Writing

Terminal first

This is an active WIP. A terminal-first approach makes it simple to 1) make custom workflows/GUIs,...

July 08, 02025

Local LLM

macOS, Ollama makes it easy to run LLMs locally. As of writing, small LLMs capable of...

July 08, 02025

Personal Web Archive

A personal, intelligent net archive that's yours to control and explore.

July 07, 02025

Tools for work

Understand work by understanding its tools.

June 30, 02025

AI Programs

DSPy

June 30, 02025

Building Geodetic Go

June 29, 02025

Lynx

June 21, 02025

Learn Manual

April 21, 02025

Never Enough of Living

By Léonie Adams

January 13, 02025

FB Red Book

December 02, 02024

The Deserted Village

By Oliver Goldsmith

November 25, 02024

Hawai‘i

November 20, 02024

Travel

October 29, 02024

Events

Concerts, raves, festivals

September 11, 02024

If—

By Rudyard Kipling

August 13, 02024

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front

By Wendell Berry

August 10, 02024

Serious

Surely you can be serious

July 28, 02024

Types of programming

July 26, 02024

Information density

Visual Simplicity vs. Information Density (Luke W, 2004) UI Density (Matthew S, 2024)

July 26, 02024

Make illegal states unrepresentable

Firstly, No silver bullet. State functions Type system Errors as values Parse, don’t validate Functional core,...

July 24, 02024

Memes

Spicy memes

July 24, 02024

Group games

Board game Balderdash Telestrations Pegs and Jokers Dice games Liar’s dice Card games Euchre Cards Against...

July 24, 02024

Disagree

you can expect 3 different kinds of responses when you propose something: A disagreement on outcome....

July 24, 02024

Code comments

Literate Programming Writing system software: code comments Two open source projects with great documentation

July 24, 02024

Process

I often say “process over outcomes.” “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools, “People over process”...

June 10, 02024

Shipping Software On Time

The following is a partial transcription of notes from a 1991 videotaped talk referenced in chapter...

June 05, 02024

Email DNS

SPF, DKIM, DMARC, oh my.

February 14, 02024

Website QA

January 21, 02024

This Year I Learned

January 13, 02024

Software Engineering

December 24, 02023

NASA SP-287

Notes

December 03, 02023

Seminal

November 26, 02023

Communication Infrastructure

September 24, 02023

Multi Tenant

September 05, 02023

Statistical Process Control

August 08, 02023

Semantics

July 01, 02023

Link Icons

July 01, 02023

Parsers

June 25, 02023

Tailwind Connect

June 24, 02023

Project Ideas

May 24, 02023

Utils

May 23, 02023

Demand

May 23, 02023

Coordination

May 23, 02023

Air Quality

May 23, 02023

Homelab

May 22, 02023

Web Animation

May 18, 02023

HTTP APIs

May 11, 02023

Ten Thousand

May 11, 02023

Geohash

May 04, 02023

Want to learn

A working list of things I want to learn

April 15, 02023

Learn AWS

April 13, 02023

RSC vs. Remix

March 14, 02023

Communication

March 10, 02023

IETF RFCs

March 08, 02023

SaaS for business

March 06, 02023

University Organization

February 17, 02023

ENG 219

Intro to Linguistics

February 16, 02023

Heroes

February 02, 02023

MU Capstone

January 25, 02023

Write The Pitch

January 09, 02023

Improvement Proposals

January 09, 02023

Content Marketing

January 05, 02023

Sales

January 04, 02023

Other Book Lists

January 04, 02023

SEO

January 03, 02023

Gifts

January 03, 02023

YouTube Channels

December 24, 02022

Management

December 22, 02022

Dystopian Connections

December 05, 02022

Emacs

November 21, 02022

RUS 256

November 12, 02022

Noise

November 12, 02022

Math

November 12, 02022

Implementing HMAC with Web Crypto API

October 17, 02022

MKT 325

October 10, 02022

B.Keyz Discography

October 06, 02022

Stadia

September 30, 02022

Ideas Worth Caching

September 29, 02022

Web Performance

September 18, 02022

Details

September 16, 02022

RSS

September 14, 02022

Dev Timeline

September 14, 02022

Culture

September 14, 02022

Affiliation

September 14, 02022

Hiring

September 13, 02022

Docs

September 13, 02022

Fifth Third Bank

September 09, 02022

Why we write

August 30, 02022

PSY 221

Social Psychology

August 25, 02022

Harvard Classics

August 20, 02022

Bayesian Average

June 26, 02022

Software teams

June 20, 02022

Project timeline

June 20, 02022

Developer Resources

May 31, 02022

Miami University Explorer

May 06, 02022

Wanting

Book Notes from Wanting by Luke Burgis

May 01, 02022

No

Say no, build slack.

April 28, 02022

Document Tools

April 05, 02022

End Poem

By Julian Gough

March 28, 02022

CMS

The future of document editing.

March 25, 02022

Personal Websites

Thoughts on my ideal personal website.

March 11, 02022

Cheating

Modern education views education as cheating

March 09, 02022

Victory is Boring

March 08, 02022

Functional Programming

March 01, 02022

Cached Thoughts

February 23, 02022

CBORD Recludo

On finding a full account takeover vulnerability in CBORD.

February 13, 02022

Distill

February 04, 02022

Pricing

January 22, 02022

Debugging

Tissue issues

January 19, 02022

37signals Manifesto

January 19, 02022

Cooperative Extension Service

January 06, 02022

Entry Points

January 01, 02022

Web3

December 31, 02021

Mowing (1915)

By Robert Frost in A Boy’s Will

December 31, 02021

Best Flash Games

December 30, 02021

Best Console Games

December 30, 02021

Ad Hominem

Short for argumentum ad hominem—argument against the person.

December 27, 02021

Freelancer

December 14, 02021

Psychology

December 13, 02021

Idea Virus

December 13, 02021

Delegation

December 13, 02021

365x21

December 07, 02021

For your boss

November 29, 02021

Courses

Online courses

November 29, 02021

Rules Of Order

November 16, 02021

Databases

October 19, 02021

Strategy

October 18, 02021

Care

What it means to care.

October 14, 02021

Teachers and Late Work

Don’t tell me you don’t care.

October 13, 02021

Jon Bellion Discography

October 12, 02021

Base Rate

Conclusions from insufficient information.

October 12, 02021

CPG

October 09, 02021

Shein

Explaining the rise of Shein in the time we’re told Gen Z customers buy for a higher-order purpose.

October 08, 02021

Today You, Tomorrow Me

On being kind to strangers.

October 06, 02021

FIN 301

Introduction to Business Finance

October 06, 02021

Wine

October 05, 02021

Marketing

What is marketing?

October 04, 02021

Autodidactism

September 23, 02021

Exams

Love and Honor? More like neglect and degradation.

September 13, 02021

7 Powers

You have to take deliberate action to generate the information necessary to find the route to Power.

September 07, 02021

A Model of Business Expertise

Business expertise comes from better ways of structuring or organizing knowledge.

September 07, 02021

MGT 302

Notes for Operations and Supply Chain Management - MGT 302

August 30, 02021

Attention

I don’t have the attention.

August 30, 02021

Mastering Issues

August 29, 02021

Long Term Thinking

August 25, 02021

ISA 225

Notes for Principles of Business Analytics - ISA 225

August 17, 02021

Why we write: meetings

August 02, 02021

Amazon 1997 Letter To Shareholders

August 02, 02021

Steve Jobs Excerpts

July 28, 02021

Meetings

What is the point of meetings?

July 28, 02021

Steal These Values

Core values worth stealing.

July 25, 02021

When Death Comes

By Mary Oliver (1935-2019)

July 18, 02021

Finding Books

How do you find books to read? And where can you find them online?

July 18, 02021

Beautiful Websites

July 18, 02021

Young and Old

By Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)

July 11, 02021

Useful Questions

June 28, 02021

The Bridge Builder

By Will Allen Dromgoole (~1900)

June 28, 02021

Notes from Tribes

June 24, 02021

Solitude and Leadership

June 24, 02021

Realize

A work in progress

June 24, 02021

Leadership

June 24, 02021

Pixar Story Rules

22 Rules of Storytelling

June 23, 02021

Father Forgets

June 23, 02021

Business Challenges

June 23, 02021

The Irreducible Components of Leadership

June 19, 02021

The Machine Stops

June 15, 02021

How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day

June 12, 02021

Dynamic Cypress Tests

June 10, 02021

Timeline

Mine

June 09, 02021

Creating Custom Netlify Editor Components

June 07, 02021

Learning Java

June 03, 02021

Learning Vim

June 02, 02021

Starting Python Development

May 28, 02021

Command Line

May 28, 02021

Your work

The work of marketing your work is where your work begins.

May 27, 02021

Reducers

What are they?

May 27, 02021

You can use React anywhere?

Today I learned…

May 27, 02021

Bored?

My bored list.

May 26, 02021

VS Code Setup

My VS Code setup.

May 15, 02021

Starting Web Development

An introduction to web development.

May 06, 02021

Financial Investments

Unfolding my story one bit at a time. Not financial advice.

April 17, 02021

Explicit Communication

April 08, 02021

RIP iTunes

April 07, 02021

Reflections on my first Next JS App

March 23, 02021

Best iOS Games

The best games and the best games to play on repeat.

March 19, 02021

GEO 201

GEO 201 Exam Prep.

March 01, 02021

BIO 121

Study guide.

February 26, 02021

MGT 291

Study guide.

February 18, 02021

General Advice

A collection of general advice.

February 18, 02021

Relationships

A collection of ideas on relationships.

February 17, 02021

Wealth

A collection of ideas on wealth.

February 13, 02021

2020–2030 Goals and Predictions

I’m still at the start, and the mist in front of me heavily obscures my vision.

February 04, 02021

Dear Teacher using remote proctoring software

It seems that you’re using remote proctoring software with the intent of learning integrity. Let’s talk a moment about that.

February 03, 02021

First Day of Class 2021

The joys and struggle of online class. Round 2.

January 25, 02021

Make It Count

Call it whatever you want. Marketing is what controls and expands your reach, your impact, your outcomes, your effects, your changes, and your results.

January 20, 02021

JavaScript Bookmarklets

January 19, 02021

Occasional Work Search

Money is required.

January 18, 02021

Learning React

Resources to learn React, and my log of doing it.

January 09, 02021

Transcript & College Course Alternatives

My college courses and better alternatives that are mostly free.

January 06, 02021

Just-in-time learning

Learning an idea when you need it the most.

January 05, 02021

For Posterity

For future generations.

December 30, 02020

Less Wrong

A compendium of Less Wrong.

December 19, 02020

Proper ATOM feed Formatting

Tips to generate a good feed.

December 19, 02020

Average Day

What my average day looks like across the years.

December 14, 02020

Turning 20

It’s strange to look back on 19 years and even stranger to look forward.

December 09, 02020

Sideloading iPhone 5 on iOS 10.3.4

I am explaining this for my future self, who is intelligent and interested, but has forgotten.

December 08, 02020

Learning Integrity

The best experiences I’ve had were all learning experiences—not educational ones.

December 03, 02020

zero through nineteen

As of writing, I have less than two weeks until I turn 20.

November 26, 02020

AI Writing For Marketing

This is the script for my Developing Technologies in Business Video for BUS 284.

November 12, 02020

Typical Mind Fallacy

I’ve begun to see a common error in myself.

October 29, 02020

Ultralearning

Master hard skills, outsmart the competition, and accelerate your career.

October 24, 02020

TTT Community Money Site

What if we could harness a scenius to launch a completely community-driven website that generates revenue and took all of the profits and donated them to a charity of choice?

October 22, 02020

Creating a recipe site with Jekyll

In my push for more people to own their own piece of the internet I created a recipe website for my girlfriend.

October 15, 02020

The Social Dilemma

What the hell is going on? And what can you do about it?

October 07, 02020

Standard Automation

I very much dislike situations where I ask myself the question, “what do I do?”

October 07, 02020

Crossing the Opinion Barrier

What they are and how getting over them can help you do better.

October 01, 02020

Black Friday Deals

What does your “deal” change for the people who didn’t choose you before?

October 01, 02020

Tools should turn us into experts

Tools shape our learning, processes, and mental models.

September 21, 02020

SEO Tool Buying Guide

The endless supply of tools leaves many beginners and experts wondering the same thing. What tool should I use?

September 21, 02020

Managing a remote team

How to manage and work with a remote team.

September 21, 02020

The SEO SaaS Gap

Every SEO tool is about data to move forward.

September 18, 02020

Perception Optimization

Optimizing the value of what you've created for a specific audience.

September 17, 02020

What makes a good delivery of bad news?

This was a post created for a University Discussion.

September 16, 02020

Most favorited Hacker News posts of all time

The most favorited articles by the top 10k most active Hacker News members.

September 05, 02020

Pain and growth

Search for those moments.

September 02, 02020

Sticking your neck out

On business and classes.

September 01, 02020

First Day of Class 2020

The joys and struggle of online class.

August 18, 02020

Marketing Differentiation

The mess of differentiation.

August 10, 02020

Industry Icons

Icons for design, development, and marketing.

August 09, 02020

Write about stuff that interests you

Goals moving forward and telling us what we need to know.

August 08, 02020

Degreeless.marketing Dev log

How I built Degreeless.marketing.

August 05, 02020

Degreeless.marketing

You don’t need a degree to make change happen.

August 02, 02020

Degreeless

This is my working document on the idea of degreeless.

July 28, 02020

Brand, Content, and Reach

The following is a framework I’ve developed and modeled from trying to find a complete stance on business needs.

July 28, 02020

Student Employment

How can we give the next generation every opportunity we can to solve problems?

July 27, 02020

Question, Connect, and Understand

Real value comes from the questions you ask, the connections you make, and how well you help people feel understood.

July 22, 02020

Notes from MozCon 2020

My notes from MozCon 2020.

July 20, 02020

Marketing and Positioning

A riff on marketing and positioning

July 20, 02020

Catalina and Ruby

Running Jekyll on macOS Catalina

July 19, 02020

Effective Masks

General statements mean a lot of different things and often apply to a lot of people or items. Often statements are vague or not specific.

July 18, 02020

Updating a 2012 MacBook Pro

I recently picked up a 2012 13” MacBook Pro from a coworker. Why, would I take a 2012 MacBook Pro when I already own a 15” 2018 MacBook Pro?

July 18, 02020

Mask Oversimplification

On being American.

July 14, 02020

Thoughts on College

Originally written on April 13th.

July 09, 02020

2020 U.S. Presidential Website Teardown

Comparing the 2020 Presidential Candidate Websites.

July 02, 02020

Metrics on the Top 100 Most Visited Sites

Looking for how your site stacks up against the top 100?

June 21, 02020

Chrome Extensions

A list of useful Chrome Extensions.

June 19, 02020

Notes from Heroic Leadership

Real leaders—real heroes—find fulfillment, meaning, and even success by shifting their gaze beyond self-interest and serving others.

June 17, 02020

20 things you don’t know about SEO

Build something worth searching for.

June 12, 02020

What every business should know about digital marketing

SEO, PPC, Brand, What do you need?

May 29, 02020

The big problem with business

Why don't people choose you?

May 28, 02020

Commercial and Klim Type Fonts for free with macOS

Apple has licensed fonts Commercial Type, Klim Type Foundry, and Mark Simonson Studio for new system fonts on Mac OS Catalina.

May 26, 02020

Manifesto for a moral revolution book notes

Practices for a better world

May 24, 02020

Separating belief and science

A note on belief and humanity

May 19, 02020

Optimizing my book list

Ruby scripting to start making my book list static.

May 18, 02020

HTML, CSS, and JS

Starting Web Development Part 01

May 14, 02020

Adding Schema Markup

How I implemented structured data for this site.

May 04, 02020

The Best Business Leverage

Are you trying to convert or create an experience?

May 02, 02020

Redesign 02 — Resources

Redesigning the resources page.

May 01, 02020

Real Skills Conference

The people you actually need to see are each other—the rest of this day is on you and up to you.

April 24, 02020

Creating RSS feeds and Automating a Newsletter

How I built RSS feeds and automated my newsletter

April 23, 02020

MacOS font bug in Chrome

Chrome 81 breaks the ability to bold system fonts on Macs

April 21, 02020

Money Desires

If you want to make more money there are a few things you can do.

April 18, 02020

Everything I Know About Email

From code to vision.

April 17, 02020

About this website

How I built this site and what runs it.

April 17, 02020

Creation and Consumption

Distinguish that from which is artificial, forced, or remote from actual experience.

February 26, 02020

Redesign

Good design is as little design as possible.

February 05, 02020

Mental Models and Principles

A few of my personal mental models and principles.

February 01, 02020

Feedback Loops

How do you get better at something? What makes AI so valuable?

January 28, 02020

2020 Presidential Candidate Donate Form Comparison

In a race over donations from a nation how do the players compare?

January 11, 02020

2020 Presidential Candidate Font Comparison

In a race over donations from a nation how do the players compare?

January 11, 02020

2020 Presidential Candidate Website Comparison

In a race over power of a nation how do the players compare?

January 10, 02020

A Timeline of Inventions

A list of some human miracles over the centuries.

January 07, 02020

Anatomy of Performing Content

A nice reminder that the longer the better, headlines are important, building links requires effort, and people love lists.

January 06, 02020

Work in 2019

A few of the creative projects I worked on in 2019.

December 31, 02019

Website Plans

As with most things digital there are near infinite ways of creating a website. Generally there...

December 19, 02019

Learning is like baking

Learning is like baking. You find recipes and follow the given format. You try many recipes...

November 12, 02019

Making a book list

Learning how to make a book list with Jekyll.

October 19, 02019

Psychology and Persuasion

Key ways people can be influenced.

September 30, 02019

Lessons in creativity.

The First-Year Integrated Core at Miami University focuses on thinking critically, creatively and conceptually. ESP 103...

September 26, 02019

Down to the detail.

What makes an expert? What level of detail do you need to be aware of to...

September 25, 02019

Choosing to settle

We're always reaching for things we don't need.

September 24, 02019

Ideas need an axis to be tested against.

When we argue about ‘better’ most likely, we’re not having the same conversation. We need to...

September 23, 02019

Starting up a site: What’s it for?

It’s personal. I want to make a group of my own culture. I wanted to build...

September 21, 02019

Migrating from Squarespace to GitHub

And saving $152 a year on hosting fees.

July 03, 02019

New Thinking Society

A thought experiment from my senior year in High School.

April 05, 02019