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Thoughts on supporting marginalized groups
After calming down a bit once the heat of the moment had passed I started thinking last night about the issues of showing support of marginalized groups [1] online. I decided to try stepping into Adam Newbold’s shoes for a minute or two to really try to understand where
Yearly theme week one: too much, too soon
I'm a week into my new plan for the year and I've found that, as always in my zeal to make improvements, I've overstepped. I wrote about my attempt at a yearly theme about a week ago. The idea is to get back to
It's not just stuff
When there is a natural disaster and people are losing everything but their lives we often hear someone say "But it's just stuff. At least they're alive. Stuff can be had again". Nonsense. I get the sentiment. The most important thing is that people
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
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
(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
Get informed. Stay informed.
This is not intended to be political but as I was going through highlights in Readwise I came across this one from Mehdi Hasan in his newsletter and wanted to say something about it: And yet people refuse to believe it. Much of the Biden presidency was dominated by talk