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Quick watercolor sketch while watching TV.

I had this book on my reading list for years at this point and never quite got to it.

Still feeling inspired by Phil Noto’s art reading the Reign of X storyline.

Been a while since I did some art.

I found this at the bookstore and bought it on a whim since I had already read his book 4000 weeks and really liked it.

I preordered this book immediately when I saw it flying by in my Mastodon stream.

This book was a very fun read.

I was very torn reading this book as it is a lot more slow going than I expected.

Resolving the Command–Adapt Paradox: Guided Adaptability to Cope with Complexity Key takeaways The paper discusses the apparent paradox of “plan and conform” (aka centralised control) and “plan and revise” (aka guided adaptability) perspectives in safety…

not much time for art lately.

The Strategic Agility Gap: How Organizations Are Slow and Stale to Adapt in Turbulent Worlds Key Takeaways This paper outlines how past successes drive the creation of bigger and ever more complex systems.

Key takeaways Neoliberalism has contributed to an environment where regulation and rule making is done on a central per organisation basis that often is implemented by non-experts and gets in the way of frontline workers while providing (next to) no impro…

A quick sketch for this week.

SLOs the way they are usually constructed heavily bias towards the most active user.

I don’t really think I got the gist of this book.

I’ve not been making time for art these last couple of months and I’m trying to get back into it.

I deeply enjoyed this book.

This book was a surprisingly quick and easy read.

I don’t remember how I got to this book as I had never heard of Judith Butler before given I’ve not really had any philosophy or literature classes on a higher education level and haven’t read much about academic feminist or gender theory.

In 2012 when it was hip and cool to do so, I also had my own URL shortener.

When I started at Etsy (this is end of 2011) onboarding meant spending the first 6 weeks on different teams every week.

One of the struggles of learning from incidents in a business environment (i.e.

I saw this book in my regular bookstore and the topic really interested me.

This was another book that I didn’t really have any expectations on when I bought it.

Incidents are painful If your job is taking care of a running system, then you know how painful incidents can be.

I had this book on my shelf since 2020 or so and never took the time to read it.

Starting this book I was a little set back as the author identifies with what would have been called the “center-right” towards the late 1990s and early 2000s.

I didn’t really know what to think of this book.

I liked a lot how the book always came back to talking to the kids and empathizing with their emotions instead of trying to abolish them.

It was fun to read through this book and see different approaches to solving the problems presented.

Endless fiddling In the field of software engineering there is a common theme of fiddling with your tools and setup until they are juuuuust right, and only then can the work of writing code commence.

I absolutely enjoyed this book and devoured it in 2 days or so.

I really enjoyed this book.

I really liked the book.

I had originally started reading this on my Kindle in 2016 but quickly abandoned it.

RIP Jason David Frank I very much still remember the emotions those Saturday mornings when the Green Ranger showed up and first wrecked havoc to the Rangers, summoning his Zord with the dagger flute, before finally joining the good side and the Power Rang…

MF Doom.

I watched “Kate” with Mary Elizabeth Winstead and while I usually don’t enjoy gory movies too much I enjoyed that one a lot.

dramatic Splinter I would definitely watch a TMNT show about a younger Splinter pre-Turtles that just runs around a does badass ninja stuff.

Pretty excited for this dude to show up and show some Avengers what’s up.

I gave sketching my version of a Conan panel from the one book I had as a kid a try.

I went into this book expecting much more physics than what was actually in there.

This was an absolutely wonderful and mind blowing book to read.

I’ve recently had to replace all disks in a zroot zpool on my FreeBSD server.

It took me a while to get through this book which had less to do with the book itself and more with how I was able to make time to read.

Couldn’t not give this a try.

Cherry from Streets of Rage 4 This is such a fun game and it reminds me a ton of being a kid and hanging out with my best friend to play games on his mega drive #art #watercolor #drawing #sketchbook #videogames #cherry #streetsofrage #switch

I read this book after Mathias really enjoyed it and Nina finding the audio book pretty insufferable.

I found this book while browsing through the local book store.