Reading Digital Minimalism - Cal Newport The Witcher The Last Wish - Andrzej Sapkowski Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Grieving a death in the family Being extremely reflective on life I want to live Catching up Car maintenace Replaced aging tires change oil wash, claybar, and …

Work Diving more into the Product Owner role of my role today Focusing on team culture, satisfaction, and commendatory Revisiting surveying research Signed up for AI themed hack-a-thon Opted to skip due to utter lack of sleep With more notice might do one in the future Took the first week at home in over a month …

work Researched observability metrics Needed an externally accessible URL for local development, remembered ngrok existed. This was even easier than I last remembered Traveled to Raleigh with Alaina Explored several desirable neighborhoods in the area Wandered through Raleigh, Cary, Durham, and RTP to get a feel …

went to SELF in NC - Conferences are always a great recharge for me, and this one with forever hold a special place in my heart Saw so many great talks, discussed Matrix, Rust, all things Homelab, docker & K8s, LLMs, Ollama and more Visited a MicroCenter - picked up enough HDDs to build a raid storage block on …

work: Researched and participated in 2x2 exercises I subscribe to the approach of doing as much quantitative and qualitative analyse while researching decision-making possibilities Focused on greater relationship building Went for a couple of runs Continued to work on training Cooper He only had 1 accident in …

Short work week Pretty heads down on process improvements Invited family for MDW Really enjoyed bonding with my nephew and niece Took them to the beach which is always a hit Took a half day of self reflection at the beach for myself Captured some sunrise photos in the morning Even the journey of rolling out of …

worked on a lot of process improvements Built recommendation based on DORA research to reduce friction and toil in doing more releases A ton of catchup on toil like tasks encouraging folks to lean into the day of learning Attempted to run old playbook from college/startup days of grinding work through lack of sleep …

Work Really digging deep into OAuth, OIDC, and SAML Getting to know the dust of some old sequence diagram skills Watched some of the session from Red Hat and started getting excited about the future of open source and AI Made time for date night with Alaina, which was a nice change of pace Observed that Cooper has …

This week work was just work Focusing on productivity measurements and improvements Continuing to build base knowledge of underlying tech stack at work OIDC OAuth 2.0 Got another two sutures removed from my Cornea Spent most of the week fighting off a headache Need to implement better diet and exercise again I …