I think I watch this about three or four times per year. It’s humorous and tragic and defines exactly why the modern internet is so awful.

My family was traveling and I was home with the dog for a few days. On one of those nights, I experienced a power issue, which I wrote up in a root cause analysis.

I had been feeling underwater with some big projects and shifts in strategy at work. I felt it was time to give Greg McKeown’s book Essentialism another read.

This video explores what makes Spielberg a good filmmaker via Raiders of the Lost Ark.

As we are nearing the end of the Kitchen Refresh Program, much of what is left to do is fit and finish.

My relationship with running started in June of 2020.

I had always hated the idea of running. Everyone who runs seems pretty unhappy while they are doing it. Odds are if you wave at a runner, they will not wave back. This was a big scary thing I had intended to never do. Then things changed, and then I changed. The first change was the pandemic and I was stuck having to get to know myself. The other big change was a heart scan which suggested I had better make some radical life changes. I needed to improve my life and an appropriate way to do this was to do something I was fearful of, running.

Inspired by the book, Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman, I have used the idea of keeping a list of active and inactive projects. In the book, he suggests no more than ten active projects. For me, five works better. I even try to keep a project in each category of my life to be well-rounded.

Much of the career advice you hear is in the “work smarter, not harder” category. Career advice is best given by those who have had a career for a couple of decades. Nobody wants to listen to a recent graduate’s opinion on how to be successful at work. The problem though is that for those giving out advice, they are in an entirely different phase of their careers. A phase where their experience should be helping shape focus and priority. Don’t work on six things, work full effort on one thing. Imagine being new to a job and being handed twenty tasks you must do and you respond with only wanting to do the most important. That won’t fly.

When I was in high school, some of the few books I read were biographies of scientists around the Manhattan Project. I was unnecessarily obsessed with the topic. John Von Neumann was the stand-out. He was not only absurdly brilliant but also a hero of mine. I had aspirations of becoming a Mathematician. This book is centered more around the major works of Von Neumann and is a good reminder of his influence and how his influence had ripple effects on so many others.