My work and personal phone/laptop are 100% separate for the first time in a decade. So I’m YOLOing beta OSes like never before.
My work and personal phone/laptop are 100% separate for the first time in a decade. So I’m YOLOing beta OSes like never before.
My partner and I were overjoyed to receive our first dose of the Pfizer vaccine today. It was hard to resist the urge to high-five each staff member in the clinic.
Currently reading: Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading by Martin Linsky 📚
I’ve noticed that when I successfully create something simple, I want to make more things as opposed to failing at something complicated.
We live about 16km from Toronto’s Pearson Airport, so low-flying planes used to be common. One just flew overhead and I was momentarily startled — it was the first I’d noticed in months.
When the cutoff age for vaccines was 55, the traffic at our local pharmacy barely ticked up. Now? A line down the block. Amid anti-vaccine rhetoric, older folks “shopping” for a preferred choice, and a chaotic provincial rollout, I’ve never been happier to see a long line.
If your website breaks my ability to open links in a new tab you should feel bad and have your internet privileges revoked.
Came across a Procreate doodle I did about a year ago. Life feels a little less bleak now, most days.
The new Magic Keyboard with Touch ID is neat. But I recently picked up the full-width, space grey version (and a matching trackpad) after drooling over them since the introduction of the iMac Pro. Loving the look and a giant keyboard feels luxurious, now.
Stay safe, Toronto.
The backyard is beginning to bloom.
I know I’m a bit late to it, but Ted Lasso really is just a lovely show. Lots of heart and genuine chuckles. Feels like an antidote to my mood as the stay-at-home order and other restrictions continue to pile on.
I often have people newer to the tech industry ask me for secrets to success. There aren’t many, really, but this secret — being willing to do something so terrifically tedious that it appears to be magic — works in tech too.
Each time I finish a Zoom call and it asks, “How was your experience?” I have a deeply existential moment.
In case anyone was wondering what I think about on my runs (squeezed in another 12 km, tonight), it’s management, apparently.
And it’s worth saying: You will mess up, at some point. How you react will decide if you earn the loyalty of your team or find yourself alone in the fog.
And it is a craft, with a distinct set of skills to learn and develop. What you did previously is only one ingredient. Having a reputation as a prolific coder might buy you some initial trust, but it’s the decisions you make on Day 40, Day 100, and Day 365 that matter.
Done well, management has the opportunity to drastically improve someones’s happiness, income, job prospects, and quality of life. Done poorly, you can cause real damage. You owe it to your team to treat that responsibility with care and invest in your craft.
I’ve been updating my bio in a few different places and the sentence, “I believe in management as a tool for improving lives,” fell out of my brain. I haven’t been able to get it out of my head since. People don’t leave companies — they leave managers.
This app will show you what Indigenous land you’re on
[…] the kind of mapping we undertake is an important exercise, insofar as it brings an awareness of the real lived history of Indigenous peoples and nations in a long era of colonialism.
The best days always end with a swing at the park.
Excitement is a fleeting moment, not a steady state
Truth is, every day work is rarely exciting. Most work is pretty mundane. Even work on meaningful things. The most profound stuff is built one mostly boring brick at a time.
After a 4-week break, I shook off the rust with a quick 5K around the neighbourhood. It’s lovely to run in warm temperatures at sunset, again. Looking forward to ramping up the distance and speed in the weeks to come and logging some kilometres this summer.
Spotted on my nightly walk with The Kid. Always enjoy folks having a bit of fun.