This may come as a shock to learn that (as reported here – and there are many similar reports, just Google them):

Fewer than 1 in 100 stroke survivors met all seven heart-health goals identified by the American Heart Association. And just 1 in 5 met four of those goals.

James Clear wrote the other day:

If you’d like to do something bold with your life, you will have to choose to do something bold on a specific day. There is no perfect day. There is no right time. For the trajectory to change, there has to be one day when you simply make the choice.

So, I really wonder, how sick and tired of something we need to be in order to change that something for the better?

Instead of waiting for tomorrow, why not start today?

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.

Filter bubbles have a task to keep you engaged consuming instead of increasing your education or quality of life.

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.

Don’t expect much from x, if you’re just half-assing your commitment to it. Whatever the x may be. Go all in!

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.

Social media is all but making us social these days.

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.

It would be an interesting experiment to let every person on this planet win a lottery and see which behavior it amplifies in them?

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.

Even when I wrote that we seemingly haven’t learned anything, and that the war should never be the solution, I still didn’t believe that it would come to today’s “news”. I thought that we, as a species, have grown above such behaviors. I only wonder where this ends, and feel sorry for all the innocent humans (on both sides) :/

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.

TL;DR

Today marks 5 years of me being on dev.to. In general, I gotta say that I like the community (I just got this nice badge, so what’s not to like 🙂), and wish to be on the platform 5 years from now too.

Stats

I like stats (and working towards improving them), so I’ll share my stats from these 5 years:

• Posts: 92
• Total post reactions: 847
• Total post views: 273,102
• Followers: 2895
• Following users: 36

Top 5 most viewed blog posts

• Making AJAX calls in pure JavaScript, the old way – 93k views
• How to make a native Android app that can block phone calls – 24k views
• Git branching done right with Gitflow & improving code quality with code reviews – 19k views
• JWT authentication in an Angular application with a Go backend – 16k views
• How to get started with Ionic framework 3 on Mac and Windows – 12k views

Personal favorites that, IMHO, could use a bit more view-love

• Learn Git fast as if your job depends on it – 12k views
• How to ‘make it’ as a remote developer? – 273 views
• Too many books, not enough time – 237 views

Daily-Thought Series

Recently, I started a new daily-thought series where I post a tweet-like tiny blog post entry every day. The post that got the most exposure in that series was Knowing != Doing. Please feel free to check out the rest and chime in on the discussion.

Learnings

I shared a bunch of learnings from when I published my 300th blog post on my blog.

One thing that still holds to this day is the consistency. What you’re consistent with, you will improve.

There are multiple quotes around perseverance (and images similar to the one in the post), and I’m all for it because I tend to believe most people give up too soon. However, until when should you be pivoting (fancy word for failing)? Until your run rate goes dry, until Nth pivot, until x event? What are the N and/or x?

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up. ~ John Maxwell

This one really hits home – what ‘thing’ are you blaming on your circumstances, instead of taking the responsibility?

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up. ~ John Maxwell https://t.co/50CPIwkA8Q

— Nikola Brežnjak (@HitmanHR) February 22, 2022

All of us that were privileged/lucky/pick_your_word to be born in favorable conditions (country, family, time in history, etc.), we should be grateful and reciprocate.

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.