Work

During times of change, stay in your cot.

Trying out commafeed for RSS. Dropping Wallabag. A handy tiddlywiki plugin. The Fujifilm X100VI. What’s traditional IT?

It’s the year of Linux on my desktop. Simple GNOME window tiling. Racism word play is unhelpful and confusing. New-to-me Alastair Reynolds novel. How’s the job going?

Making Denote more legible in Obsidian. Ethical Uber reviews. The strangeness of being new somewhere.

First week at my new job. How I made a searchable web interface for my Denote notes with FuseJS, a Synology, and TailScale.

org-gtd, liminal state, The Fugitive and class politics, homeless sweeps vibe shift.

Steps to effective, inclusive cross-functional work by leading with clarity, curiosity, and generosity.

Some managers never get over high-touch, small-team management habits. Others forget the humans in their organization as they adopt a “scaled mindset.”

Make more, fret less.

What we often call “resistance to change” is really resistance to bad or poorly considered change. The word “experiment” turns up a lot in these moments. ...