Author: admin
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Limited Time
So, here’s a question. What do you do if life priorities take up over 80% of your available time? I am committed to taking care of my daughter who has special needs. I’m committed to doing a good job at work. I’m committed to getting at least a decent amount of sleep each night. This…
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Become an Inspiration
On this website, I’ve included a page called My Heroes. This is a very intentional choice. Many people have inspired me in countless ways. I’m not even close to listing all of the people who have inspired me. I haven’t included sections for people whom I admire for being kind, or funny, or generous, or…
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Inspiration Matters
Doing creative work is important. Having said this, it can be a slog. Having a daily practice helps. Anytime you can make your actions habitual, you’re going to see growth. BJ Fogg and others have made the compelling case that taking small actions daily can lead to big changes over time. It’s also helpful to…
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Auspicious Start
OK. So maybe, this wasn’t the most auspicious start that I can imagine for the New Year. But it was still a good day. At the beginning of each month, I calculate our net worth. I find that’s a much more promising metric than just looking at our debt. I’ve decided that my THEME for…
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Why I Love Physics
As humans, we can fall in love with ideas. Physics is one collection of ideas that I love passionately. Here are just a few of the reasons why.
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Love Is Big
When you love someone, you make sacrifices for that person. This is huge. It’s something that matters. You do things that you would not do except for the fact that you love this person. It’s true for parents and siblings and children and significant others. It can also be true for friends. We need to…
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Recovering Lost Data
Between 2010 and 2013, I ran a WordPress website for my friend Steve and me called “Space FTW”. We wrote several posts to celebrate all things related to Space. Eventually, we stopped making regular posts, and I let the domain name expire. While I still had the WordPress content, most of the links were tied…
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Ten Essential Conversations
Here is a recorded webinar I put together for software developers and managers. When I was working on my first large software development project, our team was not very productive. At first, I had a hard time understanding why. We were good programmers, and the requirements were specified with plenty of detail. Gradually, I learned…
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The New New Thing
This is my new favorite book, another gem by Michael Lewis. One of the reasons I love it is because the events depicted provide context to what was happening in my life during and after the years when it took place (roughly 1991 – 1999). From 2000 to 2003, I worked in Boulder as a…
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Michael Lewis
This author is one of my heroes. He is very good at presenting complex material in an understandable way. He also does a great job of making the characters in his books come alive. When you read one of his books, you feel like you know the people and situations almost as if you had…