The 21-Day Sprint: A Framework for Functional Fluency

The Inspiration In the book The First 20 Hours, Josh Kaufman argues that the 10000 hour rule only applies to becoming a world class expert and about 20 hours is all that is needed to become “good enough” at most hobbies or professional skills. Why 21 Days? The goal of any sprint shouldn’t be mastery. It should be functional fluency. Becoming good enough to use the new skill to create something and overcome barriers that may come up along the way. ...

January 10, 2026

Hugo Blog Setup

Setting up a Personal Site Using Hugo and Cloudflare Pages To get a site up quickly I am going to Hugo Installing Hugo for Local Development NOTE The instructions provided in this document will be for Ubuntu 24.04. Installation instructions for other operating systems are available here. Following best practices of not testing in production, I will be setting up a local development environment for my Hugo site. Step-by-step instructions are provided below. ...

January 10, 2026