Friday Feature: Website Upgrade
This week's Friday Feature is kind of a repeat from last week. I took the rough website that AI and I built last week and did some restructuring and made a number of adjustments. The new site is...
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Unleashing Your Creativity
When a new student arrives at the dojo, they often fail to appreciate that karate is not just a skill, but also an art form. It is a martial art, after all, and art is the expression of human skill...
Read more →Friday Feature: The Discipline of Deployment
I wanted to start a Friday Feature as a new ritual. In karate, as in life, consistency is everything. We have to sometimes force ourselves to train when we don't want to and by forcing myself to make ...
Read more →Structure is the Key to Potential
In the world of IT, we have a term called GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out). It's slang for the output results from a computer system that had bad input and I have found that this concept applies to...
Read more →Your First Drill: Goal, Constraints, Role
When first teaching oi-tsuki, we start with the basics: "look, step, punch." Then we move on to focus on stance, breathing, and eventually improving complex elements like footwork and timing. Yet,...
Read more →Training Your Creative Muscles with Memes
In the dojo, we focus on waza—individual techniques. We don't just teach you to punch, we teach you how to punch, where to punch, and when to use a punch. We focus on details to improve outcomes. To...
Read more →Context, Clarity, and Constraints
Are you having trouble getting your Large Language Model, LLM, to generate output with satisfactory quality? Whether it's refining an effective punch in the dojo or generating a TPS Report in the...
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