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Revisiting John Henry I want to call out a thing thats different about this article.

There are a lot of people still processing how LLMs are going to affect the future of work and generally the sentiment I am getting is somewhat negative.

Theres an old joke in business: So a manager shows up to work in a Ferrari.

Circa the Spring of 2023 (yeah, I forgot to write up this article for a while) I popped into a garage sale while I was driving through midtown Reno.

I had a conversation with an executive who was trying to guide a full time Entrepreneur through some business nuances.

I had always expected to be an Entrepreneur.

There is no budget for books at my house or at my company.

Take care of yourself first.

I've watched a couple of interviews/ podcasts where JJ Reddick has talked about what makes a great athlete/ great basketball player.

We've been teaching my kids about "the continents" and to the credit of my kid he asked me "what makes a continent?"

Went down a rabbithole on the old web and I learned that "Bloodletting" was a common medical procedure for the better part of 3000 years.

Author's Note: In November 2024, I was researching fascism, and how that could present itself in the United States.

Note: I generally try to stay away from software engineering topics.

I used to live in one of the cheapest apartments on the Newport Beach Peninsula. 450 square feet of beautiful shitty beach hut.

The question was asked "What makes you not give up on life".

Did a corporate dinner with the team in Monterrey last year and it was a pretty standard event till about 3/4 through.

I've been writing this blog since ~2009, and the reason I write has both changed and stayed the same over that period.

I originally wrote this stuff up for my wife's company which was struggling with it but then ended up giving a talk about it.

Though it's fading recently, a major pursuit of the front half of my life was trying to become prematurely wise.

Adulting A moment is all look around and see beauty no time anymore...

Making a resume?

Let's get weird... here are some questions.

I've mentioned this before (e.g.

Note: This article is a little less coherent than a lot of my other pieces, and still really a draft.

Belts in Karate are ordered from white to black.

Way back when I was attending the University of Kansas, my roommate's Uncle Kenny had one drink too many at a hunting auction and came home with an adorable Labrador retriever puppy.

I never interview anymore, but the handful of times I have miraculously produced some funny stories.

May 2022.

(Note: Written mostly in 2018 as notes, Published in 2022 as an article) I lost my best friend yesterday.

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I was hanging out in Dallas with my buddy Joe Venuto (who is a badass photographer btw) before a flight, and a massive thunderstorm came rolling through Dallas.

I worked at a tap house in college serving and bartending.

My favorite Professor at KU, John Younger, was at Duke for about 25 years before coming to KU.

One of the dumbest things a person can ever say is: "People are dumb."

This is my response to Morgan Housel's Top 10 Money Rules and Barry Ritholtz's Top 10 Money Rules.

"Predictions are hard.

In September 1928 a bacteriologist name Alexander Fleming came back from a "holiday" (vacation) to find a set of petri dishes which had been "necessarily exposed to the air" had become contaminated by various micro-organisms.

Over the last few years I've randomly run into articles and/or posts (example, example, example, example, and others) that assert definitively that software developers/ engineers are paid too much for the work that they do.

Preface (2021) Over the last few years I've come to realize that like most other things in life hiring or recruiting excellence is more readily achieved if you play the long game.

It is better to have some of the questions rather than all of the answers Here are some questions that I've been pondering related to income inequality, prices, and modernity in the U.S.

In between the years of 1991 and 2003, I went through the public school system in the United States.

One of the more beautiful aspects (and under-appreciated) about becoming an adult is that "the gray areas" in life become more pronounced.

Some Tricks And Tips for Those of You Tying the Knot.

Quick story.

This template is designed to help create a better process surrounding your code review.

I just got through the bulk of the marriage zone (ages 27-32) and (not as though I want this but) realistically there are probably going to be a couple of divorces coming up.

One of the most disturbing aspects of design trends over the last decade or two is the cult of Apple, and the various sound bytes that they use to be able to convert people into their design aesthetic => my specific issue is with this hyperbolic “minimali…

I’m celebrating my 30th birthday November 4th.

Clearly I have an avid fascination with weird celebrity business stories.

So I was reading this esquire article … and I stumbled onto a particularly good little nugget: Mr.