Author: Quentin Pain
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The First Choice: Top Down or Bottom Up?
In business, and everything else, we often face the same first decision. Do you start with a top down approach or a bottom up approach? Top down means you begin with a finished thing in mind and reverse engineer it. Bottom up means you start with more or less nothing, then build by doing. Before…
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The 5 Fret Guitar Pattern
Following on from my 4 fret pattern here, we move on to the ultimate guitar pattern – the 5 fret pattern. Learn this pattern and there’s nothing you won’t be able to play. Every modality, every key, every chord (sure, some of them are only playable with 3 or 4 notes, but that’s only because…
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The 4 Fret Guitar Pattern
A Single Movable Pattern on the Guitar This post explains a simple way to use the guitar fretboard. With this approach, you can play in any key by knowing where the root note (“1”) is on the low E string and placing the same finger pattern there. If the next song is a blues in…
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How to create a WordPress plugin that allows admins to add new custom post types
The following was created from a single short prompt given to Google.com/ai (which is the title of this post). AI is moving rapidly, and although the creation of WordPress Plugins like this is nothing new, for the average user out there with zero knowledge of programming it is an absolutely revelation. The price of software…
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Rules on creating patterns in php for the WordPress block editor
Creating patterns programmatically for a WordPress theme using blocks is incredibly hard and frustrating for so many reasons. Even AIs struggle – and they have access to so much more than we do, so with the help of GPT 5 and days and days of struggle (back and forth coding) it came up with this.…
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Why We Have Difficulty Selling
Picture yourself arriving on your own at a network meeting. There’s a bunch of suits plus some casually dressed people. Half are smiling and the other half seem deadly serious. A few are standing on their own too sipping a cup of coffee. You eavesdrop in on a conversation, and after a short wait they ‘let’ you…
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Conversation with an AI on freewill
Exploring Free Will through Ancient Concepts and Modern Neuroscience What began as a discussion on the ancient Greek ideas of nomos versus phusis, that is, human-made law versus natural law, quickly evolved into a deeper inquiry: does free will truly exist? Understanding this question has profound implications, not only philosophically but also practically, especially regarding…
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There Is No Future – Only Passion
The Futility of Worrying About the Future Many of us spend countless hours worrying about what the future holds. However, this kind of worry rarely leads to positive outcomes. While making plans and setting goals can give us direction, getting lost in anxiety about what might happen often distracts us from what truly matters: the…
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Converting File Formats Online For Free
Converting File Formats Online for Free Occasionally, I come across audio or video files in formats that aren’t compatible with my preferred media players or devices. This can be quite frustrating, especially when I need quick access to the content. Fortunately, there are free online tools that simplify this process, making file conversion straightforward and…
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It’s Time To Be A Kid Again
If there’s one simple lesson in Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, it’s this: plan your future. He uses the case of building a house. You don’t just turn up with a bunch of labourers and a pile of bricks and build something. You get an architect and talk about how you want…