Ben Patton

After much introspection and career counseling I am looking for a new job. I am looking for Forward Deployed Engineer/Deployment Specialist/Solutions Engineer roles I am great with people, understanding them, seeing opportunity for them and your product/platform.

Watching someone try to get good at a skill to be mistaken as AI has me reflecting. If you are pursuing craft with tender love and care you DONT OWE ANYONE an explanation if they mistake it for AI

It causes quite the irritation in my that “apart” and “a part” are separated by a space and have complete opposite meanings Also, if “a part” is brought together to “apart” wouldn’t “apart“ more intuitively be understood as joined? And the opposite for “apart” being split to “a part”. #mybrain

I’m sure this is a AI realization many others have had The greatest deception I feel I’m seeing is the promise of turning AI users into masters of many crafts @alexhillman.com’s “Tiny MBA” (which you should buy this for a gift this week) recommended Cal Newports “So Good They Can‘t Ignore You”

AI promises mastery. Its deeply deceptive because it does things which otherwise to you feel like magic IF you do not already have mastery over the subject So then we just chalk it up to AI can do it Im not arguing against using AI at all but as humans we have a deep need to master a skill

Three community ideas for bluesky people to help me process: A course creators community. Just somewhere to share ups downs, and whats working and not. Thinking developer specific A community to simply inspire and bring to light what’s possible with code. I get so bored with so much

My greatest hope for Christian authors and orgs that review books is that they would know the author is under no obligation to address the full extent of biblical doctrines when saying any one thing As a reader, my hope is to hear what is being said and not immediately say “but what about?!”

I feel bluesky may be the only place that has developers who care about this answer Are there any tools out there that radically simplify building PWA's? Wasn't sure if @bell.bz would know of some. I really don't want to go down the expo route and use react native for a mobile app, would love pwa

Oh the internal agony of this cycle: think I must have a good idea to make money -> no one wants the idea -> think I need a better idea -> get fed up and just need to make money -> slightly begin the process -> start trying to find the best idea again -> realize no one wants it -> and on and on

I'm gonna build a sales safari chrome extension that is a browser MotivAider for myself Every few seconds, get a gentle visual/auditory nudge to remind myself "Hey, are you thinking about ideas or are you reading people's pain?" "Are you validating a perceived pain or real pain?"

Oh the internal agony of this cycle: think I must have a good idea to make money -> no one wants the idea -> think I need a better idea -> get fed up and just need to make money -> slightly begin the process -> start trying to find the best idea again -> realize no one wants it -> and on and on

In today's world you don't drift into proven processes, you drift into slop. Cultivating and working the muscles to not drift off track is so, so hard.

Oh the internal agony of this cycle: think I must have a good idea to make money -> no one wants the idea -> think I need a better idea -> get fed up and just need to make money -> slightly begin the process -> start trying to find the best idea again -> realize no one wants it -> and on and on

This is what @amyhoy.bsky.social refers to as the fail cycle I believe. To have the wisdom of amy and @alexhillman.com in their 30x500 course but slip into ideas 95% of the time. I need a MotivAider that Kathy Sierra mentions in her book to gently nudge me every 30seconds to forget ideas

For any Yugioh fans Back in the day I had a game, I still do actually, called Dark Duel Stories. With technology where it is I would like to build a web based version of that game. There are so many things I like about it. I actually have a decent initial proof of concept. I need guidance with

Alright Case Study 1 is up. A lot of conversations I have with people are in a southern evangelical context and so spirituality, the bible, God, sin and so on will come up in many of these case studies. This one is on anxiety and helping a friend in it benapatton.com/articles/cas...

What are the best writing tools that my friends who love to write have found? I find nothing satisfies and yet I don't know what I am looking for. Feels like it would have options for: - parallel documents - document storage and references - search - canvas for sketching / notes - timer for focus

Anyone with kids know how to tap into their intrinsic motivation at 330am so going back to sleep isn’t met with gnashing of teeth extrinsic motivation doesnt work