If you want to build a ship, don’t teach men to build a boat. Teach them to yearn for the wide and open sea.
РSaint-Exup̩ry
Month: July 2007
Coda
Up until a few days ago I was using TextWrangler, Transmit & Safari for all my web development. After I downloaded and demoed Coda to build Shawn Blanc {dot} Net everything changed.
Coda has opened my eyes to the possibility of an extremely easier CSS/HTML/FTP workflow. But I’m not sold just yet … if you know of an app you think beats Coda for my amature web-foo, please send me an email.
Thank You
Grand Opening
Today is my 26th Birthday. To celebrate I have launched Shawn Blanc {dot} net.
Welcome
This irresistable weblog is officially opening today – July 2nd, 2007.
Quick Tour
- RSS: https://shawnblanc.net/feed
- COMMENTS: You may notice that comments are disabled. Not because I don’t want to here from you. Because I want you to read the posts and articles for no other reason than simply because you want to.
- ASIDES vs ARTICLES: Asides are posted with smaller, sans-serif headings. Articles are posted with big, fat Georgia. Expect a few asides each day, and a few articles each month. And the only guarantee is that nothing on this site is guaranteed.
Installed Mint about 3 minutes before Announcing shawnblanc.net
I installed Mint about 3 minutes before Announcing shawnblanc.net
The Truth About Good Leaders
To be a good leader you have to do what nobody else is doing even though everyone else wants to. You have to blaze the trail.
That Moment – when you are sitting right on the edge of something daring and scary and creative and powerful and perhaps wonderful… and you blink and take a step back.
That’s the moment. The moment between you and remarkable. Most people blink. Most people get stuck.
All the hard work and preparation and daring and luck is nothing compared with the ability to not blink.
Having the ability to make choices and follow through is what seperates the men from the boys. Those following are only trying to do what the someone else already did because they didn’t have the self-discipline to make it happen on their own.
Once you’ve blazed that trail you have to make a way for others.
The best leaders serve those who are watching. They do what’s best for everyone around. They’re servants.
Cubs Win
We thought someone in our neighborhood was going patriotic on us when they recently painted their house white, the shutters blue and the trim red. But they painted the finishing touches to their garage today and looks like we were wrong – they’re Cubs fans.
That’s What I’m Talking About
I got this email today:
Shawn, I want to send you some awesome coffee from a nearby roaster. The coffee is called Peru a la Florida. It is an organic fair trade coffee. Would you like the beans or already ground? My family and I will be at IHOP for our family vacation in August. Do not forget that we want to take you to Chipotle and Starbucks next store for desert.
Thanks Marc! Whole please. And I never forget Chipotle and Starbucks.