In case anyone was wondering what I think about on my runs (squeezed in another 12 km, tonight), it’s management, apparently.
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.
I know they aren’t everyone’s favourite, but I really enjoy checking out someone’s /uses page to scope out new tool/gear ideas. Figured it was high time I set up one of my own.
Why All My Servers Have an 8GB Empty File
This is really smart. I employ a similar technique when it comes to my calendar and making sure I always have a little margin.
Customizing my blog’s look & feel has required switching back and forth between light & dark modes. As a dark mode devotee for the last few years, I can’t remember how I ever functioned without it. So bright!
Almost every photo I take lately is of The Kid and I firmly believe in not sharing those until he can make the choice to do so himself. Instead, here’s a photo of my new glasses. I’ve been told they really complete the “Dad” look.
None of my distant relatives will get into arguments on The Face Website about whether or not the stuck boat is making a nuisance for lots of people. I like that.
Now that Ulysses has launched Micro.blog support, I’ve been giving it another try. It was my writing app of choice back when I was writing the Monday Mailer1, but it fell out of use for a few years. Might be time for a second look.
After almost a year, I’m slowly working to bring my blog back to life. I’m also back on Micro.blog, which is just as lovely as it’s ever been. As I restore old content, it’s been interesting to reflect on March 2020 and where my head was at.
My blog is a digital garden, not a blog
Just like plants in the garden I’ve got posts that are in various stages of growth and nurturing. Some might wither and die, and others (like this one you are reading) will flourish and provide a source of continued for the gardener and folks in community that visit.
QB64 is a modern extended BASIC programming language that retains QBasic/QuickBASIC 4.5 compatibility and compiles native binaries for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
There’s a lot to dislike about the current “lockdown” situation we find ourselves in. But I’ll forever appreciate how present I’ve been able to be for the early weeks of The Kid’s life. What an unexpected blessing.
Thanks to a WFH stipend from TWG, I finally replaced my decade-old desk with something a bit nicer. Some quick thoughts:
The IDÅSEN is built like a tank and doesn’t wobble – even when set to max height. I’m told this is uncommon with a lot of standing desks.
Being able to control my sit/stand desk via the command line has proven to be both useful and nerdy fun!
Even as someone who is fully bought-in on the benefits of switching between sitting & standing regularly, I’ve been surprised at how much of a difference it’s made — particularly now that it’s easy.
Highly recommend this model, if you’re in the market.
So this site is meant to showcase how a more personal web could look like, and hopefully give you some inspiration to make your own corner of the web a bit weirder.
What if school, in fact, isn’t the best place for your kids to learn? What if you didn’t try to replicate school at home? What if you had the opportunity, now, to try something else? What if we saw this time as a radical opportunity to let our kids learn and explore their interests unfettered by the demands of the classroom? What would happen if you stopped worrying about teaching them and gave your kids the time, space, and materials to lead their own learning? What would happen if you let them in on your working life, let them see you working, involved them more deeply in the work of keeping up a house and a home life?
We’re only three (almost four!) weeks into raising The Kid, but I find myself thinking about this stuff a lot.
When you hit “Leave Meeting” and the stereo white noise from other people’s bedrooms cuts out, the quiet hits quick.
You’re still in the same seat you’ve been in for weeks, breathing the same air, staring at the same wall. As much as you know that there’s a world out there—a world you were just seeing through the wizardry of high speed connection and built-in front facing cameras—the afterglow of that video context just doesn’t last.
A long, but very worthwhile read from Ankit Shah.
An Insanely Comprehensive List of 260 Pop-Culture Oral Histories
But even though the motif is a bit tired – and we’re doing our part in running the reporting technique into the ground – a well-crafted oral history is still hard to resist. But where to find them when you need them? To help you find the oral history that’s right for you, we’ve compiled this exhaustive list of 260 pop-culture oral histories we could find online.
I’m about to lose a lot of time to this list, I’m sure.