Michael Gervais in his excellent podcast “Finding Mastery” mentioned at some points that he assessed his days by actively counting the times he was in awe. This morning, I was reminded when I sipped the first Espresso of the day. Freshly ground, freshly pulled. Someone, somewhere in Ethiopia took care of a coffee plant well and long enough for it to bear fruit, and it was then harvested. Brough to Europe....
2024-02-22: What's in a name?
“Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else—if you run very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.” “A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.1 “Conservatism” has been hijacked by contemporary political language. It has come to mean trying to maintain things as they’re perceived to have been, but actually never were....
2024-02-21: GenAI: Accelerated Time to MVP
Something that occurred to me today when I for the first time learned about Cloudflare’s serverless offerings, Hugo and Git. I admit that I’m way behind the curve for all of those things, but in my career or life so far it had never come up. Back in high school creating a homepage meant HTML and FTP uploads, and that was it for me then. More recently, I wrangled a functioning site out of a hosted WordPress....