Chasing Creativity Improving Productivity

Ameen — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 09:22:18 +0000

Let's first define our variables:

What is creativity ?

Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something somehow new and somehow valuable is formed.

Creativity is the ability of a person or group to make something new and useful or valuable, or the process of making something new and useful or valuable. It happens in all areas of life - science, art, literature, and music.

In short, it's your ability to invent something new that is valuable and useful to others. For example, the device you are currently reading on was the result of someone's creativity.

What is productivity?

Productivity is the efficiency of production of goods or services expressed by some measure

the state or quality of being **productive.**

What is productive ?

producing or able to produce large amounts of goods, crops, or other commodities.

In short, when we get some amount of work done in a given period, we call ourselves or the day productive.

So now we understand to some extent what those variables mean, let's see how they are interrelated:

For me, an unknown high schooler with not much stuff to do, I would want to do work where my creativity lies.

Let's break this down:

I do something that I like
I do more work than an avg person on it due to interest
I enjoy it
It doesn't feel like work

You might be thinking how is this useful for me or how can I implement this:

If ( you already know and do what you love == True)

{

Then you are already in the field you will be creative in.

}

else{

It's okay and is the case with most people
To find out what you like, you need to learn
Spend an hour a day learning a new skill
Knowledge doesn't go to waste
After a month or two, if you don't like the skill; you can learn a new one
Eventually, you will come across something you enjoy
Look for ways you can earn from the particular skill
Make it one of your powerful tools
Congrats, you are the special one, the rare person that knows what they like and would like to do.
- See ways to implement it in your life :)

}

Just a side-note: having and earning from something you like > boring job you don't like

Why is this important?

When you do what you love you do it better than the one that doesn't love it.
You are creative, find new solutions and better ways to do things.
You work better than an avg person in that field and earn good salaries as well
You are interested and content with what you do

The fear and results:

Beginning learning something new can be scary. With time you will get the hang of it. Results compound over time. Going to the gym for one day doesn't make you fit. Going to the gym every day will make you fit and healthy. You need to be consistent and do it.

It's easy for you to say and hard to implement - I never claimed it's easy. If it were that easy, everyone in the world would be doing what they had loved.

For me posting this blog is something I fear. I don't know how you(the person reading) will react but then I have decided to take risks and learn. In my case, that's publishing this blog. For you, it might be spending your time and money on learning a new skill.

Now why you should listen to a high schooler:

For the past few months, I have been trying to understand the purpose of life, what do we do, etc.
I began asking the question What can I change and I am still searching for the answer. My time management skills suck. I had gone through a bunch of resources on productivity, and creativity to improve my time management skills. And I realized how the two are closely related. I decided to share it with the world :)

I decided to bring a few changes in my life to be more productive and creative:

to blog more consistently as it would be a better way to gather my thoughts, check how much I have learned something, or share what I think is useful.
to be more active on socials and post more content
new things and get better at what I already know
to become more healthy by exercising more often
to read more books
work on side projects and practice more

I usually blog about front end development, vscode, and different projects I do; if this is something that interests you, you can follow me here and on Twitter

3 reasons you should try Svelte

Ameen — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 05:34:23 +0000

Svelte a new contender to the war of JavaScript frameworks. It might not be as mature as other frameworks like React and Vue, but here are three reasons you should try Svelte:

The learning curve is pretty small
It requires less amount of lines & has easy state management.
It is not a normal framework.

1 . Learning curve is pretty small

If you know HTML ,CSS & Javascript, learning Svelte is going to be a breeze. Like Vue, Svelte templates are a superset of HTML.

A simple svelte example :

In first glance everything looks like HTML but it is Svelte. The {} are usually used to insert Javascript in HTML.

Svelte is HTML ,CSS ,Javascript with many cool add-ons.

If you know only HTML ,CSS ,Javascript than give Svelte a try. Later transitioning to other frameworks will be easy too.

2 . It requires less amount of lines & has easy state management.

Let's take an example of a simple counter with React & Svelte

React :

class Timer extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = { seconds: 0 };
  }

  tick() {
    this.setState(state => ({
      seconds: state.seconds + 1
    }));
  }
  componentDidMount() {
    this.interval = setInterval(() => this.tick(), 1000);
  }

  componentWillUnmount() {
    clearInterval(this.interval);
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        Seconds: {this.state.seconds}
      </div>
    );
  }
}

ReactDOM.render(
  <Timer />,
  document.getElementById('timer-example')
);

Svelte :

<script>
  let seconds = 0;
  setInterval(() => seconds += 1, 1000);
</script>

Seconds: {seconds}

React: 33 lines ,
Svelte: 6 lines

As seen from above :

Svelte does greater things in few lines of code.
Svelte 's state management is really simple.

3 . It isn't a normal framework..

Svelte is pretty different from other frameworks. Svelte compiles you code into vanilla javascript. Thus the build size of Svelte apps is small. Svelte deserves its reputation because of its speed and developer experience.

Conclusion :

Svelte doesn't have a large community like Vue nor is being backed by any major company like Angular & React. Svelte is growing constantly but it still is pretty young and new in the market. I had suggested using it for personal projects rather than for job hunting etc.

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