July 2024 Take 1

Product Weekly: July 2024 Take 1 Product Review I went to a block party recently and noticed that the wristbands were rather unique: made of cloth, with a plastic fastener that made it reusable. It was pretty sturdy and hard to take off - if you didn’t pay attention to how the fastening ...

Mid-year Check-in: Reading List

I haven't read as much as i could this year, so thought it would be good to do a dump of everything I have going on on the book front, just to keep track somewhere outside my head. Read recently Lateral thinking, Ed de Bono: Long, arduous read that slowed my reading pace for months, but great ...

Waiting for a Mentor

I see a lot of people online asking others who’ve demonstrated some mark of mastery in an area to be their mentor. Now a mentor can provide numerous advantages, especially when they’ve been directly involved in the thing you’re pursuing, so this isn’t an attempt to argue otherwise. Let’s face ...

A time to die

I grew up going for a long time without people close to me passing, so death of loved ones was always this far fetched thing for me, but in the last 2 years I’ve lost two uncles, and an uncle’s wife, people who were all part of my growing up in some shape or form. Most people my age have lost ...

“The Talk”

As a teenager, depending on how involved your parents were, you probably got some version of “the talk” from your parents. You know, the sex talk. Hopefully it wasn’t prompted by you getting caught in a compromising position, but at a minimum it was some variant of caution about the opposite ...