scriptURL); };

We’re using a special function that Sketch automatically makes available to us, require, to import our ui.js code and assign the returned module to the UI variable. This gives us access to a simplified API for triggering our user interface. Things are much tidier now and easy to find!

Conclusion

Well done — you’ve come far! In the next part of this tutorial, we’ll give our web UI the ability to send us a message when the “Apply” button is clicked, and we’ll focus on the main plugin functionality: actually generating layer mosaics!

(mb, yk, il)

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4 MORNING ROUTINE IDEAS YOU NEED TO USE IMMEDIATELY

Having a morning routine is a hot topic and there’s good reason for that. It’s been a game changer for so many people I know, myself included.

A morning routine can help you achieve your goals in every single area of your life. Morning routines have helped me stay more consistent with my health, fitness, business, and relationships.

In this blog post, I’ll share my latest morning routine so you can get some morning routine ideas to implement for your day. The key is to make it your own and something you can personally stick to. So take what you want from this post and do some more research to find the morning routine that’s best for you.

THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING A MORNING ROUTINE FOR BUSINESS OWNERS

According to this article, “The Best Morning Routine (Backed By Science)”...

The research by Steve Key, a professor of molecular and computational biology at the University of Southern California, shows that “[w]hen it comes to doing cognitive work, most adults perform best in the late morning.”

So what do you do during the early morning to get ready for when you’re at your peak level? Standardizing the first 30-120 minutes with a routine lets you arrive at that peak in the best possible mindset.

Another reason that morning routines seem to be so common among creatives is that they create a rock in what feels like a raging river. Whether you have a project going badly, are moving cities, or are changing jobs, a morning routine gives you something to hold onto—a sense of normalcy to root yourself.”

In a nutshell, our brains are most primed for productivity in the morning. Beginning your day with positivity before you start some focused work that will move your business forward can literally be a game changer for your business AND life.

Before we begin, make sure you download this free worksheet full of “Confidence Affirmations”. It’ll really come in handy when you get to step 3!

My Morning Routine For Success Step #1: Prepare With An Evening Routine

You knew it was coming! The key to having a successful morning routine is to set yourself up for success the night before. That means having an evening routine.

The routine I stick with every night is journaling before bed. I list out:

How I moved the needle today in my business

Three things I’m grateful for from that day

Three good things that happened that day

I also lay out my workout clothes and gym bag next to my bed, so I’m prompted to put my workout clothes on right away, first thing in the morning. I make sure I turn my phone on do not disturb the night before, so I don’t get any texts or notifications to my phone directly when I wake up.

It’s important to make sure the first things you read and consume in the morning are positive and in your control. While you can find a lot of inspiration on your phone, it’s not always positive or the first thing we should see to start our day. This includes social media and email.

It’s tough to resist it when you see all of those notifications come to your phone. Putting your phone on do not disturb or airplane mode the night before will set you up for success!

A few other things you can prep for your morning routine:

Put your phone across the room so you have to physically get out of bed to turn your alarm off (and therefore, GET UP!)

Make your alarm have a positive affirmation or something that makes you smile. I have “DREAM, WAKE UP, GO DO” as of now and it makes me smile every morning.

Change your alarm so it says something besides “alarm”. Any way we can subconsciously send ourselves positive vibes, we should do it.

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My Morning Routine For Success Step #2: Water + Breakfast

Right after I turn off my alarm, I grab my flask from my bedside table and drink a lot of water. Then I go downstairs, put the kettle on and get my breakfast ready.

My go-to at the moment is a bagel with peanut butter as it makes me have such a good gym session. I’m not a fan of a big breakfast but this sets me off for the day just right.

After my breakfast is ready, I grab that and my cup of tea, and get set up at the table for the next part of my morning routine.

My Morning Routine For Success Step #3: Gratitude Journal + Affirmations

Practising gratitude in the morning is the best way to ward off any negativity you might be feeling. You cannot be negative while in gratitude, and realising that you have things to be grateful for puts you in an abundant mindset. This can attract more things to be grateful for to you.

One suggestion when writing out a gratitude list is to get specific. Instead of saying, “I’m grateful for my husband”, say “I’m grateful for how my husband makes me a cup of tea every single morning and kisses me goodbye before he goes to work.” The more specific you can get, the better, because you’ll start to realise you have SO many things to be grateful for, even during the tough times.

Another habit I have come to implement in the morning right after my gratitude, is listing out some affirmations of what I want to happen in the future - but as if they’ve already happened.

An example of a few of the affirmations I’ve been listing out:

I believe I can attract what I want

I can afford everything I want or need in my life without stress or worry

I am fit and healthy and my body is amazing

Amazing things are coming my way

The more I do this (which is usually about 5-6 mornings a week), the more I truly believe this is going to be REAL. I have no doubt it can happen. But putting it down on paper shifts my mindset and makes my daily work behaviours have a purpose beyond an income amount.

My Morning Routine For Success Step #4: Personal Development

This is hands down my favourite part of my morning routine. I usually spend 10-20 minutes every morning after my gratitude and affirmations reading a personal development book. I have plenty of personal development book recommendations and you can follow along with the one I’m reading currently via my Instagram Stories.

The book I’m reading right now is “The Thank You Economy” by Gary Vaynerchuk and it’s changing my mindset around business so much that I’m thinking of including it in a welcome pack for my new clients. You can get it from Amazon here.

But no matter what you read, I recommend having at least 10-20 minutes a day pumping your brain with positivity from other successful entrepreneurs or mindset gurus!

A few podcasts I recommend for entrepreneurs:

Bucci Radio

The Angie Lee Show

The Guava Girl Podcast

Blog It Boss It Radio (obvs!)

The Gary Vee Audio Experience

Online Marketing Made Easy

Put Yourself First

Screw The Nine To Five Podcast

The Goal Digger Podcast

RECAP

These morning routine ideas are what I’ve found work best for me. Again, take what works for you and your schedule, and adjust accordingly! Even if your morning routine is 5 minutes long, having some intentionality in the morning to set yourself up for success is essential and will improve your life - I promise!

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WHEN THE CURTAIN DROPS...

As cold and smooth as the marvel that paves your way in your glacial home you strut through your existence one day at a time, devoid of cares, the atmosphere impregnated with decadence and arrogance the instant you enter a room. Infamous to the point of premature immortality, your name drips from unworthy lips at intervals so regular you could set your clock after them and you revel in the attention, not differentiating between the kinds of it. Your ruthlessness was bestowed upon you genetically, through the greed of many female generations and the lust for power of many male generations before you, your family’s reputation having long preceded the potential formation of one of your own creation, snobbery and entitlement all but expected from you in every affair alike. You’re a wolf on the prowl, thirsting for blood, capable of making an ivory tower disintegrate with merely a snap of your fingers, tips coated in the ashes tumbling to the ground. There’s one regard that makes you stand out in comparison to the Granville men in charge before you — while, if said ivory tower was the Queen Victoria Ballet’s future, they would have done everything in their might to preserve it, you are far more likely to smirk at the sight of its ruins, another burden off your regal shoulders, your time no longer wasted on such excruciating banality.

...YOU SHOW YOUR TRUE COLOURS

For this is what it is to you beneath the surface, art of most kinds, but your condescension for any other artform can’t quite measure to that you harbour for ballet in particular. The Granville Foundation, the QVB’s most affluent supporter for the entirety of a century, is the biggest thorn in your side, a lousy obligation you tend to phlegmatically, a disapproving frown lingering on your lips at every meeting with their administrative manager, every show you’re forced to attend to keep up the charade, all for the family name. You’re the epitome of the poor little rich boy, dwelling in the comforts your wealth offers you but cursing your name the second it provides you with certain unpleasantries immutably attached to it. A fortune meant freedom you used to believe, a mindset heavily enforced by your parents; the freedom to do as one pleases with no need for excuses, to spend one’s money on whatever one’s crippled heart desires, to only fake a smile for the people you deem worthy of being on the receiving end of it. Perhaps you should have become an actor after all — being the dedicated sponsor of the Queen Victoria Ballet certainly feels like the role of a lifetime, long overdue for an Academy Award, if only for every English curse you’ve suppressed or at least substituted with an equal unpleasantry muttered in Russian.

VICTIM OR CULPRIT?

For thirty years you have carried the weight of the Granville name, your recently acquired position as the director of the Granville Foundation putting you in direct contact with the QVB countless times throughout the year, each of them one too many in your book. The name Elijah Granville has become a bearer of doom among the staff, your resemblance to Theo James what most consider to be your only redeeming quality.

IN RELATION TO

NORAH MONROE: Her face is the one you have to see the most whenever duty calls, a fact that has neither prompted you to like or dislike her more than initially. You suppose it is safe to assume that of all the illustrious characters the Queen Victoria Ballet has to offer, she might just be on the more bearable side being more pragmatic than in your eyes any professional artist could ever be. Nevertheless, your disputes about this travesty’s finances make your stomach twist weeks in advance, though you settle them as amicably as possibly considering your blatant lack of interest for what your funds are to sponsor. ALIONA CHERNOVA: At first glance, she was nothing more than another danseuse or however they call them in ballet-speak, an airheaded chorus girl sitting pretty in tulle of infantile appearance, yet another reason for the unpleasantry of your troubled existence. It wasn’t until the quiet shadow lurking in a corner revealed herself as a fellow Russian that you paid any attention to her, her humour as dry as yours, her dissatisfaction rarely voiced but apparent through her entire pronunciation and mannerism. At least this is a small consolation for you, that even for the most dedicated slaves to the ballet it isn’t a world of sunshine, rainbows and lollipops, even though you sometimes catch yourself wishing she could live up to her family name as you do to yours sans the downsides you endure. JOSH FLANNIGAN: A blurry vision from your childhood he is merely an added inconvenience to your suffering now that he appears to have made the Queen Victoria Opera House his second home, crossing your path seemingly every single time you are forced to enter the hollow, underwhelming halls of the establishment. His glare is so spiteful it caused you to take stock of yourself once, for a fleeting instant, the conclusion you were meant to reach chased away by distraction or greater concerns long before it could have come in sight. If someone has the time to cling onto grudges from their infantile past, all you have to spare for them is pity.

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Starring: Lia as Elijah Granville

Picture a man with effortless access to all of the luxuries and comforts this world can offer. Picture that man devoid of nurturing elders and lessons in morality. If that man were to look in the mirror he’d recognise himself as Elijah Granville, profess himself as a god among mere mortals. It’s not because he’s truly that arrogant, but because he doesn’t know any better, doesn’t care enough to look and see. Maybe if his parents had been warmer, the staff that raised him more forceful and less subservient, peers more varied in circumstance, maybe then he could have been better. Only now he believes he is the best. There is nothing he wants for, or knows well enough to realise he is lacking, and there’s certainly not enough passion in his heart to stir and crave a different path. For everything he is; he is nothing, vapour, coasting through life with momentary flickers of association to other humans, to his own heart. Utterly numb to the beauty of art and people, mechanic in the taking of all that is named sinful, named debauched, sedated to the buzz. Poison from an errant tongue coiling slowly around the mind.

Arm outstretched along the line of the chair, a tumbler of whiskey settled to the side of it, some gauchely pretty young blonde in the seat to his left. The usual appearance of Elijah Granville as he seems to encompass the entire box reserved solely for his use. Even the way his eyes practically glaze over as they roam the stage for appearance’s sake, all too familiar. The blonde makes the mistake of speaking, of assuming that is her use. Some pathetic wonder expressed at the dancer’s, a quick admission of insecurity. “You’re right, darling, you could never look so graceful.” It’s unusual for him to respond to such futility, preying for his attention, but the bite of the words are enough to humour him for just a moment. He thinks so litte of those on the stage that her dismissal as even lesser seems a stunning indignity, punishment that she has opened her mouth in a way that doesn’t service him. Maria, or Louisa, or Emilia, settles back in her chair, deflated against the velvet. It is then, just after he strikes, that he moves. Forcing her to follow suit by expectation. Only when she has risen does he shake his head. No, no. “Stay here. You have lessons to learn, do you not.” The experience is surely soured for her, but he makes no note of it, is not intentionally cruel as he leaves her to stew alone. Leisurely strides have him backstage within moments, unfazed as he walks a straight path so all those buzzing in their hurry have to move around him. A figure he briefly acknowledges as familiar, a queen in the hive, steps out of his way, no notion to question him. He pushes open a fire escape and steps outdoors. There are no bodies to deal with, no smokers attempting pleasantries. His goal accomplished, to avoid the droning tones of theatregoers and the effort to cover his distaste. There’s very little he denies himself, but a line is still drawn at smoking indoors. More for the way they’ll surely bump up the cost of smoke damage or refunded tickets for alarms blaring, than for respect of the theatre. Architecture perhaps one allowance in its beauty, he holds too much venom for the funds the theatre siphons from him to recognise any attribute. Handrolled filters greet him in a sterling silver case, less pretentious than one might imagine, given how bashed and nicked the case truly is. A questionable hand-me-down from his grandfather when he was a boy, the picture of magnanimity at some fundraiser or another, a story regaled by the presses who happened upon the scene. He taps the cigarette against the lid of the box, allowing any stray tobacco to fall, or perhaps just for the habit of it when the cigarettes always look immaculate and machine pressed instead of forged by his hand. Just as he’s raising it to his lips, calamity strikes. “I’m sorry, you’re not supposed to..” Owlish features turn on the woman, and she steps back in response. Theatrically he settles the cigarette back in place, “Do finish that sentence.” Finally some real entertainment. Except she seems frozen in place, all too aware of her error at this point. “You’re not.. You can’t.” A scoff as he clicks the case shut, lest he drop them all on the ground and force her to her hands and knees. Unless you’re new here is on the tip of his tongue, but it seems too much an excuse, a kindness. “I can and I will. And I am.” he doesn’t stoop, doesn’t press forward, and yet the intensity of his words force a closeness and presume an attack. “Now shut the door and wait right there until I knock.” “I’ve got work..” “Yes, you have got work in making up for your ignorance. So hush now, let’s not fall out. I wont repeat myself” He doesn’t need to, for she closes the fire exit in front of her. He’s not one for grudges, not at all, so he finishes his cigarette, watches the smoke plume into the night sky, a far better dancer than inside the building, and doesn’t linger further. Knocks against the door to be let inside. A mistake to let him in, if ever there was one.

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Dutch design collective exhibits products made from Colback material

A group of 10 designers from the Netherlands have teamed up with manufacturer Low & Bonar to create a set of products made from its non-woven Colback textile.

For an exhibition during this year's Dutch Design Week, the 10 participants presented their own interpretations of the material, which is typically used for technical applications – from insulation and carpeting to building dykes and roads.

Each of the designers were intentionally invited from a wide variety of disciplines, including interior, graphics and product design.

"The project started purely with the material," graphic designer Dana Dijkgraaf told Dezeen. "The company approached me and the other designers with one challenge: to research the aesthetic and functional features of Colback, and in the end, create a project with it."

For her offering, Dijkgraaf developed a visual language inspired by the title of the exhibition – In4Nite.

Using silk screening, digital and foil printing, she created rainbow-hued panels spread over folded layers of Colback.

Dijkgraaf also developed the catalogue for In4Nite from the same concept, using holographic typography on a Colback sheet reflected on silver paper.

"For me, the project was about the endless outcomes of the combination of different designers using the same material. It sounds like one plus ten is eleven, but for me the results are infinite."

Joris de Groot, inspired by the production processes of air filters, designed a pleated chair partly made from Colback. He collaborated with two factories, one specialising in laminating textiles, and the other specialising in pleating.

Klaas Kuiken created a collection of lampshades using laser-cutting techniques. Reminiscent of the moon and the sun's phases, the lamps play with the translucent qualities of the material.

Rick Tegelaar, a product designer who often focuses on materials, developed a 3D print-like technique to "print" Colback fibres directly onto non-woven Colback material.

The designer built a machine that can "iron" the Colback yarn to the non-woven Colback. This customised FDM (fused deposition modelling) printing process adds rigidity to materials, and the result of his experiment was a series of six panels each featuring a different aspect from the study.

"Through pragmatic experiments and theoretical research, I discovered that Colback can be 3D-printed exceptionally well due to the unique core-skin composition of its fibre," said Tegelaar. "This triggered my interest to really look into the fibre and research its capabilities."

Tegelaar's project – and the exhibition as a whole – aimed to prompt other industries to explore different possibilities of the Colback material.

"We've now started a research project with a global footwear brand to try to implement the printing technique in their process." Tegelaar said. "In this way, we can potentially eliminate the use of glue in the fabrication of shoes."

Other pieces on show at the exhibition ranged from acoustic panels and window coverings, to a vertical garden and a cavernous chair.

In4Nite was on show during this year's Dutch Design Week, which took place in Eindhoven from 21 to 29 October 2017.

Also during the festival, Dezeen hosted a series of talks discussing how design can answer some of the world's big problems – these talks are available to watch via our Good Design for a Bad World page.

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Are You A Warrior? A Free Spirit? A Psychic Explains How To Find Your Personal `Soul DNA`

Just like your physical body has a personalized DNA make-up (possibly you're component Spanish, component German and a number of other parts you're not even totally certain regarding), your heart is a distinct mix of archetypes. Each spirit is composed of several archetypes, and also there are hundreds to select from.

However, after doing instinctive readings on numerous individuals, I have actually seen that some archetypes constantly reveal up in clients. Review the summaries listed below and see if one or two of them is dominant in you. Familiarizing on your own with the major archetypes in your heart will help you discover greater happiness, remain on objective and also be much more alert to the darkness or tough aspects of your higher self.

1. The Warrior

' The warrior is solid in this one.' Isn't that something you could visualize Yoda claiming concerning Princess Leia? Warriors can be risk-takers, although as warriors age, they're slower to attract their swords and also charge right into fight without a great factor or a strong plan. Warriors could locate themselves sticking up for the underdog in their society or family, changing their jobs from square one, or strolling through some particularly tough life obstacles.

Warriors do have a code: Fight for just what is best and also never surrender. This can be an issue when it's appropriate to surrender, like approving a persistent medical diagnosis or completion of a partnership. Warriors also have a tendency to be autonomous to a fault, hiding their injuries and being deceitful concerning the assistance they need from others.

I typically inform clients with solid warrior archetypes to take off the armor and also obtain in touch with their soft sides. Stand honored if you have this archetype, yet remember to reveal susceptability too.

2. The Free Spirit

This is a lovely archetype with a bum rap. Are family and friends constantly on you to settle, tidy, as well as begin leading a 'regular' life? I tell clients with a predominant cost-free spirit archetype to obtain comfortable with that they might not fit right into the 9-to-5 grind, that they have great deals of passions and also enthusiasms, which they love to travel or walk around. If you are a totally free spirit, celebrate and also have your unconventionality! Free spirits understand that happiness is more crucial than coloring inside the lines, as well as we need extra unusual people to test society's norms.

The darkness side of this archetype is a tendency to come to be a little ungrounded. Like a balloon dancing overhead delighting those below, cost-free spirits will essentially fly away unless they tie their strings to the earth. My other advice to totally free spirits is: Be yourself. Value duty yet don't let anyone box you in or boring your sparkle.

3. The Healer

This is an intriguing archetype since you do not need to be a professional therapist to have it. Do people involve you, either skillfully or personally, throughout times of dilemma? Are you a good problem-solver? Are you excellent at making people feel calmer, stronger, inspired, or more grounded? Do you delight in assisting those in requirement? Therapists are normally highly skilled, accountable individuals with a strong job ethic and a deep sense of purpose.

It is this feeling of being contacted us to their job that offers therapists excellent task fulfillment, however it can additionally cause burnout. Healers have to know when to focus on taking treatment of themselves. True healers are not discouraged by entering into dark locations with someone under their care, whether this indicates going through an incurable diagnosis with a client, assisting a customer clear ghosts or various other unwanted energy from their home, or counseling a person through the grieving process. For this factor healers have to maintain very healthy and balanced psychological, energetic, and also physical borders.

4. The Teacher/Student

Often these are provided as 2 different archetypes, yet as a fellow psychic as soon as explained to me, 'All the most effective educators are long-lasting students.' Teacher/students are usually the individuals who are constantly taking workshops, getting additional training for their tasks, or learning a brand-new foreign language simply for the enjoyable of it. Teacher/students love to check out and hold knowledge as sacred. Spirits with the teacher/student archetype could get very bored as well as even depressed if they are not intellectually stimulated enough. Those who do become educators can shed their love of training if the material or the means they present it has actually become memorizing to them.

These folks are frequently high up-and-comers, as well as though they could be intellectually fantastic, they require to be careful of living way too much in their heads. If your soul has a strong disposition toward this archetype, get into your heart power and also explore your emotions or begin a spiritual technique that is based more around sensation than knowing. Colleagues or peers that share the same passions can end up being cherished good friends to student/teachers, so it's a smart idea to go to routine meetings or other events where similar, interested spirits collect.

5. The Artist

Within the artist archetype, there is likewise a separate performer archetype. After all, not all artists want to be onstage or even in the public eye, and also not all entertainers are in the arts (consider Chief executive officers or politicians). Not all artists will or even desire to make a living from their art. Artists don' t need any individual's permission to begin creating-- it is in their spirit's DNA to do so. Some of my customers have solid musician archetypes however will never make that business dive. They are homemakers or businessmen who are extremely creative as well as just should honor that side of themselves.

If you constantly really feel a demand to produce, carve a long time out of your routine and also designate an area in your home for creative pursuits. Go right into your garage to painting uninterrupted on a Saturday afternoon, or rise early in the mornings to spend an hour at your bedroom workdesk keying away on your story. Artists are extremely delicate to appeal as well as can also be sensitive regarding their job. Look out for taking criticism too tough or judging on your own too severely.

6. The Activist/Instigator

In this moment of modification as well as social transformation, great deals of protestors and also provocateurs are going into the international playing field. That's why I intend to discuss these two archetypes together. You'll know you are a provocateur if you often tend to state and also do things that obtain people talking or illicit a solid reaction in others. Provocateurs can have no filter as well as cherish making remarks that are intentionally prompting. Activists will certainly likewise state things that may step on somebody's toes or speak bothersome realities if it's to advance a reason they appreciate.

Activists can appear extremely challenging, however beneath all of it they have massive hearts sustaining their job. Protestors and provocateurs could encounter their very own version of burnout, coming to be so disenchanted that their message is not being listened to that they surrender or pave the way to bitter pessimism. Like therapists, activists as well as provocateurs commonly really feel a calling, whether they volunteer part-time at an animal sanctuary or offer on the board of a huge organization like Greenpeace. If you have a leading lobbyist archetype, keep in mind that any initiative created to inform culture, no issue just how little, counts huge time.

7. The Priest/Priestess or Nun/Monk

Slightly different from the mystic archetype or candidate archetype, nuns/monks as well as priest/priestesses are folks who usually took divine orders in previous lifetimes. Whether they belonged to an official Pagan, Buddhist, or Christian religion (or any other arranged confidence with certain tenets and 'policies'), these hearts had dedicated a previous life to this certain spiritual path, and normally made great sacrifices for it. Lots of people with this archetype in their soul do not take official holy orders this lifetime, yet they might yearn to be part of a spiritual area or take part in spiritual searches. In many cases their past life of divine orders was also restricting, so these individuals might not belong to any kind of one certain confidence in this life time, rather activating their applicant archetype and also discovering lots of faiths.

Folks with the nun/monk archetype can have really delicate anxious systems and also discover peaceful, order, and also routine quite calming and also stimulating. They can additionally be extremely humble as well as concerned with the demands of those much less fortunate. Spirits with the priest/priestess archetype are made use of to being leaders and assuming a particular quantity of power. Nonetheless, in this life time they may opt to lead and develop area by opening a bookstore that specializes in the magical arts rather than running a large Pagan circle. Recommendations for nuns/monks: Don' t conceal away. Request for exactly what you want. Priests/priestesses: Make sure the function you think offers you enough power to satisfy this archetype.

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Education the catalyst to galvanise SA's kids

Education is the maximum powerful weapon which you could use to trade the world, said Nelson Mandela. As anticipated via our overdue and world acclaimed icon Mandela, this is what we want for South Africa’s children to check themselves and aspire to a much better level. I am in favour of unfastened training, however, excessive requirements have to be followed. My view is that some requirements of higher education in South Africa must be upgraded now, as it appears the united states of America nevertheless maintains an education machine caught in vintage ways.

Get me right here! I am now not announcing the contemporary academic machine is awful, but there are a few things that can be changed, like moving from concentrating too much on theoretical subjects at high college and changing them with industry-applicable basis guides in technical subjects, like technicians in plumbing, engineering and mechanics.

Do You Know How to Be an Engaging and Highly Effective Educator? Anyone can train. We teach each other each day. For instance, we provide instructions to every different for things like cooking, placing collectively furnishings, and finishing family different duties. However, teaching someone is one of a kind than the system of teaching someone. Consider the distinction among informal studying and formal getting to know. An example of informal studying might be following a recipe to learn how to prepare dinner. In contrast, formal getting to know occurs within a lecture room and normally is followed with the aid of assessment and assessment. It may additionally appear that coaching and instruct are the identical issue; but, the difference has to do with the area or context for getting to know.

This is the equal difference may be made for coaching informally (giving commands) and teaching college students in a formal lecture room environment. A person enters the sector of training as a career – both complete time in traditional educational institutions or as an adjunct (or element time) trainer. The motives vary for why someone could pick to be inside the lecture room. A traditional full-time professor may in all likelihood be responsible for undertaking research, teaching, and publishing scholarly paintings. An adjunct teacher may additionally train in a network university, conventional college, or an internet college. When a person teaches college students in better education he or she can be known as a facilitator, teacher, or professor. This is essential as there isn’t always an activity with the phrase educator inside the name.

The questions I would love to reply consist of: What then does it suggest to be an educator? Does it characterise some thing one of a kind than the assigned task name? What I have found out through my work in higher training is that turning into an educator isn’t an automatic manner. Everyone who is coaching adult students is not functioning as an enticing and fantastically powerful educator. However, it’s far possible to discover ways to teach in place of educating and that calls for making a dedication to the career.

What Does It Mean to Teach?

Consider coaching as part of the system of conventional, number one training. Those lessons are teacher-led and children as students are taught what and the way to analyze. The trainer is considered to be the expert and directs the studying technique. A trainer is someone who is noticeably educated and works to engage the minds of his or her college students. This fashion of trainer-led instructional keeps into better education, specifically traditional university school rooms. The trainer still stands on the the front and middle of the magnificence turning in statistics, and students are used to this layout due to their revel in in number one education. The trainer disseminates understanding thru a lecture and college students have a look at to bypass the required examinations or complete different required getting to know activities.

Within better education, instructors may be called instructors and they’re hired as challenge count number professionals with superior content material know-how. The task requirements usually include maintaining a selected variety of degree hours within the concern being taught. Teachers may also be known as professors in traditional university training, and people positions require a terminal degree with additional research necessities. For all of these roles, teaching is meant to signify a person who is guiding the getting to know manner through directing, telling, and instructing students. The teacher or professor is in charge, and the students must comply and observe as directed. Here is some thing to keep in mind: If that is the essence of teaching, is there a difference among that and educating college students? Is the position of a teacher similar to that of an educator?

What Does It Mean to be an Educator?

Consider some fundamental definitions to begin with as a method of expertise the role of an educator. The phrase “training” refers to giving coaching; “educator” refers to the person that gives education and is a person who’s skilled in coaching; and coaching is aligned with offering reasons. I have improved upon those definitions so that the phrase “educator” consists of someone who is skilled with training, possesses enormously evolved academic skills, and holds both challenge count number know-how and expertise of person training standards.

Skilled with Instruction: An educator is a person who have to be skilled inside the artwork of classroom training, knowing what instructional strategies are powerful and the areas of facilitation that want further development. An experienced educator develops strategies that will deliver path substances to life by adding relevant context and prompting students to learn via class discussions and other mastering activities. Instruction additionally includes all of the interactions held with students, along with all forms of communication, as each interplay affords an possibility for teaching.

Highly Developed Academic Skills: An educator ought to also have strong educational skills and at the pinnacle of that list are writing competencies. This calls for robust interest to element on the a part of the educator and in all types of messages communicated, together with anything written, supplied, and despatched through e-mail. The ability to demonstrate robust academic abilities is specifically essential for all of us who is coaching on line training as words constitute the trainer.

The use of right formatting tips, according to the fashion prescribed by way of the college, is also included in the listing of essential instructional abilties. For instance, many colleges have applied APA formatting pointers as the usual for formatting papers and running with assets. An educator cannot accurately manual students and provide meaningful comments if the writing fashion has not been mastered.

Strong Knowledge Base: An educator wishes to develop a understanding base that consists of problem matter expertise, as associated with the route or publications they’re teaching, at the side of expertise of person education ideas. I recognize of many educators who have the desired credit hours on their diploma transcripts, yet they will no longer have sizeable experience in the subject they train. This will nonetheless allow those educators to train the direction, supplied that they take time to read the route textbook and discover techniques of making use of it to cutting-edge practices inside the area.

Many colleges rent adjuncts with massive paintings enjoy as the primary standards, instead of information of person getting to know standards. Those teachers I have labored with who do have a sturdy grownup schooling information base generally acquired it via ongoing expert development. That became my goal, when I decided on a chief for my doctoral degree, to understand how adults analyze in order that I ought to rework from an teacher to an educator.

Becoming an Engaging and Highly Effective Educator

I do now not agree with that many teachers intentionally recollect the need to make a change from running as an teacher to functioning as an educator. When someone is employed to educate a class, a person aside from a conventional university professor, they frequently research thru exercise and time what works nicely within the classroom. There will likely be lecture room audits and guidelines made for ongoing expert improvement. Gradually the everyday teacher becomes an educator as they seek out resources to assist improve their coaching practices. However, I actually have worked with many adjunct on-line instructors who rely upon their concern rely information on my own and do not agree with there is a reason to grow as an educator. For every body who would like to make the transformation and become an enticing and notably effective educator, there are steps that can be taken and practices that can be carried out.

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