Developing Strategy Under Uncertainty: Applying the Known-Unknown Matrix
How to use the Known-Unknown Matrix as a tool for starting a strategic process, organizing information, or dealing with decision block
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Life Lessons From Others
An evolving collection of impactful life lessons that others have learned. Self-Narratives can influence and mold who you are. "Now, as I’ve gotten older, I would say starting in my mid to late 20s, I could not help but notice the effect on people of the stories they
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Key Takeaways from Dr. Anthony Fauci's talk at the University of Chicago
In March 2021, Dr. Anthony Fauci spoke with University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Dean and health economist Katherine Baicker. Below are my takeaways from their conversation with an emphasis on leadership, decision-making, and healthcare policy. Do not be afraid to change your decisions based on new information.
Read moreEasy Internationalization and in React Native
Internationalization can be a pain For the Brink mobile app, we developed a system that we didn't hate and scaled well. This is how we organized the i18n logic. src ├── i18n │ ├── __tests__ │ │ └── i18n.test.js │ ├── i18n.js │ └── locales │ ├── en.js │ └── es.js This next part is where the magic happens.
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React Native Troubleshooting Tips and Tricks
While building a React Native iOS and Android application, I've run into a number of trick, unintuitive issues. The following processes are how to solve them.
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Installing fonts on Amazon Linux AMIs for PhantomJS proper rendering
How to install fonts on Amazon Linux AMIs to ensure they render properly when using PhantomJS.
Read moreUse Polyfills to use JavaScript ES6 features with Phantom.js
Phantom.js is lagging behind modern browser support—learn how to use JavaScript ES6 features like Promises with Phantom.js.
Read moreEasy JavaScript Internationalization in Rails using the I18n-js gem
Ruby on Rails provides a lovely Internationalization API for server-side localization. However, many projects forget to internationalize their front-end JavaScript framework and end up hard-coded text everywhere. Luckily, there's an easy way to localize your JS front-end using the i18n-js gem.
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A Happy RSpec, Capybara and DatabaseCleaner Setup
RSpec, Capybara and DatabaseCleaner don't play nicely in the sandbox—here's how to get them to cooperate.
Read moreRemoving Google Analytics Referral Spam
If you use Google Analytics, especially if you have a small site, you may notice referral traffic from weird domains with 1 pageview, 0 time on site, 0 conversions and 100% bounce rate. Here's who to remove this garbage traffic from your reports.
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