Meta ends DEI programs
First it was dropping fact checking. Now it's being reported that Meta is ending corporate DEI programs. Quote: Those included cutting its DEI team and replacing equity and inclusion programs with programs "that focus on how to apply fair and consistent practices that mitigate bias for all,
A yearly theme for 2025
Tired: New Year's Resolutions Wired: Yearly Themes I don't know if Myke Hurley and CGP Grey of the "Cortex" podcast were the guys who invented the idea of a yearly theme but they were the guys I was listening to when I first heard
There are no problems, only situations
Love this quote from "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle: Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It’s about realizing that there are no problems. Only situations — to be dealt with now, or to be left alone and accepted as part of the “isness” of
New Year, old blog
I wrote a week ago that I was consolidating my reading notes on Pika with my main blog from Bear Blog to have my blog running on Pika. Well, I have reversed course (of course). I'm back to using Bear Blog Ghost and will be moving all posts
A Pika CSS tweak for headings
The default CSS in the Pika theme reminds me of the notes app Agenda: it’s nearly impossible to tell some header types apart. Pika’s default doesn’t provide enough variation in header sizes to set things apart, nor does bold text stand out much from regular text. As
Things and OmniFocus: a comparison
First thoughts When I started getting into David Allen's "Getting Things Done" methodology I timed it perfectly with the release of OmniFocus by the OmniGroup which was designed specifically with the GTD methodology in mind. I used OmniFocus for almost a decade. My needs significantly changed
A state of limbo: life after someone has a stroke
I’ve been wanting to write about the situation that my family has been in since my mom’s stroke occurred back at the end of October. It’s been a very difficult, but weird, situation to be in given the strange upheaval in everyone’s lives that results from
The first seed catalog is here already!
Didn’t expect the catalogs to start arriving so early but they’re a wonderful reminder of the warm weather to come. One of my goals for 2025 is a return to vegetable gardening. Seems a better way to spend my spring and summer months vs. doom scrolling.
(a short) 2024 Year in Review
I’m not going to spend a lot of time here but I thought it would be worthwhile to write up a few things about the past year and how it went. Looking back Family Matters If anything was the big story of 2024 it was all of my Mom’
The talent pool “problem” in American tech companies
There is a lot of writing at the moment about Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy wanting more skilled H-1B workers in America to make up for some lack of American talent. This is nonsense for two reasons: 1. They don’t want to pay American workers American salaries. H-1B is