New Year's Resolutions

Year in Review: Finances

Year in Review: Fitness

Year in Review: Resolutions

Year in Review: Sleep

Book Review: "Project Hail Mary", by Andy Weir

Book Review: "Building the Data Lakehouse", by Bill Inmon

Book Review: "Simply Hegel", by Robert L. Wicks

Book Review: "Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential, And How You Can Achieve Yours", by Shirzad Chamine

New Year's Resolutions

Year in Review: Fitness

Year in Review: Gratitude

Year in Review: Resolutions

Year in Review: Sleep

Book Review: "How To Not Die Alone: The Surprising Science That Will Help You Find Love", by Logan Ury

Book Review: "Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't", by Simon Sinek'

Evening Pages: October 11th, 2021

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Book Review: "Designing Distributed Systems: Patterns and Paradigms for Scalable, Reliable Services", by Brendan Burns

Morning Pages: June 17th, 2021

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Book Review: "The Martian", by Andy Weir

TV Show Review: "The Good Place", by Mike Schur

Book Review: "The Obstacle is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph", by Ryan Holiday

TV Show Review: "The Crown" Season 4, by Peter Morgan

TV Show Review: "The Crown" Season 3, by Peter Morgan

Evening Pages: April 26th, 2021

Afternoon Pages April 25th, 2021

Book Review: "Unbroken", by Laura Hillenbrand

TV Show Review: "The Crown" Season 2, by Peter Morgan

Evening Pages: April 19th, 2021

TV Show Review: "The Crown" Season 1, by Peter Morgan

Afternoon Pages: April 17th, 2021

Small pockets of pork and dough

Evening Pages: April 12th, 2021

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TV Show Review: "Barbarians", by Andreas Heckmann, Arne Nolting, and Jan Martin Scharf

One Year From Now: April 2nd, 2022

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Wealthsimple...

Evening Pages: March 8th, 2021

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Yellow is the new Black

TV Show Review: "House M.D.", by David Shore

Morning Pages: March 4th, 2021

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Afternoon Pages: February 27th, 2021

Marcus by Goldman Sachs...

Afternoon Pages: February 22nd, 2021

Afternoon Pages: February 21st, 2021

Book Review: "Hands-On Scala: Learn the Scala Language in a Practical, Project-Based Way", by Li Haoyi

Afternoon Pages: February 20th, 2021

I Bought a Condo!

Morning Pages: February 19th, 2021

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Book Review: "Career Intensity: Business Strategy for Workplace Warriors and Entrepreneurs", by David V. Lorenzo

Evening Pages: February 8th, 2021

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Book Review: "The Bill of Rights, with Writings that formed its Foundation", by Applewood Books

Book Review: "The Constitution of the United States of America", by Applewood Books

Morning Pages: February 5th, 2021

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Evening Pages: January 25th, 2021

Book Review: "The Declaration of Independence, with Short Biographies of its Signers", by Applewood Books

Book Review: "The Reason I Jump", by Naoki Higashida

Afternoon Pages: January 23rd, 2021

Book Review: "And The Mountains Echoed", by Khaled Hosseini

Evening Pages: January 18th, 2021

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Book Review: "When Breath Becomes Air", by Paul Kalanithi

Morning Pages: January 15th, 2021

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Evening Pages: January 6th, 2021

POACHED EGGS

Evening Pages: January 4th, 2021

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New Year's Resolutions

Morning Pages: December 31st, 2020

Year in Review: Finances

Year in Review: Fitness

Year in Review: Gratitude

Year in Review: Resolutions

Year in Review: Sleep

Morning Pages: December 30th, 2020

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Morning Pages: December 26th, 2020

Eggs benny here we come

Evening Pages: December 21st, 2020

Build a Castle

Morning Pages: December 17th, 2020

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Book Review: "Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations", by Nichole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim

Evening Pages: December 5th, 2020

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Book Review: "Everyday Mindfulness: 108 Simple Practices to Empower Yourself and Transform Your Life", by Melissa Steginus

Afternoon Pages: November 14th, 2020

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Ode to Freedom

Afternoon Pages: November 7th, 2020

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Book Review: "Fearless Salary Negotiation: A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Paid What You're Worth", by Josh Doody

Book Review: "Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War", by Mark Bowden

Morning Pages: October 13th, 2020

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Evening Pages: October 9th, 2020

Evening Pages: October 5th, 2020

Book Review: "Traction: How any Startup can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth", by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares

I hate everything.

Morning Pages: September 21st, 2020

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TV Show Review: "Parks and Recreation", by Greg Daniels, Michael Schur et. al

Morning Pages: August 19th, 2020

Book Review: "In the Shadows of the Net: Breaking Free of Compulsive Online Sexual Behavior", by Carnes, Delmonico, Griffin et. al.

Morning Pages: August 17th, 2020

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Process Pods: August 16th, 2020

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All Things Die

Morning Pages: August 3rd, 2020

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Book Review: "Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results; Atomic Habits, An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Habits", by James Clear

Evening Pages: July 27th, 2020

TV Show Review: "The Office", by Greg Daniels, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant et. al.

Morning Pages: July 20th, 2020

Book Review: "In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex", by Nathaniel Philbrick

Book Review: "The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms", by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Book Review: "Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets", by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Evening Pages: July 13th, 2020

What If.

Morning Pages: July 2nd, 2020

Afternoon Pages: June 27th, 2020

What does winning look like?

Evening Pages: June 22nd, 2020

Morning Pages: June 18th, 2020

A Tale of Two Kings

Book Review: "Fast Python: Master the Basics to Write Faster Code", by Chris Conlan (edited by Will Angel)

The Tragedy of Max Planck the Smart, or Why Social Justice Matters to the Nonaligned

Morning Pages: June 11th, 2020

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Morning Pages: June 5th, 2020

Afternoon Pages: June 3rd, 2020

I was once a racist. Here's three things I've learned since then.

Morning Pages: June 1st, 2020

Afternoon Pages: May 31st, 2020

Morning Pages: May 27th, 2020

Book Review: "The Jefferson Bible", by Thomas Jefferson

Morning Pages: May 25th, 2020

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Book Review: "Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder", by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Morning Pages: May 5th, 2020

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Book Review: "Docker on AWS", by Justin Menga

Morning Pages: April 14th, 2020

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Book Review: "The Black Swan", by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Morning Pages: April 7th, 2020

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Freedom_tastes_like_mangoes

Morning Pages: March 27th, 2020

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The Only Thing I've Ever Wanted

Evening Pages: March 22nd, 2020

Steamy eggies

Morning Pages, March 21st, 2020

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Book Review: "Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In" (Revised Edition), by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton

Book Review: "Boys and Sex", by Peggy Orenstein

Following Through

Book Review: "Virtual Power", by Will Angel

Book Review: "It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work", by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

The Year of Ripping Off Band Aids

Minimizing Regret

My iPhone Addition

Book Review: "Haskell Programming, From First Principles", by Chris Allen and Julie Moronuki

Roman Roads

Chasing The Butt

On Failure

Poems I Like #1

Book Review: "How to be a Friend", by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Lessons About Life

New Year's Resolutions

Year in Review: Resolutions

Year in Review: Sleep

Book Review: "Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters", by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen

Book Review: "Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life", by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

Book Review: "The Entrepreneur's Guide to Keeping Your Shit Together", by Sherry Walling

Book Review: "Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly", by Anthony Bourdain

Things to say when you're mad

Book Review: "Burn For You", by J.T. Geissinger

Frustration Management

Book Review: "How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management", by Seneca (Selected, translated, and introduced by James Romm)

Book Review: "Unfuck Yourself", by Gary John Bishop

Book Review: "Everything is Fucked: A Story About Hope", by Mark Manson

Book Review: "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck", by Mark Manson

Book Review: "Someday is Not a Day in the Week: 10 Hacks to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life", by Sam Horn

Internalizing Things

Surviving Without Internet for 71 Days

My First PyCon

Book Review: "Blue Ocean Strategy", by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne

#investing: $ZM and IPOs

Book Review: "Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad"

I went viral for the first time

The case against good people

Book Review: "The Gift of Fear", by Gavin de Becker

Book Review: "Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems", by Martin Kleppmann

Reverting Reversion of Macbook Pro End-of-Life

I Did the Impossible

Book Review: "Company of One", by Paul Jarvis

Reverting MacBook Pro End-Of-Life

Book Review: "Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks: When Threads Unravel", by Paul Butcher

Sometimes, I'm a Dumbass

Crises

Book Review: "The Design of Everyday Things", by Donald A. Norman

Winning Snowball Fights

MacBook Pro End-Of-Life

Book Review: "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card

Book Review: "User Story Mapping" by Jeff Patton

New Year's Resolutions

Year in Review: Resolutions

Year in Review: Finances

Year in Review: Fitness

Year in Review: Sleep

Book Review: "Ready Player One", by Ernest Cline

Book Review: "Educated: A Memoir", by Tara Westover

Book Review: "Harvard Business Review's 10 Must Reads: On Emotional Intelligence"

Book Review: "The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts", by Gary Chapman

Book Review: "The Fifth Risk", by Michael Lewis

Book Review: "TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking", by Chris Anderson

Book Review: "Leading Snowflakes", by Oren Ollenbergen

Book Review: "FM 21-76 Survival", by U.S. Army

A 150 day meditation streak

Regret

Book Review: "The Last Lecture", by Randy Pausch

Book Review: "Man's Search For Meaning", by Viktor E. Frankl

The Terrifying Power of Love

Book Review: "Crazy Rich Asians", by Kevin Kwan

Book Review: "The Prince", by Niccolo Machiavelli

Book Review: "Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup", by Rob Walling

I got robbed for the fifth time today

Book Review: "The Million-Dollar One-Person Business", by Elaine Pofeldt

A New Milestone: 100 day meditation streak

Book Review: "Deep Work", by Cal Newport

I found a community!

I should fail more.

Book Review: "80,000 Hours: Find a Fulfilling Career That Does Good", by Benjamin Todd

Book Review: "Disciplined Entrepreneurship", by Bill Aulet

There is a Magic Button

I got some new business cards

Sandcastles

Book Review: "Fluent Python", by Luciano Ramalho

Updated the blog!

I went skydiving

Book Review: "Thinking, Fast and Slow", by Daniel Kahneman

My Experience with Identity Theft

My (Hypothetical) Manager README

Book Review: "The Game: Penetrating the Society of Pickup Artists", by Neil Strauss

Workstation, with Pictures

Trends in Computing

New Workstation

Six Months In

"Calm on iOS": 256 sessions in

Book Review: "Remote: Office Not Required", by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

Book Review: "Walden", by Henry David Thoreau

Python Tips and Tricks

Python Functions, In Practice

Book Review: "Do Fish Drink Water? Puzzling and Improbable Questions and Answers", by Bill McLain

Book Review: "How to Win Friends and Influence People: The Only Book You Need to Lead You to Success", by Dale Carnegie

Weekly Updates

Book Review: "Rework", by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

Book Review: "The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire", by David Deida

Book Review: "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House", by Michael Wolff

Book Review: "The Art of Seduction", by Robert Greene

Three Months In

Book Review: "A Tour of C++", by Bjarne Stroustrup

Book Review: "Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship", by Robert C. Martin

New Job

Book Review: "Wherever You Go, There You Are", by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Gaming Today

Getting Over It

New Year's Resolutions

Looking Back at 2017

Book Review: "The 48 Laws of Power", by Robert Greene

Book Review: "Code: The Hidden Languages of Computer Hardware and Software", by Charles Petzold

Snow

Book Review: "Effective Python: 59 Specific Ways to Write Better Python", by Brett Slatkin

Book Review: "Be Happy: 170 ways to transform your day", by Patrick Lindsay

(Share) The Christmas Story

The Joel Test, Updated

Book Review: "Black Like Me", by John Howard Griffin

Book Review: "Modern Romance", by Aziz Ansari

Book Review: "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software", by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides

Book Review: "Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone", by Satya Nadella

Books I've Read This Year

The Capital One Hackathon, Part II

The Capital One Hackathon, Part I

Book Review: "The Mythical Man-Month, 20th Anniversary Edition", by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

POSIX Compliance and My Life

Book Review: "Code Complete, Second Edition", by Steve McConnell

I like Bitcoin

Book Review: "Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future", by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters

Software as Abstraction

Book Review: "The Lovely Bones", by Alice Sebold

Our crash test

Vacations

What's with the order of these blog posts?

Book Review: "Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't", by Verne Harnish

What is Passion?

Book review: "All the Light We Cannot See", by Anthony Doerr

Welcome Hugo!

Moving to Hugo

Common pitfalls in software development (that I've encountered)

Five months into 2017

Beginning Traveltile

What I want in a programming language

Remaining Todos

Donations

Please, not mongoDB (or NoSQL)

Biking Discoveries

My first post