April 2024
Her wisdom on leadership rolled of the tongue, I couldn’t stop listening. Claire Hughes Johnson was riffing on personal responsibility and mentioned Fred Kofman, in particular his victim vs. player mindset: does the world happen to you, or do you have agency? Are you a player? I liked the framing, and it felt familiar.
But of course I thought: the Stoics and “victimhood.” Alfred Adler took that further with his teleology, laying the foundation for Dale Carnegie and all the rest. It was Jim Rohn with his pithy wisdom that sparked me as a teen, and I liked his analogy of skippering a boat:
“It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.” — Jim Rohn
Find your sphere of influence, and own it. Be a player.
April 2024
There was a time I’d listen to podcasts and audiobooks at 2x. “Moar knowledge, moar progress, self-dev RA RA” I thought. Then it hit me: don’t rush. If it’s not worth listening to at 1x, it’s not worth listening to.
Overlooking the snowy alps, we stopped for lunch. Some friends and I hiked up the day before and spent the evening by a lake, under the stars with whiskey and French picnic food. There were 4 of us, including one Frenchman — Guillaume — and it started drizzling as we finished eating. My British ass got up to put a raincoat on and pack food away, but Guillaume? No, he was steadfast; taking in the view while he sliced another saucisson with his Opinel, he looked at us with a smile and said “I don’t like to rush.”
February 2023
It’s been a minute since I’ve had a home on the internet; a place to share projects and write about ideas.
Why now?
I finally want an index page of what I’m working on, and a place to experiment with different ideas. One such idea is a way to easily incorporate a blog or changelog into a SvelteKit site without setting up some CMS or depending on a 3rd party (I dislike dependencies). And what if you’d like to let people subscribe to updates? There are a few things I’m working on and can’t be bothered to setup a new service every time, so the only option is to engineer something over-the-top.