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title: Things I Learned - 05 May 2024
date: 2024-05-05T00:00:00+00:00
categories:
  - til
description: I gathered innovation insights on solving personal problems and leveraging spares from Hidden Brain. I also discovered curl’s globbing and email support, explored Gemini prompt guides, and noted ESLint’s flat configuration changes regarding package.json.
keywords: [hidden brain, innovation, curl, beetrove, gemini, eslint, flat config]
---

This week, I learned:

- Hidden brain podcast. Innovation 2.0
  - solve your own problem. Don't solve other people's problems. This helps you pick what you're good at
  - affordable losses. Make sure you survive
  - borrow others' spares. spare time, scrap data, anything others don't use. If you can monetize it, you can pay them back
  - focus on the controllable. Ignore what's outside your control don't even waste time on it
- curl supports [globbing](https://everything.curl.dev/cmdline/urls/globbing.html), [emails](https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/smtp.html)
- [Beetrove](https://beetrove.com/) is a ranking of the popularit of OpenAI GPTs
- [Gemini Prompt Guide](https://inthecloud.withgoogle.com/gemini-for-google-workspace-prompt-guide/dl-cd.html) has detailed examples of how each role can use Gemini
- [ESLint's new flat configuration does not support package.json](https://eslint.org/docs/latest/use/configure/migration-guide)