The Universe of Joshua Blais

I have been going down the vaporwave/synthwave rabbit hole and found that it truly is the pinnacle of focusing music.

Here’s a million dollar tip to those that would offer their products or services to me (or anyone) via cold outreach.

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman’s Odyssey Much of my life has been greatly improved as of late through the utilization of Occam’s Razor on my…

Perhaps the greatest change in my life came from when I simply asked myself “am I creating, or am I consuming?”

My ’tech hot take’ was featured in an MKBHD video this week, to the tune of 2.3 million views at the point of writing this post.

I saw a great post the other day from Sneak Berlin about some of the great ideas that have shaped his outlook.

For much of my adult life, I was guided by Lust.

A few years ago, I wrote an article about how I use org-mode to get things done.

A thought crossed my mind today: “If you knew someone was dying, how would you treat them?”

The truly killer app of Android and why I can never return to an iPhone is Termux.

If we explore Infinity: There is a highest and best version of you.

Would you allow someone to stay in your life that was constantly berating you?

As today is my 30th birthday, I figured I would do the cliche and write about the last decade of my life for those that are entering their 20’s.

On December 5th, 2022, I deactivated my Instagram, Facebook (you’ll still see my account as I am selling some things on marketplace, lol), and Twitter accounts.

I posted a video almost two years ago talking about this phenomenon.

Inevitably people will try to pin me into this box or that box due to the content of my videos and writing.

Change your perception, change your life.

When you look around, you are looking at a series of decisions that you have made over the course of your life.

Coconut oil is a God given spectacular use case for numerous things.

After posting my setup to r/unixporn I received many questions about my system, why I do things certain ways, and what programs I use to achieve a “Tranquil” computing environment Questions such as: “Why do you use that program or this program?”

So you want to get more done?

There is a baseline that you should strive for.

Let it be known that forever forward on this timeline, I AM reborn in the image of Christ.

If you know me, you know that I refuse to gossip.

Here’s a crazy productivity hack for you: When you are working, listen to music that you used to play video games to as a kid.

If you’ve played video games before you know about render distance: where your character is in one part of the world, but in order to save on compute, the rest of the world is not rendered, it may be in shadow, in fog, or whatever the developers have chos…

This is going to sound so simple that most of you will discount it entirely: I only allow myself to drink coffee when I am at my desk or in front of a keyboard doing creative, needle moving work.

All Change is Immediate.

There is thinking Then there is believing Then there is KNOWING There are levels to intelligence and the highest state is to be knowing of something.

The peace that you have been looking for is found in the here and Now.

After over a month off, I am back at it.

Strip down all of the things that you own, the brand names you associate with, the car you drive, the clothes you wear.

For one week, I want you to give up all forms of consumption.

Do you show respect to those that you are meeting with?

There are 3 reasons you are anxious all the time:# 1.

Here’s why I wear a ’broken’ watch.

Introduction# We are going to be setting up a Bastion Host (or colloquially a ‘Jumpbox’) for our cloud infrastructure.

I Intermittent Fast on a daily basis.

Your focus is absolutely horrendous.

As humans, we border on an OBSESSION of control.

Most people care far too much what others think of them.

I have a love hate relationship with “Productivity”.

In a world of overwhelm, why not Simplify?

From the seatback table between London and Budapest and the train between Vienna and Prague.

We all use our phones too much.

I have a 6th gen Thinkpad X1 Carbon, and the thing runs HOT.

Here is THE rule for growth in life: Become Who you Want to be Surrounded By.

I have figured out the final boss of life - being productive for sustained periods of time.

Let me put this into perspective: Every day matters.

Most of us wake up and are at the whim of everyone and anyone that wants our time - clients, staff, friends, family, the list goes on.