Shampoo-conditioner combos, sample-packaged mouthwash, tiny bars of soap. The people I meet on each flight? They're single-serving friends.
—Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
I find momentary conversation interesting. There’s a world of experience out there, and much of it is relayed through story. Talking to people on planes and at bars provides ample opportunity to hear and experience those stories second hand. It’s pulp fiction in...
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Time slips away so easily. I thought I’d be good about blogging every day this week, and here we are on Friday, and I’ve missed Wednesday and Thursday. I wasn’t even particularly busy enough to have skipped out on blogging. There is, perhaps, much on my mind.
I’m always a last minute preparer. I will take care of things that need to be taken care...
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Timing in publishing is a whole thing. Marketers pour over analytics and really dial down what day and time posts go up to get the most visibility and engagement. So many apps and tools are available to dive into the analytics for this purpose, and most of them cost money. Most platforms offer APIs you can run requests against to build your own metrics app,...
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Just when I think I’m getting back to some semblance of my old routine, something new drops and shakes things up further. While normally I accept chaos and run with it, there are times when I just want my boring life back. I can do without all these curve balls. Just gimme my coffee and my writing time and everything else can fall into place...
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Well, it has been quite an eventful few weeks. Particularly this past weekend. My birthday was on the 11th and my lady did her damnedest to spoil me despite my numerous protestations. I feel like I haven't had a weekend to do nothing since sometime last year, and these past few weekends were jam-packed more than usual. This past weekend was Beyond Wonderland, one of...
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Hey SGLand!
It’s been a minute. Maybe even a few. My first post goes up tomorrow for a newsletter I’m launching that’s all about anatomy and physiology. A friend and I are working on a book about physiology, psychology, and spirituality, and this newsletter and a following podcast will be projects to support that endeavor. I’ve also been learning a great deal about some tooling...
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They said free. All you have to do is make the effort and you get the rewards for free. And then you put in the effort and meet the criteria and then they say congrats! you now qualify for the free thing after you pay for this other thing.
Free isn’t free, apparently.
I signed up for a cybersecurity certification, because it was advertised as...
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Once upon a time, I produced music. And to toot my own horn very much, I started getting pretty good. I was diving deep into mixing and mastering to really clean up the mixes of my songs, and my songs were growing in complexity as I learned.
I was fucking king at programming drums.
Then shit hit the fan with one of my projects, life...
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