I was fortunate enough to take two sabbaticals at my last company. Five weeks each, the first at the ten year mark, and the second at fifteen. […] When I joined the company, sabbaticals were …

This LinkedIn Post poking fun at the #GreatAIReplacement reminded me of this now ancient paper (2022) Redeeming Intrinsic Rewards via Constrained Optimization on mathematical approaches to governing …

Today’s musing centers around this response to Steve Yegge’s Opus 4.8 critique. I’ve pulled back to Sonnet for most of what I do these days; partly that’s a cost choice and partly because I don’t have …

One of the useless things I spend time on is mtn-aqi.com and a bunch of its siblings. I have a few air quality monitors and I occasionally like to play with the data they collect. The data itself …

In my household I am the Filler of Things. Rinse-aid in the dishwasher, batteries in the smoke alarms, filters — basically anything non-living that requires routine service. I may occasionally grumble …

I’m not a TDD devotee, but throughout my career there have been times when I’ve found it to be an effective pattern—not only to ensure that code does what I expect, but also because it allows me to …

It’s been a month now since my job status changed to Resource Unassigned. I was fortunate enough to have 2 sabbaticals while at Nike, so I’ve had long breaks from work in the past, but obviously this …

This post landed in my feed over the weekend, Direction Over Speed. It’s interesting to watch these types of insights slowly flow up the leadership ladder. I think it’s correct that the hard part is …

It’s interesting looking at software development job postings that still list requirements like X+ years of Java or Y+ years of TypeScript. There are certainly some niche languages where I think …

I like reading research papers. There was a phase in my life where I had the good fortune to spend hours a day in a library. I would find a Master’s or Doctoral thesis to clod through, and see what, …