My brain doesn’t function well most days. It needs stimulus to get going and to filter things out. If you step into my house you will find podcasts playing, maybe music on, maybe the TV streaming something, maybe all at once. Finding or forging how I function has been the only real way I take…

Firstly don’t. But if you must, you could try a few different things. When you’re trying to be productive in the midst of so much out of your control like global pandemics, mass shootings, unstable financial markets, focus on what you can control. Which, I will admit, is a rather futile endeavor. You have value.…

The total complexity of a system is a constant. If you make a user’s interaction with a system simpler, the complexity behind the scenes increases. That’s Tesler’s Law, from Larry Tesler, the cut-copy-paste guy. You know there’s a whole Wikipedia entry waiting to outline most of his career. The way I put think of Tesler’s…

We adopted a dog. Her name is Dolly. She’s an akita, border collie, cattle dog mix. I think she’s part pterodactyl. Honestly, I’ve been wanting a a dog for a long time and at long last we live in a place that allows pets. I’ve never really had a dog and have always been quite…