diff --git a/content/posts/Drafts/Short_or_Long_Term.md b/content/posts/Drafts/Short_or_Long_Term.md deleted file mode 100644 index d11ab88..0000000 --- a/content/posts/Drafts/Short_or_Long_Term.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ -+++ -author = "Ethan Hampton" -date = "2019-02-27T00:00:00-08:00" -draft = true -slug = "short-long-term" -tags = ["Short", "long", "thinker", "independence"] -title = "Short or Long Term?" - -+++ -# There is one wrong, and one right way to do things -You may not even realize it. The people around you have all made the decision, it wasn't something they just thought up, it happened naturally, in their sleep, maybe with out them even realizing it. Once they made up their mind, it was super difficult to stop. It haunted them for the rest of their lives. The impact for some of them affected entire nations or even the world. - -Do you live in the short term or long term? Do you think about what people are going to think in an hour, a day, a week, a month or a year? How long can you wait for a reward? I'm not going to pretend that its a clear black and white situation, obviously it is important to think long term in some situations, and short term in others, but at the same time, there are so many things that must be decided on a day to day basis, you will start to reflect one way or the other. - -I am most certainly a long term thinker, when I think about what I want to do in life, most all of my goals are quite long term. However, I don't think that long term is always the best, in situations where there isn't a clear path or way to go often short term individuals will come out on top. That doesn't mean either way is better, but there are clear reasons to view both points of view. - -At some point everyone needs to make up their mind independently. If you switch between short term and long term thinking methods too often, or too dramatically it can cause huge problems to open up in your life that could have easily been avoided if you had just picked a side. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/posts/Drafts/households-and-disease.md b/content/posts/Drafts/households-and-disease.md deleted file mode 100644 index 34eed3b..0000000 --- a/content/posts/Drafts/households-and-disease.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,53 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: "Households and Disease" -slug: "households-and-disease" -tags: ["add tags here"] -description: "An argument for why we should focus on households of exposure and not people" -aliases: [] -date: 2022-01-15T21:38:26-08:00 -author: "Ethan Hampton" -draft: true ---- -I go to Oregon State University, which hasn't gone remote for the recent wave of Omicron COVID-19 in Oregon. As a result, I've been exposed to a great deal of risk and have had to give some thought to how to reduce my exposure. This is a quick overview of my ideology. - -It boils down to this: - -> If I know that I'm healthy, and I'll be in an unmasked/unprotected environment, then I should look to minimize my exposure based more so on number of households and less so on number of people. Households should be prioritized based on size of household. - -## Assumptions - -- Households are all positive or all negative for the disease -- The chance an individual/household is positive increase as size of household increases -- If exposed to an individual, there is 100% chance of infection -- Ignoring all factors outside of the unprotected environment -- Tests are 100% accurate - -## Theory - -If an individual is perfectly healthy (and ideally can prove it) then they should have no qualms about exposing themselves to other perfectly healthy people (again, who can prove it). The number doesn't matter because (as stated above), the tests are always correct. - -In an environment where the other individuals can't prove it, then more caution is needed. This is where minimization of households is more useful than minimization of people. If required to add one more person to the environment, they should always be from a household already present compared to a new household. - -## Examples - -Here `F|N` denotes the focus individual in a room with someone negative (though they don't know that). `F|P` means the same but the other individual is positive. `F|N2` adds one more person from the household. `F|P|N` adds an additional household. - -### `F|N` - -The focus individual is fine.`F|N99` still would result in the same outcome. - -### `F|P` - -The focus individual is infected. This is the case regardless of size of the household present. `F|P99` still would result in the same outcome. - -### `F|N|P` - -This is where things get interesting. Now the focus individual and the first household would be infected. The size of either household doesn't matter, the outcome would be the same. - -This is where the first part of my theory comes from. Always add from an existing household if possible as it reduces risk for all those involved. - -## Household Size - -The larger in size a household, the greater chance it is infected. We can say this because each individual in the household will have their own network of connections which increases risk of infection. - -TODO \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/posts/Drafts/prom.md b/content/posts/Drafts/prom.md deleted file mode 100644 index 00b813b..0000000 --- a/content/posts/Drafts/prom.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,30 +0,0 @@ -+++ -author = "Ethan Hampton" -date = "2019-04-07T22:00:00-07:00" -description = "Why prom is good but drugs are bad" -draft = true -slug = "prom" -tags = ["INTJ", "MBTI", "Alcohol", "Drugs", "High School", "Prom"] -title = "Prom" - -+++ -I just graduated high school a month ago to this day. It is very interesting to look at what I might regret doing or not doing in high school and whether that lines up with the rest of the world. Originally I was going to give a bunch of facts and statistics about why my way is better than anyone else's but I realized it doesn't matter. This article isn't for you, it solely exists for me. - -Basically I have this idea that I am not going to regret not having used drugs or alcohol while in high school. The simple reason for this being that I have yet to meet someone who wishes they did more of those things when they were in high school. I mean think about it, if drugs and alcohol were something no one regretted, then we would see more use across time in the high school population. In 2016, the [National Survey on Drug Use and Health](http://www.samhsa.gov/data/population-data-nsduh) reported that 19% of youth aged 12 to 20 years drink alcohol. Wouldn't that number be higher if it were a good idea? Obviously there are other factors about why that number is lower and just because no one does something never means that thing is a bad idea (in this case it happens to be a bad idea but I digress), however I think it proves a point. - -If you look at /r/askReddit and see questions like "What do you regret most about high school" a vast majority of them fall in to a few categories: - -* Asking someone out/pursuing a romantic interest -* Getting more involved -* Paying attention in class and studying -* Being more social - -The word "alcohol" didn't appear on the page once. Neither did "drink" in the context of alcohol. I think that really says something about the choices one makes in their lives day to day. The things people regret in the long term are the things people think are fun in the short term. Additionally, the things that are hard in the short term, are super important when given the chance to look back. - -It is really difficult for a 17 year old to say, "I know exactly what my purpose in life is and let me tell you the steps I am going to take to achieve that goal", just as difficult as it is to say as an adult but that shouldn't mean they can't think about their future in that context. In what I am deeming the "Hampton Triangle of Care", I believe it is important to take care of yourself before your family, your family before your community, your community before your town, etc all the way to taking care of the world. - -\[TODO: Insert picture of triangle here :)\] - -Those small steps taken to decrease your regret now will save countless hours, days, weeks, months and years down the road. I know, as we all do, that teenagers want to come right out and save the world. They have to. However in order to do that, they need to realize where their priorities lie. The world doesn't have time for right now, it is always in the future. Unless we do something, now, we won't have a future. - -Because I classify myself as an INTJ on the MBTI matrix, this thought isn't something out of the ordinary with what others are thinking but still deserves some thought. I will probably go into greater detail about why I am so against substances at this age and will eventually be for them in moderation as I grow up at some point. For now though, lets just assume that progression is a part of my development. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/posts/Drafts/the-tip-of-the-iceberg.md b/content/posts/Drafts/the-tip-of-the-iceberg.md deleted file mode 100644 index 132b9a9..0000000 --- a/content/posts/Drafts/the-tip-of-the-iceberg.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,15 +0,0 @@ -+++ -author = "Ethan Hampton" -date = "" -description = "" -draft = true -slug = "iceberg" -tags = [] -title = "The Tip of The Iceberg" - -+++ -You grow up knowing the iceberg metaphor, 10-20% is above water, 80-90% below, most people focus on the top, but the real size is what is below. You also could refer to the 80/20 rule or so many others that point to a greater thing you never will see. That message is overused and not always clear in meaning. I ran into a situation today though that I think demonstrates what it means from a personal perspective. - -Firstly, I think it is important to recognize the fact that unless it's personal, it doesn't mean a thing. Those iceberg posters at my elementary school weren't personal, so they didn't really mean anything to me. If it isn't personal, then it probably won't work. There has to be some element your audience connects with on a personal level. That might be the promised tax cut they will get from growing soybeans or the way they hit the tennis ball because they can see for their own eyes what a difference it can make. Even sending a marketing email at the right time could be considered personal, because it made someone think. If something isn't personalized, it doesn't matter how important it is, no one will care. - -So why do I bring this up? Well recently I wrote probably the best piece of my life, and unless some true magic happens, the essay of sorts will never be seen by more than three or four people. Morally, that's definitely for the best but a part of me also doesn't want this to be the end of it. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/posts/Drafts/what-i-learned-from-deploying-a-pwa-to-my-high-school.md b/content/posts/Drafts/what-i-learned-from-deploying-a-pwa-to-my-high-school.md deleted file mode 100644 index 724896a..0000000 --- a/content/posts/Drafts/what-i-learned-from-deploying-a-pwa-to-my-high-school.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,35 +0,0 @@ -+++ -author = "Ethan Hampton" -date = "" -description = "" -draft = true -slug = "high-school-pwa-deployment" -tags = [] -title = "What I learned from deploying a PWA to my high school" - -+++ -It was the end of my junior year of high school and I was tired of trying to figure out if it was an "A" or "B" day according to my high schools A/B block schedule. Plus, it was approaching finals time and no one was really sure what finals periods were went. I decided that I should look into making some sort of app that could help me and other students determine what classes they should be going to that day. - -## The Tech - -I eventually started building everything and it kind of happened naturally without a lot of planning. I know I am fortunate in that regard. As a high school student, I didn't want to spent the time and money to develop an app because it would cost at least $125 in start up costs to distribute the app for the first year and I didn't have a Mac easily accessible for iOS development. I explored other options that would have allowed me to use my Ubuntu machine to develop iOS apps but it wasn't worth the time or effort. - -I found a couple different articles explaining the concept of a progressive web app and they showed how it could be installed similar to a normal app and used offline. The real incentive was support for additional PWA features in iOS 11.3 ([see this article for additional information](https://medium.com/@firt/progressive-web-apps-on-ios-are-here-d00430dee3a7)). As most of my classmates used iPhones, if I was going to release something, I had to make sure it would work well for the vast majority of students. I wasn't really worried about Android because they seemed to be on the front of PWA development and had all the features I needed (I don't actually care about keeping state). - -The nice thing about the problem I had was that it was simple to solve with minimal infrastructure. Everything could be client side and there were no user accounts needed or any sort of server side operation other than to serve the files. Although I wasn't a total JavaScript pro, I knew that everything would be simple enough that I could Google it or look it up on Stack Overflow. - -Eventually I decided on my stack. HTML, SCSS and JavaScript using [Gulp](https://gulpjs.com/) as my build system, [Picnic CSS](https://picnicss.com/) as a CSS library and [Umbrella JS](https://umbrellajs.com/) as my jQuery replacement. I probably didn't need Umbrella but it actually saved a lot of time and was so small a dependency that I didn't mind having it. I didn't really understand the concept of React or Vue at the time and felt that they would be too complex for my needs. I am really glad I made that decision because it has given me a ton of flexibility to grow in a direction comfortable with the scale I am operating at. - -The idea of a progressive web app is that you have a `manifest.json` file that includes details such as how to display the app (fullscreen, with a browser bar, standalone), what the theme color is, what icons you want to use, the start URL of the app and what the actual name of the app is. Additionally, you can include a service worker which is essentially a programmable proxy for your website that allows you to cache files offline. The nice thing about this is that it updates when you use the website so it can update content in an intuitive way for me and users don't even notice because if they are online, it just grabs fresh copies of the pages and files like any other website and then caches those for the next request. In order for the website to work offline, you do need a service worker but if for whatever reason the browser doesn't support it or it is disabled, the website can still function normally. - -The interface for the app is very minimal with a maximum of 4 pages available to the user at any time (Home, What time classes switch, About, and finals schedule). It also makes it very easy to use by displaying the information the app actually is meant to provide front and center when you first load it up. I am definitely not a designer but I think that what I ended up on works pretty well and serves its purpose. - -## The Launch - -I essentially shot myself in the foot by releasing the app and the end of a school year however I actually ending up treating it as a soft launch because I didn't really try to advertise. I did tweet about it and my school picked it up and one of the vice principals asked for my help to install it which hinted at the largest problem my app faces. - -No one knows what Progressive Web Apps are. I initially didn't have any sort of install prompt or anything indicating how to install the app for iOS and given that students at my school were not known for their tech knowledge that prevented a lot of students from understanding how to install the app. I think that is one of the biggest things that I took away from this whole experience is that people who are not familiar with front-end web development don't realize that you can install web applications on your phone (and computer). With a little bit of work I added an iOS install prompt and that seemed to help installations a bit (quite a lot). - -I got a little bit of recognition from people and a lot of it was positive. There were a couple of bugs that were easy to fix and they helped improve the overall user experience really well. - -The biggest change was made when the schools twitter account retweeted my announcement and I saw a huge jump in traffic \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/posts/Drafts/your-audience-does-not-care-about-you.md b/content/posts/Drafts/your-audience-does-not-care-about-you.md deleted file mode 100644 index fa52199..0000000 --- a/content/posts/Drafts/your-audience-does-not-care-about-you.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,31 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: "The Audience Doesn't Care" -slug: "the-audience-does-not-care" -tags: ["TODO"] -description: "TODO" -date: 2020-Nov-12T23:42:36-07:00 -author: "Ethan Hampton" -draft: true ---- - -Who do you publish to social media for? Who is the audience you are trying to get your message to? - -When I post on Twitter, I mostly publish to non-existent "fans of Ethan Hampton". Someone who likes the same mix of content that I do and cares about my opinion on things. On Twitter I also try to be aware of the future Ethan Hampton and his employers so I try to stay mostly pleasant. Sometimes, I'll try to spread a message but I don't have the following to do anything with it. People who do read my tweets don't remember them. - -My mailing list is for people who will read what I have to say and care about how smart I am (*why hello there Ethan's ego, thanks for stopping by*). I can say things that may not be suitable for a wide audience who wouldn't read the whole thing and or care about the context. I can be weird and let my obsessions show. Even though my readers are engaged, no one has asked why I haven't send an email in the last month. - -On Snapchat, I'm talking with my friends. Any content there I will target at friends who may take a few seconds to look at my story or chats then move on with their day. Chats disappear and even those that are saved are never looked at again. - -Instagram is for how perfect my life is. It's the beach trips, my amazing looks (note the \*hint\* of sarcasm), the incredible time I had at a summer camp and how fantastic my friends are. Folks who care about me enough to read my captions or the message of my story can get a look at a new project I'm working on or something I find important. They will forget it before they wake up the next day. - -Your "audience" doesn't care about you. They don't care how much you care about something, they don't care how hard you have worked on something, they don't care how much something changed your life. - -They care about how your content makes them feel. Elections are won on feelings, products are bought on feelings, deals are struck because of feelings, people are killed because of feelings. Your content doesn't suddenly get to be special and skip in front of feelings so it can go right to logic. - -One of the problems that has exacerbated the divides we face today is just how much value we place in feelings. I don't think we, as a society, used to care so much about how "facts" and "opinions" made us feel. It's become acceptable to have an opinion on a fact and have that opinion supersede any of the original truth. - -Social media gives us access to millions of opinions/feelings from ordinary people. This makes us feel like we can, or sometimes even have to, share our feelings about things too. It's not like it stops in the digital world either. If you can do it online, why wouldn't you do it in the physical world as well? - -We are all addicted to this freedom to share our opinion. From a personal freedoms point of view, it's awesome. Never before has it been easier to get your opinion out there and share it with the world. The impact on the human race however, in my opinion, is quite terrible. Why should we care what Justin from California or Megan from Kentucky thinks about encryption or steel tariffs? Hell, why should we care what Bryan (with a y) thinks is the best TikTok fail compilation? Why should we care what Ethan thinks about opinions? - -There is no easy solution here. Any "solution" has to make it through people's feelings to convince them this is a problem in the first place and that will **never** happen. \ No newline at end of file