carpentries-lab/good-enough-practices
Saturday sandbox · after Elliot Hershberg, Century of Biology newsletter
carpentries-lab/good-enough-practices — the lesson version of R3, if you would rather do it than read it
In: LABLOOP-W00 Notebook
WEEK 00 · COCKPIT AND POSITIONING
Do one thing.
Then you are ahead.
Before a long expedition, good expedition leaders spend a whole day on something that looks boring: packing. Every item has a pocket, every pocket has a label, and the map is on top. They do this because on day 20, exhausted and cold, they will not have the willpower to search for the compass. Week 0 is packing day. You are not learning biology yet and you are not writing a simulator yet. You are building the cockpi…
If you only do one thing this week: the cockpit repo with TODAY.md filled for Monday
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How long have you got?
By Sunday you should be able to say: “I know exactly what I will open on Monday and why every file in my cockpit exists.”
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