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    Your own thoughts unguarded.

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    wSJ on lazy river - 207k/4 years. Insane. - 58k/year at Stanford.

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We Talk of Christ</a> [christianity,come follow me,commandments]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-08 <a href=\"/gratitude/sun-on-turf.md\">I'm Grateful for Sun on turf</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-08 <a href=\"/tech/setting-up-a-new-mac.md\">Setting up a New Mac</a> [tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-08 <a href=\"/tech/hendrix-a-machine-learning-platform-by-spotify.md\">Hendrix, a Machine Learning Platform by Spotify</a> [tech,ml-tools,machine learning platforms]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-08 <a href=\"/tech/interviewing-as-an-ml-engineer.md\">Interviewing as an ML engineer</a> [tech,reactions]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-08 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-25.24.md\">2 Nephi 25.24</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-08 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-25.25-26.md\">2 Nephi 25.25–26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-07 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-22.md\">2 Nephi 22.2</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-06 <a href=\"/quotes/artillery-takes-the-joy-out-of-life.md\">Artillery takes the joy out of life</a> [quotes,perspective]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-06 <a href=\"/quotes/a-leader.md\">A leader</a> [quotes,people I admire,leadership]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-06 <a href=\"/quotes/create-positivity.md\">Create positivity</a> [quotes,relationships,leadership]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-06 <a href=\"/quotes/time-value-of-memories.md\">Time value of memories</a> [quotes,how will I measure my life,perspective]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-06 <a href=\"/quotes/if-your-kids-wont-remember-this-time-who-will.md\">If your kids won't remember this time, who will?</a> [quotes,how will I measure my life,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-04 <a href=\"/gratitude/new-job.md\">I'm Grateful for New Job</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-04 <a href=\"/quotes/theres-something-really-boring-about-data-science.md\">There's something really boring about data science</a> [quotes,data science]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-04 <a href=\"/quotes/i-cant-afford-not-to-read.md\">I can't afford not to read</a> [quotes]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-04 <a href=\"/quotes/the-five-dysfunctions.md\">the five dysfunctions</a> [quotes]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-04 <a href=\"/posts/a-costly-mistake.md\">A Costly Mistake</a> [posts,life lessons,data science]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-04 <a href=\"/quotes/the-problem-with-all-the-advice-in-all-those-books-is-that-none-of-it-was-written-for-you.md\">The problem with all the advice in all those books is that none of it was written for you</a> [quotes]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-04 <a href=\"/quotes/the-more-you-give-the-happier-youll-live.md\">The more you give, the happier you'll live</a> [quotes,business]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-04 <a href=\"/quotes/the-iceberg-thwory.md\">The Iceberg Theory</a> [quotes,writing]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-04 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-20-true-mercy.md\">2 Nephi 20.3–4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-03 <a href=\"/gratitude/long-naps.md\">I'm Grateful for Long Naps</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-03 <a href=\"/book-review/mere-christianity.md\">Mere Christianity</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-03 <a href=\"/tech/the-baby.md\">The Baby</a> [tech,startups]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-03 <a href=\"/concepts/confirmation-bias.md\">confirmation bias</a> [concepts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-03 <a href=\"/christianity/2024-03-03-my-testimony.md\">My Testimony 2023-03-03</a> [christianity,my testimony,epistemology]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-03 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/chewing-the-bread-reminds-me-that-he-gave-everything.md\">Chewing the Bread Reminds me that He Gave Everything</a> [sacrament-symbols,atonement,symbol-bread]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-03 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-18.md\">2 Nephi 18.19</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-02 <a href=\"/posts/implementing-culture.md\">Implementing Culture</a> [posts,interviewing,culture,business]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-02 <a href=\"/book-review/band-of-brothers.md\">Band of Brothers</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-02 <a href=\"/goals/2024-03-02.md\">2024-03-02</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-02 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-14.5.md\">2 Nephi 14.5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-01 <a href=\"/posts/nothing-to-lose.md\">Nothing to Lose</a> [posts,memories]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-01 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-14-personalized-guidance.md\">2 Nephi 14 - Personalized Guidance</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-01 <a href=\"/goals/2024-03-01.md\">2024-03-01</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-01 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-13.18-25.md\">2 Nephi 13.18–25</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-01 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-15.15-18.md\">Mosiah 15.15–18</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-29 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-13-enduring-beauty.md\">2 Nephi 13 - Enduring Beauty</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-29 <a href=\"/gratitude/dune.md\">I'm Grateful for Dune</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-29 <a href=\"/book-review/the-great-gatsby.md\">The Great Gatsby</a> [book-review,fiction]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-28 <a href=\"/gratitude/charlie-the-barber.md\">I'm Grateful for the Barber</a> [gratitude,people I meet]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-28 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-28.md\">2024-02-28</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-27 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-11-seeing-my-redeemer.md\">2 Nephi 11 - Seeing My Redeemer</a> [christianity,come follow me,revelation]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-27 <a href=\"/gratitude/laundry-machine.md\">I'm Grateful for my Laundry Machine</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-27 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-27.md\">2024-02-27</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-27 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-11.2-3.md\">2 Nephi 11.2–3</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-27 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-19.13.md\">Alma 19.13</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-27 <a href=\"/scriptures/mormon-1.15.md\">Mormon 1.15</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-26 <a href=\"/gratitude/choice.md\">I'm Grateful for Choice</a> [gratitude,philosophy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-26 <a href=\"/book-review/the-sun-also-rises.md\">The Sun Also Rises</a> [book-review,fiction]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-26 <a href=\"/creative/prose-nuzzle.md\">Nuzzle</a> [creative,prose,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-25 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-9-familial-covenants.md\">2 Nephi 9 - Familial Covenants</a> [christianity,come follow me,covenant]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-25 <a href=\"/gratitude/waterfalls.md\">I'm Grateful for Waterfalls</a> [gratitude,nature]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-25 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-25.md\">2024-02-25</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-25 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-10.23.md\">2 Nephi 10.23</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-25 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-9.53.md\">2 Nephi 9.53</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-24 <a href=\"/gratitude/basketball-games.md\">I'm Grateful for Basketball Games</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-24 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-10.md\">2 Nephi 10</a> [christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-24 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-24.md\">2024-02-24</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-23 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-9-infinite-atonement.md\">2 Nephi 9 - Infinite Atonement</a> [christianity,come follow me,atonement]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-23 <a href=\"/gratitude/guitars.md\">I'm Grateful for Guitars</a> [gratitude,music]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-23 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-23.md\">2024-02-23</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-23 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-9.7.md\">2 Nephi 9.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-22 <a href=\"/gratitude/fog.md\">I'm Grateful for Fog</a> [gratitude,nature]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-22 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-8-perspective.md\">2 Nephi 8 - Perspective</a> [christianity,come follow me,perspective]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-22 <a href=\"/book-review/beyond-band-of-brothers.md\">Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters</a> [book-review,historical,biography,world war 2]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-22 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-22.md\">2024-02-22</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-8.12.md\">2 Nephi 8.12</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-21 <a href=\"/gratitude/copilot-money.md\">I'm Grateful for Copilot Money</a> [gratitude,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-21 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-7-jesus-is-with-us.md\">2 Nephi 7 - He is Near</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-21 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-21.md\">2024-02-21</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-7.1.md\">2 Nephi 7.1</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-20 <a href=\"/gratitude/marriage.md\">I'm Grateful for Marriage</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-20 <a href=\"/tech/5-questions-you-should-ask-before-adopting-ai.md\">5 Questions You Should Ask Before Adopting AI</a> [tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-20 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-20.md\">2024-02-20</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-19 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-6-wait-on-the-lord.md\">2 Nephi 6 - Waiting on the Lord</a> [christianity,faith,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-19 <a href=\"/gratitude/green-hills.md\">I'm Grateful for Green Hills</a> [gratitude,nature,sports,hiking]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-19 <a href=\"/book-review/daring-greatly.md\">Daring Greatly</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-19 <a href=\"/book-review/overcoming-the-five-dysfunctions-of-a-team.md\">Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team</a> [book-review,business,leadership,team building,emotional intelligence]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-19 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-19.md\">2024-02-19</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-19 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-6.17.md\">2 Nephi 6.17</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-19 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-6.7.md\">2 Nephi 6.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-5-sometimes-theres-war.md\">2 Nephi 5 - Sometimes there's war</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/gratitude/the-coach.md\">I'm Grateful for The Coach</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/news/2024-02-18-news-notes.md\">News Notes for 2024-02-18</a> [news,ai tools]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/lists/good-ai-news-aggregators.md\">Good AI News Aggregators</a> [lists,ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/ye-are-my-hands.md\">Deacons passing out the sacrament reminds me: \"Ye are my Hands\"</a> [sacrament-symbols]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/pour-you-out-a-blessing.md\">Pouring water into my mouth reminds me of \"Pour you out a blessing\"</a> [sacrament-symbols]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/tech/three-ai-failures-needing-guardrails.md\">Air Canada's failed AI-generated Refund Policy and other AI mishaps: When you need guardrails on your AI</a> [tech,ai mishaps,ai,ai guardrails]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-18.md\">2024-02-18</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-5.34.md\">2 Nephi 5.34</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-110.9-10.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 110.9–10</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/scriptures/isaiah-44.3.md\">Isaiah 44.3</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-15.10-11.md\">John 15.10–11</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/scriptures/luke-15.5-7.md\">Luke 15.5–7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/scriptures/malachi-3.10-11.md\">Malachi 3.10–11</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-18.10.md\">Mosiah 18.10</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-18.12.md\">Mosiah 18.12</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-18.13.md\">Mosiah 18.13</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-17 <a href=\"/gratitude/brownies.md\">I'm Grateful for brownies</a> [gratitude,food]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-17 <a href=\"/book-review/building-a-story-brand.md\">Building a Story Brand</a> [book-review,business,marketing,sales,storytelling]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-17 <a href=\"/news/2024-02-17-news-notes.md\">News Notes for 2024-02-17</a> [news]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-17 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-5-emergency-preparedness.md\">2 Nephi 5.14</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-17 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-17.md\">2024-02-17</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-4.26-27.md\">2 Nephi 4.26–27</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-16 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-4-heaven-and-hell.md\">2 Nephi 4 - Heaven and Hell in One</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-16 <a href=\"/gratitude/board-games.md\">I'm Grateful for Board Games</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-16 <a href=\"/tech/unreal-ai-sora.md\">Unreal AI: Meet Sora</a> [tech,ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-16 <a href=\"/tech/spellbook-ai-reviews-redlining.md\">Spellbook AI Reviews</a> [tech,legal-ai,ai tools]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-16 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-16.md\">2024-02-16</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-15 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-4-love-and-despair.md\">2 Nephi 4 - Love and Despair</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-15 <a href=\"/gratitude/book-club.md\">I'm Grateful for Book Club</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-15 <a href=\"/tech/observable-framework-vs-quarto.md\">Observable Framework 1.0 vs Quarto</a> [tech,observable,quarto,tool comparison]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-15 <a href=\"/tech/package-installer-uv.md\">Package Installer: \"uv\"</a> [tech,python,software engineering,dev ops,dev tools]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-15 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-15.md\">2024-02-15</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-14 <a href=\"/concepts/truths-lost-in-the-bible.md\">truths lost in the Bible</a> [concepts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-14 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-4-prophecy-of-another-branch.md\">2 Nephi 4 - A Prophecy of Another Branch</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-14 <a href=\"/gratitude/explorers.md\">I'm Grateful for Explorers</a> [gratitude,gratitude-ThingsIHaveAtAnothersSacrifice]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-14 <a href=\"/book-review/the-wager.md\">The Wager</a> [book-review,historical,non-fiction,survival]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-14 <a href=\"/posts/trajectory-and-mindset.md\">Trajectory and Mindset</a> [posts,career,career advice,decisions]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-14 <a href=\"/news/2024-02-14-news-notes.md\">Gemini in the iOS Google app, TikTok advancements, and ChatGPT memory</a> [news,ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-14 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-14.md\">2024-02-14</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-4.2.md\">2 Nephi 4.2</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/jst,-genesis-50.24.md\">JST, Genesis 50.24</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-13 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-3-two-scriptures.md\">2 Nephi 3 - Two Scriptures</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-13 <a href=\"/gratitude/foam-mattresses.md\">I'm Grateful for Foam Mattresses</a> [gratitude,home]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-13 <a href=\"/tech/ab-testing-resources.md\">A/B Testing Resources</a> [tech,A/B testing,statistics]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-13 <a href=\"/tech/timegpt-and-lag-llama-two-foundation-models-for-time-series-forecasting.md\">TimeGPT and Lag-Llama: Two foundation models for time series forecasting</a> [tech,machine learning,ml-tools]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-13 <a href=\"/posts/team-misfits.md\">Team Misfits</a> [posts,life lessons,leadership]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-13 <a href=\"/christianity/coalesce-revelation-first-then-agency.md\">Coalesce - Revelation first, then Agency</a> [christianity,decisions,revelation]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-13 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-13.md\">2024-02-13</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-13 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-3.12.md\">2 Nephi 3.12</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-12 <a href=\"/creative/poem-breath-of-life.md\">Breathe on (Breath of Life)</a> [creative,poem]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-12 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-4-ask.md\">2 Nephi 4 Ask</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-12 <a href=\"/gratitude/chicken-sliders.md\">I'm Grateful for Chicken Sliders</a> [gratitude,food]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-12 <a href=\"/tech/war-tech.md\">War Tech</a> [tech,ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-12 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-12.md\">2024-02-12</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-12 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-corinthians-10.13.md\">1 Corinthians 10.13</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-12 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-4.35.md\">2 Nephi 4.35</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-12 <a href=\"/scriptures/ether-2.23.md\">Ether 2.23</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-12 <a href=\"/scriptures/malachi-3.10.md\">Malachi 3.10</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-11 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-2-enticing-decisions.md\">2 Nephi 2 - Enticement is Agency</a> [christianity,decisions,mental health,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-11 <a href=\"/gratitude/gatherings-for-the-super-bowl.md\">I'm Grateful for Gatherings for the Super Bowl</a> [gratitude,sports]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-11 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/gathered-as-one.md\">Gathered as One</a> [sacrament-symbols,symbol-together]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-11 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-2.16.md\">2 Nephi 2.16</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-11 <a href=\"/scriptures/ephesians-4.1-7.md\">Ephesians 4.1–7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-11 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-26.26-27.md\">Matthew 26.26–27</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-11 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-26.27.md\">Matthew 26.27</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-10 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-2-he-carries-our-burdens.md\">2 Nephi 2 - His Capacity to Carry Our Burdens</a> [come follow me,adversity,atonement,christianity,prayer]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-10 <a href=\"/news/2024-02-10-news-notes.md\">News Notes for 2024-02-10</a> [news,data science]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-10 <a href=\"/gratitude/old-movies.md\">I'm Grateful for Old Movies</a> [gratitude,movies]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-10 <a href=\"/tech/create-ai-images-with-googles-gemini-model.md\">Create AI images with Google's Gemini model</a> [tech,ai tools,Gemini,chatgpt,llm wars,ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-10 <a href=\"/christianity/isaiah-53.4.md\">Isaiah 53.4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-10 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-10.md\">2024-02-10</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-11.29.md\">Matthew 11.29</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-09 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-2-redemption.md\">2 Nephi 2 - Redemption</a> [christianity,redemption,atonement,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-09 <a href=\"/gratitude/skimboarding.md\">I'm Grateful for Skimboarding</a> [gratitude,sports]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-09 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-09.md\">2024-02-09</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-09 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-2.6.md\">2 Nephi 2.6</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-08 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-2-consecration.md\">2 Nephi 2 - Consecration</a> [christianity,come follow me,consecration,adversity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-08 <a href=\"/gratitude/long-runs.md\">I'm Grateful for Long Runs</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-08 <a href=\"/tech/protobufs-everything-i-dont-know.md\">Protobufs - Everything I don't know</a> [tech,raw notes,data engineering]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-08 <a href=\"/tech/pkl-for-configuration-management.md\">Pkl for Configuration Management</a> [tech,coding,data engineering,data science,data pipeline,configuration]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-08 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-08.md\">2024-02-08</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-08 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-2.2.md\">2 Nephi 2.2</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-07 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-1-shake-off-the-chains.md\">2 Nephi 1 - Shake off the Chains</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-07 <a href=\"/gratitude/new-york.md\">I'm Grateful for New York</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-07 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-07.md\">2024-02-07</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-1.20.md\">2 Nephi 1.20</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-1.23.md\">2 Nephi 1.23</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-06 <a href=\"/tech/galileo-ai-ui-generator.md\">Galileo AI</a> [tech,ai tools,ui generators,design]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-06 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-1-land-of-promise.md\">2 Nephi 1 - Obtaining a Promised Land</a> [christianity,individual covenant,covenant,land of promise,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-06 <a href=\"/gratitude/kindness.md\">I'm Grateful for Kindness</a> [gratitude,parenting,charity,christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-06 <a href=\"/tech/how-to-share-an-html-file-like-a-quarto-output-in-github.md\">How to share an HTML file (like a quarto output in GitHub)</a> [tech,quarto,github,data science,html]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-06 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-06.md\">2024-02-06</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-06 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-1.5.md\">2 Nephi 1.5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-05 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-1-alternative-endings.md\">2 Nephi 1 - Alternative Endings</a> [christianity,decisions,come follow me,hindsight]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-05 <a href=\"/posts/worlds-longest-drive.md\">World's Longest Drive</a> [posts,sports,golf]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-05 <a href=\"/concepts/Honduras.md\">Honduras</a> []</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-05 <a href=\"/gratitude/avocados.md\">I'm Grateful for Avocados</a> [gratitude,food]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-05 <a href=\"/tech/embedding-audio-in-quarto.md\">Embedding audio in Quarto</a> [tech,quarto,blogging,tutorial,obsidian]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-05 <a href=\"/creative/guitar-clouds.md\">Guitar: Clouds</a> [creative,song,guitar,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-05 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-05.md\">2024-02-05</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-05 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-1.4.md\">2 Nephi 1.4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-04 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-22-gathered-by-his-covenants.md\">1 Nephi 22 - His Covenants will be the key of the Gathering of Israel</a> [christianity,come follow me,gathering of israel,Abrahamic Covenant]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-04 <a href=\"/tech/the-divinely-discontent-chatbot-user.md\">The Divinely Discontent Chatbot User</a> [tech,software,saas,llm,ai,ai strategy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-04 <a href=\"/tech/llm-chatbot-arena-leaderboard.md\">LLM Chatbot Arena Leaderboard</a> [tech,llm benchmarks,ai,ai tools,ai benchmarks]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-04 <a href=\"/gratitude/bowling.md\">I'm Grateful for bowling</a> [gratitude,sports]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-04 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-04.md\">2024-02-04</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-04 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-21.14-16.md\">1 Nephi 21.14–16</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-04 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-22.9-12.md\">1 Nephi 22.9–12</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-04 <a href=\"/scriptures/11-ye-shall-receive-my-law.md\">11 Ye Shall Receive My Law</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-03 <a href=\"/gratitude/home-depot-saturday-morning-crafts.md\">I'm Grateful for Home Depot Saturday Morning Crafts</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-03 <a href=\"/concepts/frank-herbert.md\">Frank Herbert</a> [concepts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-03 <a href=\"/posts/the-iceberg-theory-theory-of-omission.md\">The Iceberg Theory - Theory of Omission</a> [posts,storytelling,writing,creativity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-03 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-21-he-has-not-forgotten-you.md\">1 Nephi 21 - I Have Graven Thee</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-03 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-03.md\">2024-02-03</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-03 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-kings-7.md\">1 Kings 7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-03 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-13.26.md\">1 Nephi 13.26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-03 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-20.1.md\">1 Nephi 20.1</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-03 <a href=\"/scriptures/galatians-3.27-29.md\">Galatians 3.27–29</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-03 <a href=\"/scriptures/isaiah-48.1.md\">Isaiah 48.1</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-03 <a href=\"/scriptures/moses-6.64-68.md\">Moses 6.64–68</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-20-baptism-in-the-old-testament.md\">1 Nephi 20 - Baptism in the Old Testament</a> [christianity,come follow me,book of mormon,old testament,Abrahamic Covenant,baptism]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/gratitude/peloton.md\">I'm Grateful for Peloton</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/book-review/shift.md\">Shift</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/tech/holiday-demand-forecasting-using-xgboost.md\">Holiday Demand Forecasting using XGBoost</a> [tech,data science,machine learning,time series,forecasting,internet article bookmark]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/news/2024-02-02-news-notes.md\">News Notes for 2024-02-02</a> [news]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/posts/the-compounding-interest-of-reading.md\">The Compounding Interest of Reading</a> [posts,reading,investing]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/posts/the-power-of-a-good-book.md\">The Power of a Good Book</a> [posts,ai,reading]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/tech/private-gpt.md\">Private GPT</a> [tech,ai tools,privacy,open source]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/tech/lm-studio.md\">LM Studio</a> [tech,ai tools]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/tech/gpt4all.md\">GPT4All</a> [tech,ai tools,edge device,privacy,open source]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/tech/beam-ai.md\">Beam AI</a> [tech,ai tools,ai,local ai,privacy,edge device,closed source]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-02.md\">2024-02-02</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-01 <a href=\"/gratitude/compliments.md\">I'm Grateful for Compliments</a> [gratitude,leadership,charity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-01 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-19-yieldeth-himself.md\">1 Nephi 19 - Yieldeth Himself</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-01 <a href=\"/book-review/the-old-man-and-the-sea.md\">The Old Man and the Sea</a> [book-review,fiction,classics]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-01 <a href=\"/posts/export-your-libby-timeline-to-obsidian.md\">Export your Libby Timeline to Obsidian</a> [posts,tutorial,python,libby,quarto,blogging]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-01 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-01.md\">2024-02-01</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-01 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-19.10.md\">1 Nephi 19.10</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/gratitude/basketball.md\">I'm Grateful for Basketball</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-18-prayer.md\">1 Nephi 18 - The Power of Prayer</a> [christianity,come follow me,prayer,adversity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/book-review/the-loop.md\">The Loop</a> [book-review,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/book-review/influence-the-psychology-of-persuasion.md\">Influence The Psychology of Persuasion</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-31.md\">2024-01-31</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-17.2-3.md\">1 Nephi 17.2–3</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-18.21.md\">1 Nephi 18.21</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-18.3.md\">1 Nephi 18.3</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-30 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-17-strength.md\">1 Nephi 17 - He will strengthen us</a> [christianity,come follow me,strength,trust in the Lord]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-30 <a href=\"/gratitude/youtube.md\">I'm Grateful for YouTube</a> [gratitude,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-30 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-30.md\">2024-01-30</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-16-christ-guides-us.md\">1 Nephi 16 - Christ Guides us in Unique Ways</a> [christianity,prayer,revelation,hand of the Lord,come follow me,gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/gratitude/rescue-workers.md\">I'm Grateful for Rescue Workers</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/book-review/the-tyranny-of-experts.md\">The Tyranny of Experts</a> [book-review,economics]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/bread-in-the-oven.md\">Bread in the Oven</a> [sacrament-symbols,symbol-bread]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-29.md\">2024-01-29</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-16.25.md\">1 Nephi 16.25</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-16.26.md\">1 Nephi 16.26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-2.7.md\">2 Nephi 2.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-82.10.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 82.10</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/ether-2.14.md\">Ether 2.14</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/ether-2.16.md\">Ether 2.16</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/ether-2.5.md\">Ether 2.5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/ether-2.6.md\">Ether 2.6</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/luke-7.36-38.md\">Luke 7.36–38</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/luke-7.39.md\">Luke 7.39</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/mark-15.46.md\">Mark 15.46</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-12.40.md\">Matthew 12.40</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-6.8.md\">Matthew 6.8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-3.7.md\">Mosiah 3.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/christianity/come-follow-me-2024-01-28-jan-28-1-nephi-11-15.md\">2024-01-28 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 22-28 1 Nephi 11-15</a> [christianity,come follow me,come follow me lesson plan]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/bread-given-freely-like-his-life.md\">Bread given freely, like His life</a> [sacrament-symbols,symbol-bread]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/gratitude/imagination.md\">I'm Grateful for Imagination</a> [gratitude,creativity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/sunday-dress.md\">Sunday Dress Reminds me of Bringing Sacrifices to Him</a> [sacrament-symbols,symbol-dress]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/broken-bread-but-no-broken-bones.md\">Broken Bread, but No Broken Bones</a> [sacrament-symbols,symbol-bread]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/porous-bread.md\">Porous Bread</a> [sacrament-symbols,prayer,symbol-bread]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-28.md\">2024-01-28</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-14.14.md\">1 Nephi 14.14</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-15.23-25.md\">1 Nephi 15.23–25</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/3-nephi-18.22.md\">3 Nephi 18.22</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/Jesus-the-Christ-chapter-35.-death-and-burial.md\">Jesus the Christ. Chapter 35. Death and Burial</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/chapter-25.-jesus-again-in-jerusalem.md\">Chapter 25. Jesus Again in Jerusalem</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/deuteronomy-21.22-23.md\">Deuteronomy 21.22–23</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/ephesians-6.10-18.md\">Ephesians 6.10–18</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/exodus-12.46.md\">Exodus 12.46</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-10.17-18.md\">John 10.17–18</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-19.31-33.md\">John 19.31–33</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-19.36.md\">John 19.36</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/numbers-9.12.md\">Numbers 9.12</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/psalm-34.19-20.md\">Psalm 34.19–20</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-27 <a href=\"/gratitude/chirping-birds.md\">I'm Grateful for Chirping Birds</a> [gratitude,nature]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-27 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-27.md\">2024-01-27</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-27 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-15.24.md\">1 Nephi 15.24</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-26 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-15-hearken-and-hold-fast.md\">1 Nephi 15 - Hearken and Hold Fast</a> [christianity,come follow me,obedience]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-26 <a href=\"/posts/a-10-week-self-guided-data-science-intro-course.md\">Become a Data Scientist in 10 Weeks</a> [posts,data science,featured,career,recommendation systems,A/B testing,analytics,beginners]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-26 <a href=\"/gratitude/rock-climbing.md\">I'm Grateful for Rock Climbing</a> [gratitude,adventure,personal stories]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-26 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-26.md\">2024-01-26</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-26 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-14.7.md\">1 Nephi 14.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-25 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-14-convincing-unto-peace.md\">1 Nephi 14 - Convincing unto Peace</a> [christianity,peace,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-25 <a href=\"/posts/the-only-mind-thats-clear-is-the-one-that-sees-no-alternative.md\">The Only Mind that's Clear Is the One That Sees No Alternative</a> [posts,my principles,philosophy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-25 <a href=\"/gratitude/new-perspectives.md\">I'm Grateful for New Perspectives</a> [gratitude,perspective,personal stories]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-25 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-25.md\">2024-01-25</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-25 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-13.37.md\">1 Nephi 13.37</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-24 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-13-publish-peace.md\">1 Nephi 13 - Publish Peace</a> [christianity,peace,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-24 <a href=\"/gratitude/challenges.md\">I'm Grateful for Challenges</a> [gratitude,challenges]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-24 <a href=\"/book-review/wool.md\">Wool</a> [book-review,apocalyptic,fiction,dystopian,sci-fi]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-24 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-24.md\">2024-01-24</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-12-broad-roads.md\">1 Nephi 12 - Broad Roads</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/book-review/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind.md\">The Coddling of the American Mind</a> [book-review,psychology,politics,education]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/gratitude/navajo-code-talkers.md\">I'm Grateful for Navajo Code Talkers</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/news/2024-01-23-news-notes.md\">News Notes for 2024-01-23</a> [news,ai,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/posts/writing-only-makes-sense-to-the-author.md\">Writing Only Makes Sense to the Author</a> [posts,communication,writing,art]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-23.md\">2024-01-23</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-12.17.md\">1 Nephi 12.17</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/christianity/turn-to-god-not-your-idols.md\">Turn to God in All Things, and Not Your Idols</a> [christianity,scripture of the day,prayer,faith,consecration]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-11-seeing-signs-of-christ.md\">1 Nephi 11 - Angel shows signs to Nephi</a> [christianity,come follow me,faith]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/gratitude/early-morning-workouts.md\">I'm Grateful for Early Morning Workouts</a> [gratitude,personal stories]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-22.md\">2024-01-22</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-11.7.md\">1 Nephi 11.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-32.8.md\">2 Nephi 32.8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-58.27.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 58.27</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-58.28.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 58.28</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-6.36.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 6.36</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-11.28-30.md\">Matthew 11.28–30</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-16.1-4.md\">Matthew 16.1–4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/russell-m-nelson-think-celestial.md\">\"Think Celestial!\", Russell M. Nelson</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/christianity/come-follow-me-2024-01-21-jan-21.md\">2024-01-21 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 15-21 1 Nephi 6-10</a> [christianity,come follow me lesson plan,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/gratitude/similarities.md\">I'm Grateful for Similarities</a> [gratitude,memories,personal stories]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/book-review/saints-book-1-the-standard-of-truth-1815-1846.md\">Saints Book 1 The Standard of Truth 1815-1846</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/concepts/sacrament-covenant.md\">Sacramental Covenant</a> [concepts,christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/receive-the-holy-ghost.md\">Receive the Holy Ghost</a> [sacrament-symbols,christianity,symbol-receive]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-21.md\">2024-01-21</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/18.-performing-priesthood-ordinances-and-blessings.md\">18. Performing Priesthood Ordinances and Blessings</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/acts-10.45.md\">Acts 10.45</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/articles-of-faith-1.4.md\">Articles of Faith 1.4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-33.15.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 33.15</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-35.6.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 35.6</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-39.23.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 39.23</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-49.14.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 49.14</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/gift-of-the-holy-ghost.md\">Gift of the Holy Ghost</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/jacob-6.8.md\">Jacob 6.8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-14.16-18.md\">John 14.16–18</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-14.25-26.md\">John 14.25–26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-15.26.md\">John 15.26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-16.7.md\">John 16.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-20.22.md\">John 20.22</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/moroni-4.3.md\">Moroni 4.3</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/moroni-5.2.md\">Moroni 5.2</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/moses-5.58.md\">Moses 5.58</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-8-choosing-to-press-forward.md\">1 Nephi 8 - Press Forward Continually</a> [christianity,come follow me,love,love of God,agency]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/gratitude/social-gatherings.md\">I'm Grateful for Social Gatherings</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/book-review/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people.md\">How to Win Friends and Influence People</a> [book-review,influence,leadership,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-20.md\">2024-01-20</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-10.6.md\">1 Nephi 10.6</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-8.24.md\">1 Nephi 8.24</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-16.24-26.md\">Matthew 16.24–26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/gratitude/baby-formula.md\">I'm Grateful for Baby Formula</a> [gratitude,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/book-review/the-wealth-of-nations.md\">The Wealth of Nations</a> [book-review,economics]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/book-review/the-inklings.md\">The Inklings</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/news/2024-01-19-news-notes.md\">News Notes for 2024-01-19</a> [news,futurism]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-10-rely-on-the-redeemer.md\">1 Nephi 10 - Rely on the Redeemer</a> [christianity,come follow me,book of mormon]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-19.md\">2024-01-19</a> [goals,tabata]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-9.4.md\">1 Nephi 9.4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-18 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-9-write-with-a-purpose.md\">1 Nephi 9 - Write with a Purpose</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-18 <a href=\"/gratitude/things-i-dont-understand.md\">I'm Grateful for Things I Don't Understand</a> [gratitude,epistemology]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-18 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-18.md\">2024-01-18</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-18 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-8.27-28.md\">1 Nephi 8.27–28</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-18 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-93.md\">1 Nephi 9 - Write with a Purpose</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/news/ai-news-01.md\">AI News Recap</a> [news,ai,ai tools]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/gratitude/music.md\">I'm Grateful for Music</a> [gratitude,music]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/christianity/the-power-of-habitual-prayer.md\">The Power of Habitual Prayer</a> [christianity,my testimony,personal stories,prayer,scripture of the day,book of mormon,featured]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-8-what-others-think.md\">1 Nephi 8 - Think for yourself</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-17.md\">2024-01-17</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-3.31.md\">1 Nephi 3.31</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-34.26.md\">Alma 34.26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-7.3.md\">Matthew 7.3</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-21.15.md\">Mosiah 21.15</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-23.28.md\">Mosiah 23.28</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-27.14.md\">Mosiah 27.14</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-27.16.md\">Mosiah 27.16</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-7-commitment.md\">1 Nephi 7 - Make a Choice, Don't go Halvsies</a> [christianity,commitment,learning,epistemology,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/posts/the-problem-with-public-opinions.md\">The Problem with Public Opinions</a> [posts,philosophy,social media]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/book-review/paradise-lost-and-paradise-regained.md\">Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/gratitude/open-source.md\">I'm Grateful for Open Source</a> [gratitude,tech,ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-16.md\">2024-01-16</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-11.1.md\">1 Nephi 11.1</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-6.4.md\">1 Nephi 6.4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-6.5.md\">1 Nephi 6.5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-7.15-16.md\">1 Nephi 7.15–16</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/scriptures/revelation-3.16.md\">Revelation 3.16</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-15 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-6-god-of-the-covenant.md\">1 Nephi 6 - God of the Covenant</a> [christianity,come follow me,book of mormon,scripture of the day]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-15 <a href=\"/gratitude/ice-skating.md\">I'm Grateful for Ice Skating</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-15 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-15.md\">2024-01-15</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-5-trusting-a-promise.md\">1 Nephi 5 - Will a promise be delivered?</a> [christianity,faith,covenant,individual covenant,promised blessings,come follow me,book of mormon]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/gratitude/heaven.md\">I'm Grateful for Heaven</a> [gratitude,christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/concepts/president-russel-m-nelson.md\">President Russel M. Nelson</a> [concepts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/christianity/sacrament-talk-on-missionary-work.md\">A Church Culture of Missionary work</a> [christianity,opinion,lds culture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/support-beams-represent-the-cross.md\">Architecture Reminds Me of His Cross</a> [sacrament symbol,christianity,scripture of the day,symbol-cross]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/creative/poem-cuddles.md\">Cuddles</a> [creative,poem,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-14.md\">2024-01-14</a> []</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-4.1.md\">1 Nephi 4.1</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-5.8.md\">1 Nephi 5.8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-40.6-9.md\">Alma 40.6–9</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-7.4.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 7.4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-7.5-6.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 7.5–6</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-7.8.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 7.8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/ether-1.38.md\">Ether 1.38</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/hope-of-israel.md\">Hope of Israel</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/moses-6.31-32.md\">Moses 6.31–32</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-4.9.md\">Mosiah 4.9</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-13 <a href=\"/gratitude/healing.md\">I'm Grateful for Healing</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-13 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-4-why-not.md\">1 Nephi 4 - Why not?</a> [christianity,come follow me,book of mormon]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-13 <a href=\"/creative/poem-slow-blink.md\">Slow Blink</a> [creative,poem,babies,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-13 <a href=\"/creative/poem-stairwell-scoop.md\">Stairwell scoop</a> [creative,poem]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-13 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-13.md\">2024-01-13</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-3-dreamed-a-dream.md\">1 Nephi 3 - Dreamed a Dream</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/posts/you-can-plan-your-life-in-5-minutes.md\">You can plan your life in 5 minutes</a> [posts,purpose of life]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/gratitude/my-childhood.md\">I'm Grateful for My Childhood</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/creative/poem-bound.md\">Bound</a> [creative,poem,parenting,fatherhood]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/posts/junk-attracts-junk.md\">Junk attracts Junk</a> [posts,laws of human nature,observations,philosophy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-12.md\">2024-01-12</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-2.11.md\">1 Nephi 2.11</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-3.2.md\">1 Nephi 3.2</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-5.2.md\">1 Nephi 5.2</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-5.4-5.md\">1 Nephi 5.4–5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/creative/poem-lint.md\">Lint</a> [babies,parenting,poem,creative]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/posts/bidens-debt-relief-wont-relieve-what-he-thinks-it-will.md\">Biden's debt relief won't relieve what he thinks it will</a> [posts,politics,economics]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-11.md\">goals</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/gratitude/strollers.md\">I'm Grateful for Strollers</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-2-receiving-a-promised-land.md\">1 Nephi 2 - Receiving a promised land</a> [christianity,covenant,individual covenant,come follow me,book of mormon]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/lists/scripture-study-list.md\">List of Study Topics</a> [lists]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/concepts/christian.md\">Christian</a> [concepts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/christianity/find-the-fun.md\">Find the Fun</a> [christianity,parenting,mental health,mindfulness,philosophy,tech,A/B testing,mindset]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/news/ai-and-the-future-of-saas.md\">AI and the Future of SaaS</a> [news,ai,ai strategy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-2.20.md\">1 Nephi 2.20</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-2.4.md\">1 Nephi 2.4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/book-review/the-quest-for-cosmic-justice.md\">The Quest for Cosmic Justice</a> [book-review,economics,social justice,politics]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/posts/cool-quarto-site.md\">Cool Quarto Site</a> [posts,quarto,tech,coding]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/lists/news.md\">Newsletters I follow</a> [lists]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/christianity/stop-trying-to-change-people.md\">Stop trying to change people. Stop it.</a> [christianity,prayer,agency,mindfulness,perspective]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-10.md\">Goals</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/christianity/1-Nephi-1-he-prepares-us-to-teach-us.md\">1 Nephi 1 - He prepares us to teach us</a> [christianity,come follow me,scripture of the day,book of mormon,revelation,prophets,epistemology]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/gratitude/listening-to-this-is-the-christ-right-now-grateful-for-good-music.md\">Listening to 'This is the Christ' right now, grateful for good music</a> [gratitude,music]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/christianity/come-follow-me-2024-01-14-jan-14.md\">2024-01-14 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 7-14</a> [christianity,come follow me lesson plan]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/concepts/gratus-sum-ergo-habeo.md\">Gratus sum, ergo habeo</a> [concepts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/concepts/the-book-of-mormon-another-testament-of-jesus-christ.md\">The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ</a> [concepts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/concepts/the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints.md\">The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a> [concepts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/concepts/my-mission.md\">my mission</a> [posts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/gratitude/small-things.md\">I'm grateful for small things</a> [gratitude,christianity,book of mormon,scripture of the day,retrospective,philosophy,principles]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/gratitude/sandwich-shops.md\">I'm Grateful for Sandwich Shops</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/posts/the-six-hour-sandwich.md\">The six hour sandwich</a> [posts,sales,life musings,people I meet]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/book-review/guide-to-decision-making.md\">Guide to Decision Making</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-1.5-6.md\">1 Nephi 1.5–6</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-1.5.md\">1 Nephi 1.5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-1.7-8.md\">1 Nephi 1.7–8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-28.30.md\">2 Nephi 28.30</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-37.7.md\">Alma 37.7</a> []</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/mark-4.31-32.md\">Mark 4.31–32</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-1-praying-for-other-people.md\">1 Nephi 1 - Praying for Other People</a> [christianity,come follow me,book of mormon]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/tech/this-drug-is-habit-forming.md\">This drug is habit forming</a> [tech,social media]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/tech/the-matrix.md\">The Matrix: Social Media's Influence on Human Interaction</a> [social media,digital minimalism,tech,modern living]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/book-review/the-oxford-inklings-lewis-tolkien-and-their-circle.md\">The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle</a> [book-review,history,philosophy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/posts/whats-your-decision-framework.md\">What's your decision framework?</a> [posts,insights from books,investing,memories,personal stories,emotional intelligence]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/posts/organization-and-minimalism.md\">Organization and Minimalism</a> [posts,minimalism,organization,software,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-09.md\">Workout</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/lists/reading-ethos.md\">Reading Ethos</a> [posts,reading]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/gratitude/audiobooks.md\">Audiobooks</a> [gratitude,reading]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/christianity/scriptures-within-scriptures.md\">Scriptures within Scriptures</a> [christianity,come follow me,book of mormon,scripture of the day,scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/book-review/dune-messiah.md\">Dune: Messiah</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/lists/legal-ai.md\">Legal AI</a> [tech,ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/gratitude/toothbrush.md\">I'm Grateful for the Toothbrush</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/tech/a-knife-to-a-gun-fight.md\">A Knife to a Gun Fight: Why I'm off Social Media</a> [tech,personal experiments,A/B testing,social media,big tech,incentives,decisions,relationships,ai,emotional intelligence,purpose of life,digital minimalism]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-08.md\">Body: Sit-up, pushup, squat tabata</a> [workout]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-3.7.md\">1 Nephi 3.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-5.21.md\">1 Nephi 5.21</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-8.10.md\">1 Nephi 8.10</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-25.26.md\">2 Nephi 25.26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-9.51.md\">2 Nephi 9.51</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/creative/prose-the-thief-of-time.md\">The Thief of Time</a> [creative,time,parenting,perspective,deep thought,prose]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/posts/becoming-an-expert.md\">Becoming an expert is kind of a fallacy</a> [posts,personal development,growth,grit,life lessons,data science]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/concepts/hand-of-god.md\">Hand of God</a> [christianity,concept]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/christianity/my-testimony-2024-01-07.md\">My testimony: Moving across the Country</a> [christianity,fast sunday,my testimony,memories,let god prevail]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/christianity/what-does-it-mean-to-preside.md\">What does it mean to preside?</a> [christianity,book of mormon,doctrine and covenants,priesthood,leadership,the family a proclamation to the world,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/vaulted-ceiling.md\">Vaulted Ceilings</a> [christianity,sacrament symbol,symbol-architecture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/christianity/come-follow-me-2024-01-07-jan-7.md\">2024-01-07 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 1-7</a> [christianity,come follow me,come follow me lesson plan,book of mormon]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/gratitude/cars.md\">Cars</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/creative/prose-red-eyed.md\">Red eyed</a> [creative,deep thought,funny,perspective,hypothetical,angle of vision,prose]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-5.5.md\">1 Nephi 5.5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/3-nephi-10.4-5.md\">3 Nephi 10.4–5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/dale-g-renlund-the-priesthood-and-the-saviors-atoning-power.md\">\"The Priesthood and the Savior’s Atoning Power\", Dale G. Renlund</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-107.60-62.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 107.60–62</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/ephesians-4.4-6.md\">Ephesians 4.4–6</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/introduction.md\">Introduction</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-3.16.md\">John 3.16</a> [favorite scriptures,sacrament]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-5.7-8.md\">Mosiah 5.7–8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/russell-m-nelson-make-time-for-the-lord.md\">'Make Time for the Lord', Russell M. Nelson</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/russell-m-nelson-the-book-of-mormon-what-would-your-life-be-like-without-it.md\">\"The Book of Mormon: What Would Your Life Be Like without It?\", Russell M. Nelson</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/the-family-proclamation.md\">The Family Proclamation</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-06 <a href=\"/gratitude/haircuts.md\">I'm Grateful for Haircuts</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/tech/ai-will-not-replace-human-creativity.md\">AI won't replace us. We'll always create.</a> [tech,ai,futurism,humanity,creativity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/posts/mark-cuban-mogul-support.md\">Mark Cuban Mogul Support</a> [posts,entrepreneurship,YouTube clip]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/creative/poem-cabinet-handle.md\">Cabinet Handle</a> [creative,poem,babies]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/gratitude/time.md\">Time</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-32.28.md\">alma-32.28</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/scriptures/moroni-10.4.md\">moroni-10.4</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/christianity/how-to-use-the-book-of-mormon.md\">How I use the Book of Mormon</a> [christianity,book of mormon,testimony,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-32.9.md\">2 Nephi 32.9</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/creative/poem-the-dove-forevermore.md\">The Dove (Forevermore)</a> [creative,poem,poetry,parenting,featured]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/gratitude/hard-work.md\">Hard Work and its Reward</a> [gratitude,perspective,effort,life lessons,memories]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/tech/what-startups-and-musicians-have-in-common.md\">What startups and musicians have in common</a> [tech,startups,music]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/tech/the-future-wave-of-ai-hype.md\">The future wave of AI hype</a> [tech,news,chart critique]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/posts/write-a-thousand-songs.md\">Write a thousand songs</a> [posts,creativity,writing]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/posts/losing-to-yesmen.md\">When Leaders Lose their People</a> [posts,leadership]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/posts/the-multiverse-of-careers.md\">The Multiverse of Careers</a> [posts,meditation,deathbed meditation,career,decisions]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/scriptures/russell-m-nelson-revelation-for-the-church-revelation-for-our-lives.md\">russell-m-nelson-revelation-for-the-church-revelation-for-our-lives</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-32.34-36.md\">alma-32.34-36</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-16.15-17.md\">Matthew 16.15-17</a> [favorite scripture,holy ghost]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-18.26-28.md\">alma-18.26-28</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/christianity/a-change-in-witness.md\">When a Person Changes their Perspective on Christ</a> [christianity,come follow me,book of mormon,epistemology,theology]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/posts/30-seconds-for-payment.md\">30 Seconds is All You Get</a> [music,economics,incentives,posts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-18.9.md\">Mosiah 18.9</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/scriptures/testimony-of-eight-witnesses.md\">testimony-of-eight-witnesses</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/scriptures/leviticus-19.18.md\">leviticus-19.18</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/book-review/steve-jobs-biography.md\">Steve Jobs (Biography)</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/christianity/love-thy-neighbor-but-have-friends.md\">Love Thy Neighbor, But Have Friends</a> [christianity,love,family,friendship]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/christianity/share-your-testimony.md\">Share your testimony</a> [christianity,testimony]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/gratitude/zoom.md\">Zoom</a> [gratitude,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/lists/writing-ethos.md\">Writing Ethos</a> [lists]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/posts/my-tombstone.md\">My Tombstone</a> [posts,mortality,work,work life balance,perspective,meditation,priorities]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/posts/your-mood-is-contagious.md\">Your Mood is Contagious</a> [posts,leadership,parenting,emotional resilience,grit]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/tech/dreaming-software.md\">The Dream State of Software</a> [tech,design,ai,futurism]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-32.16-18.md\">alma-32.16-18</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-5.45.md\">matthew-5.45</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-kings-19.11-12.md\">1-kings-19.11-12</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-3.5.md\">mosiah-3.5</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/lists/gratitude-backlog.md\">Things I'm grateful for</a> []</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/book-review/innovators-dilemma.md\">Innovator's Dilemma</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/book-review/socrates-a-life-worth-living.md\">\"Socrates A Life Worth Living\" by Devra Lehman</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/christianity/the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints.md\">The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a> [christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/christianity/the-miracles-of-christ.md\">The Miracles of Christ</a> [christianity,come follow me,scripture of the day,miracles,faith,signs]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/gratitude/good-books.md\">Good Books</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/tech/why-we-want-new-software.md\">The Psychology of New Software Releases and its Parallels with Fashion</a> [business strategy,saas,sales,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-01 <a href=\"/gratitude/rest.md\">I'm grateful for rest</a> [gratitude,observations]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-31 <a href=\"/christianity/cfm-2023-12-31-rev-15-21.md\">Come follow me, December 25-31, Revelations 15-21</a> [christianity,come follow me,raw notes]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-31 <a href=\"/gratitude/eyes.md\">Eyes</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-31 <a href=\"/tech/swapping-out-human-labor-for-ai.md\">Replacing human work with AI</a> [tech,ai,automation,decisions,leadership]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-30 <a href=\"/gratitude/beaches.md\">Beaches</a> [gratitude,water,beach,sunset]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-30 <a href=\"/posts/emotional-recovery.md\">Emotional Recovery</a> [posts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-30 <a href=\"/posts/water-as-a-currency.md\">Water as a Currency?</a> [posts,water,economics]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-29 <a href=\"/creative/poem-timeless.md\">Timeless</a> [poem,poetry,parenting,creative]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-29 <a href=\"/posts/how-to-blog-with-obsidian-and-quarto.md\">Blogging with Obsidian and Quarto</a> [obsidian,quarto,tutorial]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-29 <a href=\"/posts/quarto-vs-quartz-for-obsidian.md\">Quarto vs. quartz for Obsidian blog</a> [quarto,obsidian,pkm,build in public,tool,tool comparison]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-28 <a href=\"/book-review/how-to-decide-simple-tools-for-making-better-choices.md\">How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices</a> [decisions,philosophy,book-review,business]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-28 <a href=\"/posts/decisions-are-rivers.md\">Decisions are Like Hopping on a River Raft</a> [decisions]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-28 <a href=\"/posts/flip-a-coin-and-not-fail.md\">97 percent chance you'll fail</a> [success,decisions,philosophy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-28 <a href=\"/posts/flip-a-coin.md\">Flipping the coins of life</a> [philosophy,decisions]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-28 <a href=\"/posts/leaving-my-startup-was-the-right-decision.md\">Leaving my Startup was the Right Decision</a> [decisions,storytelling,hindsight]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-27 <a href=\"/christianity/christmas-empty-tomb.md\">Post Christmas blues? Remember the empty tombs</a> [christianity,christmas]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-27 <a href=\"/christianity/unknown-god.md\">An Unknown God</a> [christianity,theology,faith,doubts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-27 <a href=\"/gratitude/grateful-for-artists.md\">I'm grateful for artists</a> [gratitude,christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-26 <a href=\"/gratitude/2023-12-26-i'm-grateful-for-blankets/index.md\">I'm grateful for blankets</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-26 <a href=\"/posts/quarto-feature-requests/index.md\">Things I'd like in a blog</a> [productivity,quarto]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-26 <a href=\"/posts/quarto-from-phone/index.md\">How to blog from your phone using quarto (or hugo/jekyll/etc) using Working Copy and Obsidian</a> [productivity,tech,tutorial]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-26 <a href=\"/posts/write-despite-ai/index.md\">Write despite AI</a> [ai,humanity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-26 <a href=\"/posts/writing-is-enlivening/index.md\">Writing is truly enlivening</a> [communication,writing]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-25 <a href=\"/gratitude/2023-12-25-grateful-for-doctors/index.md\">I'm grateful for doctors</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-25 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-25-ai-robots-are-mastering-tasks-faster-than-humans-/index.md\">AI Robots are mastering tasks faster than humans</a> [ai,tech,futurism]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-24 <a href=\"/christianity/let-your-light-so-shine.md\">His is the light that we should share</a> [christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-24 <a href=\"/christianity/the-christ-child.md\">The Christ Child</a> [christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-24 <a href=\"/gratitude/2023-12-24-light/index.md\">Light</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-24 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-24-twas-the-night-before-christmas/index.md\">Twas the Night before Christmas</a> [christmas,ask gpt]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-23 <a href=\"/book-review/dune.md\">Dune</a> [book-review,sci-fi]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-23 <a href=\"/book-review/the-best-of-edgar-allen-poe.md\">The Best of Edgar Allen Poe</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-22 <a href=\"/book-review/killers-of-the-flower-moon.md\">Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI</a> [storytelling,murder mystery,book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-21 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-21-github-copilot-levels-up/index.md\">GitHub copilot levels up</a> [ai,productivity,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-21 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-21-the-dodo/index.md\">The Allegory of the Dodo</a> [productivity,business,kids books]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-20 <a href=\"/book-review/unbelievable.md\">Unbelievable</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-20 <a href=\"/posts/the-little-red-hen.md\">The Little Red Hen</a> [book review,startups]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-19 <a href=\"/book-review/101-essays-to-make-you-think.md\">101 Essays that will Change the Way You Think, by Brianna Wiest</a> [philosophy,mindfulness,book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-19 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-19-how-to-encourage-your-kids-/index.md\">How to encourage your kids</a> [parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-18 <a href=\"/book-review/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy.md\">Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a> [storytelling,book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-17 <a href=\"/christianity/christmas-celebrates-a-living-christ.md\">Christmas celebrates a Living Christ</a> [christianity,ai,christmas]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-16 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-16-humanity-and-ai/index.md\">What is humanity</a> [ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-15 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-15-llms-can-find-a-needle-in-the-haystack/index.md\">LLMs can find a needle in the haystack</a> [ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-15 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-15-prompt-techniques/index.md\">Prompt techniques</a> [ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-14 <a href=\"/lists/ai.md\">Cool AI Tweets</a> [tech,futurism,ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-13 <a href=\"/christianity/three-little-pigs-christ.md\">Three Little Pigs</a> [book review,christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-13 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-13-learn-by-doing/index.md\">Learn by doing</a> [data science,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-12 <a href=\"/book-review/scientific-freedom.md\">Scientific Freedom</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-12 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-12-future-of-coding/index.md\">Future of Coding</a> [data science]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-08-17 <a href=\"/book-review/four-thousand-weeks.md\">Four Thousand Weeks</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-07-22 <a href=\"/book-review/every-city-is-every-other-city.md\">Every City Is Every Other City</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-06-15 <a href=\"/book-review/sapiens.md\">Sapiens</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-05-08 <a href=\"/book-review/1984.md\">1984</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-04-25 <a href=\"/book-review/when-breath-becomes-air.md\">When Breath Becomes Air</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-12-23 <a href=\"/posts/2022-12-23-who-do-you-want-to-be-known-for/index.md\">How do you want to be remembered?</a> [leadership,service]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-12-15 <a href=\"/posts/2022-12-15-chatgpt-rshiny/index.md\">Building a complex R Shiny Dashboard Using ChatGPT</a> [data science,r,shiny,futurism,chatgpt]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-12-06 <a href=\"/posts/2022-12-06-more-new-businesses-than-ever/index.md\">Models as a Service and the Future of Data Science</a> [tech,startups,business,data science]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-11-18 <a href=\"/posts/2022-11-18-substance-over-style/index.md\">Resume Substance over Style</a> [communication]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-11-18 <a href=\"/posts/2022-11-18-writing-a-tech-resume/index.md\">Writing a Tech Resume</a> [communication]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-11-12 <a href=\"/posts/2022-11-12-what-is-a-model/index.md\">What is a model?</a> [data science]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-09-11 <a href=\"/book-review/the-80-20-principle-and-92-other-powerful-laws-nature.md\">The 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Powerful Laws Nature</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-09-07 <a href=\"/book-review/think-again.md\">Think Again</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-08-22 <a href=\"/book-review/human-compatible.md\">Human Compatible</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-08-17 <a href=\"/book-review/antifragile.md\">Antifragile</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-08-15 <a href=\"/book-review/never-split-the-difference.md\">Never Split the Difference</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-08-06 <a href=\"/book-review/willpower.md\">Willpower</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-08-04 <a href=\"/book-review/thinking-fast-and-slow.md\">Thinking, Fast and Slow</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-08-01 <a href=\"/book-review/digital-minimalism.md\">Digital Minimalism</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-08-01 <a href=\"/book-review/the-power-of-regret.md\">The Power of Regret</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-07-20 <a href=\"/posts/2022-07-20-de-sciencing-data-science-and-talking-like-a-normal-person/index.md\">De-sciencing Data Science and Talking Like a Normal Person</a> [data science,communication,principles]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-07-15 <a href=\"/book-review/the-willpower-instinct.md\">The Willpower Instinct</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-07-08 <a href=\"/book-review/effortless.md\">Effortless</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-07-04 <a href=\"/book-review/why-we-sleep.md\">Why We Sleep</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-07-03 <a href=\"/posts/2022-07-03-when-data-collection-goes-too-far/index.md\">When data collection goes too far</a> [productivity,futurism,tech,surveillance]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-28 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-28-increase-focus-through-writing-down-everything/index.md\">Increase Focus through Writing Down Everything</a> [productivity,musings,ticktick]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-28 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-28-pomodoro-principles/index.md\">Pomodoro Principles</a> [productivity,ticktick]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-25 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-25-how-i-use-ticktick/index.md\">How I use TickTick</a> [productivity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-24 <a href=\"/book-review/getting-things-done.md\">Getting Things Done</a> [productivity,book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-24 <a href=\"/book-review/give-and-take.md\">Give and Take</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-24 <a href=\"/book-review/the-organized-mind.md\">The Organized Mind</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-23 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-23-new-ideas-are-distractingly-exciting/index.md\">New ideas are distractingly exciting</a> [productivity,priorities,ideation]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-23 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.md\">What is the best todo list manager?</a> [productivity,app review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-22 <a href=\"/book-review/radical-candor.md\">Radical Candor</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-22 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-22-downstream-impact/index.md\">Downstream Impact</a> [data science,experimentation]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-21 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-21-products-for-dads/index.md\">Products for dads</a> [productivity,fatherhood]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-21 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-21-the-power-of-party-pay-by-visible/index.md\">The Power of Party Pay by Visible</a> [startups,strategy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-20 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-20-blogging-with-quarto/index.md\">Blogging with Quarto, and why I don’t use Medium anymore</a> [data science]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-17 <a href=\"/book-review/courage-is-calling.md\">Courage Is Calling</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-17 <a href=\"/book-review/the-obstacle-is-the-way.md\">The Obstacle Is the Way</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-09 <a href=\"/book-review/rich-dad-poor-dad.md\">Rich Dad Poor Dad</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-09 <a href=\"/book-review/zero-to-one.md\">Zero to One</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-08 <a href=\"/book-review/world-travel.md\">World Travel</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-05 <a href=\"/book-review/principles.md\">Principles</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-04 <a href=\"/book-review/good-to-great.md\">Good to Great</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-03 <a href=\"/book-review/no-rules-rules.md\">No Rules Rules</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-05-14 <a href=\"/book-review/life-of-pi.md\">Life of Pi</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-04-12 <a href=\"/book-review/steve-jobs.md\">Steve Jobs</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-03-31 <a href=\"/book-review/deep-work.md\">Deep Work</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-03-30 <a href=\"/book-review/midnight-in-chernobyl.md\">Midnight in Chernobyl</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-03-20 <a href=\"/book-review/one-second-after.md\">One Second After</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-03-16 <a href=\"/book-review/getting-to-yes.md\">Getting to Yes</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-03-15 <a href=\"/book-review/the-hard-thing-about-hard-things.md\">The Hard Thing About Hard Things</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-03-12 <a href=\"/book-review/the-first-90-days.md\">The First 90 Days</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-03-10 <a href=\"/book-review/guns-germs-and-steel.md\">Guns, Germs, and Steel</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-03-06 <a href=\"/book-review/tribe-of-mentors.md\">Tribe of Mentors</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-03-01 <a href=\"/book-review/the-storytelling-animal.md\">The Storytelling Animal</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-02-22 <a href=\"/book-review/mindset.md\">Mindset</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-02-21 <a href=\"/book-review/atomic-habits.md\">Atomic Habits</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-02-10 <a href=\"/book-review/einstein.md\">Einstein</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-01-21 <a href=\"/book-review/leonardo-da-vinci.md\">Leonardo da Vinci</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-01-15 <a href=\"/book-review/hidden-figures.md\">Hidden Figures</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-01-10 <a href=\"/book-review/the-alchemist.md\">The Alchemist</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-01-05 <a href=\"/book-review/dare-to-lead.md\">Dare to Lead</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2021-12-29 <a href=\"/book-review/talking-to-strangers.md\">Talking to Strangers</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2021-12-28 <a href=\"/book-review/greenlights.md\">Greenlights</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2021-12-07 <a href=\"/book-review/the-body.md\">The Body</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2021-12-03 <a href=\"/book-review/grit.md\">Grit</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2021-05-03 <a href=\"/book-review/the-power-of-habit.md\">The Power of Habit</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2021-03-20 <a href=\"/book-review/the-richest-man-in-babylon.md\">The Richest Man in Babylon</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2021-03-12 <a href=\"/book-review/fearless.md\">Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy Team Six Seal Operator Adam Brown</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2021-02-17 <a href=\"/book-review/joseph-smith.md\">Joseph Smith</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2020-03-21 <a href=\"/book-review/start-with-why.md\">Start with Why</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2019-12-31 <a href=\"/book-review/the-anatomy-of-peace.md\">The Anatomy of Peace</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2019-12-25 <a href=\"/book-review/the-power-of-a-positive-no.md\">The Power of a Positive No</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2019-12-16 <a href=\"/book-review/leadership-and-self-deception.md\">Leadership and Self-Deception</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2019-09-14 <a href=\"/book-review/feeling-good-together.md\">Feeling Good Together</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2019-09-10 <a href=\"/book-review/rising-strong.md\">Rising Strong</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2019-08-25 <a href=\"/book-review/the-giver.md\">The Giver</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2019-07-23 <a href=\"/book-review/the-innovators-dilemma.md\">The Innovator's Dilemma</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2019-06-26 <a href=\"/book-review/astrophysics-for-people-in-a-hurry.md\">Astrophysics for People in a Hurry</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2019-01-04 <a href=\"/book-review/alexander-hamilton.md\">Alexander Hamilton</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2018-12-30 <a href=\"/book-review/between-the-world-and-me.md\">Between the World and Me</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2018-06-27 <a href=\"/book-review/the-war.md\">The War</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2018-05-01 <a href=\"/book-review/the-4-hour-workweek.md\">The 4-Hour Workweek</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2018-03-16 <a href=\"/book-review/the-lean-startup.md\">The Lean Startup</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2015-12-01 <a href=\"/lists/reading-list.md\">Reading List</a> []</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2000-01-13 <a href=\"/goals/test.md\">test</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n\nNo matching items\n\n\n \n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:", + "text": "<li>2024-03-31 <a href=\"/quotes/i-wont-get-it-right-but-i-will-get-right-getting-it-right.md\">I won't get it right. But I will get right getting it right.</a> [quotes,affirmations,my principles,decisions]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-30 <a href=\"/quotes/so-what-happens-after-you-finally-become-a-millionaire.md\">So what happens after you finally become a millionaire?</a> [quotes,how will I measure my life]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-29 <a href=\"/quotes/i-walked-into-my-fathers-office-for-the-first-time.md\">I walked into my father's office for the first time</a> [quotes]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-28 <a href=\"/quotes/i-wasnt-much-of-a-founder-until-i-found-her.md\">I wasn't much of a founder until I found her.</a> [quotes]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-27 <a href=\"/quotes/two-types-of-smart-people.md\">Two types of smart people</a> [quotes]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-12 <a href=\"/quotes/whats-all-this-obsession-over-impact.md\">What's all this obsession over \"impact\"?</a> [quotes]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-11 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-26.md\">2 Nephi 26</a> [christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-11 <a href=\"/gratitude/a-sleeping-baby.md\">I'm Grateful for A sleeping baby</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-11 <a href=\"/book-review/the-6-types-of-working-genius.md\">The 6 Types of Working Genius</a> [book-review,productivity,personality,culture,team building,teamwork]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-11 <a href=\"/news/2024-03-11-news-notes.md\">News Notes for 2024-03-11</a> [news,ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-11 <a href=\"/book-review/light-gbm-documentation.md\">Light GBM Documentation</a> [book-review,upskilling,tech,data science]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-11 <a href=\"/book-review/forecasting-principles-and-practice.md\">Forecasting: Principles and Practice</a> [book-review,data science,tech,upskilling]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-11 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-26.9.md\">2 Nephi 26.9</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-10 <a href=\"/gratitude/im-grateful-for-logicians.md\">I'm Grateful for I'm grateful for logicians</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-10 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/walking-into-the-church-reminds-me-of-disciples-running-to-the-tomb.md\">Walking into the church Reminds me of Disciples Running to the Tomb</a> [sacrament-symbols]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-10 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-21-the-wolf-and-the-lamb.md\">2 Nephi 21.6</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-25.24-27.md\">2 Nephi 25.24–27</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-62.41.md\">Alma 62.41</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-09 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-20-25-lesson-plan.md\">2 Nephi 20-25 Lesson Plan</a> [christianity,come follow me,come follow me lesson plan]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-09 <a href=\"/posts/book-summaries.md\">Book Summaries</a> [personal development,lists]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-09 <a href=\"/quotes/the-ten-thousand-hour-rule-doesnt-make-any-sense.md\">The ten thousand hour rule doesn't make any sense</a> [quotes]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-09 <a href=\"/quotes/a-good-decision-is-associated-with-but-not-causal-of-a-good-outcome.md\">A good decision is associated with, but not causal of a good outcome</a> [quotes]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-09 <a href=\"/quotes/i-wrote-this-on-march-9th-to-hold-myself-accountable.md\">I wrote this on March 9th to hold myself accountable</a> [quotes]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-09 <a href=\"/quotes/bad-teams-bad-leaders.md\">Bad teams bad leaders</a> [quotes]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-09 <a href=\"/quotes/it-all-depends-on-me.md\">It all depends on me</a> [quotes]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-09 <a href=\"/quotes/im-going-to-let-you-down.md\">I'm going to let you down</a> [quotes]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-09 <a href=\"/quotes/please-unfollow-me.md\">Please unfollow me</a> [quotes]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-09 <a href=\"/quotes/look-at-the-plot.md\">Look at the Plot</a> [quotes]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-09 <a href=\"/goals/2024-03-09.md\">2024-03-09</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-08 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-25-talk-of-christ.md\">2 Nephi 25 - We Talk of Christ</a> [christianity,come follow me,commandments]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-08 <a href=\"/gratitude/sun-on-turf.md\">I'm Grateful for Sun on turf</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-08 <a href=\"/tech/setting-up-a-new-mac.md\">Setting up a New Mac</a> [tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-08 <a href=\"/tech/hendrix-a-machine-learning-platform-by-spotify.md\">Hendrix, a Machine Learning Platform by Spotify</a> [tech,ml-tools,machine learning platforms]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-08 <a href=\"/tech/interviewing-as-an-ml-engineer.md\">Interviewing as an ML engineer</a> [tech,reactions]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-08 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-25.24.md\">2 Nephi 25.24</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-08 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-25.25-26.md\">2 Nephi 25.25–26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-07 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-22.md\">2 Nephi 22.2</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-06 <a href=\"/quotes/artillery-takes-the-joy-out-of-life.md\">Artillery takes the joy out of life</a> [quotes,perspective]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-06 <a href=\"/quotes/a-leader.md\">A leader</a> [quotes,people I admire,leadership]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-06 <a href=\"/quotes/create-positivity.md\">Create positivity</a> [quotes,relationships,leadership]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-06 <a href=\"/quotes/time-value-of-memories.md\">Time value of memories</a> [quotes,how will I measure my life,perspective]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-06 <a href=\"/quotes/if-your-kids-wont-remember-this-time-who-will.md\">If your kids won't remember this time, who will?</a> [quotes,how will I measure my life,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-04 <a href=\"/gratitude/new-job.md\">I'm Grateful for New Job</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-04 <a href=\"/quotes/theres-something-really-boring-about-data-science.md\">There's something really boring about data science</a> [quotes,data science]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-04 <a href=\"/quotes/i-cant-afford-not-to-read.md\">I can't afford not to read</a> [quotes]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-04 <a href=\"/quotes/the-five-dysfunctions.md\">the five dysfunctions</a> [quotes]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-04 <a href=\"/posts/a-costly-mistake.md\">A Costly Mistake</a> [posts,life lessons,data science]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-04 <a href=\"/quotes/the-problem-with-all-the-advice-in-all-those-books-is-that-none-of-it-was-written-for-you.md\">The problem with all the advice in all those books is that none of it was written for you</a> [quotes]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-04 <a href=\"/quotes/the-more-you-give-the-happier-youll-live.md\">The more you give, the happier you'll live</a> [quotes,business]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-04 <a href=\"/quotes/the-iceberg-thwory.md\">The Iceberg Theory</a> [quotes,writing]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-04 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-20-true-mercy.md\">2 Nephi 20.3–4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-03 <a href=\"/gratitude/long-naps.md\">I'm Grateful for Long Naps</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-03 <a href=\"/book-review/mere-christianity.md\">Mere Christianity</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-03 <a href=\"/tech/the-baby.md\">The Baby</a> [tech,startups]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-03 <a href=\"/concepts/confirmation-bias.md\">confirmation bias</a> [concepts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-03 <a href=\"/christianity/2024-03-03-my-testimony.md\">My Testimony 2023-03-03</a> [christianity,my testimony,epistemology]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-03 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/chewing-the-bread-reminds-me-that-he-gave-everything.md\">Chewing the Bread Reminds me that He Gave Everything</a> [sacrament-symbols,atonement,symbol-bread]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-03 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-18.md\">2 Nephi 18.19</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-02 <a href=\"/posts/implementing-culture.md\">Implementing Culture</a> [posts,interviewing,culture,business]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-02 <a href=\"/book-review/band-of-brothers.md\">Band of Brothers</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-02 <a href=\"/goals/2024-03-02.md\">2024-03-02</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-02 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-14.5.md\">2 Nephi 14.5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-01 <a href=\"/posts/nothing-to-lose.md\">Nothing to Lose</a> [posts,memories]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-01 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-14-personalized-guidance.md\">2 Nephi 14 - Personalized Guidance</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-01 <a href=\"/goals/2024-03-01.md\">2024-03-01</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-01 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-13.18-25.md\">2 Nephi 13.18–25</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-03-01 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-15.15-18.md\">Mosiah 15.15–18</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-29 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-13-enduring-beauty.md\">2 Nephi 13 - Enduring Beauty</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-29 <a href=\"/gratitude/dune.md\">I'm Grateful for Dune</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-29 <a href=\"/book-review/the-great-gatsby.md\">The Great Gatsby</a> [book-review,fiction]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-28 <a href=\"/gratitude/charlie-the-barber.md\">I'm Grateful for the Barber</a> [gratitude,people I meet]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-28 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-28.md\">2024-02-28</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-27 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-11-seeing-my-redeemer.md\">2 Nephi 11 - Seeing My Redeemer</a> [christianity,come follow me,revelation]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-27 <a href=\"/gratitude/laundry-machine.md\">I'm Grateful for my Laundry Machine</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-27 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-27.md\">2024-02-27</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-27 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-11.2-3.md\">2 Nephi 11.2–3</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-27 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-19.13.md\">Alma 19.13</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-27 <a href=\"/scriptures/mormon-1.15.md\">Mormon 1.15</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-26 <a href=\"/gratitude/choice.md\">I'm Grateful for Choice</a> [gratitude,philosophy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-26 <a href=\"/book-review/the-sun-also-rises.md\">The Sun Also Rises</a> [book-review,fiction]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-26 <a href=\"/creative/prose-nuzzle.md\">Nuzzle</a> [creative,prose,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-25 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-9-familial-covenants.md\">2 Nephi 9 - Familial Covenants</a> [christianity,come follow me,covenant]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-25 <a href=\"/gratitude/waterfalls.md\">I'm Grateful for Waterfalls</a> [gratitude,nature]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-25 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-25.md\">2024-02-25</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-25 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-10.23.md\">2 Nephi 10.23</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-25 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-9.53.md\">2 Nephi 9.53</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-24 <a href=\"/gratitude/basketball-games.md\">I'm Grateful for Basketball Games</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-24 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-10.md\">2 Nephi 10</a> [christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-24 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-24.md\">2024-02-24</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-23 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-9-infinite-atonement.md\">2 Nephi 9 - Infinite Atonement</a> [christianity,come follow me,atonement]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-23 <a href=\"/gratitude/guitars.md\">I'm Grateful for Guitars</a> [gratitude,music]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-23 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-23.md\">2024-02-23</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-23 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-9.7.md\">2 Nephi 9.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-22 <a href=\"/gratitude/fog.md\">I'm Grateful for Fog</a> [gratitude,nature]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-22 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-8-perspective.md\">2 Nephi 8 - Perspective</a> [christianity,come follow me,perspective]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-22 <a href=\"/book-review/beyond-band-of-brothers.md\">Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters</a> [book-review,historical,biography,world war 2]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-22 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-22.md\">2024-02-22</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-8.12.md\">2 Nephi 8.12</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-21 <a href=\"/gratitude/copilot-money.md\">I'm Grateful for Copilot Money</a> [gratitude,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-21 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-7-jesus-is-with-us.md\">2 Nephi 7 - He is Near</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-21 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-21.md\">2024-02-21</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-7.1.md\">2 Nephi 7.1</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-20 <a href=\"/gratitude/marriage.md\">I'm Grateful for Marriage</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-20 <a href=\"/tech/5-questions-you-should-ask-before-adopting-ai.md\">5 Questions You Should Ask Before Adopting AI</a> [tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-20 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-20.md\">2024-02-20</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-19 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-6-wait-on-the-lord.md\">2 Nephi 6 - Waiting on the Lord</a> [christianity,faith,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-19 <a href=\"/gratitude/green-hills.md\">I'm Grateful for Green Hills</a> [gratitude,nature,sports,hiking]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-19 <a href=\"/book-review/daring-greatly.md\">Daring Greatly</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-19 <a href=\"/book-review/overcoming-the-five-dysfunctions-of-a-team.md\">Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team</a> [book-review,business,leadership,team building,emotional intelligence]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-19 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-19.md\">2024-02-19</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-19 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-6.17.md\">2 Nephi 6.17</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-19 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-6.7.md\">2 Nephi 6.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-5-sometimes-theres-war.md\">2 Nephi 5 - Sometimes there's war</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/gratitude/the-coach.md\">I'm Grateful for The Coach</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/news/2024-02-18-news-notes.md\">News Notes for 2024-02-18</a> [news,ai tools]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/lists/good-ai-news-aggregators.md\">Good AI News Aggregators</a> [lists,ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/ye-are-my-hands.md\">Deacons passing out the sacrament reminds me: \"Ye are my Hands\"</a> [sacrament-symbols]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/pour-you-out-a-blessing.md\">Pouring water into my mouth reminds me of \"Pour you out a blessing\"</a> [sacrament-symbols]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/tech/three-ai-failures-needing-guardrails.md\">Air Canada's failed AI-generated Refund Policy and other AI mishaps: When you need guardrails on your AI</a> [tech,ai mishaps,ai,ai guardrails]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-18.md\">2024-02-18</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-5.34.md\">2 Nephi 5.34</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-110.9-10.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 110.9–10</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/scriptures/isaiah-44.3.md\">Isaiah 44.3</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-15.10-11.md\">John 15.10–11</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/scriptures/luke-15.5-7.md\">Luke 15.5–7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/scriptures/malachi-3.10-11.md\">Malachi 3.10–11</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-18.10.md\">Mosiah 18.10</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-18.12.md\">Mosiah 18.12</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-18 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-18.13.md\">Mosiah 18.13</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-17 <a href=\"/gratitude/brownies.md\">I'm Grateful for brownies</a> [gratitude,food]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-17 <a href=\"/book-review/building-a-story-brand.md\">Building a Story Brand</a> [book-review,business,marketing,sales,storytelling]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-17 <a href=\"/news/2024-02-17-news-notes.md\">News Notes for 2024-02-17</a> [news]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-17 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-5-emergency-preparedness.md\">2 Nephi 5.14</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-17 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-17.md\">2024-02-17</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-4.26-27.md\">2 Nephi 4.26–27</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-16 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-4-heaven-and-hell.md\">2 Nephi 4 - Heaven and Hell in One</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-16 <a href=\"/gratitude/board-games.md\">I'm Grateful for Board Games</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-16 <a href=\"/tech/unreal-ai-sora.md\">Unreal AI: Meet Sora</a> [tech,ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-16 <a href=\"/tech/spellbook-ai-reviews-redlining.md\">Spellbook AI Reviews</a> [tech,legal-ai,ai tools]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-16 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-16.md\">2024-02-16</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-15 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-4-love-and-despair.md\">2 Nephi 4 - Love and Despair</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-15 <a href=\"/gratitude/book-club.md\">I'm Grateful for Book Club</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-15 <a href=\"/tech/observable-framework-vs-quarto.md\">Observable Framework 1.0 vs Quarto</a> [tech,observable,quarto,tool comparison]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-15 <a href=\"/tech/package-installer-uv.md\">Package Installer: \"uv\"</a> [tech,python,software engineering,dev ops,dev tools]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-15 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-15.md\">2024-02-15</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-14 <a href=\"/concepts/truths-lost-in-the-bible.md\">truths lost in the Bible</a> [concepts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-14 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-4-prophecy-of-another-branch.md\">2 Nephi 4 - A Prophecy of Another Branch</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-14 <a href=\"/gratitude/explorers.md\">I'm Grateful for Explorers</a> [gratitude,gratitude-ThingsIHaveAtAnothersSacrifice]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-14 <a href=\"/book-review/the-wager.md\">The Wager</a> [book-review,historical,non-fiction,survival]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-14 <a href=\"/posts/trajectory-and-mindset.md\">Trajectory and Mindset</a> [posts,career,career advice,decisions]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-14 <a href=\"/news/2024-02-14-news-notes.md\">Gemini in the iOS Google app, TikTok advancements, and ChatGPT memory</a> [news,ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-14 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-14.md\">2024-02-14</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-4.2.md\">2 Nephi 4.2</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/jst,-genesis-50.24.md\">JST, Genesis 50.24</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-13 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-3-two-scriptures.md\">2 Nephi 3 - Two Scriptures</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-13 <a href=\"/gratitude/foam-mattresses.md\">I'm Grateful for Foam Mattresses</a> [gratitude,home]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-13 <a href=\"/tech/ab-testing-resources.md\">A/B Testing Resources</a> [tech,A/B testing,statistics]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-13 <a href=\"/tech/timegpt-and-lag-llama-two-foundation-models-for-time-series-forecasting.md\">TimeGPT and Lag-Llama: Two foundation models for time series forecasting</a> [tech,machine learning,ml-tools]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-13 <a href=\"/posts/team-misfits.md\">Team Misfits</a> [posts,life lessons,leadership]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-13 <a href=\"/christianity/coalesce-revelation-first-then-agency.md\">Coalesce - Revelation first, then Agency</a> [christianity,decisions,revelation]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-13 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-13.md\">2024-02-13</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-13 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-3.12.md\">2 Nephi 3.12</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-12 <a href=\"/creative/poem-breath-of-life.md\">Breathe on (Breath of Life)</a> [creative,poem]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-12 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-4-ask.md\">2 Nephi 4 Ask</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-12 <a href=\"/gratitude/chicken-sliders.md\">I'm Grateful for Chicken Sliders</a> [gratitude,food]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-12 <a href=\"/tech/war-tech.md\">War Tech</a> [tech,ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-12 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-12.md\">2024-02-12</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-12 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-corinthians-10.13.md\">1 Corinthians 10.13</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-12 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-4.35.md\">2 Nephi 4.35</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-12 <a href=\"/scriptures/ether-2.23.md\">Ether 2.23</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-12 <a href=\"/scriptures/malachi-3.10.md\">Malachi 3.10</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-11 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-2-enticing-decisions.md\">2 Nephi 2 - Enticement is Agency</a> [christianity,decisions,mental health,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-11 <a href=\"/gratitude/gatherings-for-the-super-bowl.md\">I'm Grateful for Gatherings for the Super Bowl</a> [gratitude,sports]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-11 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/gathered-as-one.md\">Gathered as One</a> [sacrament-symbols,symbol-together]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-11 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-2.16.md\">2 Nephi 2.16</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-11 <a href=\"/scriptures/ephesians-4.1-7.md\">Ephesians 4.1–7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-11 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-26.26-27.md\">Matthew 26.26–27</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-11 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-26.27.md\">Matthew 26.27</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-10 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-2-he-carries-our-burdens.md\">2 Nephi 2 - His Capacity to Carry Our Burdens</a> [come follow me,adversity,atonement,christianity,prayer]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-10 <a href=\"/news/2024-02-10-news-notes.md\">News Notes for 2024-02-10</a> [news,data science]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-10 <a href=\"/gratitude/old-movies.md\">I'm Grateful for Old Movies</a> [gratitude,movies]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-10 <a href=\"/tech/create-ai-images-with-googles-gemini-model.md\">Create AI images with Google's Gemini model</a> [tech,ai tools,Gemini,chatgpt,llm wars,ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-10 <a href=\"/christianity/isaiah-53.4.md\">Isaiah 53.4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-10 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-10.md\">2024-02-10</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-11.29.md\">Matthew 11.29</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-09 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-2-redemption.md\">2 Nephi 2 - Redemption</a> [christianity,redemption,atonement,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-09 <a href=\"/gratitude/skimboarding.md\">I'm Grateful for Skimboarding</a> [gratitude,sports]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-09 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-09.md\">2024-02-09</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-09 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-2.6.md\">2 Nephi 2.6</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-08 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-2-consecration.md\">2 Nephi 2 - Consecration</a> [christianity,come follow me,consecration,adversity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-08 <a href=\"/gratitude/long-runs.md\">I'm Grateful for Long Runs</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-08 <a href=\"/tech/protobufs-everything-i-dont-know.md\">Protobufs - Everything I don't know</a> [tech,raw notes,data engineering]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-08 <a href=\"/tech/pkl-for-configuration-management.md\">Pkl for Configuration Management</a> [tech,coding,data engineering,data science,data pipeline,configuration]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-08 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-08.md\">2024-02-08</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-08 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-2.2.md\">2 Nephi 2.2</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-07 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-1-shake-off-the-chains.md\">2 Nephi 1 - Shake off the Chains</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-07 <a href=\"/gratitude/new-york.md\">I'm Grateful for New York</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-07 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-07.md\">2024-02-07</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-1.20.md\">2 Nephi 1.20</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-1.23.md\">2 Nephi 1.23</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-06 <a href=\"/tech/galileo-ai-ui-generator.md\">Galileo AI</a> [tech,ai tools,ui generators,design]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-06 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-1-land-of-promise.md\">2 Nephi 1 - Obtaining a Promised Land</a> [christianity,individual covenant,covenant,land of promise,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-06 <a href=\"/gratitude/kindness.md\">I'm Grateful for Kindness</a> [gratitude,parenting,charity,christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-06 <a href=\"/tech/how-to-share-an-html-file-like-a-quarto-output-in-github.md\">How to share an HTML file (like a quarto output in GitHub)</a> [tech,quarto,github,data science,html]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-06 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-06.md\">2024-02-06</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-06 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-1.5.md\">2 Nephi 1.5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-05 <a href=\"/christianity/2-nephi-1-alternative-endings.md\">2 Nephi 1 - Alternative Endings</a> [christianity,decisions,come follow me,hindsight]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-05 <a href=\"/posts/worlds-longest-drive.md\">World's Longest Drive</a> [posts,sports,golf]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-05 <a href=\"/concepts/Honduras.md\">Honduras</a> []</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-05 <a href=\"/gratitude/avocados.md\">I'm Grateful for Avocados</a> [gratitude,food]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-05 <a href=\"/tech/embedding-audio-in-quarto.md\">Embedding audio in Quarto</a> [tech,quarto,blogging,tutorial,obsidian]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-05 <a href=\"/creative/guitar-clouds.md\">Guitar: Clouds</a> [creative,song,guitar,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-05 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-05.md\">2024-02-05</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-05 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-1.4.md\">2 Nephi 1.4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-04 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-22-gathered-by-his-covenants.md\">1 Nephi 22 - His Covenants will be the key of the Gathering of Israel</a> [christianity,come follow me,gathering of israel,Abrahamic Covenant]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-04 <a href=\"/tech/the-divinely-discontent-chatbot-user.md\">The Divinely Discontent Chatbot User</a> [tech,software,saas,llm,ai,ai strategy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-04 <a href=\"/tech/llm-chatbot-arena-leaderboard.md\">LLM Chatbot Arena Leaderboard</a> [tech,llm benchmarks,ai,ai tools,ai benchmarks]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-04 <a href=\"/gratitude/bowling.md\">I'm Grateful for bowling</a> [gratitude,sports]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-04 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-04.md\">2024-02-04</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-04 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-21.14-16.md\">1 Nephi 21.14–16</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-04 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-22.9-12.md\">1 Nephi 22.9–12</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-04 <a href=\"/scriptures/11-ye-shall-receive-my-law.md\">11 Ye Shall Receive My Law</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-03 <a href=\"/gratitude/home-depot-saturday-morning-crafts.md\">I'm Grateful for Home Depot Saturday Morning Crafts</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-03 <a href=\"/concepts/frank-herbert.md\">Frank Herbert</a> [concepts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-03 <a href=\"/posts/the-iceberg-theory-theory-of-omission.md\">The Iceberg Theory - Theory of Omission</a> [posts,storytelling,writing,creativity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-03 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-21-he-has-not-forgotten-you.md\">1 Nephi 21 - I Have Graven Thee</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-03 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-03.md\">2024-02-03</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-03 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-kings-7.md\">1 Kings 7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-03 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-13.26.md\">1 Nephi 13.26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-03 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-20.1.md\">1 Nephi 20.1</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-03 <a href=\"/scriptures/galatians-3.27-29.md\">Galatians 3.27–29</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-03 <a href=\"/scriptures/isaiah-48.1.md\">Isaiah 48.1</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-03 <a href=\"/scriptures/moses-6.64-68.md\">Moses 6.64–68</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-20-baptism-in-the-old-testament.md\">1 Nephi 20 - Baptism in the Old Testament</a> [christianity,come follow me,book of mormon,old testament,Abrahamic Covenant,baptism]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/gratitude/peloton.md\">I'm Grateful for Peloton</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/book-review/shift.md\">Shift</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/tech/holiday-demand-forecasting-using-xgboost.md\">Holiday Demand Forecasting using XGBoost</a> [tech,data science,machine learning,time series,forecasting,internet article bookmark]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/news/2024-02-02-news-notes.md\">News Notes for 2024-02-02</a> [news]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/posts/the-compounding-interest-of-reading.md\">The Compounding Interest of Reading</a> [posts,reading,investing]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/posts/the-power-of-a-good-book.md\">The Power of a Good Book</a> [posts,ai,reading]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/tech/private-gpt.md\">Private GPT</a> [tech,ai tools,privacy,open source]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/tech/lm-studio.md\">LM Studio</a> [tech,ai tools]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/tech/gpt4all.md\">GPT4All</a> [tech,ai tools,edge device,privacy,open source]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/tech/beam-ai.md\">Beam AI</a> [tech,ai tools,ai,local ai,privacy,edge device,closed source]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-02 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-02.md\">2024-02-02</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-01 <a href=\"/gratitude/compliments.md\">I'm Grateful for Compliments</a> [gratitude,leadership,charity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-01 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-19-yieldeth-himself.md\">1 Nephi 19 - Yieldeth Himself</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-01 <a href=\"/book-review/the-old-man-and-the-sea.md\">The Old Man and the Sea</a> [book-review,fiction,classics]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-01 <a href=\"/posts/export-your-libby-timeline-to-obsidian.md\">Export your Libby Timeline to Obsidian</a> [posts,tutorial,python,libby,quarto,blogging]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-01 <a href=\"/goals/2024-02-01.md\">2024-02-01</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-02-01 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-19.10.md\">1 Nephi 19.10</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/gratitude/basketball.md\">I'm Grateful for Basketball</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-18-prayer.md\">1 Nephi 18 - The Power of Prayer</a> [christianity,come follow me,prayer,adversity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/book-review/the-loop.md\">The Loop</a> [book-review,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/book-review/influence-the-psychology-of-persuasion.md\">Influence The Psychology of Persuasion</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-31.md\">2024-01-31</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-17.2-3.md\">1 Nephi 17.2–3</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-18.21.md\">1 Nephi 18.21</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-31 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-18.3.md\">1 Nephi 18.3</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-30 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-17-strength.md\">1 Nephi 17 - He will strengthen us</a> [christianity,come follow me,strength,trust in the Lord]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-30 <a href=\"/gratitude/youtube.md\">I'm Grateful for YouTube</a> [gratitude,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-30 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-30.md\">2024-01-30</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-16-christ-guides-us.md\">1 Nephi 16 - Christ Guides us in Unique Ways</a> [christianity,prayer,revelation,hand of the Lord,come follow me,gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/gratitude/rescue-workers.md\">I'm Grateful for Rescue Workers</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/book-review/the-tyranny-of-experts.md\">The Tyranny of Experts</a> [book-review,economics]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/bread-in-the-oven.md\">Bread in the Oven</a> [sacrament-symbols,symbol-bread]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-29.md\">2024-01-29</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-16.25.md\">1 Nephi 16.25</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-16.26.md\">1 Nephi 16.26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-2.7.md\">2 Nephi 2.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-82.10.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 82.10</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/ether-2.14.md\">Ether 2.14</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/ether-2.16.md\">Ether 2.16</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/ether-2.5.md\">Ether 2.5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/ether-2.6.md\">Ether 2.6</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/luke-7.36-38.md\">Luke 7.36–38</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/luke-7.39.md\">Luke 7.39</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/mark-15.46.md\">Mark 15.46</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-12.40.md\">Matthew 12.40</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-6.8.md\">Matthew 6.8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-29 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-3.7.md\">Mosiah 3.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/christianity/come-follow-me-2024-01-28-jan-28-1-nephi-11-15.md\">2024-01-28 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 22-28 1 Nephi 11-15</a> [christianity,come follow me,come follow me lesson plan]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/bread-given-freely-like-his-life.md\">Bread given freely, like His life</a> [sacrament-symbols,symbol-bread]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/gratitude/imagination.md\">I'm Grateful for Imagination</a> [gratitude,creativity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/sunday-dress.md\">Sunday Dress Reminds me of Bringing Sacrifices to Him</a> [sacrament-symbols,symbol-dress]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/broken-bread-but-no-broken-bones.md\">Broken Bread, but No Broken Bones</a> [sacrament-symbols,symbol-bread]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/porous-bread.md\">Porous Bread</a> [sacrament-symbols,prayer,symbol-bread]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-28.md\">2024-01-28</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-14.14.md\">1 Nephi 14.14</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-15.23-25.md\">1 Nephi 15.23–25</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/3-nephi-18.22.md\">3 Nephi 18.22</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/Jesus-the-Christ-chapter-35.-death-and-burial.md\">Jesus the Christ. Chapter 35. Death and Burial</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/chapter-25.-jesus-again-in-jerusalem.md\">Chapter 25. Jesus Again in Jerusalem</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/deuteronomy-21.22-23.md\">Deuteronomy 21.22–23</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/ephesians-6.10-18.md\">Ephesians 6.10–18</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/exodus-12.46.md\">Exodus 12.46</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-10.17-18.md\">John 10.17–18</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-19.31-33.md\">John 19.31–33</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-19.36.md\">John 19.36</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/numbers-9.12.md\">Numbers 9.12</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-28 <a href=\"/scriptures/psalm-34.19-20.md\">Psalm 34.19–20</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-27 <a href=\"/gratitude/chirping-birds.md\">I'm Grateful for Chirping Birds</a> [gratitude,nature]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-27 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-27.md\">2024-01-27</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-27 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-15.24.md\">1 Nephi 15.24</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-26 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-15-hearken-and-hold-fast.md\">1 Nephi 15 - Hearken and Hold Fast</a> [christianity,come follow me,obedience]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-26 <a href=\"/posts/a-10-week-self-guided-data-science-intro-course.md\">Become a Data Scientist in 10 Weeks</a> [posts,data science,featured,career,recommendation systems,A/B testing,analytics,beginners]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-26 <a href=\"/gratitude/rock-climbing.md\">I'm Grateful for Rock Climbing</a> [gratitude,adventure,personal stories]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-26 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-26.md\">2024-01-26</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-26 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-14.7.md\">1 Nephi 14.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-25 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-14-convincing-unto-peace.md\">1 Nephi 14 - Convincing unto Peace</a> [christianity,peace,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-25 <a href=\"/posts/the-only-mind-thats-clear-is-the-one-that-sees-no-alternative.md\">The Only Mind that's Clear Is the One That Sees No Alternative</a> [posts,my principles,philosophy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-25 <a href=\"/gratitude/new-perspectives.md\">I'm Grateful for New Perspectives</a> [gratitude,perspective,personal stories]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-25 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-25.md\">2024-01-25</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-25 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-13.37.md\">1 Nephi 13.37</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-24 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-13-publish-peace.md\">1 Nephi 13 - Publish Peace</a> [christianity,peace,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-24 <a href=\"/gratitude/challenges.md\">I'm Grateful for Challenges</a> [gratitude,challenges]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-24 <a href=\"/book-review/wool.md\">Wool</a> [book-review,apocalyptic,fiction,dystopian,sci-fi]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-24 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-24.md\">2024-01-24</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-12-broad-roads.md\">1 Nephi 12 - Broad Roads</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/book-review/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind.md\">The Coddling of the American Mind</a> [book-review,psychology,politics,education]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/gratitude/navajo-code-talkers.md\">I'm Grateful for Navajo Code Talkers</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/news/2024-01-23-news-notes.md\">News Notes for 2024-01-23</a> [news,ai,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/posts/writing-only-makes-sense-to-the-author.md\">Writing Only Makes Sense to the Author</a> [posts,communication,writing,art]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-23.md\">2024-01-23</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-23 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-12.17.md\">1 Nephi 12.17</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/christianity/turn-to-god-not-your-idols.md\">Turn to God in All Things, and Not Your Idols</a> [christianity,scripture of the day,prayer,faith,consecration]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-11-seeing-signs-of-christ.md\">1 Nephi 11 - Angel shows signs to Nephi</a> [christianity,come follow me,faith]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/gratitude/early-morning-workouts.md\">I'm Grateful for Early Morning Workouts</a> [gratitude,personal stories]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-22.md\">2024-01-22</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-11.7.md\">1 Nephi 11.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-32.8.md\">2 Nephi 32.8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-58.27.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 58.27</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-58.28.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 58.28</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-6.36.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 6.36</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-11.28-30.md\">Matthew 11.28–30</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-16.1-4.md\">Matthew 16.1–4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-22 <a href=\"/scriptures/russell-m-nelson-think-celestial.md\">\"Think Celestial!\", Russell M. Nelson</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/christianity/come-follow-me-2024-01-21-jan-21.md\">2024-01-21 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 15-21 1 Nephi 6-10</a> [christianity,come follow me lesson plan,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/gratitude/similarities.md\">I'm Grateful for Similarities</a> [gratitude,memories,personal stories]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/book-review/saints-book-1-the-standard-of-truth-1815-1846.md\">Saints Book 1 The Standard of Truth 1815-1846</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/concepts/sacrament-covenant.md\">Sacramental Covenant</a> [concepts,christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/receive-the-holy-ghost.md\">Receive the Holy Ghost</a> [sacrament-symbols,christianity,symbol-receive]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-21.md\">2024-01-21</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/18.-performing-priesthood-ordinances-and-blessings.md\">18. Performing Priesthood Ordinances and Blessings</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/acts-10.45.md\">Acts 10.45</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/articles-of-faith-1.4.md\">Articles of Faith 1.4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-33.15.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 33.15</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-35.6.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 35.6</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-39.23.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 39.23</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-49.14.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 49.14</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/gift-of-the-holy-ghost.md\">Gift of the Holy Ghost</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/jacob-6.8.md\">Jacob 6.8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-14.16-18.md\">John 14.16–18</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-14.25-26.md\">John 14.25–26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-15.26.md\">John 15.26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-16.7.md\">John 16.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-20.22.md\">John 20.22</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/moroni-4.3.md\">Moroni 4.3</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/moroni-5.2.md\">Moroni 5.2</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-21 <a href=\"/scriptures/moses-5.58.md\">Moses 5.58</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-8-choosing-to-press-forward.md\">1 Nephi 8 - Press Forward Continually</a> [christianity,come follow me,love,love of God,agency]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/gratitude/social-gatherings.md\">I'm Grateful for Social Gatherings</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/book-review/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people.md\">How to Win Friends and Influence People</a> [book-review,influence,leadership,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-20.md\">2024-01-20</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-10.6.md\">1 Nephi 10.6</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-8.24.md\">1 Nephi 8.24</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-20 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-16.24-26.md\">Matthew 16.24–26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/gratitude/baby-formula.md\">I'm Grateful for Baby Formula</a> [gratitude,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/book-review/the-wealth-of-nations.md\">The Wealth of Nations</a> [book-review,economics]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/book-review/the-inklings.md\">The Inklings</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/news/2024-01-19-news-notes.md\">News Notes for 2024-01-19</a> [news,futurism]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-10-rely-on-the-redeemer.md\">1 Nephi 10 - Rely on the Redeemer</a> [christianity,come follow me,book of mormon]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-19.md\">2024-01-19</a> [goals,tabata]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-19 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-9.4.md\">1 Nephi 9.4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-18 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-9-write-with-a-purpose.md\">1 Nephi 9 - Write with a Purpose</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-18 <a href=\"/gratitude/things-i-dont-understand.md\">I'm Grateful for Things I Don't Understand</a> [gratitude,epistemology]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-18 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-18.md\">2024-01-18</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-18 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-8.27-28.md\">1 Nephi 8.27–28</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-18 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-93.md\">1 Nephi 9 - Write with a Purpose</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/news/ai-news-01.md\">AI News Recap</a> [news,ai,ai tools]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/gratitude/music.md\">I'm Grateful for Music</a> [gratitude,music]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/christianity/the-power-of-habitual-prayer.md\">The Power of Habitual Prayer</a> [christianity,my testimony,personal stories,prayer,scripture of the day,book of mormon,featured]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-8-what-others-think.md\">1 Nephi 8 - Think for yourself</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-17.md\">2024-01-17</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-3.31.md\">1 Nephi 3.31</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-34.26.md\">Alma 34.26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-7.3.md\">Matthew 7.3</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-21.15.md\">Mosiah 21.15</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-23.28.md\">Mosiah 23.28</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-27.14.md\">Mosiah 27.14</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-17 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-27.16.md\">Mosiah 27.16</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-7-commitment.md\">1 Nephi 7 - Make a Choice, Don't go Halvsies</a> [christianity,commitment,learning,epistemology,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/posts/the-problem-with-public-opinions.md\">The Problem with Public Opinions</a> [posts,philosophy,social media]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/book-review/paradise-lost-and-paradise-regained.md\">Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/gratitude/open-source.md\">I'm Grateful for Open Source</a> [gratitude,tech,ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-16.md\">2024-01-16</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-11.1.md\">1 Nephi 11.1</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-6.4.md\">1 Nephi 6.4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-6.5.md\">1 Nephi 6.5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-7.15-16.md\">1 Nephi 7.15–16</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-16 <a href=\"/scriptures/revelation-3.16.md\">Revelation 3.16</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-15 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-6-god-of-the-covenant.md\">1 Nephi 6 - God of the Covenant</a> [christianity,come follow me,book of mormon,scripture of the day]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-15 <a href=\"/gratitude/ice-skating.md\">I'm Grateful for Ice Skating</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-15 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-15.md\">2024-01-15</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-5-trusting-a-promise.md\">1 Nephi 5 - Will a promise be delivered?</a> [christianity,faith,covenant,individual covenant,promised blessings,come follow me,book of mormon]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/gratitude/heaven.md\">I'm Grateful for Heaven</a> [gratitude,christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/concepts/president-russel-m-nelson.md\">President Russel M. Nelson</a> [concepts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/christianity/sacrament-talk-on-missionary-work.md\">A Church Culture of Missionary work</a> [christianity,opinion,lds culture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/support-beams-represent-the-cross.md\">Architecture Reminds Me of His Cross</a> [sacrament symbol,christianity,scripture of the day,symbol-cross]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/creative/poem-cuddles.md\">Cuddles</a> [creative,poem,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-14.md\">2024-01-14</a> []</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-4.1.md\">1 Nephi 4.1</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-5.8.md\">1 Nephi 5.8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-40.6-9.md\">Alma 40.6–9</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-7.4.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 7.4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-7.5-6.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 7.5–6</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-7.8.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 7.8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/ether-1.38.md\">Ether 1.38</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/hope-of-israel.md\">Hope of Israel</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/moses-6.31-32.md\">Moses 6.31–32</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-14 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-4.9.md\">Mosiah 4.9</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-13 <a href=\"/gratitude/healing.md\">I'm Grateful for Healing</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-13 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-4-why-not.md\">1 Nephi 4 - Why not?</a> [christianity,come follow me,book of mormon]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-13 <a href=\"/creative/poem-slow-blink.md\">Slow Blink</a> [creative,poem,babies,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-13 <a href=\"/creative/poem-stairwell-scoop.md\">Stairwell scoop</a> [creative,poem]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-13 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-13.md\">2024-01-13</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-3-dreamed-a-dream.md\">1 Nephi 3 - Dreamed a Dream</a> [christianity,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/posts/you-can-plan-your-life-in-5-minutes.md\">You can plan your life in 5 minutes</a> [posts,purpose of life]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/gratitude/my-childhood.md\">I'm Grateful for My Childhood</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/creative/poem-bound.md\">Bound</a> [creative,poem,parenting,fatherhood]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/posts/junk-attracts-junk.md\">Junk attracts Junk</a> [posts,laws of human nature,observations,philosophy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-12.md\">2024-01-12</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-2.11.md\">1 Nephi 2.11</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-3.2.md\">1 Nephi 3.2</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-5.2.md\">1 Nephi 5.2</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-12 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-5.4-5.md\">1 Nephi 5.4–5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/creative/poem-lint.md\">Lint</a> [babies,parenting,poem,creative]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/posts/bidens-debt-relief-wont-relieve-what-he-thinks-it-will.md\">Biden's debt relief won't relieve what he thinks it will</a> [posts,politics,economics]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-11.md\">goals</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/gratitude/strollers.md\">I'm Grateful for Strollers</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-2-receiving-a-promised-land.md\">1 Nephi 2 - Receiving a promised land</a> [christianity,covenant,individual covenant,come follow me,book of mormon]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/lists/scripture-study-list.md\">List of Study Topics</a> [lists]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/concepts/christian.md\">Christian</a> [concepts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/christianity/find-the-fun.md\">Find the Fun</a> [christianity,parenting,mental health,mindfulness,philosophy,tech,A/B testing,mindset]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/news/ai-and-the-future-of-saas.md\">AI and the Future of SaaS</a> [news,ai,ai strategy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-2.20.md\">1 Nephi 2.20</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-11 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-2.4.md\">1 Nephi 2.4</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/book-review/the-quest-for-cosmic-justice.md\">The Quest for Cosmic Justice</a> [book-review,economics,social justice,politics]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/posts/cool-quarto-site.md\">Cool Quarto Site</a> [posts,quarto,tech,coding]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/lists/news.md\">Newsletters I follow</a> [lists]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/christianity/stop-trying-to-change-people.md\">Stop trying to change people. Stop it.</a> [christianity,prayer,agency,mindfulness,perspective]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-10.md\">Goals</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/christianity/1-Nephi-1-he-prepares-us-to-teach-us.md\">1 Nephi 1 - He prepares us to teach us</a> [christianity,come follow me,scripture of the day,book of mormon,revelation,prophets,epistemology]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/gratitude/listening-to-this-is-the-christ-right-now-grateful-for-good-music.md\">Listening to 'This is the Christ' right now, grateful for good music</a> [gratitude,music]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/christianity/come-follow-me-2024-01-14-jan-14.md\">2024-01-14 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 7-14</a> [christianity,come follow me lesson plan]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/concepts/gratus-sum-ergo-habeo.md\">Gratus sum, ergo habeo</a> [concepts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/concepts/the-book-of-mormon-another-testament-of-jesus-christ.md\">The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ</a> [concepts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/concepts/the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints.md\">The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a> [concepts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/concepts/my-mission.md\">my mission</a> [posts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/gratitude/small-things.md\">I'm grateful for small things</a> [gratitude,christianity,book of mormon,scripture of the day,retrospective,philosophy,principles]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/gratitude/sandwich-shops.md\">I'm Grateful for Sandwich Shops</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/posts/the-six-hour-sandwich.md\">The six hour sandwich</a> [posts,sales,life musings,people I meet]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/book-review/guide-to-decision-making.md\">Guide to Decision Making</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-1.5-6.md\">1 Nephi 1.5–6</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-1.5.md\">1 Nephi 1.5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-1.7-8.md\">1 Nephi 1.7–8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-28.30.md\">2 Nephi 28.30</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-37.7.md\">Alma 37.7</a> []</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-10 <a href=\"/scriptures/mark-4.31-32.md\">Mark 4.31–32</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/christianity/1-nephi-1-praying-for-other-people.md\">1 Nephi 1 - Praying for Other People</a> [christianity,come follow me,book of mormon]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/tech/this-drug-is-habit-forming.md\">This drug is habit forming</a> [tech,social media]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/tech/the-matrix.md\">The Matrix: Social Media's Influence on Human Interaction</a> [social media,digital minimalism,tech,modern living]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/book-review/the-oxford-inklings-lewis-tolkien-and-their-circle.md\">The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle</a> [book-review,history,philosophy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/posts/whats-your-decision-framework.md\">What's your decision framework?</a> [posts,insights from books,investing,memories,personal stories,emotional intelligence]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/posts/organization-and-minimalism.md\">Organization and Minimalism</a> [posts,minimalism,organization,software,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-09.md\">Workout</a> [goals]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/lists/reading-ethos.md\">Reading Ethos</a> [posts,reading]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-09 <a href=\"/gratitude/audiobooks.md\">Audiobooks</a> [gratitude,reading]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/christianity/scriptures-within-scriptures.md\">Scriptures within Scriptures</a> [christianity,come follow me,book of mormon,scripture of the day,scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/book-review/dune-messiah.md\">Dune: Messiah</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/lists/legal-ai.md\">Legal AI</a> [tech,ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/gratitude/toothbrush.md\">I'm Grateful for the Toothbrush</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/tech/a-knife-to-a-gun-fight.md\">A Knife to a Gun Fight: Why I'm off Social Media</a> [tech,personal experiments,A/B testing,social media,big tech,incentives,decisions,relationships,ai,emotional intelligence,purpose of life,digital minimalism]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/goals/2024-01-08.md\">Body: Sit-up, pushup, squat tabata</a> [workout]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-3.7.md\">1 Nephi 3.7</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-5.21.md\">1 Nephi 5.21</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-8.10.md\">1 Nephi 8.10</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-25.26.md\">2 Nephi 25.26</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-08 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-9.51.md\">2 Nephi 9.51</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/creative/prose-the-thief-of-time.md\">The Thief of Time</a> [creative,time,parenting,perspective,deep thought,prose]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/posts/becoming-an-expert.md\">Becoming an expert is kind of a fallacy</a> [posts,personal development,growth,grit,life lessons,data science]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/concepts/hand-of-god.md\">Hand of God</a> [christianity,concept]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/christianity/my-testimony-2024-01-07.md\">My testimony: Moving across the Country</a> [christianity,fast sunday,my testimony,memories,let god prevail]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/christianity/what-does-it-mean-to-preside.md\">What does it mean to preside?</a> [christianity,book of mormon,doctrine and covenants,priesthood,leadership,the family a proclamation to the world,parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/sacrament-symbols/vaulted-ceiling.md\">Vaulted Ceilings</a> [christianity,sacrament symbol,symbol-architecture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/christianity/come-follow-me-2024-01-07-jan-7.md\">2024-01-07 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 1-7</a> [christianity,come follow me,come follow me lesson plan,book of mormon]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/gratitude/cars.md\">Cars</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/creative/prose-red-eyed.md\">Red eyed</a> [creative,deep thought,funny,perspective,hypothetical,angle of vision,prose]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-nephi-5.5.md\">1 Nephi 5.5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/3-nephi-10.4-5.md\">3 Nephi 10.4–5</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/dale-g-renlund-the-priesthood-and-the-saviors-atoning-power.md\">\"The Priesthood and the Savior’s Atoning Power\", Dale G. Renlund</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/doctrine-and-covenants-107.60-62.md\">Doctrine and Covenants 107.60–62</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/ephesians-4.4-6.md\">Ephesians 4.4–6</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/introduction.md\">Introduction</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/john-3.16.md\">John 3.16</a> [favorite scriptures,sacrament]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-5.7-8.md\">Mosiah 5.7–8</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/russell-m-nelson-make-time-for-the-lord.md\">'Make Time for the Lord', Russell M. Nelson</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/russell-m-nelson-the-book-of-mormon-what-would-your-life-be-like-without-it.md\">\"The Book of Mormon: What Would Your Life Be Like without It?\", Russell M. Nelson</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-07 <a href=\"/scriptures/the-family-proclamation.md\">The Family Proclamation</a> [favorite scriptures]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-06 <a href=\"/gratitude/haircuts.md\">I'm Grateful for Haircuts</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/tech/ai-will-not-replace-human-creativity.md\">AI won't replace us. We'll always create.</a> [tech,ai,futurism,humanity,creativity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/posts/mark-cuban-mogul-support.md\">Mark Cuban Mogul Support</a> [posts,entrepreneurship,YouTube clip]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/creative/poem-cabinet-handle.md\">Cabinet Handle</a> [creative,poem,babies]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/gratitude/time.md\">Time</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-32.28.md\">alma-32.28</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/scriptures/moroni-10.4.md\">moroni-10.4</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/christianity/how-to-use-the-book-of-mormon.md\">How I use the Book of Mormon</a> [christianity,book of mormon,testimony,come follow me]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/scriptures/2-nephi-32.9.md\">2 Nephi 32.9</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-05 <a href=\"/creative/poem-the-dove-forevermore.md\">The Dove (Forevermore)</a> [creative,poem,poetry,parenting,featured]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/gratitude/hard-work.md\">Hard Work and its Reward</a> [gratitude,perspective,effort,life lessons,memories]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/tech/what-startups-and-musicians-have-in-common.md\">What startups and musicians have in common</a> [tech,startups,music]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/tech/the-future-wave-of-ai-hype.md\">The future wave of AI hype</a> [tech,news,chart critique]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/posts/write-a-thousand-songs.md\">Write a thousand songs</a> [posts,creativity,writing]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/posts/losing-to-yesmen.md\">When Leaders Lose their People</a> [posts,leadership]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/posts/the-multiverse-of-careers.md\">The Multiverse of Careers</a> [posts,meditation,deathbed meditation,career,decisions]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/scriptures/russell-m-nelson-revelation-for-the-church-revelation-for-our-lives.md\">russell-m-nelson-revelation-for-the-church-revelation-for-our-lives</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-32.34-36.md\">alma-32.34-36</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-16.15-17.md\">Matthew 16.15-17</a> [favorite scripture,holy ghost]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-18.26-28.md\">alma-18.26-28</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/christianity/a-change-in-witness.md\">When a Person Changes their Perspective on Christ</a> [christianity,come follow me,book of mormon,epistemology,theology]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-04 <a href=\"/posts/30-seconds-for-payment.md\">30 Seconds is All You Get</a> [music,economics,incentives,posts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-18.9.md\">Mosiah 18.9</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/scriptures/testimony-of-eight-witnesses.md\">testimony-of-eight-witnesses</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/scriptures/leviticus-19.18.md\">leviticus-19.18</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/book-review/steve-jobs-biography.md\">Steve Jobs (Biography)</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/christianity/love-thy-neighbor-but-have-friends.md\">Love Thy Neighbor, But Have Friends</a> [christianity,love,family,friendship]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/christianity/share-your-testimony.md\">Share your testimony</a> [christianity,testimony]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/gratitude/zoom.md\">Zoom</a> [gratitude,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/lists/writing-ethos.md\">Writing Ethos</a> [lists]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/posts/my-tombstone.md\">My Tombstone</a> [posts,mortality,work,work life balance,perspective,meditation,priorities]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/posts/your-mood-is-contagious.md\">Your Mood is Contagious</a> [posts,leadership,parenting,emotional resilience,grit]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-03 <a href=\"/tech/dreaming-software.md\">The Dream State of Software</a> [tech,design,ai,futurism]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/scriptures/alma-32.16-18.md\">alma-32.16-18</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/scriptures/matthew-5.45.md\">matthew-5.45</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/scriptures/1-kings-19.11-12.md\">1-kings-19.11-12</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/scriptures/mosiah-3.5.md\">mosiah-3.5</a> [favorite scripture]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/lists/gratitude-backlog.md\">Things I'm grateful for</a> []</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/book-review/innovators-dilemma.md\">Innovator's Dilemma</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/book-review/socrates-a-life-worth-living.md\">\"Socrates A Life Worth Living\" by Devra Lehman</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/christianity/the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints.md\">The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a> [christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/christianity/the-miracles-of-christ.md\">The Miracles of Christ</a> [christianity,come follow me,scripture of the day,miracles,faith,signs]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/gratitude/good-books.md\">Good Books</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-02 <a href=\"/tech/why-we-want-new-software.md\">The Psychology of New Software Releases and its Parallels with Fashion</a> [business strategy,saas,sales,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2024-01-01 <a href=\"/gratitude/rest.md\">I'm grateful for rest</a> [gratitude,observations]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-31 <a href=\"/christianity/cfm-2023-12-31-rev-15-21.md\">Come follow me, December 25-31, Revelations 15-21</a> [christianity,come follow me,raw notes]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-31 <a href=\"/gratitude/eyes.md\">Eyes</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-31 <a href=\"/tech/swapping-out-human-labor-for-ai.md\">Replacing human work with AI</a> [tech,ai,automation,decisions,leadership]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-30 <a href=\"/gratitude/beaches.md\">Beaches</a> [gratitude,water,beach,sunset]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-30 <a href=\"/posts/emotional-recovery.md\">Emotional Recovery</a> [posts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-30 <a href=\"/posts/water-as-a-currency.md\">Water as a Currency?</a> [posts,water,economics]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-29 <a href=\"/creative/poem-timeless.md\">Timeless</a> [poem,poetry,parenting,creative]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-29 <a href=\"/posts/how-to-blog-with-obsidian-and-quarto.md\">Blogging with Obsidian and Quarto</a> [obsidian,quarto,tutorial]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-29 <a href=\"/posts/quarto-vs-quartz-for-obsidian.md\">Quarto vs. quartz for Obsidian blog</a> [quarto,obsidian,pkm,build in public,tool,tool comparison]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-28 <a href=\"/book-review/how-to-decide-simple-tools-for-making-better-choices.md\">How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices</a> [decisions,philosophy,book-review,business]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-28 <a href=\"/posts/decisions-are-rivers.md\">Decisions are Like Hopping on a River Raft</a> [decisions]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-28 <a href=\"/posts/flip-a-coin-and-not-fail.md\">97 percent chance you'll fail</a> [success,decisions,philosophy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-28 <a href=\"/posts/flip-a-coin.md\">Flipping the coins of life</a> [philosophy,decisions]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-28 <a href=\"/posts/leaving-my-startup-was-the-right-decision.md\">Leaving my Startup was the Right Decision</a> [decisions,storytelling,hindsight]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-27 <a href=\"/christianity/christmas-empty-tomb.md\">Post Christmas blues? Remember the empty tombs</a> [christianity,christmas]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-27 <a href=\"/christianity/unknown-god.md\">An Unknown God</a> [christianity,theology,faith,doubts]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-27 <a href=\"/gratitude/grateful-for-artists.md\">I'm grateful for artists</a> [gratitude,christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-26 <a href=\"/gratitude/2023-12-26-i'm-grateful-for-blankets/index.md\">I'm grateful for blankets</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-26 <a href=\"/posts/quarto-feature-requests/index.md\">Things I'd like in a blog</a> [productivity,quarto]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-26 <a href=\"/posts/quarto-from-phone/index.md\">How to blog from your phone using quarto (or hugo/jekyll/etc) using Working Copy and Obsidian</a> [productivity,tech,tutorial]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-26 <a href=\"/posts/write-despite-ai/index.md\">Write despite AI</a> [ai,humanity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-26 <a href=\"/posts/writing-is-enlivening/index.md\">Writing is truly enlivening</a> [communication,writing]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-25 <a href=\"/gratitude/2023-12-25-grateful-for-doctors/index.md\">I'm grateful for doctors</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-25 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-25-ai-robots-are-mastering-tasks-faster-than-humans-/index.md\">AI Robots are mastering tasks faster than humans</a> [ai,tech,futurism]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-24 <a href=\"/christianity/let-your-light-so-shine.md\">His is the light that we should share</a> [christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-24 <a href=\"/christianity/the-christ-child.md\">The Christ Child</a> [christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-24 <a href=\"/gratitude/2023-12-24-light/index.md\">Light</a> [gratitude]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-24 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-24-twas-the-night-before-christmas/index.md\">Twas the Night before Christmas</a> [christmas,ask gpt]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-23 <a href=\"/book-review/dune.md\">Dune</a> [book-review,sci-fi]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-23 <a href=\"/book-review/the-best-of-edgar-allen-poe.md\">The Best of Edgar Allen Poe</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-22 <a href=\"/book-review/killers-of-the-flower-moon.md\">Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI</a> [storytelling,murder mystery,book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-21 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-21-github-copilot-levels-up/index.md\">GitHub copilot levels up</a> [ai,productivity,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-21 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-21-the-dodo/index.md\">The Allegory of the Dodo</a> [productivity,business,kids books]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-20 <a href=\"/book-review/unbelievable.md\">Unbelievable</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-20 <a href=\"/posts/the-little-red-hen.md\">The Little Red Hen</a> [book review,startups]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-19 <a href=\"/book-review/101-essays-to-make-you-think.md\">101 Essays that will Change the Way You Think, by Brianna Wiest</a> [philosophy,mindfulness,book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-19 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-19-how-to-encourage-your-kids-/index.md\">How to encourage your kids</a> [parenting]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-18 <a href=\"/book-review/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy.md\">Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a> [storytelling,book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-17 <a href=\"/christianity/christmas-celebrates-a-living-christ.md\">Christmas celebrates a Living Christ</a> [christianity,ai,christmas]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-16 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-16-humanity-and-ai/index.md\">What is humanity</a> [ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-15 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-15-llms-can-find-a-needle-in-the-haystack/index.md\">LLMs can find a needle in the haystack</a> [ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-15 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-15-prompt-techniques/index.md\">Prompt techniques</a> [ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-14 <a href=\"/lists/ai.md\">Cool AI Tweets</a> [tech,futurism,ai]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-13 <a href=\"/christianity/three-little-pigs-christ.md\">Three Little Pigs</a> [book review,christianity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-13 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-13-learn-by-doing/index.md\">Learn by doing</a> [data science,tech]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-12 <a href=\"/book-review/scientific-freedom.md\">Scientific Freedom</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-12-12 <a href=\"/posts/2023-12-12-future-of-coding/index.md\">Future of Coding</a> [data science]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-08-17 <a href=\"/book-review/four-thousand-weeks.md\">Four Thousand Weeks</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-07-22 <a href=\"/book-review/every-city-is-every-other-city.md\">Every City Is Every Other City</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-06-15 <a href=\"/book-review/sapiens.md\">Sapiens</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-05-08 <a href=\"/book-review/1984.md\">1984</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2023-04-25 <a href=\"/book-review/when-breath-becomes-air.md\">When Breath Becomes Air</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-12-23 <a href=\"/posts/2022-12-23-who-do-you-want-to-be-known-for/index.md\">How do you want to be remembered?</a> [leadership,service]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-12-15 <a href=\"/posts/2022-12-15-chatgpt-rshiny/index.md\">Building a complex R Shiny Dashboard Using ChatGPT</a> [data science,r,shiny,futurism,chatgpt]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-12-06 <a href=\"/posts/2022-12-06-more-new-businesses-than-ever/index.md\">Models as a Service and the Future of Data Science</a> [tech,startups,business,data science]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-11-18 <a href=\"/posts/2022-11-18-substance-over-style/index.md\">Resume Substance over Style</a> [communication]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-11-18 <a href=\"/posts/2022-11-18-writing-a-tech-resume/index.md\">Writing a Tech Resume</a> [communication]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-11-12 <a href=\"/posts/2022-11-12-what-is-a-model/index.md\">What is a model?</a> [data science]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-09-11 <a href=\"/book-review/the-80-20-principle-and-92-other-powerful-laws-nature.md\">The 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Powerful Laws Nature</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-09-07 <a href=\"/book-review/think-again.md\">Think Again</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-08-22 <a href=\"/book-review/human-compatible.md\">Human Compatible</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-08-17 <a href=\"/book-review/antifragile.md\">Antifragile</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-08-15 <a href=\"/book-review/never-split-the-difference.md\">Never Split the Difference</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-08-06 <a href=\"/book-review/willpower.md\">Willpower</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-08-04 <a href=\"/book-review/thinking-fast-and-slow.md\">Thinking, Fast and Slow</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-08-01 <a href=\"/book-review/digital-minimalism.md\">Digital Minimalism</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-08-01 <a href=\"/book-review/the-power-of-regret.md\">The Power of Regret</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-07-20 <a href=\"/posts/2022-07-20-de-sciencing-data-science-and-talking-like-a-normal-person/index.md\">De-sciencing Data Science and Talking Like a Normal Person</a> [data science,communication,principles]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-07-15 <a href=\"/book-review/the-willpower-instinct.md\">The Willpower Instinct</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-07-08 <a href=\"/book-review/effortless.md\">Effortless</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-07-04 <a href=\"/book-review/why-we-sleep.md\">Why We Sleep</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-07-03 <a href=\"/posts/2022-07-03-when-data-collection-goes-too-far/index.md\">When data collection goes too far</a> [productivity,futurism,tech,surveillance]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-28 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-28-increase-focus-through-writing-down-everything/index.md\">Increase Focus through Writing Down Everything</a> [productivity,musings,ticktick]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-28 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-28-pomodoro-principles/index.md\">Pomodoro Principles</a> [productivity,ticktick]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-25 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-25-how-i-use-ticktick/index.md\">How I use TickTick</a> [productivity]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-24 <a href=\"/book-review/getting-things-done.md\">Getting Things Done</a> [productivity,book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-24 <a href=\"/book-review/give-and-take.md\">Give and Take</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-24 <a href=\"/book-review/the-organized-mind.md\">The Organized Mind</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-23 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-23-new-ideas-are-distractingly-exciting/index.md\">New ideas are distractingly exciting</a> [productivity,priorities,ideation]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-23 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.md\">What is the best todo list manager?</a> [productivity,app review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-22 <a href=\"/book-review/radical-candor.md\">Radical Candor</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-22 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-22-downstream-impact/index.md\">Downstream Impact</a> [data science,experimentation]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-21 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-21-products-for-dads/index.md\">Products for dads</a> [productivity,fatherhood]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-21 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-21-the-power-of-party-pay-by-visible/index.md\">The Power of Party Pay by Visible</a> [startups,strategy]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-20 <a href=\"/posts/2022-06-20-blogging-with-quarto/index.md\">Blogging with Quarto, and why I don’t use Medium anymore</a> [data science]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-17 <a href=\"/book-review/courage-is-calling.md\">Courage Is Calling</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-17 <a href=\"/book-review/the-obstacle-is-the-way.md\">The Obstacle Is the Way</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-09 <a href=\"/book-review/rich-dad-poor-dad.md\">Rich Dad Poor Dad</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-09 <a href=\"/book-review/zero-to-one.md\">Zero to One</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-08 <a href=\"/book-review/world-travel.md\">World Travel</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-05 <a href=\"/book-review/principles.md\">Principles</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-04 <a href=\"/book-review/good-to-great.md\">Good to Great</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-06-03 <a href=\"/book-review/no-rules-rules.md\">No Rules Rules</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-05-14 <a href=\"/book-review/life-of-pi.md\">Life of Pi</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-04-12 <a href=\"/book-review/steve-jobs.md\">Steve Jobs</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-03-31 <a href=\"/book-review/deep-work.md\">Deep Work</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-03-30 <a href=\"/book-review/midnight-in-chernobyl.md\">Midnight in Chernobyl</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-03-20 <a href=\"/book-review/one-second-after.md\">One Second After</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-03-16 <a href=\"/book-review/getting-to-yes.md\">Getting to Yes</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-03-15 <a href=\"/book-review/the-hard-thing-about-hard-things.md\">The Hard Thing About Hard Things</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-03-12 <a href=\"/book-review/the-first-90-days.md\">The First 90 Days</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-03-10 <a href=\"/book-review/guns-germs-and-steel.md\">Guns, Germs, and Steel</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-03-06 <a href=\"/book-review/tribe-of-mentors.md\">Tribe of Mentors</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-03-01 <a href=\"/book-review/the-storytelling-animal.md\">The Storytelling Animal</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-02-22 <a href=\"/book-review/mindset.md\">Mindset</a> [book-review]</li>\n \n\n \n <li>2022-02-21 <a 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:", "crumbs": [ "Other", "Sitemap (All Posts)" @@ -1660,2231 +1660,2238 @@ "text": "Please, unfollow me.\nIt’s a thing when you post on the internet that you start craving likes.\nThat’s not the value of the post.\nThe value is that I’m putting my thoughts into production. When I do that, I learn.\nI post every day so I can learn. If you’re learning with me, keep it up. If you’re not, please unfollow me and get on to better content.\n#lessonslearned\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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Really boring numbers.\nUntil I discover their story.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "What’s all this obsession over “impact”?\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "quotes/the-problem-with-all-the-advice-in-all-those-books-is-that-none-of-it-was-written-for-you.html", - "href": "quotes/the-problem-with-all-the-advice-in-all-those-books-is-that-none-of-it-was-written-for-you.html", - "title": "The problem with all the advice in all those books is that none of it was written for you", + "objectID": "quotes/a-leader.html", + "href": "quotes/a-leader.html", + "title": "A leader", "section": "", - "text": "The problem with all the advice in all those books is that none of it was written for you.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I walked hesitantly into the glass conference room and see over 20 other coworkers. The middle table was full and the chairs lining the walls were going fast.\nThen Aparna Sarin walks in and makes quick use of the 30 minute meeting. 40 comments quickly volley back and forth. Like a judge before a jury, Aparna helps the audience categorize and coordinate their notes and tasks. They discuss “unknown unknowns”, which before this day was an unknown unknown concept to me. She finishes with a smile and a joke and everyone leaves talking.\nNobody likes meetings, because they’re not executed like this.\n#leadership #PeopleIAdmire\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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Will I?\nI have one memory of when I was three and another one or two from when I was four. It must mean this time is for the parents.\n#Parenting #Priorities #HowWillYouMeasureYourLife\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "quotes/i-wrote-this-on-march-9th-to-hold-myself-accountable.html", - "href": "quotes/i-wrote-this-on-march-9th-to-hold-myself-accountable.html", - "title": "I wrote this on March 9th to hold myself accountable", + "objectID": "quotes/two-types-of-smart-people.html", + "href": "quotes/two-types-of-smart-people.html", + "title": "Two types of smart people", "section": "", - "text": "I wrote this on March 9th to hold myself accountable. 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For some, posting incessantly shows a high degree of self insecurity - that they’re looking for validation. For me, I post my #failure s, my #lessonslearned . Vulnerability is growth. Trusting in myself is holding to a belief that I have something worth sharing and I don’t need approval to share it.\nTo connect. If you follow me, you’re a human following someone quite human. I hope to promote humanity. We’re all in this together.\n\nHow’d I do?\n#goals #reflection\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I’ve walked into many rooms where I’m far from the smartest person. Sometimes it leaves me feeling bad about myself. Other times it leaves me feeling empowered. What explains the difference?\nThere are two types of smart people. Those who make you feel smarter and those who remind you how smart they are.\nTruly brilliant people are focused on learning, and sharing, and helping those who were once like them: eager to learn.\nLess brilliant are those who are focused on themselves. Living in an insecure sand castle, they’re helplessly trying to reinforce as the waves of life crash on their egos.\nI’m not sure what makes one person the one or the other. It has nothing to do with their background, the titles they hold, the accomplishments they’ve achieved.\nPerhaps Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters explains it (paraphrasing): “war either makes you or breaks you. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "“The five dysfunctions of a team are:\n\nAbsence of trust.\nFear of conflict.\nLack of commitment.\nAvoidance of team accountability.\nInattention to team objectives.”\n\nOvercoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team\nI hate to admit it, but I’ve both seen and exemplified these attributes in my career. We all have.\nThe antidote? Vulnerability.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "There’s too much on LinkedIn that leaves nothing to the imagination.\nIceberg theory - Wikipedia\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "quotes/the-ten-thousand-hour-rule-doesnt-make-any-sense.html", - "href": "quotes/the-ten-thousand-hour-rule-doesnt-make-any-sense.html", - "title": "The ten thousand hour rule doesn’t make any sense", + "objectID": "quotes/im-going-to-let-you-down.html", + "href": "quotes/im-going-to-let-you-down.html", + "title": "I’m going to let you down", "section": "", - "text": "The 10,000 hour rule doesn’t make any sense. And it’s harmful in a lot of ways.\nIt implies to be an expert in a field you need to spend 10,000 hours on something.\nExpert relative to whom?\nAnd have we asked ourselves what the value of being an expert even is?\nPerhaps it gives some benchmark of “if I can make it 10,000 hours I’ll be useful to society”. But that’s a less useful mindset than just asking “what does it take to be valuable?”\nTwo counter perspectives:\n\nHow much do you know about how peanut butter is made? How long would it take you to know more than everyone in your neighborhood? Sure you may not know more than those who have spent 10,000 hours, but 100 hours may be enough to come up with a new recipe.\nThere are 260 million people above the age of 18 in the U.S. Per a Google search there were 490,000 #datascience jobs in the U.S. in 2018. That’s 0.3% of the population. I’m guessing most of those people compare themselves to the 0.3% of the population rather than to the 99.7%.\n\nValue is driven by the problems you’re able solve and the willingness of someone to pay for those problems because they don’t have the time or energy to solve them for themselves. It doesn’t take 10,000 hours to solve 99.9% of problems.\nOther thoughts:\nThe Great Practice Myth: Debunking the 10,000 Hour Rule • Six Seconds\n#innovation #perspective #experts\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I’m going to let you down.\nEventually, somewhere, somehow, you will be disappointed in me the longer you know me.\nI’m going to mess up. I’m going to make mistakes. I’m going to fail.\nBut by me writing this, hopefully you know my commitment to helping you, encouraging you, surprising you, and empowering you with whatever you asked me to do or whatever you relied on me for.\n-“The prayer of the growth mindset”\nMindset\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "quotes/it-all-depends-on-me.html", - "href": "quotes/it-all-depends-on-me.html", - "title": "It all depends on me", + "objectID": "quotes/i-wont-get-it-right-but-i-will-get-right-getting-it-right.html", + "href": "quotes/i-wont-get-it-right-but-i-will-get-right-getting-it-right.html", + "title": "I won’t get it right. But I will get right getting it right.", "section": "", - "text": "A leadership failure mode is thinking I have the answers. Thinking I’m smart. Thinking it all depends on me. Thinking I’m the solely accountable individual.\nIf it all depended on me, why did I hire someone? Why do I have direct reports?\nIt depends on my people. It depends on all of us. It depends on teamwork.\nAnd my team relies on me for their livelihood. Their child’s medical bills. Their alimony payments. Their parental care.\nThey chose me way more than I chose them.\nTeamwork makes the dream work baby.\n#leadership\nI’m going to let you down : leaders will let you down.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I won’t get it right. But I can get right getting it right.\nFocus on process. Not on outcomes. Outcomes are uncertain. Outcomes are lucky - either good or bad. Process is controllable.\n#decisions #process #affirmations\nHow to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts.html", - "href": "posts.html", - "title": "Posts", + "objectID": "quotes/artillery-takes-the-joy-out-of-life.html", + "href": "quotes/artillery-takes-the-joy-out-of-life.html", + "title": "Artillery takes the joy out of life", "section": "", - "text": "“I write what I learn. I learn by what I write”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n Order By\n Default\n \n Date - Oldest\n \n \n Date - Newest\n \n \n Title\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook Summaries\n\n\n\npersonal development\n\n\nlists\n\n\n\nThings I want to remember and review\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday March 9, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Costly Mistake\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nlife lessons\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nA kind word goes a long way\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nMonday March 4, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImplementing Culture\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ninterviewing\n\n\nculture\n\n\nbusiness\n\n\n\nA small boat with a large rudder will get there faster than a large boat with a small rudder.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday March 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNothing to Lose\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nmemories\n\n\n\nPerspective is everything.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday March 1, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTrajectory and Mindset\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ncareer\n\n\ncareer advice\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nWhy do people say “don’t be complacent” in your career?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday February 14, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTeam Misfits\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nlife lessons\n\n\nleadership\n\n\n\n“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid” - Einstein\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday February 13, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorld’s Longest Drive\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nsports\n\n\ngolf\n\n\n\nFull send\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nMonday February 5, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Iceberg Theory - Theory of Omission\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nstorytelling\n\n\nwriting\n\n\ncreativity\n\n\n\nA captivating writing style\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday February 3, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Compounding Interest of Reading\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nreading\n\n\ninvesting\n\n\n\nAsk not what one book can do for you. Ask instead what you couldn’t do without one book?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday February 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of a Good Book\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nai\n\n\nreading\n\n\n\nIt takes one to know one.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday February 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExport your Libby Timeline to Obsidian\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ntutorial\n\n\npython\n\n\nlibby\n\n\nquarto\n\n\nblogging\n\n\n\nDownload the Libby timeline, export to markdown files using pandas\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday February 1, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBecome a Data Scientist in 10 Weeks\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nfeatured\n\n\ncareer\n\n\nrecommendation systems\n\n\nA/B testing\n\n\nanalytics\n\n\nbeginners\n\n\n\nYou only need the desire. The rest is freely accessible. Focus on breadth at first and creating content for your resume (tips included on that too!)\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday January 26, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Only Mind that’s Clear Is the One That Sees No Alternative\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nmy principles\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nSeek not to be right. Seek to understand.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday January 25, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting Only Makes Sense to the Author\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nwriting\n\n\nart\n\n\n\nThe rest of us are left guessing. But the more the author puts themself in the shoes of the audience, the less guesswork needs to happen.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday January 23, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Problem with Public Opinions\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\nsocial media\n\n\n\nEveryone has one, and they all stink…\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday January 16, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can plan your life in 5 minutes\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\npurpose of life\n\n\n\nYou know what’s good for you.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday January 12, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJunk attracts Junk\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nlaws of human nature\n\n\nobservations\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nThe law of junk\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday January 12, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBiden’s debt relief won’t relieve what he thinks it will\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\npolitics\n\n\neconomics\n\n\n\nAsking a tradesperson to pay for someone else’s education isn’t right\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday January 11, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCool Quarto Site\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nquarto\n\n\ntech\n\n\ncoding\n\n\n\nDifferent things you can do pretty easily with quarto.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday January 10, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe six hour sandwich\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nsales\n\n\nlife musings\n\n\npeople I meet\n\n\n\nHow to sell a breakfast sandwich\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday January 10, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat’s your decision framework?\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ninsights from books\n\n\ninvesting\n\n\nmemories\n\n\npersonal stories\n\n\nemotional intelligence\n\n\n\nFacts? Gut? Blend? Do you track your emotional decisioning performance?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday January 9, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganization and Minimalism\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nminimalism\n\n\norganization\n\n\nsoftware\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nWhen in doubt, “Afuera” it out!\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday January 9, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBecoming an expert is kind of a fallacy\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\npersonal development\n\n\ngrowth\n\n\ngrit\n\n\nlife lessons\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nDoesn’t matter how many hours you work at something. What matters is if you figure out the lightbulb. Could have been the first by luck, no?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSunday January 7, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Cuban Mogul Support\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nentrepreneurship\n\n\nYouTube clip\n\n\n\nAMA from Twitter\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday January 5, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWrite a thousand songs\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ncreativity\n\n\nwriting\n\n\n\nTake the pressure off and write a little.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday January 4, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen Leaders Lose their People\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nleadership\n\n\n\nHave I lost you too?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday January 4, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Multiverse of Careers\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nmeditation\n\n\ndeathbed meditation\n\n\ncareer\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nWhich path you choose isn’t as important as the companions to journey with\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday January 4, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n30 Seconds is All You Get\n\n\n\nmusic\n\n\neconomics\n\n\nincentives\n\n\nposts\n\n\n\nApple set the limit to 30s. That impacted music forever.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday January 4, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMy Tombstone\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nmortality\n\n\nwork\n\n\nwork life balance\n\n\nperspective\n\n\nmeditation\n\n\npriorities\n\n\n\nWhat will your tombstone actually read? What do you want it to read.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday January 3, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYour Mood is Contagious\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nleadership\n\n\nparenting\n\n\nemotional resilience\n\n\ngrit\n\n\n\nIt may take twice the effort to overcome negative vibes.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday January 3, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmotional Recovery\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\n\nEveryone recovers differently.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday December 30, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWater as a Currency?\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nwater\n\n\neconomics\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday December 30, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlogging with Obsidian and Quarto\n\n\n\nobsidian\n\n\nquarto\n\n\ntutorial\n\n\n\nMy framework and flow for blogging from my phone using Obsidian and Quarto.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday December 29, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuarto vs. quartz for Obsidian blog\n\n\n\nquarto\n\n\nobsidian\n\n\npkm\n\n\nbuild in public\n\n\ntool\n\n\ntool comparison\n\n\n\nWhy I use quarto to manage my knowledge database.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday December 29, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n97 percent chance you’ll fail\n\n\n\nsuccess\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nThe odds of constant success are against you every 5 decisions. So there’s gotta be another way to define success.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 28, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDecisions are Like Hopping on a River Raft\n\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nChoose wisely, and enjoy the ride.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 28, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFlipping the coins of life\n\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nAre you right just because you got heads?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 28, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeaving my Startup was the Right Decision\n\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nstorytelling\n\n\nhindsight\n\n\n\nBut not because of the outcome.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 28, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to blog from your phone using quarto (or hugo/jekyll/etc) using Working Copy and Obsidian\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\ntech\n\n\ntutorial\n\n\n\nWorking copy is $20, obsidian is free (and optional). I’ll show you how to set this up (iPhone only I think?)\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 26, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThings I’d like in a blog\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nquarto\n\n\n\nWhat quarto is great at and what I’d like out of it.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 26, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWrite despite AI\n\n\n\nai\n\n\nhumanity\n\n\n\nI’m fully aware an AI is listening and all that I write just trains it. Perhaps this is a perversion of my work (if I made money off it). Why write if everything I write…\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 26, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting is truly enlivening\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nwriting\n\n\n\nWrite in public. Write daily. Write about nothing.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 26, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAI Robots are mastering tasks faster than humans\n\n\n\nai\n\n\ntech\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\n\nFrom walking to labyrinth, the future looks bright for these machines. The key is the objective functions, time, and training data.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nMonday December 25, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwas the Night before Christmas\n\n\n\nchristmas\n\n\nask gpt\n\n\n\nThe origin of the story, and a link to the 1912 publication.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSunday December 24, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGitHub copilot levels up\n\n\n\nai\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nWhat will it do next?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 21, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Allegory of the Dodo\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nbusiness\n\n\nkids books\n\n\n\nWhen in having solved a problem we inadvertently create problems for ourselves\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 21, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Little Red Hen\n\n\n\nbook review\n\n\nstartups\n\n\n\nPeople love to enjoy the fruits, but who will bake the bread?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday December 20, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to encourage your kids\n\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nUnexpected advice on how to be a great parent when fostering talent\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 19, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is humanity\n\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nHumanity seeks to resolve problems. What happens when they’re too easily solved?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday December 16, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLLMs can find a needle in the haystack\n\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nGPT outperforms Claude.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday December 15, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrompt techniques\n\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nOpen AI strategies\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday December 15, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearn by doing\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nYou don’t need a PhD. Or a masters. You just need to hustle\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday December 13, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFuture of Coding\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nAs our jobs are automatable, we need to discover what’s not\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 12, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow do you want to be remembered?\n\n\n\nleadership\n\n\nservice\n\n\n\nIt’s a question as old as time, but misses the mark and is distracting from the more important question.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday December 23, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuilding a complex R Shiny Dashboard Using ChatGPT\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nr\n\n\nshiny\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\nchatgpt\n\n\n\nChatGPT can create amazing boilerplate code and can point you in the right direction, but it cannot debug data problems easily (yet). It can read in data from the internet…\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 15, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModels as a Service and the Future of Data Science\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nstartups\n\n\nbusiness\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nData Scientists shouldn’t be scared their jobs will disappear. They should be excited that they’ll be joining companies that automate what they’re currently doing and offer…\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 6, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nResume Substance over Style\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\n\nThe content of your resume is more important than the design.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday November 18, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting a Tech Resume\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\n\nHow to write a resume to get into a FAANG company.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday November 18, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is a model?\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nPutting the mysterious in context.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday November 12, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDe-sciencing Data Science and Talking Like a Normal Person\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nprinciples\n\n\n\nHow can data scientists bring their technical knowledge to a non-technical audience? Here are my lessons learned from seven years in the data trenches.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday July 20, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen data collection goes too far\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\ntech\n\n\nsurveillance\n\n\n\nIt’s important for us to track certain things about ourselves. But this is clearly not exactly healthy IMO.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSunday July 3, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIncrease Focus through Writing Down Everything\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nmusings\n\n\nticktick\n\n\n\nTo be more present, get it all down and into a system.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday June 28, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPomodoro Principles\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nticktick\n\n\n\nThe art of focus through 25min work blocks.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday June 28, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow I use TickTick\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\n\nAn overview of how I apply the principles of “Getting Things Done”, or GTD.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday June 25, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew ideas are distractingly exciting\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\npriorities\n\n\nideation\n\n\n\nBe careful of recency bias with your ideas.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday June 23, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is the best todo list manager?\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\napp review\n\n\n\nI’ve reviewed 20+ apps. I think I’m done reviewing them.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday June 23, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownstream Impact\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nexperimentation\n\n\n\nWhen you do an online experiment, you’re changing the future forever.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday June 22, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProducts for dads\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nfatherhood\n\n\n\nWhat products am I still using 5 years later?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday June 21, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of Party Pay by Visible\n\n\n\nstartups\n\n\nstrategy\n\n\n\nVisible wireless, owned by Verizon, offers users $25 off per month if they join a meaningless party. What’s the effect?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday June 21, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlogging with Quarto, and why I don’t use Medium anymore\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nI’m trying out quarto and I like it.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nMonday June 20, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Author’s Angle Matters\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nwriting\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting, Bryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday July 17, 2021\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProductivity notes\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\n\nRunning list of productivity ideas.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday December 19, 2020\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to mock the value of an ML solution\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ninnovation\n\n\n\nSell your solution before training your model.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday December 16, 2020\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nData Beats Opinions\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nOpinions from the customer shape the product. Their behavior (captured as data) speaks louder than their words.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 15, 2020\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGet rid of the todo list. Calendar everything.\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\n\nIf you’re not willing to block time for it, does it event matter?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 15, 2020\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSemantic Versioning for Data Science Models\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nmachine learning\n\n\n\nMeaningful versioning for data science models and machine learning pipelines.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting, Bryan Whiting\n\n\nMonday July 2, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuying a used car the data science way: Part 2\n\n\n\nwebscraping\n\n\nr\n\n\nregression\n\n\nanalysis\n\n\npricing\n\n\nbuying things\n\n\n\nHow I analyze used car data to find under-valued cars, and why none of my analysis matters.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting, Bryan Whiting\n\n\nSunday February 19, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuying a used car the data science way: Part 1\n\n\n\nwebscraping\n\n\ncars\n\n\npricing\n\n\nr\n\n\n\nHow I scrape used car data.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting, Bryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday February 18, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe DataViz battle: Plotly vs ggplot2\n\n\n\ndataviz\n\n\nr\n\n\nggplot\n\n\nplotly\n\n\n\nWhat can you do with plotly vs. ggplot2 and how do they compare on a simple chart?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting, Bryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday February 10, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStarting with Jekyll\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nblogging\n\n\njekyll\n\n\n\nHello world.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday November 17, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo matching items\n\n\n \n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "“All blogs are wrong, but some are useful.”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n Order By\n Default\n \n Title\n \n \n Date - Oldest\n \n \n Date - Newest\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 26\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\n_ \n\n\n\n\n\nMon Mar 11, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for A sleeping baby\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nThat I can\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Mar 11, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 6 Types of Working Genius\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\npersonality\n\n\nculture\n\n\nteam building\n\n\nteamwork\n\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Mar 11, 2024\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLight GBM Documentation\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nupskilling\n\n\ntech\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nMon Mar 11, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nForecasting: Principles and Practice\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ntech\n\n\nupskilling\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nMon Mar 11, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for I’m grateful for logicians\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Mar 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 21.6\n\n\n\n\n\n\nfavorite scriptures\n\n\n\nSelected quotes.\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Mar 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 20-25 Lesson Plan\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\ncome follow me lesson plan\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nSat Mar 9, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook Summaries\n\n\n\n\n\n\npersonal development\n\n\nlists\n\n\n\nThings I want to remember and review\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Mar 9, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 25 - We Talk of Christ\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\ncommandments\n\n\n\nThe law is dead. The focus is on Chrisf\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Mar 8, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Sun on turf\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Mar 8, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSetting up a New Mac\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Mar 8, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHendrix, a Machine Learning Platform by Spotify\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nml-tools\n\n\nmachine learning platforms\n\n\n\nSpotify has an internal machine learning platform\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Mar 8, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInterviewing as an ML engineer\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nreactions\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Mar 8, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 22.2\n\n\n\n\n\n\nfavorite scriptures\n\n\n\nSelected quotes.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Mar 7, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for New Job\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nIt’s a new way to see things\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Mar 4, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Costly Mistake\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nlife lessons\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nA kind word goes a long way\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Mar 4, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 20.3–4\n\n\n\n\n\n\nfavorite scriptures\n\n\n\nSelected quotes.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Mar 4, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Long Naps\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nThe best part is the part you never remember. \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Mar 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMere Christianity\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nChristianity \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Mar 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Baby\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nstartups\n\n\n\n“…the kid is not my son”\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Mar 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMy Testimony 2023-03-03\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nmy testimony\n\n\nepistemology\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for the story and reality of Christ\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Mar 3, 2024\n\n\n9 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 18.19\n\n\n\n\n\n\nfavorite scriptures\n\n\n\nSelected quotes.\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Mar 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImplementing Culture\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ninterviewing\n\n\nculture\n\n\nbusiness\n\n\n\nA small boat with a large rudder will get there faster than a large boat with a small rudder.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Mar 2, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBand of Brothers\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nWWII\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Mar 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNothing to Lose\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nmemories\n\n\n\nPerspective is everything.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Mar 1, 2024\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 14 - Personalized Guidance\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nPersonalized guidanve\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Mar 1, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 13 - Enduring Beauty\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nTrue beauty\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 29, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Dune\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nGreat writing deserves attention\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 29, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Great Gatsby\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nfiction\n\n\n\nThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published by Blackstone Audio, Inc., with ISBN 9781433241451.0. Read on 2024-01-08\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 29, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for the Barber\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\npeople I meet\n\n\n\nHis kindness was simple, but powerful\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Feb 28, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 11 - Seeing My Redeemer\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nrevelation\n\n\n\nSeeing the Savior isn’t as mysterious as it sounds. Many who seek Him can experience this blessing\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 27, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for my Laundry Machine\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 27, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Choice\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nIt’s a gift from God. It’s what enables happiness.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 26, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Sun Also Rises\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nfiction\n\n\n\nMeanderings across France and Spain.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 26, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 9 - Familial Covenants\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\ncovenant\n\n\n\nHe’s a God of personal promises\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 25, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Waterfalls\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nnature\n\n\n\nHow it looks, and how it feels to dip your toes in\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 25, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Basketball Games\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 24, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 10\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 24, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 9 - Infinite Atonement\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\natonement\n\n\n\nThe Lord’s mercy knows no bounds\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 23, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Guitars\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nmusic\n\n\n\nA portal to another world\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 23, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Fog\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nnature\n\n\n\nIt’s blinding when you’re in it, gorgeous when admired from afar\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 22, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 8 - Perspective\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nperspective\n\n\n\nThe Lord is with us.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 22, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nhistorical\n\n\nbiography\n\n\nworld war 2\n\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 22, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Copilot Money\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nSimplicity, beautiful design, and does what you’d hope it would do\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Feb 21, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 7 - He is Near\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nWe may wander and wonder, but He is near.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Feb 21, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Marriage\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 20, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5 Questions You Should Ask Before Adopting AI\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 20, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 6 - Waiting on the Lord\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nfaith\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nHe will support His covenant people\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 19, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Green Hills\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nnature\n\n\nsports\n\n\nhiking\n\n\n\nHome is where you remember who you are\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 19, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaring Greatly\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 19, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOvercoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nbusiness\n\n\nleadership\n\n\nteam building\n\n\nemotional intelligence\n\n\n\nMotivates the reader to want to have an excellent, high performing team by addressing concerns\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 19, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 5 - Sometimes there’s war\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nResolution requires both to want it\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 18, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for The Coach\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 18, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGood AI News Aggregators\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlists\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 18, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAir Canada’s failed AI-generated Refund Policy and other AI mishaps: When you need guardrails on your AI\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai mishaps\n\n\nai\n\n\nai guardrails\n\n\n\nBe careful what your AI bot says. We can’t yet contain today’s AI - how do we expect to contain tomorrow’s?\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 18, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for brownies\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nfood\n\n\n\nBut really, is there anything better than a warm Costco brownie with vanilla ice cream?\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 17, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuilding a Story Brand\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nbusiness\n\n\nmarketing\n\n\nsales\n\n\nstorytelling\n\n\n\nEye opening, simple, to the point on marketing.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 17, 2024\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 5.14\n\n\n\n\n\n\nfavorite scriptures\n\n\n\nSelected quotes.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 17, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 4 - Heaven and Hell in One\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nOne person, two worlds.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 16, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Board Games\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nNever bored.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 16, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUnreal AI: Meet Sora\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nWhen AI uses reinforcement learning on a physics engine…\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 16, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpellbook AI Reviews\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nlegal-ai\n\n\nai tools\n\n\n\nAn AI focused on editing and revising legal documents and redlining\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 16, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 4 - Love and Despair\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nHow can one person feel God’s love, but also not?\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 15, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Book Club\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nIt’s how old people pretend like they’re still young, and have a good time doing it.m\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 15, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nObservable Framework 1.0 vs Quarto\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nobservable\n\n\nquarto\n\n\ntool comparison\n\n\n\nAnother markdown-based dash boarding solution, similar to Quarto\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 15, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPackage Installer: “uv”\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\npython\n\n\nsoftware engineering\n\n\ndev ops\n\n\ndev tools\n\n\n\nFaster than pip and poetry\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 15, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 4 - A Prophecy of Another Branch\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Feb 14, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Explorers\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\ngratitude-ThingsIHaveAtAnothersSacrifice\n\n\n\nThe knowledge of islands on maps is often connected with many lost lives.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Feb 14, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Wager\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nhistorical\n\n\nnon-fiction\n\n\nsurvival\n\n\n\nCrazy story in so many dimensions. Very well written. \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Feb 14, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTrajectory and Mindset\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ncareer\n\n\ncareer advice\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nWhy do people say “don’t be complacent” in your career?\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Feb 14, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 3 - Two Scriptures\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nThe books work together\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 13, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Foam Mattresses\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nhome\n\n\n\nComfy, affordable, and comfy.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 13, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA/B Testing Resources\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nA/B testing\n\n\nstatistics\n\n\n\nLearn from the best.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 13, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTimeGPT and Lag-Llama: Two foundation models for time series forecasting\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nmachine learning\n\n\nml-tools\n\n\n\nA foundation model for time series?\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 13, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTeam Misfits\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nlife lessons\n\n\nleadership\n\n\n\n“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid” - Einstein\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 13, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCoalesce - Revelation first, then Agency\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nrevelation\n\n\n\nFirst obey the Lord, then do your own will with Him involved when He hasn’t given instruction.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 13, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 4 Ask\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 12, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Chicken Sliders\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nfood\n\n\n\nGood food exists\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 12, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWar Tech\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nTech cannot control the hearts of the men and women who wield it. It can only enable them.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 12, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 2 - Enticement is Agency\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nmental health\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nWe can’t make choices without being enticed. Are we aware of that?\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 11, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Gatherings for the Super Bowl\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nsports\n\n\n\nIt brings people together\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 11, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 2 - His Capacity to Carry Our Burdens\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nadversity\n\n\natonement\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nprayer\n\n\n\nHe has borne our sorrows. He wants us to be yoked with him so those sorrows can be light.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 10, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Old Movies\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nmovies\n\n\n\nAnd how they’re still so relatable and human\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreate AI images with Google’s Gemini model\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai tools\n\n\nGemini\n\n\nchatgpt\n\n\nllm wars\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nChatGPT vs Gemini. The battle begins.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 10, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsaiah 53.4\n\n\n\n\n\n\nfavorite scriptures\n\n\n\nSelected quotes.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 2 - Redemption\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nredemption\n\n\natonement\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nWe are capable of being healed because we are loved and because He did what needed to be done\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 9, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Skimboarding\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nsports\n\n\n\nIt’s that buttery feeling\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 9, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 2 - Consecration\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nconsecration\n\n\nadversity\n\n\n\nIt’s a state of mind.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 8, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Long Runs\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nOh the places you’ll go.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 8, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProtobufs - Everything I don’t know\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nraw notes\n\n\ndata engineering\n\n\n\nWhat they’re potentially used for\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 8, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPkl for Configuration Management\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\ncoding\n\n\ndata engineering\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ndata pipeline\n\n\nconfiguration\n\n\n\nYet another config system\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 8, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 1 - Shake off the Chains\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nWhat holds you back?\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Feb 7, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for New York\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nAnd it’s way of life\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Feb 7, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGalileo AI\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai tools\n\n\nui generators\n\n\ndesign\n\n\n\nText to UI generation\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 6, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 1 - Obtaining a Promised Land\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nindividual covenant\n\n\ncovenant\n\n\nland of promise\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nLehi waited a long time to receive his inheritance. But through perseverance and faith, their time came.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 6, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Kindness\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nparenting\n\n\ncharity\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nThe kindness I’ve been shown every day of my life.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 6, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to share an HTML file (like a quarto output in GitHub)\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nquarto\n\n\ngithub\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nhtml\n\n\n\nDo you have an HTML file saved on GitHub that you’d like to share?\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 6, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 1 - Alternative Endings\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nhindsight\n\n\n\nWe often ask ourselves, “what if?” Rarely do we get the answer.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 5, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorld’s Longest Drive\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nsports\n\n\ngolf\n\n\n\nFull send\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 5, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Avocados\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nfood\n\n\n\nThey enrich everything they’re combined with, even life itself.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 5, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmbedding audio in Quarto\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nquarto\n\n\nblogging\n\n\ntutorial\n\n\nobsidian\n\n\n\nHow do I use audio in Quarto? Here are three ways.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 5, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 22 - His Covenants will be the key of the Gathering of Israel\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\ngathering of israel\n\n\nAbrahamic Covenant\n\n\n\nWe are gathered in when we make and keep covenants.\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 4, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Divinely Discontent Chatbot User\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nsoftware\n\n\nsaas\n\n\nllm\n\n\nai\n\n\nai strategy\n\n\n\nIt’s the early days. One will emerge as the next “Google” of the search engines. Expectations of what software can do are rising. Those expectations are becoming indiscernible from the magic that software is becoming.\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 4, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLLM Chatbot Arena Leaderboard\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nllm benchmarks\n\n\nai\n\n\nai tools\n\n\nai benchmarks\n\n\n\nHead to head challenges of chatbots.\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 4, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for bowling\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nsports\n\n\n\nIt’s a sport anyone can do, nobody cares about who’s better, and you can actually do at night pretty easily.\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 4, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Home Depot Saturday Morning Crafts\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nBringing families together through crafts\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Iceberg Theory - Theory of Omission\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nstorytelling\n\n\nwriting\n\n\ncreativity\n\n\n\nA captivating writing style\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 3, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 21 - I Have Graven Thee\n\n\nHe has not forgotten you\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nThe Lord wants us to know he’s there for us. He always has been.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 20 - Baptism in the Old Testament\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nold testament\n\n\nAbrahamic Covenant\n\n\nbaptism\n\n\n\nBaptism is a covenant that was lost from the Old Testament\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Peloton\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nAnd the many great workouts it’s given me\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShift\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nSilo series book 2\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHoliday Demand Forecasting using XGBoost\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nmachine learning\n\n\ntime series\n\n\nforecasting\n\n\ninternet article bookmark\n\n\n\nHow DoorDash makes precision predictions with decision trees and spiky holidays\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Compounding Interest of Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nreading\n\n\ninvesting\n\n\n\nAsk not what one book can do for you. Ask instead what you couldn’t do without one book?\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of a Good Book\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nai\n\n\nreading\n\n\n\nIt takes one to know one.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrivate GPT\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai tools\n\n\nprivacy\n\n\nopen source\n\n\n\nIndex your local files and chat with them\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLM Studio\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai tools\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGPT4All\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai tools\n\n\nedge device\n\n\nprivacy\n\n\nopen source\n\n\n\nRun LLMs locally\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeam AI\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai tools\n\n\nai\n\n\nlocal ai\n\n\nprivacy\n\n\nedge device\n\n\nclosed source\n\n\n\nRun OpenAI in a native Mac App\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Compliments\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nleadership\n\n\ncharity\n\n\n\nThey’re financially cheap, but when sincere are incredibly valuable\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 1, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 19 - Yieldeth Himself\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nThat the Lord gave himself to His persecutors is the power of the atonement\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 1, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Old Man and the Sea\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nfiction\n\n\nclassics\n\n\n\nBeautiful\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 1, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExport your Libby Timeline to Obsidian\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ntutorial\n\n\npython\n\n\nlibby\n\n\nquarto\n\n\nblogging\n\n\n\nDownload the Libby timeline, export to markdown files using pandas\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 1, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Basketball\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nIt brings people together, and many people can contribute in their own way\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 31, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 18 - The Power of Prayer\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nadversity\n\n\n\nThe winds in our life can cease when we turn to God.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 31, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Loop\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 31, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInfluence The Psychology of Persuasion\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nSeven realms of influence\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 31, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 17 - He will strengthen us\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nstrength\n\n\ntrust in the Lord\n\n\n\nDon’t ask for obstacles to be removed. Ask to be strengthened to overcome them\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 30, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for YouTube\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nAnd for everything I’ve learned on it\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 30, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 16 - Christ Guides us in Unique Ways\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nrevelation\n\n\nhand of the Lord\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nThe same person can receive different guidance at different times. Two people in the same circumstance can be guided differently.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 29, 2024\n\n\n5 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Rescue Workers\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nWe in America have hundreds of people ready to help us at a moment’s notice\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 29, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Tyranny of Experts\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\neconomics\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 29, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-01-28 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 22-28 1 Nephi 11-15\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\ncome follow me lesson plan\n\n\n\nSummary and notes for the lesson week\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 28, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Imagination\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\ncreativity\n\n\n\nA boring tree is only boring to a boring person\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 28, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Chirping Birds\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nnature\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for the time of day and time of year they make their presence known.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 27, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 15 - Hearken and Hold Fast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nobedience\n\n\n\nFind the word. Listen. Hold on to it.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 26, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBecome a Data Scientist in 10 Weeks\n\n\nHow to break into data science with an understanding how the modern data economy works\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nfeatured\n\n\ncareer\n\n\nrecommendation systems\n\n\nA/B testing\n\n\nanalytics\n\n\nbeginners\n\n\n\nYou only need the desire. The rest is freely accessible. Focus on breadth at first and creating content for your resume (tips included on that too!)\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 26, 2024\n\n\n11 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Rock Climbing\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nadventure\n\n\npersonal stories\n\n\n\nBecause I’m still alive, and I had fun.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 26, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 14 - Convincing unto Peace\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\npeace\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nWill I be convinced?\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 25, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Only Mind that’s Clear Is the One That Sees No Alternative\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nmy principles\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nSeek not to be right. Seek to understand.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 25, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for New Perspectives\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nperspective\n\n\npersonal stories\n\n\n\nNever know when you’re gonna break a bone. But sometimes it’s a good thing.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 25, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 13 - Publish Peace\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\npeace\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nThe world is a crazy place. We can make it a little less crazy.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 24, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Challenges\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nchallenges\n\n\n\nLife has a way of refining us. But isn’t refinement what we seek?\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 24, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWool\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\napocalyptic\n\n\nfiction\n\n\ndystopian\n\n\nsci-fi\n\n\n\nLiving in a Silo\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 24, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 12 - Broad Roads\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nYou can do down any path you choose. How you go down the path matters.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 23, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Coddling of the American Mind\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\npsychology\n\n\npolitics\n\n\neducation\n\n\n\nWe are meant to be challenged, and our nation faces a risk of coddling\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 23, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Navajo Code Talkers\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nThe freedoms I enjoy come at the sacrifices of those who came before\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 23, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting Only Makes Sense to the Author\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nwriting\n\n\nart\n\n\n\nThe rest of us are left guessing. But the more the author puts themself in the shoes of the audience, the less guesswork needs to happen.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 23, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTurn to God in All Things, and Not Your Idols\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nfaith\n\n\nconsecration\n\n\n\nWhere do we turn when things get hard?\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 22, 2024\n\n\n5 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 11 - Angel shows signs to Nephi\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nfaith\n\n\n\nWe can see signs if we are believing.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 22, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Early Morning Workouts\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\npersonal stories\n\n\n\nIt was good then, and the effects have been lifelong\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 22, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-01-21 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 15-21 1 Nephi 6-10\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me lesson plan\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 21, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Similarities\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nmemories\n\n\npersonal stories\n\n\n\nWe’re all very similar in many ways\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 21, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaints Book 1 The Standard of Truth 1815-1846\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 21, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 8 - Press Forward Continually\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nlove\n\n\nlove of God\n\n\nagency\n\n\n\nAlthough His love is unconditional, we have to work to put ourselves in a position to recognize and feel that love.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 20, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Social Gatherings\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nHumans are made for social gatherings, whether you’re introverted or not\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 20, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to Win Friends and Influence People\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\ninfluence\n\n\nleadership\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nThe business and relationship bible. Practical ideas for understanding and adapting to various human needs\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 20, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Baby Formula\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nIt saves lives.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 19, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Wealth of Nations\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\neconomics\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 19, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Inklings\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 19, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 10 - Rely on the Redeemer\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nWe are all lost and fallen. Perhaps we can fall to our knees to grow.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 19, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 9 - Write with a Purpose\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nSome of your work can focus on the savior, other work on not the savior.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 18, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Things I Don’t Understand\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nepistemology\n\n\n\nThe process of discovery and enlightenment is fulfilling\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 18, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Music\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nmusic\n\n\n\nIt heals. It moves. It communicates.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 17, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of Habitual Prayer\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nmy testimony\n\n\npersonal stories\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nfeatured\n\n\n\nWhy praying sometimes doesn’t work like it “should”, and how I fixed that\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 17, 2024\n\n\n7 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 8 - Think for yourself\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nDon’t let the haters of the world blind your perceptions. Think for yourself. Experience for yourself.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 17, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 7 - Make a Choice, Don’t go Halvsies\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncommitment\n\n\nlearning\n\n\nepistemology\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nLaman and Lemuel struggled committing. As a result they had a lot of issues. If you’re going to follow the prophet, do it.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 16, 2024\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Problem with Public Opinions\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\nsocial media\n\n\n\nEveryone has one, and they all stink…\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 16, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParadise Lost and Paradise Regained\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nBy John Milton\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 16, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Open Source\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nThis site is built using open source tools, hosted for free on GitHub\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 16, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 6 - God of the Covenant\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\n\nFocus on the covenants that He has made and will fulfill\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 15, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Ice Skating\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nFor the people who make communities thrive\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 15, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 5 - Will a promise be delivered?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nfaith\n\n\ncovenant\n\n\nindividual covenant\n\n\npromised blessings\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nTrust in what you’re promised. Don’t worry about what you’re not.\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 14, 2024\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Heaven\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nAs a concept and as a place\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 14, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Church Culture of Missionary work\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nopinion\n\n\nlds culture\n\n\n\nHow members talk about sharing the gospel\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 14, 2024\n\n\n8 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Healing\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nThat it’s possible and that I’ve experienced it\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 13, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 4 - Why not?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nWhy wouldn’t Christ want to help me?\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 13, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 3 - Dreamed a Dream\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nOn complaining\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 12, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can plan your life in 5 minutes\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\npurpose of life\n\n\n\nYou know what’s good for you.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 12, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for My Childhood\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nA few good choices, a lot of good fortune, and great parents.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 12, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJunk attracts Junk\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nlaws of human nature\n\n\nobservations\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nThe law of junk\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 12, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBiden’s debt relief won’t relieve what he thinks it will\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\npolitics\n\n\neconomics\n\n\n\nAsking a tradesperson to pay for someone else’s education isn’t right \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 11, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Strollers\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nGet there faster.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 11, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 2 - Receiving a promised land\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncovenant\n\n\nindividual covenant\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nThe Lord gives us one thing, takes it to give us another even better\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 11, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nList of Study Topics\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlists\n\n\n\nThings I want to study\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 11, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind the Fun\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nparenting\n\n\nmental health\n\n\nmindfulness\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\ntech\n\n\nA/B testing\n\n\nmindset\n\n\n\nA mindset for the madness.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 11, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Quest for Cosmic Justice\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\neconomics\n\n\nsocial justice\n\n\npolitics\n\n\n\nI’m shocked this was written in 1999. I didn’t learn the date until after finishing the book. That illustrates that we live in the same general state of challenge that he wrote about, and things haven’t changed for 20 years. People in power still seek power. Seek to restrict freedoms of few, in an attempt to empower the many, in the name of equity and cosmic justice.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCool Quarto Site\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nquarto\n\n\ntech\n\n\ncoding\n\n\n\nDifferent things you can do pretty easily with quarto.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNewsletters I follow\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlists\n\n\n\nxxx\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStop trying to change people. Stop it.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nagency\n\n\nmindfulness\n\n\nperspective\n\n\n\nLiving the Gospel isn’t about changing others. It’s about changing yourself through Christ.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n5 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 1 - He prepares us to teach us\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nrevelation\n\n\nprophets\n\n\nepistemology\n\n\n\nHe teaches us line upon line. He is the master teacher, and if we listen he will teach us.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nListening to ‘This is the Christ’ right now, grateful for good music\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nmusic\n\n\n\nBy Calee Reed\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-01-14 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 7-14\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me lesson plan\n\n\n\nLesson plan\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for small things\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nretrospective\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\nprinciples\n\n\n\nThe smaller the better. If you can appreciate a blade of grass, you can appreciate anything.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Sandwich Shops\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nI grew up near some of the best\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe six hour sandwich\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nsales\n\n\nlife musings\n\n\npeople I meet\n\n\n\nHow to sell a breakfast sandwich\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGuide to Decision Making\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nGuide to Decision Making by Helga Drummond. Published by Wiley, with ISBN 9781118240557.0. Read on 2024-01-10\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 1 - Praying for Other People\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nHow to have an influence on others and allow them to influence you for good as well.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis drug is habit forming\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nsocial media\n\n\n\nAn argument against societal acceptance of things not good for us\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Matrix: Social Media’s Influence on Human Interaction\n\n\n\n\n\n\nsocial media\n\n\ndigital minimalism\n\n\ntech\n\n\nmodern living\n\n\n\nCan you enter it? Or can you leave it?\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nhistory\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nby Colin Duriez\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat’s your decision framework?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ninsights from books\n\n\ninvesting\n\n\nmemories\n\n\npersonal stories\n\n\nemotional intelligence\n\n\n\nFacts? Gut? Blend? Do you track your emotional decisioning performance?\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganization and Minimalism\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nminimalism\n\n\norganization\n\n\nsoftware\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nWhen in doubt, “Afuera” it out!\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReading Ethos\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nreading\n\n\n\nHow I approach reading.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAudiobooks\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nreading\n\n\n\nListen here, there, anywhere.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScriptures within Scriptures\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nscriptures\n\n\n\nHow Nephi feels about scriptures, and all the things one verse can yield.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 8, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDune: Messiah\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nby Frank Herbert. More political than the first. Focusing on the torment of a leader who has it all. What must it be like to have everything? The thought experiment is worth the read.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 8, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLegal AI\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nLegal AI companies and solutions\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 8, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for the Toothbrush\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nThe power to clean and the power to refresh\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 8, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Knife to a Gun Fight: Why I’m off Social Media\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\npersonal experiments\n\n\nA/B testing\n\n\nsocial media\n\n\nbig tech\n\n\nincentives\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nrelationships\n\n\nai\n\n\nemotional intelligence\n\n\npurpose of life\n\n\ndigital minimalism\n\n\n\nTim Ferris has a viewpoint that is 100% aligned with what I experienced working in tech.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 8, 2024\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBecoming an expert is kind of a fallacy\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\npersonal development\n\n\ngrowth\n\n\ngrit\n\n\nlife lessons\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nDoesn’t matter how many hours you work at something. What matters is if you figure out the lightbulb. Could have been the first by luck, no?\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 7, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMy testimony: Moving across the Country\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nfast sunday\n\n\nmy testimony\n\n\nmemories\n\n\nlet god prevail\n\n\n\nAfter prayer, a door immediately opened. It doesn’t always work like this, but there’s no mistaking this was the Lord’s hand.\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 7, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to preside?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\ndoctrine and covenants\n\n\npriesthood\n\n\nleadership\n\n\nthe family a proclamation to the world\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nIt means to care for and love those you serve\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 7, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-01-07 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 1-7\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\ncome follow me lesson plan\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nLesson plan\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 7, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCars\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 7, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Haircuts\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nIt’s not about the hair, but who cut it\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 6, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAI won’t replace us. We’ll always create.\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\nhumanity\n\n\ncreativity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 5, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Cuban Mogul Support\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nentrepreneurship\n\n\nYouTube clip\n\n\n\nAMA from Twitter\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 5, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTime\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for time, however temporary.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 5, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow I use the Book of Mormon\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\ntestimony\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nPray. Sincere. Have a question in mind.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 5, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHard Work and its Reward\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nperspective\n\n\neffort\n\n\nlife lessons\n\n\nmemories\n\n\n\nGood work, consistently done, is meaningful and a reward itself\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat startups and musicians have in common\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nstartups\n\n\nmusic\n\n\n\nA recently signed Artist is their own startup\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe future wave of AI hype\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nnews\n\n\nchart critique\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWrite a thousand songs\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ncreativity\n\n\nwriting\n\n\n\nTake the pressure off and write a little.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen Leaders Lose their People\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nleadership\n\n\n\nHave I lost you too?\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Multiverse of Careers\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nmeditation\n\n\ndeathbed meditation\n\n\ncareer\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nWhich path you choose isn’t as important as the companions to journey with\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen a Person Changes their Perspective on Christ\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nepistemology\n\n\ntheology\n\n\n\nWhat is a witness? What if someone flip flops? How do we know what is true?\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n9 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n30 Seconds is All You Get\n\n\n\n\n\n\nmusic\n\n\neconomics\n\n\nincentives\n\n\nposts\n\n\n\nApple set the limit to 30s. That impacted music forever.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZoom\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nA video is worth a thousand words\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYour Mood is Contagious\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nleadership\n\n\nparenting\n\n\nemotional resilience\n\n\ngrit\n\n\n\nIt may take twice the effort to overcome negative vibes.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting Ethos\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlists\n\n\n\nWhy and how I write\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Dream State of Software\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\ndesign\n\n\nai\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\n\nGen AI will blur the lines between what’s dreamed and what’s real - hopefully in a near instant blend of ever evolving software adapting instantly to needs\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSteve Jobs (Biography)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nby Walter Isaacson\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare your testimony\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ntestimony\n\n\n\nStand before nations, even in your living room\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMy Tombstone\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nmortality\n\n\nwork\n\n\nwork life balance\n\n\nperspective\n\n\nmeditation\n\n\npriorities\n\n\n\nWhat will your tombstone actually read? What do you want it to read.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLove Thy Neighbor, But Have Friends\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nlove\n\n\nfamily\n\n\nfriendship\n\n\n\nTo love someone doesn’t mean spend all your time with them. You can focus on relationships that bring you joy while loving all mankind.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThings I’m grateful for\n\n\n\n\n\nMaybe I’ll write these in a post, maybe not.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Psychology of New Software Releases and its Parallels with Fashion\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbusiness strategy\n\n\nsaas\n\n\nsales\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nWhat the software industry and fashion have in common: a divinely discontent customer and excited competitors\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Miracles of Christ\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nmiracles\n\n\nfaith\n\n\nsigns\n\n\n\nWhat is a miracle? How does He do His work?\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInnovator’s Dilemma\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nby Clayton Christiansen.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGood Books\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nBooks always have been and always will be a captivating way to tell a thought provoking story.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Socrates A Life Worth Living” by Devra Lehman\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for rest\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nobservations\n\n\n\nRest is restorative\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 1, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReplacing human work with AI\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai\n\n\nautomation\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nleadership\n\n\n\nReactions to an MIT article ‘4 questions to ask before swapping out human labor for AI’\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 31, 2023\n\n\n5 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEyes\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nI’m grateful I can see.\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 31, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCome follow me, December 25-31, Revelations 15-21\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nraw notes\n\n\n\nSea of glass. \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 31, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWater as a Currency?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nwater\n\n\neconomics\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 30, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmotional Recovery\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\n\nEveryone recovers differently.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 30, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeaches\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nwater\n\n\nbeach\n\n\nsunset\n\n\n\nThe rhythmic but unique crash of each wave is soothing\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 30, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuarto vs. quartz for Obsidian blog\n\n\n\n\n\n\nquarto\n\n\nobsidian\n\n\npkm\n\n\nbuild in public\n\n\ntool\n\n\ntool comparison\n\n\n\nWhy I use quarto to manage my knowledge database.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 29, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlogging with Obsidian and Quarto\n\n\n\n\n\n\nobsidian\n\n\nquarto\n\n\ntutorial\n\n\n\nMy framework and flow for blogging from my phone using Obsidian and Quarto.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 29, 2023\n\n\n8 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nbusiness\n\n\n\nChoose wisely, and enjoy the ride.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 28, 2023\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeaving my Startup was the Right Decision\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nstorytelling\n\n\nhindsight\n\n\n\nBut not because of the outcome.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 28, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFlipping the coins of life\n\n\n\n\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nAre you right just because you got heads?\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 28, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDecisions are Like Hopping on a River Raft\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nChoose wisely, and enjoy the ride.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 28, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n97 percent chance you’ll fail\n\n\n\n\n\n\nsuccess\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nThe odds of constant success are against you every 5 decisions. So there’s gotta be another way to define success.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 28, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPost Christmas blues? Remember the empty tombs\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nchristmas\n\n\n\nAn empty room and an empty tomb. There is meaningful symbolism in taking down the tree. \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 27, 2023\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for artists\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nThose who create, who learn, who think in new ways, who pioneer, who explore. \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 27, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn Unknown God\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ntheology\n\n\nfaith\n\n\ndoubts\n\n\n\nGod is indeed unknown, but that doesn’t mean He doesn’t exist. And learning His ways requires seeing all sides, being intellectually and spiritually honest, and open. \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 27, 2023\n\n\n10 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting is truly enlivening\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nwriting\n\n\n\nWrite in public. Write daily. Write about nothing. \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 26, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWrite despite AI\n\n\n\n\n\n\nai\n\n\nhumanity\n\n\n\nI’m fully aware an AI is listening and all that I write just trains it. Perhaps this is a perversion of my work (if I made money off it). Why write if everything I write just trains an AI agent to do their job better? \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 26, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThings I’d like in a blog\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nquarto\n\n\n\nWhat quarto is great at and what I’d like out of it. \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 26, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for blankets\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nMy grandma made blankets cool \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 26, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to blog from your phone using quarto (or hugo/jekyll/etc) using Working Copy and Obsidian\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\ntech\n\n\ntutorial\n\n\n\nWorking copy is $20, obsidian is free (and optional). I’ll show you how to set this up (iPhone only I think?) \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 26, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for doctors\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nDoctors of the body. Doctors of the mind. Doctors of the soul…Any engaged in the pursuit of healing. \n\n\n\n\n\nMon Dec 25, 2023\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAI Robots are mastering tasks faster than humans\n\n\n\n\n\n\nai\n\n\ntech\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\n\nFrom walking to labyrinth, the future looks bright for these machines. The key is the objective functions, time, and training data. \n\n\n\n\n\nMon Dec 25, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwas the Night before Christmas\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristmas\n\n\nask gpt\n\n\n\nThe origin of the story, and a link to the 1912 publication. \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 24, 2023\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Christ Child\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nThe birth of Jesus Christ teach us what we can do to have greater peace in this life \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 24, 2023\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLight\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nI set up 72 lights today. \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 24, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHis is the light that we should share\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nWho is the source of light? \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 24, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDune\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nsci-fi\n\n\n\nThe plans and risks of generations\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 23, 2023\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Best of Edgar Allen Poe\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nYou think me mad?\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 23, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKillers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI\n\n\n\n\n\n\nstorytelling\n\n\nmurder mystery\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nAn incredible story of how low, sick and twisted humanity can get, and how good people can truly be.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 22, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Allegory of the Dodo\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nbusiness\n\n\nkids books\n\n\n\nWhen in having solved a problem we inadvertently create problems for ourselves \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 21, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGitHub copilot levels up\n\n\n\n\n\n\nai\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nWhat will it do next? \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 21, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUnbelievable\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nA man’s separation from Christianity\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 20, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Little Red Hen\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook review\n\n\nstartups\n\n\n\nPeople love to enjoy the fruits, but who will bake the bread? \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 20, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n101 Essays that will Change the Way You Think, by Brianna Wiest\n\n\n\n\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\nmindfulness\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nWe all started as strangers. It’s a choice who stays that way.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 19, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to encourage your kids\n\n\n\n\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nUnexpected advice on how to be a great parent when fostering talent \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 19, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy\n\n\n\n\n\n\nstorytelling\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nHow did it take me so long to finally read this?\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Dec 18, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristmas celebrates a Living Christ\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nai\n\n\nchristmas\n\n\n\nChrist is the way, the light and life of the world. Always has been. Always will be. \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 17, 2023\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is humanity\n\n\n\n\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nHumanity seeks to resolve problems. What happens when they’re too easily solved? \n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 16, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrompt techniques\n\n\n\n\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nOpen AI strategies \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 15, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLLMs can find a needle in the haystack\n\n\n\n\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nGPT outperforms Claude. \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 15, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCool AI Tweets\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nRunning list of cool things I’ve seen. \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 14, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThree Little Pigs\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook review\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nA story with a terrible but incredibly relatable morale \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 13, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearn by doing\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nYou don’t need a PhD. Or a masters. You just need to hustle \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 13, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScientific Freedom\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nInnovation comes by varied incentives: intellectual curiosity and economic incentive\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 12, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFuture of Coding\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nAs our jobs are automatable, we need to discover what’s not \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 12, 2023\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFour Thousand Weeks\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nFour Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman. Published by Macmillan Audio, with ISBN 9781250834386.0. Read on 2023-08-17\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Aug 17, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvery City Is Every Other City\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nEvery City Is Every Other City by John McFetridge. Published by ECW Press, with ISBN 9781773057620.0. Read on 2023-07-22\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jul 22, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSapiens\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nSapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. Published by HarperAudio, with ISBN 9780062796233.0. Read on 2023-06-15\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jun 15, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1984\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\n1984 by George Orwell. Published by Blackstone Publishing, with ISBN 9781483050935.0. Read on 2023-05-08\n\n\n\n\n\nMon May 8, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen Breath Becomes Air\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nWhen Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780399566172.0. Read on 2023-04-25\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Apr 25, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow do you want to be remembered?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nleadership\n\n\nservice\n\n\n\nIt’s a question as old as time, but misses the mark and is distracting from the more important question. \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 23, 2022\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuilding a complex R Shiny Dashboard Using ChatGPT\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nr\n\n\nshiny\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\nchatgpt\n\n\n\nChatGPT can create amazing boilerplate code and can point you in the right direction, but it cannot debug data problems easily (yet). It can read in data from the internet, make time-series forecasts, and visualize the data (with a little assistance). \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 15, 2022\n\n\n8 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModels as a Service and the Future of Data Science\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nstartups\n\n\nbusiness\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nData Scientists shouldn’t be scared their jobs will disappear. They should be excited that they’ll be joining companies that automate what they’re currently doing and offer it as a service. \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 6, 2022\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting a Tech Resume\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\n\nHow to write a resume to get into a FAANG company. \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Nov 18, 2022\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nResume Substance over Style\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\n\nThe content of your resume is more important than the design. \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Nov 18, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is a model?\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nPutting the mysterious in context. \n\n\n\n\n\nSat Nov 12, 2022\n\n\n5 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Powerful Laws Nature\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Powerful Laws Nature by Richard Koch. Published by Ascent Audio, with ISBN 9781469093048.0. Read on 2022-09-11\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Sep 11, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThink Again\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThink Again by Adam Grant. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780593394762.0. Read on 2022-09-07\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Sep 7, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHuman Compatible\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nHuman Compatible by Stuart Russell. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780593148631.0. Read on 2022-08-22\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Aug 22, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAntifragile\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nAntifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780739370704.0. Read on 2022-08-17\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Aug 17, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNever Split the Difference\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nNever Split the Difference by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz. Published by HarperAudio, with ISBN 9780062471253.0. Read on 2022-08-15\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Aug 15, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWillpower\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nWillpower by Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney. Published by Penguin Publishing Group, with ISBN 9781101543771.0. Read on 2022-08-06\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Aug 6, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThinking, Fast and Slow\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780739357996.0. Read on 2022-08-04\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Aug 4, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of Regret\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Power of Regret by Daniel H. Pink. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780593555576.0. Read on 2022-08-01\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Aug 1, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDigital Minimalism\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nDigital Minimalism by Cal Newport. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780525643555.0. Read on 2022-08-01\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Aug 1, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDe-sciencing Data Science and Talking Like a Normal Person\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nprinciples\n\n\n\nHow can data scientists bring their technical knowledge to a non-technical audience? Here are my lessons learned from seven years in the data trenches. \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jul 20, 2022\n\n\n6 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Willpower Instinct\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal Ph.D.. Published by Gildan Media Corp, with ISBN nan. Read on 2022-07-15\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jul 15, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEffortless\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nEffortless by Greg McKeown. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780593153925.0. Read on 2022-07-08\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jul 8, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhy We Sleep\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nWhy We Sleep by Matthew Walker. Published by Simon & Schuster Audio, with ISBN 9781508240013.0. Read on 2022-07-04\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jul 4, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen data collection goes too far\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\ntech\n\n\nsurveillance\n\n\n\nIt’s important for us to track certain things about ourselves. But this is clearly not exactly healthy IMO. \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jul 3, 2022\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPomodoro Principles\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nticktick\n\n\n\nThe art of focus through 25min work blocks. \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jun 28, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIncrease Focus through Writing Down Everything\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nmusings\n\n\nticktick\n\n\n\nTo be more present, get it all down and into a system. \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jun 28, 2022\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow I use TickTick\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\n\nAn overview of how I apply the principles of “Getting Things Done”, or GTD. \n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jun 25, 2022\n\n\n7 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGetting Things Done\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nA system of thought and action\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jun 24, 2022\n\n\n6 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Organized Mind\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Organized Mind by Daniel J. Levitin. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780698162235.0. Read on 2022-06-24\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jun 24, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGive and Take\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nGive and Take by Adam Grant. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9781101621479.0. Read on 2022-06-24\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jun 24, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is the best todo list manager?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\napp review\n\n\n\nI’ve reviewed 20+ apps. I think I’m done reviewing them. \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jun 23, 2022\n\n\n11 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew ideas are distractingly exciting\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\npriorities\n\n\nideation\n\n\n\nBe careful of recency bias with your ideas. \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jun 23, 2022\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRadical Candor\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nRadical Candor by Kim Scott. Published by Macmillan Audio, with ISBN 9781250245786.0. Read on 2022-06-22\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jun 22, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownstream Impact\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nexperimentation\n\n\n\nWhen you do an online experiment, you’re changing the future forever. \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jun 22, 2022\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of Party Pay by Visible\n\n\n\n\n\n\nstartups\n\n\nstrategy\n\n\n\nVisible wireless, owned by Verizon, offers users $25 off per month if they join a meaningless party. What’s the effect? \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jun 21, 2022\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProducts for dads\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nfatherhood\n\n\n\nWhat products am I still using 5 years later? \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jun 21, 2022\n\n\n6 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlogging with Quarto, and why I don’t use Medium anymore\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nI’m trying out quarto and I like it. \n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jun 20, 2022\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Obstacle Is the Way\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday. Published by Penguin Publishing Group, with ISBN 9781101620595.0. Read on 2022-06-17\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jun 17, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCourage Is Calling\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nCourage Is Calling by Ryan Holiday. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780593456262.0. Read on 2022-06-17\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jun 17, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZero to One\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nZero to One by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780804165266.0. Read on 2022-06-09\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jun 9, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRich Dad Poor Dad\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nRich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki. Published by Plata Publishing, LLC., with ISBN 9781612680163.0. Read on 2022-06-09\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jun 9, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorld Travel\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nWorld Travel by Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever. Published by HarperAudio, with ISBN 9780063055568.0. Read on 2022-06-08\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jun 8, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrinciples\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nPrinciples by Ray Dalio. Published by Simon & Schuster Audio, with ISBN 9781508243250.0. Read on 2022-06-05\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jun 5, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGood to Great\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nGood to Great by Jim Collins. Published by HarperAudio, with ISBN 9780062045874.0. Read on 2022-06-04\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jun 4, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo Rules Rules\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nNo Rules Rules by Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9781984891174.0. Read on 2022-06-03\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jun 3, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLife of Pi\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nLife of Pi by Yann Martel. Published by HighBridge Company, with ISBN nan. Read on 2022-05-14\n\n\n\n\n\nSat May 14, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSteve Jobs\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nSteve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. Published by Recorded Books, Inc., with ISBN nan. Read on 2022-04-12\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Apr 12, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDeep Work\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nDeep Work by Cal Newport. Published by Hachette Audio, with ISBN 9781478930082.0. Read on 2022-03-31\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Mar 31, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMidnight in Chernobyl\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nMidnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham. Published by Simon & Schuster Audio, with ISBN 9781508278511.0. Read on 2022-03-30\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Mar 30, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne Second After\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nOne Second After by William R. Forstchen. Published by Blackstone Publishing, with ISBN 9781483057736.0. Read on 2022-03-20\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Mar 20, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGetting to Yes\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nGetting to Yes by Roger Fisher, William Ury. Published by Simon & Schuster Audio, with ISBN 9781442339538.0. Read on 2022-03-16\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Mar 16, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Hard Thing About Hard Things\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz. Published by HarperAudio, with ISBN 9780062347992.0. Read on 2022-03-15\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Mar 15, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe First 90 Days\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe First 90 Days by Michael D. Watkins. Published by Ascent Audio, with ISBN 9781469025476.0. Read on 2022-03-12\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Mar 12, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGuns, Germs, and Steel\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780307932433.0. Read on 2022-03-10\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Mar 10, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTribe of Mentors\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nTribe of Mentors by Timothy Ferriss. Published by HarperCollins, with ISBN 9781328994974.0. Read on 2022-03-06\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Mar 6, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Storytelling Animal\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Storytelling Animal by Jonathan Gottschall. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, with ISBN 9780547644813.0. Read on 2022-03-01\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Mar 1, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMindset\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nMindset by Carol Dweck. Published by Gildan Media Corp, with ISBN nan. Read on 2022-02-22\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 22, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAtomic Habits\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nAtomic Habits by James Clear. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9781524779269.0. Read on 2022-02-21\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 21, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEinstein\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nEinstein by Walter Isaacson. Published by Simon & Schuster Audio, with ISBN 9780743560979.0. Read on 2022-02-10\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 10, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeonardo da Vinci\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nLeonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson. Published by Simon & Schuster Audio, with ISBN 9781508241997.0. Read on 2022-01-21\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 21, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHidden Figures\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nHidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly. Published by HarperAudio, with ISBN 9780062472076.0. Read on 2022-01-15\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 15, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Alchemist\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Published by HarperAudio, with ISBN 9780060879075.0. Read on 2022-01-10\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 10, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDare to Lead\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nDare to Lead by Brené Brown. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9781984844224.0. Read on 2022-01-05\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 5, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTalking to Strangers\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nTalking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell. Published by Hachette Audio, with ISBN 9781549150340.0. Read on 2021-12-29\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 29, 2021\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGreenlights\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nGreenlights by Matthew McConaughey. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780593294185.0. Read on 2021-12-28\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 28, 2021\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Body\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Body by Bill Bryson. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780147526922.0. Read on 2021-12-07\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 7, 2021\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGrit\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nGrit by Angela Duckworth. Published by Simon & Schuster Audio, with ISBN 9781442397149.0. Read on 2021-12-03\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 3, 2021\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Author’s Angle Matters\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nwriting\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jul 17, 2021\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of Habit\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780307966650.0. Read on 2021-05-03\n\n\n\n\n\nMon May 3, 2021\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Richest Man in Babylon\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Richest Man in Babylon by George Clason. Published by Ascent Audio, with ISBN 9781469055695.0. Read on 2021-03-20\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Mar 20, 2021\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy Team Six Seal Operator Adam Brown\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nFearless by Eric Blehm. Published by christianaudio.com, with ISBN 9781610454827.0. Read on 2021-03-12\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Mar 12, 2021\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoseph Smith\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nJoseph Smith by Richard Lyman Bushman. Published by Tantor Media, Inc., with ISBN 9781541488717.0. Read on 2021-02-17\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Feb 17, 2021\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProductivity notes\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\n\nRunning list of productivity ideas. \n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 19, 2020\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to mock the value of an ML solution\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ninnovation\n\n\n\nSell your solution before training your model. \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 16, 2020\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGet rid of the todo list. Calendar everything.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\n\nIf you’re not willing to block time for it, does it event matter? \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 15, 2020\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nData Beats Opinions\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nOpinions from the customer shape the product. Their behavior (captured as data) speaks louder than their words. \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 15, 2020\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStart with Why\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nStart with Why by Simon Sinek. Published by Penguin Publishing Group, with ISBN 9781101149034.0. Read on 2020-03-21\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Mar 21, 2020\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Anatomy of Peace\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Anatomy of Peace by The Arbinger Institute. Published by Blackstone Publishing, with ISBN 9781602834477.0. Read on 2019-12-31\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 31, 2019\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of a Positive No\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Power of a Positive No by William Ury. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780739342152.0. Read on 2019-12-25\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 25, 2019\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeadership and Self-Deception\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nLeadership and Self-Deception by The Arbinger Institute. Published by Blackstone Publishing, with ISBN nan. Read on 2019-12-16\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Dec 16, 2019\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeeling Good Together\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nFeeling Good Together by David D. Burns, M.D.. Published by Tantor Media, Inc., with ISBN 9781400178209.0. Read on 2019-09-14\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Sep 14, 2019\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRising Strong\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nRising Strong by Brené Brown. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9781101913819.0. Read on 2019-09-10\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Sep 10, 2019\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Giver\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Giver by Lois Lowry. Published by HarperCollins, with ISBN 9780547345901.0. Read on 2019-08-25\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Aug 25, 2019\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Innovator’s Dilemma\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen. Published by HighBridge, with ISBN 9781598874365.0. Read on 2019-07-23\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jul 23, 2019\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAstrophysics for People in a Hurry\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nAstrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Published by Blackstone Publishing, with ISBN 9781538408063.0. Read on 2019-06-26\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jun 26, 2019\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlexander Hamilton\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nAlexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. Published by Penguin Publishing Group, with ISBN 9781101200858.0. Read on 2019-01-04\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 4, 2019\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBetween the World and Me\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Published by Random House Publishing Group, with ISBN 9780679645986.0. Read on 2018-12-30\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 30, 2018\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSemantic Versioning for Data Science Models\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nmachine learning\n\n\n\nMeaningful versioning for data science models and machine learning pipelines. \n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jul 2, 2018\n\n\n5 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe War\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe War by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780739357293.0. Read on 2018-06-27\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jun 27, 2018\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 4-Hour Workweek\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss. Published by Blackstone Publishing, with ISBN 9781483058757.0. Read on 2018-05-01\n\n\n\n\n\nTue May 1, 2018\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Lean Startup\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Lean Startup by Eric Ries. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780307939845.0. Read on 2018-03-16\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Mar 16, 2018\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuying a used car the data science way: Part 2\n\n\n\n\n\n\nwebscraping\n\n\nr\n\n\nregression\n\n\nanalysis\n\n\npricing\n\n\nbuying things\n\n\n\nHow I analyze used car data to find under-valued cars, and why none of my analysis matters.\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 19, 2017\n\n\n14 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuying a used car the data science way: Part 1\n\n\n\n\n\n\nwebscraping\n\n\ncars\n\n\npricing\n\n\nr\n\n\n\nHow I scrape used car data.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 18, 2017\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe DataViz battle: Plotly vs ggplot2\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndataviz\n\n\nr\n\n\nggplot\n\n\nplotly\n\n\n\nWhat can you do with plotly vs. ggplot2 and how do they compare on a simple chart?\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 10, 2017\n\n\n7 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStarting with Jekyll\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nblogging\n\n\njekyll\n\n\n\nHello world.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Nov 17, 2016\n\n\n5 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReading List\n\n\n\n\n\nWish list of books\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 1, 2015\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo matching items\n\n\n \n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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Meeting at pubs weekly to review writing.\nThe theory of myth. The purpose of myth. Myth isn’t just story. It’s the discovery of a truth, a world that exists. I don’t know if Tolkien felt he created middle earth or he discovered it.\nSurprised by joy. → to read.\nGood friends don’t like everything their other friends do. But do what you feel anyway.\nWorks received in America - perhaps this is like Jimmer getting some success in China.\n\n2024-01-16 - critique. Harsh critique. Safe space. - Get together. Review. Discuss ideas. Listen. - Freely gathered friends. Not assigned. Friends. This was important. Innovation. - Creating worlds is hard. So Tolkien told many stories within the lotr world. Same with Lewis and\n2024-01-10\n\nlong walks. Lewis would walk with Tolkien. Tolkien then wrote about a super long walk in the hobit and lotr\nLanguage is the invention of objevts or ideas. Myth is the invention about truth. #post-ideas. 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(Or rather it’s not just whimsical).\nImaginative thinking is crucial for both artistic creation and scientific discovery\n\nOwenbarfield blog\n\n\n\n\nTakeaway - their creative ideas took decades to form. Or went years without being published. - Surround yourself with people who challenge you - They created a new syllabus. - power is to those who hold it. Everyone else adapts.\nBlog ideas: - don’t mistake challenge with truth. Someone who is on mistrurh side can convince you\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Vibe:\n\ncoool ending. The blind guy sees out of his kids eyes.\nRefuses Chaney reincarnation.\nDuncan Idaho returns.\nTwins: Star Wars copies. And padme. And all that.\nMore political than the first. Focusing on the torment of a leader who has it all. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "book-review/steve-jobs-biography.html", - "href": "book-review/steve-jobs-biography.html", - "title": "Steve Jobs (Biography)", + "objectID": "book-review/the-wager.html", + "href": "book-review/the-wager.html", + "title": "The Wager", "section": "", - "text": "_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "2024-02-26\n\nended how it should have. Total absolution. What a story.\nThings I liked: the warring perspectives of how to survive, the question of what is law and order when nothing is going on, the dangers men will go to, the antics nations will rage for a fraction of the return on investment (ansombs’ bounty was a fraction of what was paid for the voyage.). The kweskar are incredible. The four different return voyages home.\n\n2024-02-14\n\nCape horn! Crazy.\n\n\nThe Scottish man you’re referring to is Alexander Selkirk, who was marooned on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean, now known as Robinson Crusoe Island, part of the Juan Fernández Islands off the coast of Chile. Selkirk lived alone on the island from 1704 to 1709. His story is believed to have inspired Daniel Defoe’s novel “Robinson Crusoe.” Selkirk was a skilled navigator and sailor, and his survival skills, including hunting, gathering, and shelter building, allowed him to survive until he was eventually rescued by an English ship. His experience highlights the human capacity for adaptation and survival in extreme conditions.\n\n\n\n\nThe Wager\n\n\n2024-02-08\n\nbodysnatchers - total lack of freedom\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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Imagine you succeeded.\nHedge: pay to mitigate the downside of a bad outcome.\nPre-commitment barriers: dampen your emotional reaction\nTilt:\nDr. Evil -\nCategory decisions:\n\n2024-02-20\nSteps in decisions:\nIdentify your goal. Where are you hoping a decision will take you? 1. Identify the reasonable set of outcomes. 2. Identify your preference for the outcomes. What degree do you like/dislike each outcome? Payoffs? (Emotional, financial, etc. ) 1. What’s the range? (I could be somewhat happy or happy, but not elated) 3. Likelihood of each outcome unfolding. Use terms like “not likely, very likely” 4. Assess the relative likelihood of outcomes you like and dislike for the option under consideration. 5. Repeate 1-4 for all options. 6. Compare options.\n“If I were wrong, why might that be?” #IntrospectiveQuestion\n“What information could I discover that might make me change my mind?” #IntrospectiveQuestion\n“How shocked would I be if the outcome didn’t happen in the range I specified?” #IntrospectiveQuestion\nInside view vs outside view.\n\ninside:\nOutside: the advice others give you. Or what you’d say to someone in your position.\nStart with outside view and then move to the inside view.\nBeing smart means you anchor more to the inside view than the outside view. But decision making is best at the intersection of inside and outside.\n\n\n\n\nHow to Decide, on Spotify\n\n\nWhat is my best decision? Worst?\n\nresulting: focusing on outcomes, rather than expected values and doing the best\nto improve decision making: focus on what the process was for decision making. Information gathering. Question asking.\nRemember choosing to leave Novi, wondering if someone was going to be a millionaire in my absence. 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An Atreities? It’s fun to read and consider.\nThought provoking. Concepts of politics, religion, science, and diplomacy. War, worms, and wonder. Great read.\n\n\nMovie reactions to a friend:\n\nthe ending of the bad guys is anti-climactic, but I read the books and it’s pretty similar. Rabban doesn’t really even die. Feyd Rautha dies how he does in the book. The death of the Baron is far more interesting in the book, which I won’t spoil but it’s a whole subplot they couldn’t fit in\n\n\nThe symbolism is more that they all scoffed and scorned a 15 year old boy as not being worth anything. The theme of the baron being over confident that there aren’t fremen, that by leaving Paul in the desert he’d die with his mom, etc. they all felt untouchable. Then they all die unceremoniously and their power is just stripped away in a moment. Symbolic of Paul’s rise as a messiah and how these big leaders have very little keeping them from being humanized and debased.\n\n\nFrank Herbert’s theme when he speaks about the book is that “beware of leaders. Don’t trust any of them. Don’t worship them - they’re just humans”. And I think the unceremonious death kind of enshrines that. The baron who was rising over the Duke, dies face down in the dirt. Feyd Rautha who killed an Atreides in the coliseum dies in front of none of his people, etc.\n\n\nIt’s anti climactic but I think it speaks a lot to the theme of how majesty is kind of a thin veil.\n\n\n\n\nDune\n\n\n\nshield your son too much and he’ll not grow strong enough to fulfill any destiny\ndeprogram after the machines. Let the machines do too much thinking.\nhumans must never submit to animals\n“how did the woman seal my tongue?” Paul can’t tell his father he’s going to die. Why? 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Therefore, the goal is to constantly seek understanding, because no person is every the same one day to the next.\n\n\n\nSeeing through a glass darkly and then clearly\n\n\nSources: - How to Win Friends and Influence People - the constant focus of the book is to put yourself in the other’s shoes. - Greenlights African tribe: don’t seek to be right. Seek to understand. - The Coddling of the American Mind - tribalism is when you don’t see another’s viewpoint and only feel you are right.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Wirecutter reviewed the best todo list apps and declared “ticktick” the winner. After all my research here’s what I’ve learned.\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/organization-and-minimalism.html", - "href": "posts/organization-and-minimalism.html", - "title": "Organization and Minimalism", - "section": "", - "text": "It’s hard to be a minimalist as a parent. Or as…a human…in this economy. We all want more stuff.\n\n\n\nWhen in doubt, toss it out\n\n\nWith a small living space and a growing family I’ve grown accustomed to throwing stuff out. I grew up in a bigger house than I have now so there was space for everything. Now there’s space for very little. It’s actually a great feeling because I know what’s in every box (after doing some deep cleaning over winter break).\nI remember helping a friend move in high school. Endless hoards of products, products, products. Three moving trucks. Why? I wondered.\nMy philosophy now is: RAM and Hard drive.\nRAM: the random access memory. The things you see when you open doors affect your brain state. Your brain can only hold so much. If you live in clutter you have clutter. So the things you see in your house should reflect what you can hold in memory.\n\nToys should have a theme (blocks, action figures, doll house). If it doesn’t match a theme, it’s gone (begone random slap bracelet! “Afuera!!!”, (quote from new Argentine President))\nThings you see should be things you use. Don’t use flower every day? Don’t have it in the pantry. Put it in the corner thing. Cereal every day? Put that front and center.\n\nThen long-storage is the hard drive. It’s about keeping stuff you know you’ll want. This is easier to say than do.\n\nHoliday decoration? (Theme) keep those in the attic, out of sight out of mind. But when you need it you know where it is.\nYou get the point.\n\nThe same goes for code. Maintenance and search cost increase as you add garbage. When it doubt, delete code. Afuera!!\nWhen in doubt, “afuera!!”\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "objectID": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#structured", + "href": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#structured", + "title": "What is the best todo list manager?", + "section": "Structured", + "text": "Structured\nThe highest rated app for planning on the App Store is “Structured”. Where this app excels is it’s simplicity. It’s likely best for someone like a student that wants to plan out when they’ll get their homework done. What I loved about this app, and what I wish many others apps had, is a duration estimation for a task. Why is it so hard for developers to realize that tasks take time? They obsess over list keeping and app design but ignore the second most basic question: how long will this take? Structured kind of solves this. What I don’t like about this app is the design. While others praise it for its beauty and simplicity I thought the visual feel of it was distracting." }, { - "objectID": "posts/the-little-red-hen.html", - "href": "posts/the-little-red-hen.html", - "title": "The Little Red Hen", - "section": "", - "text": "TL;DR: Be the hen. Do work!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“The Little Red Hen” is a classic folk tale that tells the story of a hardworking red hen who finds wheat seeds and decides to plant them. Throughout the story, she asks other farm animals for help with various tasks—planting the wheat, harvesting it, milling the flour, and baking the bread. Each time, the animals refuse to help. However, once the bread is baked and the hen asks who will help her eat it, all the animals eagerly volunteer. She declines their offers, choosing to eat the bread with her chicks, who assisted her in the work.\nSo, too, do startups everywhere struggle to get funding. 100 rejections, etc.\nAnd great products don’t get attention until there’s social proof. Many e-commerce companies understand this - sales take off as more people buy, which gets more reviews, which gets more trust - even if the product didn’t change much between first sale to the last.\nThe only difference between startups and the red hen is she perhaps had a recipe. She didn’t have to wonder, “is baking bread possible? Will the recipe be delicious?”\nIt takes a founder’s belief to see what isn’t yet so and build it anyway. Be the founder. Be the hen. Dream big. Go bake some bread even if nobody’s watching.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "objectID": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#microsoft-to-do", + "href": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#microsoft-to-do", + "title": "What is the best todo list manager?", + "section": "Microsoft To Do", + "text": "Microsoft To Do\nMicrosoft To Do used to be a favorite of mine. I loved its daily planner and smart suggestions. It has the philosophy that every day you should start fresh. All unfinished tasks will be removed from today and you’re left to pick and choose what you want to do. The fatal limitation however is that it lacks the ability to plan tomorrows a tasks the day before. So this forces people to have to populate their tasks at the start of the day. This is the worst time for planning for me because I want to get up and get going ASAP. (But honestly most times I wake up 15 minutes before my first meeting or am spending time pouring milk into my kids’ cereal.) Morning is not the best time to plan a day for me, so I lost interest here.\n\n\n\nTo Do has smart text parsing.\n\n\n\n\n\nTo Do has “smart suggestions” that you can add to your day." }, { - "objectID": "posts/2023-12-12-future-of-coding/index.html", - "href": "posts/2023-12-12-future-of-coding/index.html", - "title": "Future of Coding", - "section": "", - "text": "The Essence\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTL;DR: The future belongs to those whom it’s always belonged\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA blogger data scientist Santiago recently said on Twitter, (paraphrasing) “I’m going to focus on what won’t change”. He was worried about how coding and AI will be automated, but Jeff Bezos wasn’t worried about so much of the world changing with the Internet. Bezos focused on what wasn’t changing.\nThis thought hit me, because I think it’s relevant to what our future looks like in 18 months.\n\n\nEvery day, a new winner\nNothings more apparent that the world is going to be wildly different than the past than to hop on X and see new academics one upping themselves with the next greatest LLM. Mistral just announced a 2Bn valuation as a 6 month old company. Fast is the new pace. And it’s oddly the case that big businesses are capable of massive disruption from upstarts. They can’t afford to stay glacial much longer (5-10 years).\nWith all of this, what about this blog post won’t change? Well, the timeless principle is that the nature of the game has changed permanently. Pandora’s box was opened.\n\n\nThe rise of a new equalizer\nGo into a poor part of town and you’re guaranteed to see one thing: poor people using smart phones.\nThey have access to all the same information that the rich people have. The same excellent software. Same excellent hardware. All for a fee of $50/mo for the hardware and $25/mo for an unlimited data plan.\nSo that out the rich and the poor on the same level.\nWell now, knowledge and reasoning is as accessible as Google Maps. You don’t have to pay $20/mo for ChatGPT plus. You can use Bing, Claude.ai, bard.google.com, You.com, or perplexity.ai for free. Now.\nSure people hate on bard and want to use the latest and greatest. But even the crappiest of the four I mentioned above (granted Bing/You.com use GPT in the background), is still leaps ahead of where we were just a year ago. If we were stuck only using one of these tools forever we’d still be massively more productive than not.\nSo knowledge and intellectual reasoning is going to be commonplace amongst the plebes.\n\n\nif you value intelligence above all other human qualities, you’re gonna have a bad time\n\n— Ilya Sutskever (@ilyasut) October 7, 2023\n\n\n\n\nMore of the same\nSo…what’s going to happen? Well, I’m not sure human nature will change much.\nThey say “being rich doesn’t make you happier. It just makes you more of what you already were before being rich”.\nAnd so, the mentally poor will remain so. They’ll use AI for entertainment. Better video games. Better, faster content. More consumption.\nThe creatives will be more creative. Nobody will be at a barrier of being silo’d. So what if you’ve only done data science for 10 years. You know coding. It’s easy to now do web design. Or copy writing. Or art. Or…\nAnd I won’t be able to stop the masses from using Code Interpreter to do data science. The systems will only become more powerful, so cloud companies will make it easier to write sql or whatever. Heck, 5-10 years English will be the only programming language. (Who here does firmware/bit mapping anymore? Only a select few.)\n\n\nThe hottest new programming language is English\n\n— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) January 24, 2023\n\n\nPython programmers will become like the engineers who create the seeds. And the rest of us just get bigger, better, and more efficient farms. There will always be those who specialize, as there are people who write compilers today, but fewer and farther between. Perhaps intellectual interest and economic incentives will equalize.\n\n\nFestivus for the rest of us\nCompanies will become smaller. But the same human needs will need to be met:\n\nfood\nshelter\nclothes\nphysical toys\ndigital entertainment\n\nMore people will just be able to do more things. Perhaps there will be more prosperity as a result.\nAnd more people will unionize and try to prevent the change. But that’s a short term thing. Can’t last forever. A union is only as good as it’s needed.\n\n\nTakeaways\nGet ahead by focusing on what’s essential. Leverage what’s around you to develop new skills to prepare for the future. And be excited. It’s going to be a wild ride.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "objectID": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#todoist", + "href": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#todoist", + "title": "What is the best todo list manager?", + "section": "Todoist", + "text": "Todoist\nI’ve tried many times to get into Todoist. It has smart text parsing which is apparently best in class from my Reddit research.\nThings it has:\n\nProjects can have section labels. This lets you organize your list more meaningfully. This is great, only that TickTick does it better. Each project in TickTick can have subprojects. These subprojects act like sections. You can also move subproject from one list to another.\n\n\nThings it lacks:\n\nCan’t nest labels (tags)\nCan’t create labels dynamically - you need to manually add them on the label screen before a task can leverage them.\nCan’t pull in my calendar.\nDoesn’t have check items, only subtasks." }, { - "objectID": "posts/you-can-plan-your-life-in-5-minutes.html", - "href": "posts/you-can-plan-your-life-in-5-minutes.html", - "title": "You can plan your life in 5 minutes", - "section": "", - "text": "It doesn’t take 30 years to plan a good life. It’s actually quite simple and if you sit down for 5 minutes you can figure out the following:\n\ndo you like where you’re at? Heading? No? Where do you want to go? Why? What do you need to change to get there?\n\nThat’s it.\nNo fancy grand vision. No elaborate planning. Just maybe 15 minutes to plan ahead.\nThe speed of planning is 0.01% of the effort required to execute. “We’re going to the moon by the end of the decade”. Plan. Done. Execution is hard.\nIdeas are fleeting. Plans are changeable. Plans and ideas aren’t the IP of your company. It’s the people and the execution. Thats the hard part.\n\n\n\nWe’ve been to the moon. Now let’s go to the sun.\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you have 8 meetings in a day and five 30 min free blocks but all your tasks for the day are an hour, it would put all your tasks at the end of the day. I found it kind of buggy." }, { - "objectID": "posts/30-seconds-for-payment.html", - "href": "posts/30-seconds-for-payment.html", - "title": "30 Seconds is All You Get", - "section": "", - "text": "Apple iTunes changed the music industry forever with one simple decision: the preview of a song should be 30 seconds long.\nThis little change dramatically altered how music sounds today. I’ve recently listened to some bangers that were only 90 seconds long. They left me hanging.\n\n\n\nEnjoy the music while it lasts\n\n\nWhy was my song so short? Because nobody gets paid after 30 seconds.\n\nApple’s decision made artists want to have more interesting 30 seconds in the iTunes Store\nThat evolved into: an artist doesn’t get paid if you don’t listen at least 30 seconds. And they don’t get paid any more if you listen 31 or 900 seconds. In fact, they get paid more if you listen to two songs, 30s a piece.\n\nSpotify, Amazon, YouTube, Apple, etc all pay based on views. They each define views their own way, but they need to negotiate with the labels who already decided to agree to Apple’s 30s schemes in the early 2000’s. They may have different payment schemes, but some have a scheme of “take all revenue, distribute it according to the artist’s share of views.” So if I pay $10/mo for Spotify and don’t use it, my money goes to someone I didn’t listen to.\nSo how do small artists compete? They’ve got to build their following. Proportionally, the major artists (rather, their labels) soak up all the streaming royalties.\nWhat would be more fair is if my $10 went to the artists I actually listened to, as if I bought their music.\nWhy does any of this matter? Algorithms. Optimization. Monetization.\nIncentives drive outcomes. How we designed our music payment incentives altered music forever (try to be super catchy for 30s). Now, with AI, music can be created much faster which will dilute the pool.\nIn the end, one simple decision changed billions of lives. 30s? That’s all you need to get paid.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "objectID": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#automated", + "href": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#automated", + "title": "What is the best todo list manager?", + "section": "Automated", + "text": "Automated\nMotion became popular as a calendar organizer. Add a task and Motion will figure out when to do that for you. If you change your meeting then Motion will adjust when your tasks will get done. Cons: it’s expensive ($20-$35 per month). It’s mobile app is horrid. It didn’t seem like it offered sub tasks and all that. So you really need to trust the algorithm.\n\nIt gets the notion of task-duration right. But if you want to jot down notes of all the next actions you need to take on a project, your up the creek. I’m also not sure how it handles task dependency - if I put in 5 tasks for a project will it know their order? Not sure. Again I’ve never tried this app so take this all with a grain of salt.\nReclaim is another app claiming to do the same thing and offers a free tier. I did as much as set up my account with this.\nPerhaps if I gave these more attention they’d prove their worth. I’ve tried calendaring my todos in the past and it hasn’t been very effective for me. Perhaps these apps would solve it but I think I need a good mobile app.\nAnyway, you can’t beat free and free is working for me on TickTick right now. Also, my calendar is very open generally so I don’t have the same problems a busy manager might have.\nI think these apps would be best for people who have meeting heavy workflows. It handles the schedules as you need." }, { - "objectID": "posts/cool-quarto-site.html", - "href": "posts/cool-quarto-site.html", - "title": "Cool Quarto Site", - "section": "", - "text": "Quarto lists a gallery of things you can do with it.\nThis post illustrates\n\nHow you can array your blog\nHow you can collect subscribers with just google form\nHow you can iframe other apps, such as from huggingface.\n\nI came across this site: https://forbo7.github.io/. I enjoyed seeing how they arrayed their blogs, which I had never seen before - they used grids.\n\nThey use an embedded google form for subscriptions:\n\nAnd they have aniframe on a Huggingface app to show something cool:\n\nThat’s all.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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The attending violinist then scares it away and is praised for protecting the cake.\nTo the reader’s delight, more animals start appearing and the violinist excitedly protects the cake through hilarious misadventure. (My favorite is when he says, “begone beavers!”)\nTwo funny things happen though:\n\nThe guy soon realizes that all these creatures are wedding guests.\nThe guy has such a big nose and he’s allergic to marshmallows, that when he’s offered some cake he sneezes and the cake goes flying.\n\n\n\n\ndodo on a cake\n\n\n\n\nMorale?\n\nWhen you praise someone for doing something good, they do it again and again. → There’s a natural hero inside all of us.\nBut only the first animal was a problem. The beavers were the chefs. So he ends up creating all these problems thinking they’re problems. → In tech, when you fix a bug you then think other things are bugs and go off fixing those too. No, just do the first. Then check in.\nThe irony is that, despite saving the cake, he sneezes and ruins the cake. → Despite all the effort, the greatest protection to the cake was him staying away from it. Sometimes by trying to solve a problem we can make things way worse and create all these problems. (Politics? Create problems by creating solutions to problems that need solutions.)\n\nDon’t mistake a beaver for a dodo. But don’t mistake a dodo for a wedding guest.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "objectID": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#sunsama", + "href": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#sunsama", + "title": "What is the best todo list manager?", + "section": "Sunsama", + "text": "Sunsama\n$20 per mo or $192/year. Super fast customer support.\nFeatures: * Mobile app, Mac app. * Duration\nPros: * Channels (lists) * great shortcuts * can align tasks with objectives * more of a mindful daily planner * Integrates with Todoist and other apps. You can pull in all to foist metadata including subtasks and check them off in Sunsama. Additionally, you can add duration and calendar your Todoist tasks. * Can export all the tasks to csv. * Can split calendar events.\nCons: * Widgets are weak * No priority labels * No task tags/labels. (But you can use Todoist for this if you want.)" }, { - "objectID": "posts/how-to-blog-with-obsidian-and-quarto.html", - "href": "posts/how-to-blog-with-obsidian-and-quarto.html", - "title": "Blogging with Obsidian and Quarto", - "section": "", - "text": "First half is my philosophy on the relationship between learning, notetaking, and blogging.\n\nI love to learn\nWriting helps me learn\nPublicly writing increases my focus\n\nSecond half is how I use Obsidian and Quarto, alternatives I’ve tried, and my actually flow. I detail what tools I use, how I use them.\n\nset up relative links\nHave one img folder\nUse templater to manage new post templates and relative links\nUse linter\nUse commander for toolbar palette\ndataview to find drafts\nTags to flag ideas\n\n\n\n\nI’ve had a blog since 2016. Started with Jekyll. Then blogdown. Tried medium in 2020 because it had a good mobile app and I was able to publish every day. Then I didn’t know how to get my posts out of there so I lost interest. Then I found quarto, which I was excited about because I have always loved Rmarkdown (things like tabs, executable code, etc.). Then I tried Substack, which I did for a few weeks but eventually gave up because 1) no mobile app to write and 2) how do I get my stuff off of there?\nSeth Godin writes every day, and I love his blog and take it as an inspiration. In one post he mentions how “some say do a podcast, others say write on platform x or platform Y”. (Medium, Substack, etc.) He recommends: those tools always serve the 1%. If you’re the 1%, you make money. Otherwise you don’t. So you might as well own your own content.\nI know two Instagram and TikTok influencers with 100k and 300k followers respectively. The 100k made $5k in 2022. The 300k TikToker still makes maybe $100/mo. They each put in 20 hours+ a week.\nSo I’m giving up the illusion I’ll ever make money off a blog or my content. I write because I always have. I write publicly now because I found a way to do so online, from my phone.\nThis is how I blog daily using quarto (for the website) and Obsidian (for the editor).\n\nOwn your platform\nAfter all the years blogging, giving up, coming back, etc, there are many things that are my personal needs.\n\nMobile first. I can’t write at my computer. This isn’t my job.\nFootnotes: many blogging platforms don’t allow for them or handle them well. Footnotes are essential in long content.\nCustomizable: I need to be able to add styling how I like it. This is part of the creative process.\nTags: having and filtering by tags is nice\nPortable: if I stop blogging for 9 months I need to be able to move it to the next shiny object platform. I need to own my content. I also don’t like posting on LinkedIn or Facebook directly because I see my writing as my creative work. Those platforms don’t let you save or share those links later on.\n\nRelative links: I need to be able to link to other posts. This is part of the mental note taking journey.\nSubscribe button. (Substack and Medium are built for this!)\nComments: 99% of people don’t comment, but when people reach out it feels like I did something for the world. It also makes the blog more approachable, even if nobody every posts.\nHackable/automatable: I need templates. I need code. I need to be able to automate things. (At one point I figured out how to set up automations to post straight to Instagram from GitHub actions. I’m going to bring that back!)\n\nSubstack does footnotes well, linking to notes poorly, doesn’t have a mobile editor for posts, and isn’t portable. It handles tags, subscribers, and distribution extremely well, and makes it easy to have multiple publications. But it’s got the vendor lock in.\nMedium had an excellent mobile editing experience, but again - vendor lock in. And you’ve gotta kinda buy into the Medium-way-of-doing-posts.\nAll platforms have their vibe. If you want to be popular on TikTok, you gotta dance. Although I personally love to dance, I want my site to be creative and my own.\n\n\nWhy blog with obsidian/quarto?\nEnter Obsidian and Quarto. Obsidian makes managing and editing content a breeze (things like draft management, sorting files, organizing images, etc is all super easy):\nWhy obsidian as my editor?\n\nIt makes writing markdown a breeze\nIt has tons of extensions, such as managing footnotes, linting files, spell checking, etc.\nIt makes it really easy to link to other files (relative links)\nIt makes it easy to refactor (move stuff around)\nIt works with markdown. The files are just plain text files in my Files app on my iPhone.\n\n\n\nWriting flow\nEvery writer has their flow. The tools they use should reflect their mental process of writing, and not the other way around. If you’re trying to get your brain to work like the tool does, rather than using tools that working like your brain, you’re ngmi. If you’re like me, you’ll try it for a while and then give up. (I may give up after this post, but at least this post isn’t saved on Blogger.com!)\nHere’s mine:\n\nGet an idea\nCategorize it (religious, tech, life, etc)\nCreate a file\nMark as draft\nWrite some ideas\nEdit it (if long), reread a few times\nUnmark as draft\nPost to the internet, read a few more times in live version and make edits\nTag it\nFind old drafts, finish them\nAdd an image, either from my phone camera or chatgpt. Save image in the right folder.\nWrite alt text to the images.\nCreate links to other entries.\nMake some footnotes for content that doesn’t flow\nCry and debate if I’m a good writer or if anyone is even listening anymore\nAdd a subscribe button\nshare a good one to social media\nCheck my Google analytics to see if I’m popular. Check subscribers to see if I got any. Wonder why I care anyway because I know I won’t make money off this.\nGet an idea for a new post while reading a book and start again\n\nThe process of getting ideas from a source, and writing from those ideas, makes me want to be able to connect the entry to the source (book or podcast). Sure, I don’t have to write. And sometimes writing is wasted time (writing for writing’s sake), but I enjoy it.\n\n\nMy writing flow with Obsidian and Quarto\nAt the risk of nobody ever reading this far, I’ll keep this high level, and if someone cares about something ask me in the comments.\nFirst, see Quarto from Phone to see how I set up Working Copy to sync my Obsidian repo with GitHub.\nHere’s my flow with obsidian:\n\nRead a book. Create new book note using new-post via the Templater obsidian plugin. This lets me create a new note in a folder of my choice, give a title, make a filename with a good url slug. Adds some categories automatically.\nWhen idea comes up, take note in book note. When substantial idea comes up, create a quick draft of a new post using Templater. Enable draft: true if i don’t finish.\nUse Obsidian Dataview to create a list of all outstanding drafts. I can come back and finish.\nUse Obsidian Custom Sort to sort the files in my repo how I want. This package helped me to stop time-stamping my URLs (which I thought was good for sorting). Instead, I can sort by modified time (note custom sort isn’t necessary for modified time sorting), but custom sort allows for sorting by yaml front matter.\nWhen I’m ready to post, create an image using ChatGPT app. Click on the image in the app, share, save to files. It will save to the img/ folder in my root. Next image? Saves here (iPhone remembers).\n\nAt some point I was creating folders for every blog post so I could reference images there. I’m giving this up for two reasons: 1) every file would then need to be named “index.md” and 2) more folders is more noise. So instead, I have one place for all images, which makes it easier to save and I don’t have to click a bunch of subfolders every time I add an image.\nAlso, screenshot any photos you may want to add so as to remove the location metadata.\n\nUse Footnote Shortcut plugin to more efficiently write footnotes. Add a hotkey to the mobile obsidian editor toolbar to quickly add footnotes. 1\nSet up an iOS shortcut to do a “git pull”, “git commit”, “git push” on the repo. Put this shortcut on my home page. Since I have a synced folder, this happens very efficiently!2\nSet up a github actions to build the blog using quarto render. See Quarto vs. quartz for Obsidian blog\nPublish to GitHub pages with the docs/ folder.\n\nAnd that’s it. That’s my flow. If you like this, ask me a question.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis footnote is added with the tap of a button. Brilliant!↩︎\nYou can also set up an automation to sync anytime you leave the app, but I’ve found that gets kind of annoying because sometimes there can be data loss with a git pull that happens without thinking about it.↩︎\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "objectID": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#reclaim.ai", + "href": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#reclaim.ai", + "title": "What is the best todo list manager?", + "section": "Reclaim.ai", + "text": "Reclaim.ai\nTask manager isn’t as good as Sunsama. Only $8/mo for pro. Has todoist integration too, but that’s a pro feature.\nThis is one I’ll want to try later. It has the habit tracking and smart flexible calendaring. Not sure how good of a task manager it is. TBD." }, { - "objectID": "posts/the-compounding-interest-of-reading.html", - "href": "posts/the-compounding-interest-of-reading.html", - "title": "The Compounding Interest of Reading", - "section": "", - "text": "I’m on my way to get 52 books read this year. I think I can do it.\nBut it’s not to finish 52 books. It’s to read two hours of fifty two books. Why?\nBecause of compounding interest. One book doesn’t level you up. But multiple books over time will affect you for a long while to come.\nIf you improve just 1% each day for 365 days, and that improvement compounds, then you’ll have improved 37x over a year. (invest $100 and gain 1% each day and reinvest that money is $137 by the end of the year).\nSo don’t worry what any one book gives you. Just keep investing. A few will pay off big, and the many “wasted” will have little downside.\n\n\n\nImage: compound interest and reading a book\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "objectID": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#vimcal", + "href": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#vimcal", + "title": "What is the best todo list manager?", + "section": "Vimcal", + "text": "Vimcal\nFast calendar. Not for tasks or backlogs it seems though. Didn’t try." }, { - "objectID": "posts/export-your-libby-timeline-to-obsidian.html", - "href": "posts/export-your-libby-timeline-to-obsidian.html", - "title": "Export your Libby Timeline to Obsidian", - "section": "", - "text": "I love reading and I love writing. Both are integral parts of learning. The reading to receive new ideas, the writing to cement those ideas to something.\nAs I stood up my blog I wondered how to get past books on here. There’s a way!\nI now use Audible and Spotify audiobooks, but most of my past reads come from Libby.\n\n\n\nLibby\n\n\nHere’s how you do it using Python:\n\nOpen Libby app and figure out how to export your timeline. Somewhere in settings. It’ll produce a CSV.\nGo through that CSV and creat a column “read” that identified the ones you actually began (sigh…so many books I placed holds on but never read….)\nRun this python script and it’ll create an obsidian markdown file for each. Tweak it to match your preferences. I personally use quarto to blog so I have a naming convention for the files and metadata.\nOr! Just ask ChatGPT to do this for you lol.\n\nfrom datetime import datetime, timedelta\nimport pandas as pd\nimport os\nimport zipfile\nimport re\n\n# Load the provided spreadsheet using pandas\nfile_path = \"~/Downloads/libbytimeline-activities.csv\"\ndf = pd.read_csv(file_path)\n\n# Parse the timestamp into the format yyyy-mm-dd and rename the column to 'date'\ndf[\"timestamp_raw\"] = df[\"timestamp\"]\ndf[\"timestamp\"] = pd.to_datetime(df[\"timestamp\"], format=\"%m/%d/%y %H:%M\")\n# create a stringed date\ndf[\"date\"] = df[\"timestamp\"].dt.strftime(\"%Y-%m-%d\")\n\ndf[[\"date\", \"timestamp_raw\"]]\n\n# Custom column: Filter rows where read == 1 (went through spreadsheet to filter out those I had borrowed but never read).\ndf = df[df[\"read\"] == 1]\n\n# De-duplicate by title, keeping the most recent record (sorted by date)\ndf = df.sort_values(\"timestamp\", ascending=False).drop_duplicates(\"title\")\n\n# Create a new column 'created' with today's date in yyyy-mm-dd format\ntoday = datetime.now().strftime(\"%Y-%m-%d\")\ndf[\"created\"] = today\n\n# Create a new column 'date-finished' that's the timestamp's date + 21 days\ndf[\"date-finished\"] = (df[\"timestamp\"] + timedelta(days=21)).dt.strftime(\"%Y-%m-%d\")\n\n# Prepare for markdown file creation\noutput_directory = os.path.expanduser(\"~/Desktop/markdown_files\")\nos.makedirs(output_directory, exist_ok=True)\n\n# Loop through each item in the dataframe and create a markdown file\nfor index, row in df.iterrows():\n markdown_content = f\"\"\"\n---\ntitle: {row['title']}\ndescription: _{row['title']}_ by {row['author']}. 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Read on {row['date']}\ndate: {row['date']}\ncategories: book-review\ncreated: {row['created']}\ndraft: false\nauthor: {row['author']}\nbook-year: 1000\nbook-time: 0\ndate-start: {row['date']}\ndate-finished: {row['date-finished']}\npct-complete: 0\n---\n\n![]({row['cover']}){{.preview-image}}\n\"\"\"\n filename = re.sub(r\"[^\\w]\", \"-\", row[\"title\"]).lower()\n filename = re.sub(r\"-+\", \"-\", filename)\n file_path = os.path.join(output_directory, f\"{filename}.md\")\n with open(file_path, \"w\") as file:\n file.write(markdown_content.strip())\n print(f\"Created {file_path}\")\n\n# Zip the markdown files\nzip_file_path = os.path.expanduser(\"~/Desktop/markdown_files.zip\")\nwith zipfile.ZipFile(zip_file_path, \"w\") as zipf:\n for root, dirs, files in os.walk(output_directory):\n for file in files:\n zipf.write(os.path.join(root, file), file)\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "objectID": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#asana", + "href": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#asana", + "title": "What is the best todo list manager?", + "section": "Asana", + "text": "Asana\nOh man, how many times have I downloaded Asana? I started with it in 2014 and thought it was cool. Trying it again in 2022 it had a similar feel.\nAsana is the only task manager app I reviewed that has dependency management. Sure, Jira has blockers and all that but Jiras more aimed toward high level project management. It’s not fast at the\nOther things I remember liking:\n\ninfinite subtasks. This was fun and also distracting.\nAutomation features. You can create workflows for what happens to a task\nCommunication. It has a nice inbox feature that let me communicate with my manager easily.\n\nCons:\n\nClunky on the board management. If I want to start a new project things get messy and overwhelming." }, { - "objectID": "posts/quarto-feature-requests/index.html", - "href": "posts/quarto-feature-requests/index.html", - "title": "Things I’d like in a blog", - "section": "", - "text": "quarto has strengths and drawbacks\n\n\n\nOther frameworks (like Hugo) are more flexible. But quarto offers a lot more out of the box and handles the stuff I really don’t want to have to think about.\n\n\n\n\n\nA traditional Quarto\n\n\nThings quarto is good at:\n\nHandles metadata really well (easy to get a title image, description, Twitter card, etc.)\nheavily customizable: can organize posts as a list, as a table, as a grid, etc. can easily customize what’s in that. The main thing I didn’t like about Hugo was that the style was just slightly different than I liked it.\ncomments\nsearching\ncategories/tags\neasy to create different/custom listings\ncan blog from my phone using Working Copy and GitHub actions\n\nThings wish quarto were better at:\n\nFaster render (Hugo speeds plz)\nDon’t render future posts\nA blog landing page that had a stream of entries, rather than just a list. (Similar to seths.blog)\nListings based on tags\nmake it easy to have an alternate slug (make all posts at root, and not in posts/)\n\nThings I’d like to do with my blog:\n\ngenerate weekly summaries\nbuild some subscribers\nsend out a weekly summary of content.\nauto-post to Twitter, Instagram (using photo + description + zapier) and Facebook.\nauto-post anything with “LinkedIn” tag to LinkedIn\nmove editing into a vault in Obsidian\nmake it easier to copy ChatGPT photos to my blog post folder\n\nFor now, what it offers widely covers what it doesn’t. Most blog templates don’t allow for search, custom listings, lists of tags, Twitter content, etc. For now, quarto offers 95% of what I need.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "objectID": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#jiragithub-projects", + "href": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#jiragithub-projects", + "title": "What is the best todo list manager?", + "section": "Jira/GitHub projects", + "text": "Jira/GitHub projects\nGreat at a high level but messy to manage the gritty day to day. Doesn’t let you schedule or put due dates. So eventually I’d need some other tool to manage all the minutia of getting things done." }, { - "objectID": "posts/quarto-vs-quartz-for-obsidian.html", - "href": "posts/quarto-vs-quartz-for-obsidian.html", - "title": "Quarto vs. quartz for Obsidian blog", - "section": "", - "text": "Things I like/dislike about quarto are listed here.\nGenerally, I love quarto and the main thing I don’t like about quarto is how slow it is, compared to say, hugo.\nI looked heavily into quartz, which is explained here as a way to publish your Obsidian vault on GitHub. And here’s an example of a digital garden someone uses with quartz, it’s pretty slick. Here are the features of quartz.\nWhy quarto? I really like the design of a blog, as I tend to think better in “post” form rather than never-ending-garden-of-thoughts. I like reading blogs because I assume the thoughts are complete. Quartz is great if you just want your own wiki. I just don’t really care about the network graphs and all and I don’t think other people reading them care either.\nI want to focus on writing and sometimes long form writing. Quarto enables a lot, is easy to setup and customize, has great search, has a ton of markdown desires (tabs, callouts, asides, footnotes), can render code (Python/R) when I want to be adventurous, and has a blog interface for posts.\nLargely they’re the same, and maybe I’ll use quartz at some point. But I’m happy where I am now.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "objectID": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#not-considered", + "href": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#not-considered", + "title": "What is the best todo list manager?", + "section": "Not considered", + "text": "Not considered\nI didn’t look at Things3 or OmniFocus, which are considered of the best tools. Things3 was too expensive and seemed like it had many of the same features as TickTick, except I personally didn’t like the UI." }, { - "objectID": "posts/quarto-from-phone/index.html", - "href": "posts/quarto-from-phone/index.html", - "title": "How to blog from your phone using quarto (or hugo/jekyll/etc) using Working Copy and Obsidian", + "objectID": "posts/2022-06-20-blogging-with-quarto/index.html", + "href": "posts/2022-06-20-blogging-with-quarto/index.html", + "title": "Blogging with Quarto, and why I don’t use Medium anymore", "section": "", - "text": "Here are the steps I use to post content from my phone to bryanwhiting.com.\n\nCreate a new, empty vault in Obsidian\nOpen working copy, set up synced repo. This means any changes are auto-synced.\nAdd remote, point it at your GitHub repo where your blog is\nSet up a “pull, stage, commit, push” shortcut\nSet up GitHub actions to build, and push (use my repo’s workflow.yaml if you need an example)\nHave GitHub pages (if your repo is private) or Netlify (if your repo is private, because you can’t have a private GitHub repo without paying)\n\nAnd that’s it! Write markdown in obsidian. Push when you’re ready, let GitHub actions build and deploy. Check GitHub actions logs for any errors! (You’ll get an email if it fails.)\n\n\n\nSet up synced repo\n\n\n\n\n\nLink the repo\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Been here before, eh?\nI probably shouldn’t write this post considering I’ve also written posts “blogging with Jekyll”, “Blogdown”, and “distill” before. I’m flaky, what can I say. I’ve changed my blogging framework 7 times in 5 years (I started with blogger.com and Wordpress before Jekyll, and even used Medium for 25 posts.)\nBut it’s not my fault. There are too many static site generators and it seems that Rstudio is as flaky as me. Meaning, they built rmarkdown, created hugodown, blowdown, bookdown, and distill. Hugodown is a lightweight version of blogdown, and I never figured out why it exists. Then there’s workflowr and so many other great, random products out there.\nWhy quarto for me? It seems to have all the stuff that distill has, and then some. And given its design and collaboration with Wes McKinney (pandas guy) in building quarto, and given that Wes wrote his latest book with it, I think this will be here to stay for at least 5 years.\n\n\nWhy do I avoid Medium\nWhy don’t I blog with Medium? I wrote 25 posts there over 9 months and loved it. It makes writing and publishing incredibly easy, which is why I did it. With distill/blogdown the limiting factor was I’d have to be at my computer to get a post in. I love writing on my phone - I have over 2000 journal entries with Day One over seven years, several of which are “draft” posts for a blog that won’t see the light of day since I don’t care about them after I’ve written it. I want to be able to blog frequently, a short little blurb to keep up my writing, and medium enabled this.\nBut 1) I didn’t get many views (not that I care) and 2) my writing is stuck on their platform (confirmed to me this week as I’ve tried several old, broken tools that attempt to export posts out of medium).\nI got 50x the views on my blogdown site just from organic google searching. From reading other people’s posts about leaving Medium, it’s seems that most traffic to Medium posts comes from outside of Medium.\nSo while I’m certainly not into blogging for the money, I wouldn’t mind getting the content to people who it can help. And if medium didn’t enable this, what is its purpose?\nSo I’m back and finally decided that I’m going to own my own platform. Seth Godin wrote a blog about this topic once. Why be on Medium, substack, Facebook, etc or any other up an coming platform? We’ll they’re all skewed toward the 1% of people who make money on the platform. Everyone else is wasting their time. So might as well own your content. And better to focus on writing than waste time catching up on every platform.\nAlso, it’s fun! There’s a fuzzy feeling to blogging.\n\n\nFuture of quarto?\nI’m speculating here, but Quarto can be used withR Studio, Jupiter or VS Code. The last editor seems excitingly suspicious.\nPerhaps R Studio sees the writing on the wall that VS Code is taking over the IDE world and perhaps taking over the long term future of R Studio IDE. I personally don’t see why anyone would pay for R Studio when VS Code is free and has a better interface. And while R Studio has a few better integrations for R at the moment, it won’t once enough people see the light for VS Code and turn their contributions there. I’ve been using R on VSCode for two years now and it rivals R Studio in 95% of the feature set, but 100% has better window management.\nSo Quarto seems like a great opportunity for R Studio to begin monetizing on a publishing platform like R Studio connect. Platforms like Notion and Confluence are great for everyone except data scientists trying to share reproducible research. But a quarto server seems like a great way to finally bring in Python data scientists into the markdown-flavored documentation world. (Man, I personally can’t use Jupyter/Google colab notebooks when I can use R Markdown!) I’d heartedly welcome this prospect, though I have no idea what their plans for Quarto really are.\nTill next blog post about what blogging tool I’m going to use…\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/decisions-are-rivers.html", - "href": "posts/decisions-are-rivers.html", - "title": "Decisions are Like Hopping on a River Raft", + "objectID": "posts/2020-12-15-data-beats-opinions/index.html", + "href": "posts/2020-12-15-data-beats-opinions/index.html", + "title": "Data Beats Opinions", "section": "", - "text": "I’m reading How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices and thinking about decisions. I like to think of decisions as rivers.\nLike decisions, all rivers lead somewhere. Where is your river heading?\nThe decision is which river to get on in your little boat. You can only envision the destination.\nBeing a high school English teacher is a decision. Where will that life take me after 5/10/20 years? Is that appealing? Only I can choose.\nThis thinking process is the decision choice. The rest is up to luck.\n\n\n\nWe’re all just Huck and Tom to some degree\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "When I co-started a company several years ago, my founders and I would canvass neighborhoods knocking doors. We’d discuss our ideas for a new product one door at a time. After each conversation, the product took a new form. Eventually, the product took shape and we had a successful kickstarter launch.\nSince that time, I’ve thought about how valuable it was to get information straight from the source.\nAlberto Savoia’s new book, “The Right It”, is re-teaching me this principle. Data beats opinions, he says. In another book I’m reading, “Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments”, the former CEO of Netscape is quoted saying,\n\nIf we have data, let’s go with data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine. - Jim Barksdale\n\nData sourced from your manager, your stakeholder, or your customer are invaluable to help you know if you’re solving their problem. Too often it’s easy to get stuck in the original solution that comes to our mind.\nData from customers directly shape the product. Data sourced at scale from online experiments refine it.\nOpinions from the customer shape the product. Their behavior (captured as data) speaks louder than their words. Frequently, it’s challenging to correlate the two. We’re left to guess why someone actually clicked, bought, churned. It’s a beautiful cycle.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2022-06-21-the-power-of-party-pay-by-visible/index.html", - "href": "posts/2022-06-21-the-power-of-party-pay-by-visible/index.html", - "title": "The Power of Party Pay by Visible", + "objectID": "posts/2022-12-06-more-new-businesses-than-ever/index.html", + "href": "posts/2022-12-06-more-new-businesses-than-ever/index.html", + "title": "Models as a Service and the Future of Data Science", "section": "", - "text": "Visible’s party pay madness\nVisible wireless offers $25 off to users who join a party. So a user who signs up to pay $50 for unlimited data can click one button to join a party and only have to pay $25/mo from then on. Why not just offer users $25 to begin with?\nIt’s really confusing to me as a user - why not just give me the $25 automatically if it takes nothing to join a group? Because of gamification.\n\n\nWhy it works\nI think their strategy is as follows:\n\nThey hope some people get brought in on marketing and never remember to activate a party pay. Let’s say this number is 20-40%. Perhaps these users fund the rest of the discounts.\nJoining a party pay group for free is an easy way to make your customers win. I.e., a user gets $25 off for joining. Gimmicky, but I think it works. So a user has an immediate sense of gratification - a great way to build a strong emotional bond. “Click a button to get $25 off in perpetuity? Nice!” Anyone would agree this feels better than just starting off with $25.\nThis makes users want to share and tell others. Especially if customers feel they’ve gamed the system. Who today doesn’t like a hack?\n\nBut even if (1) is wrong, and that 95% of people join a party I’m sure they’ve done the math to consider how many people they need to sign up to make the money work.\n\n\nThe Larger Strategy\nWhy would Verizon cannibalize their own sales? I switched my wife out of a $70 unlimited plan on Verizon to a $25 plan on visible for the same service. Well some customers will stay with Verizon because of its prestige and the add on benefits. But users who are cutting the cord are going somewhere else, I’m thinking Verizon wants to stay ahead of the curve. It’s a race to the bottom, sure. But it doesn’t hurt to try to win the race.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Businesses are Launching Like Crazy\nThere’s never been a better time to start a business. The Census shows there are over 200,000 new business applications per month more than pre pandemic.\n\nWhat’s driving this?\nListening to The Unintended Consequences of Working from Home it dawned on me that there’s a hyper acceleration of innovation happening.\nConsider the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT and StableDiffusion. Chamath Palihapitiya discusses the expansive applications for these services. What was once SaaS will become MaaS (models as a service). There will be models for everything: copy writing, code debugging, converting wireframes into working apps, ad generation, book writing…\nWhile tools like ChatGPT are just in demo mode, it’s wildly apparent they’ll be an impetus for new ideas and reducing the friction of getting to the answer. For example, as a data scientist if I need boilerplate code to clean some data, I can ask ChatGPT for the 80% solution. I’m already spending 30% of my day copying code snippets from StackOverflow and making it work for my problem. ChatGPT will just accelerate that process. 10 years from now if Neuralink can read my thoughts I don’t even need a keyboard to do this…we’ll build things at the speed of thought.\nConsider this for writers and marketers. They’ll use ChatGPT to unblock them, generate ideas, and get started. Innovation across the board will accelerate because the kinetic friction to getting started will reduce to zero. You can then spend your time on the editing and refining.\n\n\nThe Best Time to Start a Business\nI digress. Why is now the best time to build a software business?\n\nCompute is cheap. Gone are the days of having to build a server to prototype and idea.\nBarriers to prototyping are nearly free and scaling with the cloud is nearly infinite. Consider how the Gas App can launch to 100,000 new users per day with just a few developers.\nModeling is now easy. All cloud services have their own AutoML tools to build machine learning models for you.\n\nThe center of all of this is scalable data infrastructure and AI.\n\n\nFuture of Data Science\nThe data scientist of today may still be using sklearn to manually do hyperparameter tuning, but the data scientist of tomorrow will either be exclusively building MaaS B2B products or be the one person in their organization who will leverage all the MaaS tools.\nIf we can ask ChatGPT for complex answers it learned from the internet, why couldn’t something similar be trained on your company’s internal data? If that’s possible, then why couldn’t you just have a Q&A session with your internal ChatGPT? Consider the following example:\n\n“Hey KITT, what are the user segments generating the most revenue on Tuesdays at 5pm?” (Analytics)\n“How many sales do we anticipate from these users next Tuesday?” (Machine Learning)\n“What ads have been most effective for us in driving new sales in the past 7 days?” (Statistics)\n“Okay, KITT, generate 3 variants of that ad for next Tuesday” (StableDiffusion generating a new Ad)\n“I like ads A, B and C. launch an experiment on Facebook/TikTok, run it for three days and dynamically allocate ad spend to the best ad.” (Business integrations, statistics, ML models)\n\nThe data scientist of the future will be the one with deep understanding of these tools and an awareness of their biases. It will be very difficult to know when they’re lying to you. The in-house data scientist will be keen on knowing the biases in the data fed into these algorithms and how to make judgments on where to go next.\nEarly stage companies won’t need data scientists because most of this stuff will be off the shelf and easy for an engineer to integrate. That means that the data scientists will join these MaaS companies to build out optimized products that solve these niche problems.\n\n\nTakeaways\nData Scientists shouldn’t be scared their jobs will disappear. They should be excited that they’ll be joining companies that automate what they’re currently doing and offer it as a service.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html", - "href": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html", - "title": "Buying a used car the data science way: Part 2", + "objectID": "posts/2023-12-13-learn-by-doing/index.html", + "href": "posts/2023-12-13-learn-by-doing/index.html", + "title": "Learn by doing", "section": "", - "text": "[Update 2021-11-16] This analysis was originally written on my old blog here. You can find the source code for it here.\nThis is part 2 out of a two-part series on scraping used car data. Check out part 1 to learn how to scrape the data.\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" - }, - { - "objectID": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#youre-in-the-market", - "href": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#youre-in-the-market", - "title": "Buying a used car the data science way: Part 2", - "section": "You’re in the market", - "text": "You’re in the market\nSo you want to buy a car, but you don’t know anything about them? Welcome to my life.\nYou show up at the dealer and there’s a sticker on the window. You know the difference between make and model, but you soon learn what a trim is. Some versions come with leather. Some have a sun roof. Some have all wheel drive. Some have 20k in miles, and a similarly priced car in a higher trim is at 40k miles. How do you know what you’re really paying for, and what these features are worth? And how do you know what it’ll be worth when it’s four years older and has an additional 40k miles?\nPretty advanced questions for someone who just learned what a powertrain is.\nIn this analysis, I’ll dive into how you can use data to learn a lot about an industry in a short amount of time. I’ll first dive into knowing what you’re buying (now and later). Then, I’ll dive into how Truecar and others might be finding their ‘deals’." + "text": "TL;DR: Yes, unintelligent people can use things without fully understanding them\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMany people have their noses up their ass when they claim you can't use an algorithm you don't fully understand.They give themselves this fake moral superiority. They must be the only ones who belong because they know every detail.This is all bullshit.Here are a few simple…\n\n— Santiago (@svpino) December 12, 2023\n\n\nWhile the language is perhaps a bit strong, I agree with the sentiment here.\nI don’t have a PhD but have been limited twice in my career by those who wish I had one. What would having a PhD give you that I don’t have?\nWell, I trust you more if you had one.\nJeremy Howard, a world renowned research and creator of fast.ai and answers.ai started his lectures on deep learning with “you don’t need to have a math degree, you just need to know a little bit of code”. With that philosophy he’s helped entrepreneurs create amazing products that left his free online program.\n\nBlindspots tho\nConcepts are important to understand. Understanding your training data and how the machines learn from them and the biases they’re prone to is very useful, perhaps mission critical, to creating value.\nSo what’s the line? Well, if you got a PhD you’d probably spend 80% of your time on your dissertation and taking some non relevant coursework. How does that help you today?\nWell, you should learn as many concepts as you can. Like driving a car, you don’t need to know hydroplaning but you should learn hydroplaning. You don’t need to know how to drive in snow but you should know that driving a car in the snow with rear wheel drive is a different experience.\nIf you live in Arizona you don’t need to know how to drive in the snow. Your bias is you’ll never know why that would be necessary.\n\n\nPrinciple\nBe so curious that you explore the boundaries of your space such that you learn “oh, cars work differently in snow, but I don’t have snow so I’m safe”. Once you reach the boundary you probably know enough. Then ship your code and learn by how you messed things up.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#what-am-i-paying-for", - "href": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#what-am-i-paying-for", - "title": "Buying a used car the data science way: Part 2", - "section": "What am I paying for?", - "text": "What am I paying for?\nTo do any analysis, you need data. Please see my most recent post if you’re interested in learning how I got the data for this analysis. Suffice it to say, I webscraped it. The data is not my own, but belongs to Truecar.\nI love using linear regression to understand my data on a granular level. In my data set, I was able to extract the make, model, year, mileage, trim, and a flag for whether the car was all wheel drive (awd == 1) or not. Putting this data into a linear regression, we can see some interesting results. First let’s look at the data we have:\n\nlibrary(dplyr)\nload('../../data/used-car/tc-ford-edge.Rda')\n# Get the prices into the appropriate scale and remove some extraneous\ndf$price = df$price*1000\ndf %>% select(-stats, -url, -int, -vin, -v6, -trueprice, -resid) %>% head()\n\n## price year mileage trim awd location ext deal\n## 1 16000 2014 28.477 SE 1 Sterling, VA <NA> 6514\n## 2 13300 2013 64.315 SE 0 Chantilly, VA <NA> 1784\n## 3 13800 2013 72.111 SEL 0 Fairfax, VA Mineral Gray Metallic 3331\n## 4 16000 2014 27.490 SE 0 Manassas, VA Oxford White 5448\n## 5 12000 2013 66.825 SE 0 Clarksville, MD Mineral Gray Metallic NA\n## 6 14900 2014 65.157 SE 0 Manassas, VA Tuxedo Black Metallic 4436\n## mpyr\n## 1 7.12\n## 2 12.86\n## 3 14.42\n## 4 6.87\n## 5 13.37\n## 6 16.29\nNow let’s see the regression results.\n\nmod <- lm(price ~ as.factor(year) + mileage + trim + awd, data = df)\nsummary(mod)\n\n## \n## Call:\n## lm(formula = price ~ as.factor(year) + mileage + trim + awd, \n## data = df)\n## \n## Residuals:\n## Min 1Q Median 3Q Max \n## -4755.7 -854.6 -2.7 877.5 5024.2 \n## \n## Coefficients:\n## Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) \n## (Intercept) 22216.400 788.885 28.162 < 2e-16 ***\n## as.factor(year)2013 1267.037 625.804 2.025 0.0442 * \n## as.factor(year)2014 3160.017 645.152 4.898 1.92e-06 ***\n## as.factor(year)2015 5664.470 710.322 7.975 9.56e-14 ***\n## as.factor(year)2016 6166.658 821.469 7.507 1.68e-12 ***\n## as.factor(year)2017 9082.971 878.956 10.334 < 2e-16 ***\n## mileage -91.951 5.625 -16.347 < 2e-16 ***\n## trimSE -4983.725 409.765 -12.162 < 2e-16 ***\n## trimSEL -1822.889 291.400 -6.256 2.17e-09 ***\n## trimSport 3419.270 374.977 9.119 < 2e-16 ***\n## trimTitanium 99.242 568.428 0.175 0.8616 \n## awd 1277.734 222.680 5.738 3.30e-08 ***\n## ---\n## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1\n## \n## Residual standard error: 1450 on 211 degrees of freedom\n## Multiple R-squared: 0.9231, Adjusted R-squared: 0.9191 \n## F-statistic: 230.2 on 11 and 211 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16" + "objectID": "posts/a-10-week-self-guided-data-science-intro-course.html", + "href": "posts/a-10-week-self-guided-data-science-intro-course.html", + "title": "Become a Data Scientist in 10 Weeks", + "section": "", + "text": "How do you get a job in data science if you currently aren’t a data scientist?\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#interpretation-matters", - "href": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#interpretation-matters", - "title": "Buying a used car the data science way: Part 2", - "section": "Interpretation matters", - "text": "Interpretation matters\nFirst, we see the (Intercept). This is the average value of a car for every level of every feature not show. So it represents the average price of a year 2000 with 0 miles, Limited trim, without all wheel drive. This allows us to now see what the average effect of, say, year is, holding all else constant. Every unit is in terms of dollars, so we can see that for as.factor(year)2013 that 2013 cars are worth $1,267 more than 2012 cars. This makes sense.\nI scaled mileage to be in the thousands so that it’s a little easier to interpret. So we see that for every 1,000 miles you drive a Ford Edge, it decreases the value of the car by $91 dollars. This tells you a few things. One, if I’m being offered two cars that are 10K miles different, there should be about a ~$900 difference in the car.\nSecond, if I’m planning on driving my car 30k miles over the next two years, how much should I expect the price to drop just due to mileage? Well, about -$91 * 30 = -$2,730. And maybe if you bought a 2014 model, two years later it could perhaps be like owning a 2012 model today. What’s the two-year difference between a 2014 and a 2012 model? About $3,160 dollars." + "objectID": "posts/a-10-week-self-guided-data-science-intro-course.html#ab-testing-and-kpi-optimization-for-online-companies-applies-to-offline-too", + "href": "posts/a-10-week-self-guided-data-science-intro-course.html#ab-testing-and-kpi-optimization-for-online-companies-applies-to-offline-too", + "title": "Become a Data Scientist in 10 Weeks", + "section": "A/B Testing and KPI Optimization for Online Companies (applies to offline too)", + "text": "A/B Testing and KPI Optimization for Online Companies (applies to offline too)\n\nAll big internet companies use A/B testing, or split testing, to make decisions about how to improve their product. If you’re interested in software, or understanding how all modern websites and software are improved, you need to understand A/B testing.\n\nIf You’ve taken stat 101, this is where the “t.test” gets used to literally make Big Tech billions of dollars. I’m not kidding. It’s simple, but it’s powerful.\n\nIt’s All A/Bout Testing: The Netflix Experimentation Platform | by Netflix Technology Blog | Netflix TechBlog\nA seven part series by Netflix: Netflix: A Culture of Learning. Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng… | by Netflix Technology Blog | Netflix TechBlog I put here the seventh post because it likes to parts 1-6 in the intro. This part 7 is probably the best to start with because it explains the context behind A/B testing.\nExperiment Guide – Accelerate innovation using trustworthy online controlled experiments This book tells you how Microsoft, Amazon, and Google use online experimentation to make billions of dollars. It’s written by the people who invented online experimentation and who are top data scientists at those companies.\nSequential A/B Testing Keeps the World Streaming NetflixPart 1: Continuous Data | by Netflix Technology Blog | Feb, 2024 | Netflix TechBlog" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#inference", - "href": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#inference", - "title": "Buying a used car the data science way: Part 2", - "section": "Inference", - "text": "Inference\nNow it’s getting interesting! You’re now starting to remember how your mom told you to never buy a car new, because once you drive it off the lot, it’s worth significantly less. Well, we can see that if you own a brand-new 2017 model and a 2016 model, they’re about $9082 - $6166 = $2916 different. So yea, just by getting the 2017 model you’ll lose $3,000 in the first year. See how 2016 is only $502 dollars more than the 2015? Having the 2015 model is practically the same price as a 2016. So you might as well buy the 2016 model and save a year of wear.\nWell, my theory kind of starts breaking down because 2015 cars and 2014 cars are similarly spaced as 2014 and 2013 ones. So maybe I shouldn’t read too much into this. But the ability to see these trends shouldn’t stop you from asking important questions, like, why is there a difference between years?\nWhen investigating the Nissan Murano, I observed a $5430 difference between 2015 and 2014. That’s non-trivial considering the other years were equally spaced. Doing a little research I saw that Nissan changed the 2015 Murano style, and the new style was apparently worth a lot more. Turns out the same thing happened here for the Ford Edge - the 2015 model is slightly longer with redesigned interior.\nYou can also use this framework to get a decent sense for what features are important to you. Like, is having all wheel drive really worth $1,277? If you live in an area where it snows, it probably is. But if you live in Florida, you may not need it.\nNot only is this framework helpful for comparing within-make-model differences, it helps you get a sense of between-make-model differences. Say, comparing the Ford Edge with the Nissan Murano and the Toyota RAV4. The coefficient for milage on the Edge is -$91. On the Murano it’s -$83, and on the RAV4 -$61. Remember this is the cost per 1,000 miles. That tells me that if I ‘spend’ 30k miles on a car over two years, I’ll lose -$2,730 on the Edge, but only -$1,830 on the RAV4, saving me $900. This also validates that Toyotas hold their value more." + "objectID": "posts/2017-02-10-ggplot-plotly/ggplot-plotly.html", + "href": "posts/2017-02-10-ggplot-plotly/ggplot-plotly.html", + "title": "The DataViz battle: Plotly vs ggplot2", + "section": "", + "text": "R users fall in love with ggplot2, the growing standard for data visualization in R. The ability to quickly vizualize trends, and customize just about anything you’d want, make it a powerful tool. Yet this week, I made a discovery that may reduce how much I used ggplot2. Enter plot_ly().\nFor this post, I assume that you have a working knowledge of the dplyr (or magrittr) and ggplot2 packages. I caveat that this post is backed with only 4-5 hours using plotly(), so some statements here may not be fully vetted.\nPlotly and ggplot2 are inherently for different purposes. plotly allows you to quickly create beautiful, reactive D3 plots that are particularly powerful in websites and dashboards. You can hover your mouse over the plots and see the data values, zoom in and out of specific regions, and capture stills. Here’s a basic histogram:\n\nset.seed(1)\nlibrary(plotly)\nplot_ly(x = ~ rnorm(1000), type = \"histogram\")\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter a brief dabble this week in plotly, I realized quickly the many advantages that plotly has over ggplot2.\nSeveral initial impressions:\n\nPlotly handles multiple wide data columns. I always find it annoying that to color different series in ggplot2, your data had to be in long format. Granted, it takes one simple melt() command to get the data into wide format.\nPlotly also handles long format (see below).\nCustomizing the layout (plot borders, y axis) is easier.\nCustomizing the legend is easier (in ggplot2 I’ve wanted to remove just one series, which isn’t always easy).\nDocumentation is better in Plotly.\nPlotly syntax is very intuitive (learning how aes() in ggplot2 works is tricky at first)\nPlotly also works for Python, Matlab, and Excel, among other languages.\nIt’s very easy to add new series and customize them (one line, one scatter, and one bar, for example)\nYou can use other fonts (which is possible in ggplot2, but I’ve never gotten to work on my Windows machine)\nYou can toggle series on and off by clicking the series name in the legend\n\nBenefits of ggplot2 over plotly:\n\nFacet wrapping is very easy in ggplot2. (I think you have to do subplots in plotly.)\nggplot2 is probably quicker for exploratory analysis.\n\n\nConverting ggplot2 into plotly\nAn additional benefit of plotly is that you can convert your ggplot() graphs into a plotly object.\n\nlibrary(ggplot2)\np <- qplot(x = rnorm(1000), geom = \"histogram\")\np\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThen, invoking the ggplotly(p) command, we see the transformation:\n\nggplotly(p)\n\n\n\n\n\nA draw back of ggplotly() is that if you do refined customization (like putting your legend on the bottom of the graph), ggplotly() doesn’t seem to pick this up by default.\n\n# ggplot with legend on the bottom\np <- qplot(\n data = iris,\n x = Sepal.Width,\n y = Sepal.Length,\n geom = \"point\",\n color = Species\n) +\n theme(legend.position = \"bottom\")\np\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n# Plotly doesn't pick up the legend change\nggplotly(p)\n\n\n\n\n\nBut since Plotly also saves to an object, you can use the %>% notation to pipe and add additional plotting commands. This is similar to the + operator in ggplot().\n\np <- qplot(\n data = iris,\n x = Sepal.Width,\n y = Sepal.Length,\n geom = \"point\",\n color = Species\n) +\n theme(legend.position = \"bottom\")\np2 <- ggplotly(p)\n# Use the plotly layout() command for legend customization\np2 %>% layout(legend = list(orientation = \"h\"))\n\n\n\n\n\nThe legend doesn’t do exactly what we want, but you can manipulate the legend location manually using x and y coordinates. The orientation = 'h' setting in the docs puts the legend on the bottom for default plot_ly() objects. Graphing the same series, we see the legend at the bottom:\n\nplot_ly(iris,\n x = ~Sepal.Width,\n y = ~Sepal.Length,\n type = \"scatter\",\n mode = \"markers\",\n color = ~Species\n) %>%\n layout(legend = list(orientation = \"h\"))\n\n\n\n\n\n(You notice the Plotly X-axis title can get cut off1, so let’s put that +1 to ggplot2.)\nPlotly seems very intuitive relative to ggplot2 in doing layout customization. Things that took me many iterations on StackOverflow to figure out, like adding a black line on y = 0, are built in to Plotly.\n\np <- plot_ly(iris,\n x = ~Sepal.Width,\n y = ~Sepal.Length,\n type = \"scatter\",\n mode = \"markers\",\n color = ~Species\n)\n# Put legend on bottom, change the x-axis range, and turn on the x-axis line. \n# Also, make the zeroline visible, and turn it red.\np <- p %>% layout(\n legend = list(orientation = \"h\"),\n xaxis = list(\n zeroline = T, # Turns x = 0 on\n zerolinecolor = \"red\", # colors x = 0 red\n showline = T, # Shows xaxis border line\n range = c(-2, 7)\n )\n)\n# Or, save parameters into a list. Use new fonts (a huge plus)\nf1 <- list(\n family = \"Arial, sans-serif\",\n size = 18,\n color = \"lightgrey\"\n)\nyax <- list(\n title = \"Sepal length\",\n titlefont = f1\n)\np %>% layout(yaxis = yax)\n\n\n\n\n\nThings I’d like to further explore:\n\nYou can export static plotly images out to file. My hypothesis is that Plotly images take longer to generate than ggplot2. So if I’m mass producing 30,000 plots (which I had to do last month), which is the faster approach? I would assume ggplot2.\n\n\n\nPlotly in RShiny Dashboards\nThe goal in learning Plotly was for me was to eliminate the Excel-VBA dashboard I created using for my manager. Excel has (some) benefits over ggplot2 static charts: you can easily hover your mouse over a series to see the data value, and most industry users know how to manage an Excel axes. Grated, you can build in an RShiny widget to allow the user to control the axes, but Excel comes with that knowledge base built-in. ggvis allows for the powerful library of Google charts, but I think for a reactive dashboard, plotly is a great way to go2.\nSo Plotly solved the Excel problem for me. Now my manager can click and zoom to the parts of the graph that are interesting, and hover the mouse to see the values. Just use renderPlotly() instead of renderPlot() in the server.R file, and plotlyOutput() instead of plotOutput() in the ui.R file.\nMore info here: RShiny and Plotly\n\n\nRShiny vs Plotly Dashboards\nBoth RShiny and Plotly allow for creating dashboards. Plotly allows you to build dashboards as well. If you’re just interested in only visualizing charts and trends, Plotly dashboards seem like the way to go. But to build reactivity into your dashboard (like subsetting your sample, changing date ranges, etc.), RShiny still seems like the more customizable solution.\n\n\nFinal thoughts\nOverall, it seems that ggplot2 is quicker to build and find what you want. With facet wrapping, the qplot() command, and ggsave(), you can whip something up fast. Plotly is better for dashboards, as you can interact with the plots. I feel like Plotly has a better syntax and documentation, and so it may be easier to get a basic plot to look how you want it to. But ggplot2 seems to have more advanced features, so if you want to get into refined customization, you may want to stick with ggplot2. They’re both great, and serve different purposes, but I’ll be using plotly for my RMarkdown and RShiny visualizations going forward.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis may depend on your screen.↩︎\nOf course, this is relative to the chart you’re trying to make.↩︎\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#identify-a-good-market-deal-and-how-truecar-might-do-it", - "href": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#identify-a-good-market-deal-and-how-truecar-might-do-it", - "title": "Buying a used car the data science way: Part 2", - "section": "Identify a good market deal (and how TrueCar might do it)", - "text": "Identify a good market deal (and how TrueCar might do it)\nBeyond the research above, you can use such a model to identify deals in the market and guide your buying decision. Here’s how:\n\nMake a PriceFinder: Get the residuals (actual minus predicted value) for each car. The more negative the residual, the more this car is a good price! This may be how TrueCar and CarGurus get their ‘deals’. They fit a model (probably one better than what I’ve created here) and use its residuals to value each car.\nIdentify ‘overpriced’ cars and try to possibly haggle those dealers down. Again, use the residuals here.\nUse this model to predict ‘out-of-sample’ cars. You can use this model built on TrueCar data and find a car on the classifieds or another site and evaluate whether it’s a good deal or not.\n\nHere’s an example of how we do that. First, let’s predict a hypothetical 2015 SEL Ford Edge FWD with 27.6k miles:\n\nthat_car <- as.data.frame(list(\n year = 2015,\n mileage = 27.6,\n trim = 'SEL',\n awd = 0\n))\n\npredict(mod, newdata = that_car)\n\n## 1 \n## 23520.13\nWe’d expect, on average, such a car to cost $23,520.13. Is what the dealer’s offering you above or below that? If they’re offering $25,000 then you know the car is $1,479.87 higher than what you might expect." + "objectID": "posts/writing-only-makes-sense-to-the-author.html", + "href": "posts/writing-only-makes-sense-to-the-author.html", + "title": "Writing Only Makes Sense to the Author", + "section": "", + "text": "If you’re a bad author, your writing will only make sense to you.\nProblem is, we’re all bad authors.\n\nMy writing makes sense as I put it fown\nIt doesn’t always make sense to me 5 minutes later (my future self is practically another person)\nThe probability of it being perfectly interpreted by someone who isn’t even me, is likely near zero.\n\nSo when we write, we send out an idea. It then becomes a painting on the wall, up for anyone to interpret how they may.1 therefore, it’s best to put yourself as much in your audience’s shoes as possible (something discussed often in How to Win Friends and Influence People).\n\n\n\n“Now what on earth was Bryan trying to say?!?” “I think he was inspired” “nah man, he just wrote scribbles on the wall. That’s not writing!” “Yea, maybe he should slap a banana with duct tape on there. Would have gotten the point across better”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGoing to an extreme - ever write a kind word that was taken as an insult, or sent something sarcastic and it was interpreted as literal?↩︎\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#how-to-improve-our-model", - "href": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#how-to-improve-our-model", - "title": "Buying a used car the data science way: Part 2", - "section": "How to improve our model", - "text": "How to improve our model\nNow, this is a pretty naive model, but it’s a model. As George Box said, “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” But here are some quick ways to improve this model:\n\nCheck for interactions. An interaction between miles and year would tell you whether the effect of miles would change across different years. For example, I think adding 10k miles to a 2017 would devalue the car more steeply than adding 10k miles to a 2012 model. During my quick research I checked for interactions, but I didn’t find many to be significant and I chose to ignore them for simplicity.\nUse a linear trend for year rather than a ‘factor’ trend. I’ve chosen here to treat year as a factor, which implies that I think that each year is completely different. Had I used year as a numeric feature, I could have possibly interpreted year as, “Each additional year increases/decreases the price by X on average, holding all else constant.” I liked the simplicity of thinking that each year was different, and since cars usually update models every four years, I wanted to be able to see where this happened. You couldn’t easily see this if year were a linear trend. Objectively, what would be a good way to choose? Fit both models and see which had better R-squared or AIC.\nDo model diagnostics. Check the residual plot to make sure the errors are normally distributed. Check for outliers. Each of these affects the accuracy of your residuals. I did some brief checks and was genearlly satisfied." + "objectID": "posts/2022-07-20-de-sciencing-data-science-and-talking-like-a-normal-person/index.html", + "href": "posts/2022-07-20-de-sciencing-data-science-and-talking-like-a-normal-person/index.html", + "title": "De-sciencing Data Science and Talking Like a Normal Person", + "section": "", + "text": "Building a Data Science culture\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTL;DR: Always keep it simple and always bring it back to the business need.\n\n\n\nA coworker once asked me for advice on how to bring technical rigor into a non-technical culture.\n\n\nWhen the Simple Solution Wins\nA few years back I wanted to see if I could predict which NBA team would win in their next match. FiveThirtyEight is a blog that does this every day. Could I build a model as good as theirs?\nI built a few models and put up a site. Below I have a table of accuracies for each of my models compared to FoveThirtyEight’s.\n\nWhat I learned is that Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight three models are only 66% accurate. In 20 hours I got a model as accurate (V02 above) as his using just team level data (win %, recent win streak, etc.) and no player data (injuries, etc.). Also my model was built using data from 2005-2017 to predict 2019 performance. His model was updated daily with recent stats.\nBut even more glaring is that if I made a prediction on a single feature (Home % > Away %) I could achieve 63.7% accuracy. This feature is a 1 if the home teams win % is greater than the away teams win %, 0 otherwise. Meaning, the home team wins 63.7% of the time their season win % is higher than the away teams season win %.\nWas it worth building an XGBoost model with 30 features to get 65.8% accuracy when just a simple calculation is 63.7% accurate? Depends on business context and how valuable that 2% gain is and what the development/engineering cost of deploying a model is. But if I were you I’d start with the simple model to get it into production to start generating value and then come back later to optimize.\nCaveat: it took a lot of work to discover that feature. 90% of the problem was building the data set. So at the end, building a model was pretty simple once I had the data. (This is where cloud AutoML will take over going forward, sorry!.) And I needed the model to see the feature importance (this was the top feature.) This is a valid data science approach: use modeling to discover the patterns. But just because you have a model doesn’t mean it’s worth deploying.\nKeep it business focused: when building a recommendation system, start with “what’s most popular”. Why would you need K-means or whatever to begin? And can’t you build your own K-means by creating heuristic filters? For example: if you want to recommend me a shirt based on shirts I’ve searched, you can find all shirts of same color, price, and size and recommend those. Building a model to take into account dimensions, patterns, what others buy, etc is fine but should be a V2.\n\n\nMindsets\nThere’s a temptation to act like an academic professor and use fancy jargon when working with your coworkers. Even worse, there’s a temptation to think you’re smarter than your coworkers because you know this mathy thing that they don’t. But remember this quote:\n\nWhen they are learned they think they are wise…1\n\nThis pride power struggle is your downfall for two reasons:\n\nIt blinds you to thinking your solution is good just because someone else can’t understand it.\nIt blinds you from focusing on what matters most: getting the simplest and best solution.\n\nYour coworkers aren’t your students eating you. They’re your smart coworkers solving the same problems you are.\nA better mindset is that of a professional athlete, like a football player. They might be dumb as bricks at times but they’re all incredibly smart players. Can you explain your technical solution like a pro football player would?\n\nBad: “I built an XGBoost classification model that reduces the RMSE by minimizing the Gini coefficient on each node…”\n\nBetter: “I noticed that most users close the app after they reach this page. I tried looking at some reasons why and found a few common behaviors (DISCUSS, get feedback). I think we can predict when this will happen and here’s a framework to do that.”\n\nThere’s a temptation to think “I did all this technical work, I should get credit for it!” My manager once coached me, “Your stakeholders should be amazed by how simple you made it. Not by how complicated the problem is.”\nThe best example I know of this is Chris Voss, an FBI negotiator. Listen to his podcasts or YouTubes. He’s a humble guy and doesn’t get into the technical stuff. He knows the principles and keeps the explanations simple. He helps you feel smart when you listen to him. He’s one of the best negotiators in the world and if you were having dinner with him you’d think he was a normal guy. This is how data scientists should be.\n\n\nBugs\nThere are two types of bugs in data science: Software bugs and data bugs. You’ll spend 80% of your ramp up time on a project setting up your environment, learning the data, trying to understand the primary keys and logging and unique values, etc.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNobody cares about how you do any of this (the same way you don’t care about how cereal ends up in your grocery store), but they do care that you do it because it shows that you’re thinking about the right things.\nThey’ll also worry that you’re spending too much time on the wrong thing, so make sure you believe your actions are solving a business purpose.\n\n\n\n\n\nTakeaways\n\nFocus on principles, not technical details.\nGet the simplest, useful solution into production first to start creating value. Then figure out if it’s worth optimizing. If your product gets deprecated in 3 months then the fancy model will be wasted time anyway.\nYour stakeholders should be amazed by how simple you made it. Not by how complicated the problem is.\nIf you can’t explain a trend with a simple bar/line chart, a fancy regression model won’t do.\nStart with the non-technical (basic math) solution. Then see if you can beat the basic math with a fancy model. Evaluate the cost/benefit of the technical solution relative to the dumb version.\nwhen you have a fancy solution, make sure you compare it to the basic solution. Make sure you can beat the solution your teammates come up with. And make sure you carefully lead them from “their” solution to yours. “At first I tried X. X was fine. But X didn’t account for Y. So I built a model M and saw that M out performs X by 10%.”\nJust because you know/use math, doesn’t mean it’s right for the business. Data Scientists can easily be myopic because the work we do is challenging and deep in the weeds.\nYour boss doesn’t care about the nature of the bugs, but you should try to bring first principles to the table so she can cover for you. “I keep hitting this bug in the data. Can we ask/work with Infra team to solve this because it eats my time.”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 9:28↩︎\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#takeaways", - "href": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#takeaways", - "title": "Buying a used car the data science way: Part 2", - "section": "Takeaways", - "text": "Takeaways\nSo, a data scientist walks into a dealership with a computer with a registry of thousands of used cars on it. He negotiates with the front-office salesman. And the salesman says…\n\nNon-statistical considerations\nWhen you’re buying a car from a dealership, remember that it’s their job to sell you that car. Here are other random things I learned to think about during the car-buying process.\n\nHow many miles has it been driven, and how old is it? (We found a car with 45,000 miles in one year. That’s almost two trips around the entire world in a year! This is also 3750 miles per month (a cross-country US trip), or about 125 miles per day. What kind of driving do you have to do in a year to get that?\nHow many prior owners were there?\nWas the car previously a rental? A lease? A fleet?\nRental: Abused by X number of people? But also perhaps better maintained by rental companies?\nLease: What kind of person would lease?\nFleet: Probably a corporate car. Like a rental, but different kind of drivers.\nWhere did the car come from?\nIs there snow where they live? And do they use salt on the roads there? (Salt = rust underneath)\nWhat else does the geography tell you about the possible wear on the car (causing long-term problems)\nWhat does the CarFax or Autocheck say?\nWas the car sold at auction? When? What could the time between sales tell you about the car?\nIf someone gets into an accident and doesn’t report it, the CarFax won’t tell you. I drove 45 minutes to look at a ‘great’ deal only to learn the door was nearly falling off.\nGood luck haggling the dealer down. Car dealerships don’t usually make that much on the car, but make their money on warranties and fees. Your best chance is to haggle on the deals being offered (terms and agreements).\nDon’t get the powertrain warranty. This is like the “french fries” of the auto industry. Pure profit.\nEvery dealership has quota. Going in at the end of the month might help you, but the dealership will be packed.\nUsed cars are bought at auction. Carmax buys all their cars at auction and only keeps 1/3 of them. Local dealers also get their cars this way, and they don’t always know what the car looks like till it gets to their lot. Check the Carfax to see if any prior dealers ‘flipped’ the car quickly.\n\nUsed cars have a shelf life. If a car isn’t sold in 45-60 days, some dealerships might have to auction off the car. That means you’ll see a tiering in the price. Less-favorable cars will see the price drop several times in its life cycle. Check CarGurus to see how many times the price has dropped, and try to guess for yourself if it might drop again (or just get sold). They know their prices. They’ve got their back-office guys looking at every price of every same car within 100 mile radius. While I’m also able to get as many of those cars as available on TrueCar, I’m not able to segment by all the various features. It’s easy to webscrape for Make, Model, Year, AWD/FWD, and maybe V6 engine, but it’s very hard to get the details like leather, sunroof, twin-turbo, etc. That’s where the pricing gets really interesting.\n\n\nFinal thoughts\nUltimately, a car is bought by irrational humans, and sold by more experienced ones too. So all of this data will probably go out the door when you try to make a deal.\nSo a data scientist walked into several dealerships, and left frustrated because nobody budged on their prices. Doesn’t matter how much data I have, or what I think I know, everyone’s got their price." + "objectID": "posts/write-despite-ai/index.html", + "href": "posts/write-despite-ai/index.html", + "title": "Write despite AI", + "section": "", + "text": "Write because you can\nI don’t write because anyone is actually listening. But if I’m lucky, the AI is actually listening.\n\nIf AI is listening (webscraping me), I’m fortunate to teach it. Essentially, good training data is hard to come by, especially as AI content proliferates on the internet. Let’s consider it a privilege I’m able to help it learn.\nWriting and telling stories are the oldest form of humanity. Even if an AI can do it better, perhaps we’ll just spend time doing more of it.\n\n\n\n\nWhen plume meets tablet\n\n\nSo yea, I’ll write despite AI. I’ll write because it’s very human to do so.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2023-12-24-twas-the-night-before-christmas/index.html", - "href": "posts/2023-12-24-twas-the-night-before-christmas/index.html", - "title": "Twas the Night before Christmas", + "objectID": "posts/book-summaries.html", + "href": "posts/book-summaries.html", + "title": "Book Summaries", "section": "", - "text": "Link to the 1912 publication, Twas the Night Before Christmas\noriginal poem was 1820’s\nSt Nick was 4th century\nDutch brought the name “Sinterklass” to the U.S. in the 1600’s.\nSt Nick becomes red by 1931, thanks to Coke\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe OG St. Nick\n\n\nEverything below is produced by GPT:\n“How long has the concept of Santa been around? Where did”st nick” come from?”\n\nThe concept of Santa Claus has evolved over many centuries, originating from the historical figure of Saint Nicholas. Saint Nicholas was a 4th-century Christian bishop in Myra, which is now part of modern-day Turkey. He was known for his generosity and for performing miracles, which earned him a reputation as a protector of children and sailors.\n\n\nThe name “Santa Claus” evolved from the Dutch “Sinterklaas,” a short form of Sint Nikolaas (Saint Nicholas). Dutch immigrants brought the traditions of Sinterklaas to America in the 17th and 18th centuries. In these traditions, Sinterklaas was depicted as a serious, religious figure who rewarded good children and punished the naughty ones.\n\n\nDuring the 19th century, especially in America, the image of Santa Claus as we know it today began to take shape. The 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (commonly known as “Twas the Night Before Christmas”) played a crucial role in shaping the modern character of Santa Claus, including his physical appearance and the tradition of delivering gifts to children.\n\n\nLater, in the 19th and 20th centuries, Santa’s image was further popularized through various media, including advertisements, films, and songs, which contributed to the jovial, red-suited, and reindeer-driving character recognized globally today. This character represents a blend of the historical Saint Nicholas, folk traditions from various cultures, and modern commercial and media influences.\n\nHow did St Nick become red?\n\nThe transformation of Saint Nicholas into the red-suited Santa Claus is a gradual evolution influenced by cultural, artistic, and commercial factors. The image of Santa Claus wearing red clothes began to become popular in the 19th century, but it was solidified in the 20th century, particularly through advertising.\n\n\n\n19th Century Literature and Art: In the 19th century, Santa Claus was often depicted in various colors of robes, including blue, green, and brown. However, by the latter half of the 19th century, the image of Santa in a red suit began to appear more frequently in literature and illustrations. Thomas Nast, a prominent American cartoonist, played a significant role in popularizing this image. In his illustrations for Harper’s Weekly starting in the 1860s, Nast depicted Santa Claus in a variety of outfits, including the now-familiar red suit.\n\n\n\n\nCoca-Cola Advertising in the 20th Century: The standardized image of Santa Claus in a red suit with white fur trim was popularized and became iconic largely due to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns. In 1931, Coca-Cola commissioned illustrator Haddon Sundblom to create a Santa Claus for their Christmas advertising campaign. Sundblom’s Santa was jolly, rotund, and dressed in a red suit with white fur trim, which matched the company’s color scheme. These advertisements were widely circulated and became immensely popular, cementing the image of Santa Claus in a red suit in the public’s imagination.\n\n\n\nWhile the red-suited Santa Claus is now ubiquitous, it’s important to note that the evolution of his image was influenced by a blend of historical, cultural, and commercial factors over several decades.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters\nLeadership from the bayonette. 10 points of leadership by dick winters.\n\nStrive to be a leader of character, competence, and courage.\nLead from the front. Say, “Follow me!” and then lead the way.\nStay in top physical shape—physical stamina is the root of mental toughness.\nDevelop your team. If you know your people, are fair in setting realistic goals and expectations, and lead by example, you will develop teamwork.\nDelegate responsibility to your subordinates and let them do their jobs. You can’t do a good job if you don’t have a chance to use your imagination or your creativity.\nAnticipate problems and prepare to overcome obstacles. Don’t wait until you get to the top of the ridge and then make up your mind.\nRemain humble. Don’t worry about who receives the credit. Never let power or authority go to your head.\nTake a moment of self-reflection. Look at yourself in the mirror every night and ask yourself if you did your best.\nTrue satisfaction comes from getting the job done. The key to a successful leader is to earn respect—not because of rank or position, but because you are a leader of character.\nHang tough!—Never, ever give up.\n\nHow to Win Friends and Influence People\n\n\n\nHow to win friends\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/the-multiverse-of-careers.html", - "href": "posts/the-multiverse-of-careers.html", - "title": "The Multiverse of Careers", + "objectID": "posts/2022-06-25-how-i-use-ticktick/index.html", + "href": "posts/2022-06-25-how-i-use-ticktick/index.html", + "title": "How I use TickTick", "section": "", - "text": "Spoken about in The Dream State of Software, Paul of Dune has a moment where he’s both past and present in his mind. He doesn’t know even whether he’s had his kid or not.\nIn a podcast I listened to lately on happiness, one suggestion was to write out all your goals and cross them off from day one. Pretend like it doesn’t even matter if you accomplish them. This helps free you.\nCareers are like both of these things. We want everything. We can pretend like we have it. We can come to terms with it. And we can say “doesn’t matter if I don’t get that, because I’ve got a life outside my career.”\n\n\n\nWhich path you choose isn’t as important as who you choose as companions\n\n\nConsider your career from your deathbed (My Tombstone). What path did you take that mattered? What were all the alternate realities and multiverses you could have had.\nPut them all together. In one multiverse you’ve been fired. In another you end up getting insanely wealthy. In another you start your own company. In another you become an online blogger.\nAll of them can’t be true when you do this exercise extensively enough. And choosing which one probably doesn’t matter as much (right vs wrong path thinking). If you’ve ever left a job you realize that nothing really comes over with you. Most relationships at work are short lived and contextual, like your relationships in high school. And that’s life.\nHappiness is perhaps being okay with not having everything you desire, except for the few things that are truly attainable: peace with God, self, and cherished relationships.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I’ve recently read “Atomic Habits”, “Deep Work”, “The Power of Habit”, “Getting Things Done”, “Essentialism” and “Effortless”. These productivity paradigms influence this post.\nInspired by this Reddit post, I’ve tried thinking how I want apply the principles of GTD and these other paradigms. I think GTD is great for me because it helps me get ideas out of my head and Essentialism is a better pursuit to make sure I’m not caught up in minutia. I don’t see them as incongruent, but one as an ideation organization approach and the other as a relentless focus.\nFive steps of GTD:\n\nCapture\nClarify\nOrganize\nReview\nEngage\n\n\nCapture\nI have an iOS shortcut that lets me quickly add a TickTick task to my inbox. I put this on my Home Screen for instant access and to avoid distraction. I want to capture the idea, not open TickTick and get distracted by other ideas.\nOr I use the TickTick today widget and upload it to today directly. Depends on the task and how detailed I want to be.\n\n\nClarify\nHere’s the system I use to clarify.\nDefinitions:\n\nTask: an action item.\nProject: an intended outcome with multiple tasks.\nEpic: an intended outcome with multiple projects.\nKey Result: high level, long term accomplishment. (Increase revenue 10%)\nObjective: a squishy, feel-good purpose statement. “Deepen relationships with loved ones.”\n\nTask grooming process: Groom the inbox every night and identify the intended outcome and next action. Tag the task.\n\nIf the task was “send Birthday card”, that’s really an intended outcome and is a small project. The tasks are 1) buy card from CVS, 2) put in envelope with stamp, 3) drop in mailbox. These three subtasks need to be understood. But a separate inbox entry may be “pay phone bill by sitting down at my computer at 10pm”. This isn’t a project. It’s just a one off thing. But it can still be clarified with details.\nLabel if it’s a project or not. Use iOS shortcuts to make this really easy. For example, gg = “🎯 #Project”\nThe challenge is if I should have things as projects or as individual tasks. I would say that as much as things can be independent, keep them tasks. Like “apply for credit card1” and “apply for credit card 2” are both personal finance tasks. But they are independent.\nA task isn’t necessarily short and a project isn’t necessarily long. It’s just whether this Indy ended outcome has multiple steps or not that might be done over a few days, whereas a task is probably done in one sitting.\nIt’s assumed that unless something is a task, it’s a project.\nEvery epic has its own name. I nest epics under “Work > #Epic1, #Epic2”, etc. This helps me organize my work deliverables. I have like 5 epics right now at work that will span several quarters.\n\nThen I may choose to add tags with metadata, which I haven’t figured out if this is useful yet. But “Atomic Habits” says the best way to get stuff done is to stack it. So here is my tagging system to help me stack:\n\nCommitment: ASAP, Eventually, Someday Maybe. Will I do this task eventually? Pay a bill - yes. Learn a language - someday maybe.\n\nDuration: 5min, 30min, 1hr, 2hr, 4hr. 9hr (all day)\nLocation (where to do the task): Home, Desk, Car, Backyard. Most work things are done at my desk. But perhaps some can be done while taking a walk. Most personal things are done around the house or on the couch at night.\nTime of Day: “1: Pre work”. “2: start of workday. 3: lunchtime, 4: afternoon, 5: after work, 6: nighttime”\nFocus: “Deepwork” or “shallow”. Deep work should be uninterrupted and be 3 hours long.\nSeverity: S1: if I don’t do this nothing will happen. S3: not doing this will have bad consequences or lots of regret. S2 - in between :).\nDeadline: I’m still thinking about this one. To me there’s a difference between mowing the law which has a linear cost of looking worse each day for not being cut and failing to pay my taxes, which has festeringly worse consequences the longer I put it off (pay a fine, end up in jail, etc.). I guess this is captured implicitly in “ASAP” commitment. But paying my taxes is only a cost (preventing negative outcomes) versus the ASAP of getting my project finished (positive consequences).\n\nNone (default): no consequence for never doing this.\nBinary: You either make the deadline or never and this opportunity ceases forever.\nRolling: If you miss the deadline there will be another.\nFestering: the longer you put this off the worse it becomes, but no deadline.\n\n\nAs I write this, this sounds like overkill…classic me. I sincerely doubt it’s useful to of all of this. But having the system available will let me use what I need when I need it. If I’m still using any of this in a month that’ll be a miracle. But I’m going to start with something in mind and go from there.\n\n\nOrganize\n\nOnce clarified, move out of inbox into a list “work” or “personal”.1\nPrioritize.\nDelegate. (Myself, someone else.)\nAssign due dates and times (if not already done)\n\n\n\nReview\n\nEach night I will review the days tasks and re-prioritize as needed.\nPin the one task/project I want to get done that day.\n\nEssentialism says to take the 6 tasks of the day and choose just one. Then identify what else you need to say no to to ensure you have the energy to accomplish that task.\n\nWeekly planning session to review all of this.\n\n\n\nEngage\n\nDon’t work on any tasks in a day/week that weren’t planned for that day (unless something comes up).\n\n\n\nFinal Thoughts\nA task system should be saving me time, not consuming it. It should be relaxing me and my anxieties, not amplifying them. I’m going to give this 30 days and see if my stress decreases and productivity increase. If so, I’ll keep using this system.\nGTD states that by not writing down all the ideas, you waste energy because things come back to nag you later. But surely energy is wasted by organizing a valueless idea.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTags and lists are identical except Lists have sections and views (such as Kanban). In a list you can sort by tag and vice versa. But each task can only appear in one list whereas tags are infinite. I noticed that choosing which list something belongs to can be cumbersome if it’s in a nested list, so I want only high level lists (no folders) and have this be simple. I also have “personal” and “work” tags which have projects within them, so I don’t really see why I’d need to duplicate this. On second thought, each task can only belong to one work project so it’d make sense for this to be my grouping. I suppose I just don’t want to manage all that. Or, I chose to use tags to manage my projects because I was cheap and I can only have 9 lists on the free version but unlimited tags? Either way this is easy to reorganize later if I choose to switch. Tags it is for now.↩︎\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/flip-a-coin-and-not-fail.html", - "href": "posts/flip-a-coin-and-not-fail.html", - "title": "97 percent chance you’ll fail", + "objectID": "posts/writing-is-enlivening/index.html", + "href": "posts/writing-is-enlivening/index.html", + "title": "Writing is truly enlivening", "section": "", - "text": "In Flipping the coins of life, I outline how you can succeed 5 times with a success rate of 3%. That also means you have a 97% chance you won’t succeed 5 times in a row.\n\n\n\nFlipping five coins will almost certainly yield at least tails\n\n\nIn life, we sometimes overemphasize winning. Even in the tech world of wanting to fail fast, I think most people just really want to win every time. Nobody seeks failure - that’s not the goal. They seek other things (learning, promotions, making more money).\nWhen making decisions, it’s easy to black-and-white them. If there’s only a 3% change we’ll win 5 times in a row (with a 50% chance of winning every time), there’s a 97% chance you’ll fail at least once every 5 attempts.\nIf your probability of success is lower, then the odds of failing at once in five are almost 100%.\nHow do you quantify a life decision though? Maybe you only get one big choice a year (job change, like as is discussed in How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices). Is there a 50% chance of “success”? If so, every five years you’re highly likely to “fail”.\nPer the book, it’s more likely that one bad thing happens and we hindsight bias our decision and black-and-white it.\nReality is: getting fired or your startup blowing up might be the best thing that ever happens to you. You just don’t know. Your story isn’t written yet. And actually, it’s not so much about if you made the right choice as if you just make the choice right in some way.\nChoose your love, and then love your choice, as they say.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Hamilton is running out of time\n\n\nI’ve been writing for my whole life. I have at least 15-20 journals. I have 3000 notes in one app, 2200 notes in another, at least 1800 digital journal entries over 10 years, I’ve built and replaced probably 5 blogs. This blog has 57 entries so far. What have I learned?\n\nMake writing daily as easy as possible. I set up some automation so I can write from my phone for daily blogging.\nWriting makes things feel real for me. It helps connect the dots. It’s a far more productive way to read the news. Less stuff, more thinking. Because if I can’t write at least one useful note about something I read, I realize it wasn’t worth reading.\nPerhaps reading is the more important daily duty. Well, to write I need something to inspire me. Usually that comes from the news. Sometimes inspiration comes from yesterday’s post. This inspiration came from editing my prior post.\n\nI’m not gonna worry about who reads this. But instead focus on writing every day because…\n\nI think it helps me practice storytelling\nhelps me practice communication\n\nHamilton wrote like he was “running out of time”. I’m writing because I want to use my time how I enjoy it.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2022-06-28-increase-focus-through-writing-down-everything/index.html", - "href": "posts/2022-06-28-increase-focus-through-writing-down-everything/index.html", - "title": "Increase Focus through Writing Down Everything", + "objectID": "posts/2022-06-22-downstream-impact/index.html", + "href": "posts/2022-06-22-downstream-impact/index.html", + "title": "Downstream Impact", "section": "", - "text": "The GTD framework preaches something to the effect of “get every todo item down and into a system. It may take dozens or hundreds of tasks to get it all out.” Essentially, if a task is in your mind, it will slow you down. But if you put it down on paper, it will free your mind to think on other things. Also, more ideas will come.\nI’ve put perhaps a hundred things down on paper in the last few days. Interestingly, ideas I had forgotten about came back to my mind. I wrote these down.\nThere got to a point today though where I had so much on my screen I felt overwhelmed. How will I ever sort through all this mess?\nThankfully, most of the things don’t need to get done and are either “eventually” or “someday maybe” tasks, and not “asap” tasks. So just ignore them.\nAnd secondly, I always “know” what’s most important. This documentation process doesn’t change that. It just helps me to get all the distractions out of my head and down on paper.\nSpending time organizing all this stuff seems like a potential waste. But what I realize is that it improves my just-in-time recall. If earlier in the day I planned to buy a dish scrubber in the evening, when the evening rolls around that task magically comes back to my mind. So it’s really just front loading all the decision making and prioritizing. I think our brains are capable of more subconscious processing than we realize.\n(Pause entry to buy dish scrubber…) okay, I’m back.\nAnother idea that’s having an effect on me is the 2 min rule. If a task takes less than 2 min, don’t organize it. Just do it. Powerfully, this mindset helps me to care less about two min tasks. Or, sometimes there’s a tendency to over exaggerate the stress something will cause. Like buying a scrubber could be a 10 min task if you want to find the perfect one. But if you only allocate yourself 2 min, you realize this is only a $6 decision and I have better things to do with my time.\nLastly, I love being deliberate about tasks by writing down the intended outcome of a task. It’s very easy as a data scientist to get swallowed up in all the weeds. Or, rather, when your task is to dig up a gem it’s easy to get distracted by all the weeds that need to be pulled that are in your way. So by being clear about the reason I’m diving into the data in the first place helps me re-surface less scathed. Data are a dirty business…\n\nTakeaways\nThe effect of the GTD framework?\n\nLess FOMO. By writing down everything I can see clearly that 1) I don’t have time for all of it and 2) the stuff I care about pops up.\nI don’t have to worry about what I’m not doing because I can easily say no to it as I say yes to something better.\nI can see broader connections between a litany of things. This helps me prioritize what my subconscious has been telling me by nagging me about X ideas.\nIf I start working on something not in my list it makes me ask if this thing is fealty worth my time when I know I have a ton of other stuff to do. (Recency bias I spoke about in my other blog post.)\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Every pea is unique. But it’s still a pea.\n\n\nOnline experiments are powerful tools to see the causal impact of a business strategy. Tweak something, see what users do.\nThe limitations of online experiments is that once you manipulate your user experience there’s no going back. Users are forever impacted by your choice.\nIf you give out a credit card with $100, $300, and $500 lines, people are going to spend more on the $500 line. They might also default more because they’re less able to pay back $500 than they are $100. As a result, you may lose these $500 users forever and might impact other aspects of their life, not to mention impact the marketing department’s strategy.\nA group of users is like a single living organism, if you treat it like that. If you only measure one metric (conversion rate) on the entire massive audience, then you’ll optimize for the “average” user.\nBut nobody is average. We are all distinct. We fall into categories, sure. But to really optimize the whole business we need to optimize for pockets of users. Or, we just need to set up a system that’s personalized.\nTakeaway? Personalize your experiments where possible. Consider the ethical and downstream impacts of the experiment.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2020-12-18-productivity-notes/index.html", - "href": "posts/2020-12-18-productivity-notes/index.html", - "title": "Productivity notes", + "objectID": "posts/2017-10-18-used-cars-scrape/used-cars-scrape.html", + "href": "posts/2017-10-18-used-cars-scrape/used-cars-scrape.html", + "title": "Buying a used car the data science way: Part 1", "section": "", - "text": "Time Management\n\nCalendar my ToDos.\nShorter work is better. Less to edit. Less mistakes. Keep it simple.\n\n\n\nDistractions\n\nBlock 30 min for email and review team members work twice a day.\nAggressively filter email spam.\n\n\n\nAnalysis\n\nStart with a story. End with story.\nIterate quickly with stakeholders.\nalways have one nights sleep before sending a presentation. Edit.\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "[Update 2021-11-16] This analysis was originally written on my old blog here. You can find the source code for it here. This code no longer works as TrueCar changed their CSS to make it more difficult to scrape. It’s still possible, but you’d need to build a custom scraper from scratch.\nThis is part 1 out of a two-part series on scraping used car data. Check out part 2 to learn how to analyze the data.\nIn another post, I describe how I use this data that I’ve scraped, but I wanted to provide a more in-depth tutorial for those interested in how I got the data. Note, this data belongs to Truecar, so all uses herein are for personal and academic reasons only.\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2023-12-25-ai-robots-are-mastering-tasks-faster-than-humans-/index.html", - "href": "posts/2023-12-25-ai-robots-are-mastering-tasks-faster-than-humans-/index.html", - "title": "AI Robots are mastering tasks faster than humans", - "section": "", - "text": "With a proper objective function, machines can do really hard, isolated tasks\n\n\n\n\nthey can walk\nthey can solve complex physical challenges\nthey can play the toughest strategic games on earth and win (AlphaGo 2017, AlphaStar 2019)\nbut can they determine the objective function by themselves?\n\n\n\n\nReinforcement Learning\nGreat article written at Techradar going over the advances in reinforcement learning that allow a robot to finish labyrinth faster than humans. The video does the feat even more justice:\n\nThis stands out to me in a few ways, principally that they crippled the machine to not take shortcuts. It still won.\nReminds me first of AlphaGo:\n\nWhich reminds me of AlphaStar. Here’s a video with commentary on AlphaStar’s performance:\n\nThe thing I connect this video (or some other I watched) with labyrinth is that AlphaStar devised brand new strategies. Players against AlphaStar remarked how they felt like it was indeed being creative. Likewise, Cyberrunner (labyrinth) found shortcuts.\nAll of this points to reinforcement learning as a viable solution to getting stuff done both in the digital and physical worlds. Take, for example, how RL is used to teach a robot how to walk.\n\n\n\nAn AI robot learning to play StarCraft for the first time…\n\n\n\n\nWhat’s the objective?\nThe goal for Super AI will be to figure out what the objective is. If we can marry digital and physical worlds, teaching the systems how to solve objective functions, the possibilities become…super/human.\nThe unique thing about a human, it seems, is that we have our objective function hardwired into us: survive. First this is “food/shelter”. Next it’s social survival.\nHow do humans figure out objective functions so fast? A human looking at labyrinth will know what to do within a second. Does it have interest/patience to sit there and learn it? Does GPT 4Vision have the ability to figure out these objective functions?\nWe learn by objective functions. Minimize wrong answers on a test. Minimize missed baskets on the basketball court. Minimize rejections in a sales funnel. Maximize great conversation and connection at a dinner party.\nHumans learn very quickly. For now, robots are being isolated to specific tasks and their results are impressive. But perhaps to become our overlords all they need is the one objective function to rule them all. Er, uhm, and by “them” I of course don’t mean “us”…\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "objectID": "posts/2017-10-18-used-cars-scrape/used-cars-scrape.html#get-the-data", + "href": "posts/2017-10-18-used-cars-scrape/used-cars-scrape.html#get-the-data", + "title": "Buying a used car the data science way: Part 1", + "section": "Get the data", + "text": "Get the data\nIn order to do any good analaysis, you first need data. I prefer to have more data than less, where possible. In this case, I don’t have any data, so I use webscraping to get the data. There are much better tutorials on how to scrape data, so I’ll be light. I use R’s rvest package here, which does a decent job.1 Let’s look at Truecar’s Used Car postings2. First I use google to find the search query on Truecar that I like." }, { - "objectID": "posts/2022-07-03-when-data-collection-goes-too-far/index.html", - "href": "posts/2022-07-03-when-data-collection-goes-too-far/index.html", - "title": "When data collection goes too far", - "section": "", - "text": "Self Surveillance\nI came across this article in Flowing Data and thought it was fascinating.\nI’ve been on a productivity kick lately and notice these apps have habit trackers. I’ve tried using them in the past and have realized it gets too much too quickly. But that doesn’t mean as a data guy that I don’t think it’s a cool idea. It just overwhelms me.\nWe’ll I discovered that me tracking a few habits a day is junior varsity level. Felix’s blog is how it’s done to the extreme. Clearly this guy isn’t worried about Big Tech or Big Government harvesting his personal data. I love the boldness!\nThis is just 1/20th of the full page screen shot:\n\nThe number of slices and views he has is endless. It’s crazy to see everything he’s tracking, partly I’m sure because he has fun with it and the other part because he deep down hopes there’s something there.\nHis quote on Flowing Data has stuck with me:\n\nOverall, having spent a significant amount of time building this project, scaling it up to the size it’s at now, as well as analysing the data, the main conclusion is that it is not worth building your own solution, and investing this much time. When I first started building this project 3 years ago, I expected to learn way more surprising and interesting facts. There were some, and it’s super interesting to look through those graphs, however retrospectively, it did not justify the hundreds of hours I invested in this project.\n\nThis guy probably knows himself in a way that none of us ever will. He can’t ever lie to himself and say “yea, I’m good at exercising every day” because he’s got the data to back it up. But is this the life we want?\n\n\nSelf Surveillance as a Service\nSSaaS? Apparently. Exist.io tries to find patterns in your personal data and tell you when your most happy.\n\n\n\nExist.io\n\n\nWhen I researched the Apple Watch team a few years back I came to appreciate what they were/are trying to do: correlate heart monitoring with insurance claims data to proactively identify preemptive signs of cardiac arrest and other health issues.\nThat seems meaningful in theory because information about other people can be correlated with information about me.\nBut does info about myself correlate with info about myself? Probably. I have cycles. I have common traps and pitfalls like any human walking this earth. Some pitfalls are daily, some are quarterly or seasonal.\nBut I can also take 5 minutes to ponder reflectively or talk to a close friend and identify those patterns. What’s more human?\nAnd what’s more: if you end up changing your behavior then your past can’t really predict your future. So all of the data becomes moot once it achieves its purpose: true lasting change. Because if you truly change your behavior based on the insights you glean about yourself, those past triggers and anomalies no longer affect you in the way they did. So when you experience a personal step change in life, you’re a new you. Maybe not. But maybe.\nAlso, the new generations growing up on smartphones have a unique challenge: their online identities are given to them before they’re really conscious enough to determine if that’s what they want to show the world. Parents posting YouTube or TikToks of their kids are cementing for these kids an identity they themselves didn’t choose. We’ve all gone through phases of deleting Facebook photos from 15 years ago because it doesn’t reflect our current self image. What’s to be said of giving people an opportunity to change if everything they’ve ever said or done is recorded somewhere? Twitter. Instagram. TikTok. Facebook. Every post is cementing us in a way.\nI think it’s better to forget yesterday. Because it doesn’t have to have any bearing on where you’re going tomorrow. It can if you let it. But your past doesn’t have to define you.\n\n\nTakeaways\nWould you rather spend hours setting up digital automatic and manual tracking systems just to learn what you could by opening a gratitude journal every day? Sometimes less is more. I don’t think digital self surveillance is a direction we should go. (Not to mention the moment you do get hacked you’ll deeply regret it.)\nEven blogging can be dangerous for your career. Never know what’s gonna come back to haunt you years later.\nSo I should be careful what I say here, that is if I ever care to work for a self surveillance company in the future.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "objectID": "posts/2017-10-18-used-cars-scrape/used-cars-scrape.html#load-packages", + "href": "posts/2017-10-18-used-cars-scrape/used-cars-scrape.html#load-packages", + "title": "Buying a used car the data science way: Part 1", + "section": "Load packages", + "text": "Load packages\n\nlibrary(rvest)\nlibrary(dplyr)\nlibrary(magrittr)\n# Find the URL of the data you want to scrape\nurl <- 'https://www.truecar.com/used-cars-for-sale/listings/ford/edge/'\nread_html(url)\n\n## {xml_document}\n## <html lang=\"en-US\">\n## [1] <head>\\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset= ...\n## [2] <body>\\n <!-- Element target for any partner code meant to execut ...\nYou’ll see there’s a head and a body. Our data’s in the body, so let’s use html_nodes() and html_text() to parse out the data we want. I used Selectorgadget to know what HTML classes to search for.\n\nread_html(url) %>% html_nodes('.col-xs-6.col-sm-8.no-left-padding') %>% html_text()\n\n## character(0)\nSo that’s how you get the data on a single page. If you look closer at the URL, you see a lot of helpful things. First, there’s the make, then the model, then the location-zip, then the year-range, and ultimately the trim. This is a very pretty and clean URL. If you click on a few additional pages, you’ll see the URL opens up with ?page=2.\nhttps://www.truecar.com/used-cars-for-sale/listings/ford/edge/location-90210/?page=2\nThis is our ‘in’ to scraping multiple pages. I won’t bore you with the details of how to get that data into a neat matrix for us to analyze, but suffice it to say that I’m able to do it. Just build a function to construct a URL, and build a loop to go through the different pages, then use lots of str_extract() from the stringr package and gsub to clean up the data.\n\nlibrary(stringr)\n\nmake = 'ford'\nmodel = 'edge'\nzip = '90210'\nyear = 2012\nnpages = 5\n\nurl <- paste('https://www.truecar.com/used-cars-for-sale/listings/', \n make, '/', \n model ,\n '/location-', zip,\n '/year-',year,'-max/?page=', sep = \"\")\n\nurls <- paste(url, 1:npages, sep = \"\")\n\nscrape <- function(pageno){\n try(\n read_html(urls[pageno]) %>% html_nodes('.col-xs-6.col-sm-8.no-left-padding') %>% html_text()\n )\n}\n\nlong_list = scrape(1)\nfor(i in 2:npages){\n print(i)\n new_list = try(scrape(i))\n \n error = (\"try-error\" %in% class(new_list))\n \n if( error == FALSE ){\n long_list = c(long_list, new_list) \n } else {\n break\n }\n}\n## [1] 2\nstats <- long_list\ndf <- as.data.frame(stats)\ndf$stats %<>% as.character()\ndf$price <- str_extract(df$stats, '\\\\$[0-9]*,[0-9]*') %>% \n gsub('Price: |\\\\$|,', '', .) %>%\n as.numeric()\ndf$year <- str_extract(df$stats, '^[0-9]* ') %>% \n as.numeric()\ndf$mileage <- str_extract(df$stats, 'Mileage: [0-9]*,[0-9]*') %>% \n gsub('Mileage: |,', '', .) %>%\n as.numeric()\n\n# a = df$stats[1]\ndf$trim <- str_extract(df$stats, '.*Mileage:') %>% \n gsub('FWD|AWD|4x[24]|[24]WD|V6|4-cyl|^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]|4dr|Automatic|Manual|Mileage:', '', ., ignore.case = T) %>% \n gsub(make, '', ., ignore.case = T) %>% \n gsub(model, '', ., ignore.case = T) %>% \n trimws() \n\n\ndf$awd <- grepl('AWD|4WD|4x4', df$stats, ignore.case = T) %>% as.numeric()\ndf$manual <- grepl('manual', df$stats) %>% as.numeric()\ndf$v6 <- grepl('V6', df$stats) %>% as.numeric()\ndf$location <- str_extract(df$stats, 'Location: .*Exterior:') %>% \n gsub('Location: |Exterior:', '', .) %>% \n trimws() \ndf$ext <- str_extract(df$stats, 'Exterior: .*Interior:') %>% \n gsub('Interior:|Exterior:', '', .) %>% \n trimws() \ndf$int <- str_extract(df$stats, 'Interior: .*VIN:') %>% \n gsub('Interior: |VIN:', '', .) %>% \n trimws() \ndf$vin <- str_extract(df$stats, 'VIN: .*\\\\$') %>% \n gsub('VIN: |\\\\$', '', .) %>% \n substr(., 1, 17)\ndf$deal <- str_extract(df$stats, '\\\\$[0-9]*,[0-9]* below') %>% \n gsub('below|\\\\$|,', '', .) %>% trimws() %>%\n as.numeric()\n\nAnd here’s what the results look like. You’ve got the original scraped data in the stats column and then everything else that you can parse out.\n\n# df was the dataframe object we needed\ndf %>% select(-stats) %>% head(10) %>% formattable::formattable()" }, { - "objectID": "posts/my-tombstone.html", - "href": "posts/my-tombstone.html", - "title": "My Tombstone", + "objectID": "posts/2022-11-12-what-is-a-model/index.html", + "href": "posts/2022-11-12-what-is-a-model/index.html", + "title": "What is a model?", "section": "", - "text": "They call it a death meditation, to look back from the end of your life and reflect as if you had just died (out of body style). Here’s my tombstone:\n\nHere lies Bryan, son of Aragon, data scientist extraordinaire who knew how to use regular expressions and properly test linear regression assumptions\n\nSeem like a good tombstone?\nWhy do we measure our lives by something nobody cares about? Consider Steve Jobs, Isaac Newton, or whomever you idolize. What are they known for? Only a few things.\nI read Steve Jobs (Biography) a while back. And I also read Leonardo da Vinci. First was 25 hours, second was 17 hours. And guess what - that’s less than two days combined. Two “impressive” lives summed up in a few days.\nMy grandma’s obituary was brief. Yet her life was filled with millions of unwritten sentences - many written on my life. The in between moments. The laying around moments. The relationship moments. (Maybe it’s called a relation-“ship” because it sails the waters of life continuously, despite the infrequent dock postings.)\nNobody’s going to remember me, except those who call me dad, husband, brother, son, and friend. And I’m okay with that. I was never that good at data science anyway 😉.\n\n\n\nIf I’m going out as a data scientist, at least my resting spot will be cool\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2022-11-18-writing-a-tech-resume/index.html", - "href": "posts/2022-11-18-writing-a-tech-resume/index.html", - "title": "Writing a Tech Resume", - "section": "", - "text": "TL;DR: Use the “Accomplished [X] as measured by [Y] by doing [Z]” format.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting resume is painstaking, but let me help jumpstart you. My resume below has gotten me dozens of interviews with top tech companies (Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Waymo, LinkedIn, Hopper, etc).\nIt got me in the door, but let me be clear I didn’t pass most of those interviews 😝. That’s the point of the resume: open the door.\nLet me help you get in the door.\n\nMy template\nHere’s the google doc link to my resume template, also posted below.\nhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1n8W79UBiWYhMWHeF4sNDtwaWxySRwU3t9isodbUuycI/view\nYou can copy this template and put in your own content.\nI designed and wrote my resume the way I did by following the guidance of these resources: \n\nBlog: Google’s Accomplished X as measured by Y by doing Z formula\nYouTube Video: Google’s How to write a resume\nBlog: Cracking the Coding Interview: how to write a resume\n\n\n\nCommentary\n\nIt takes some practice, but the XYZ formula is very powerful.\nEmboldening words can be helpful to people who have 3 minutes to scan your resume.\nI’ve never gotten commentary on how long my resume is or crammed. I’m guessing people just glance for a few keywords and some decent content and assume the rest of the resume is good.\nI’ve had a lot of discussions in phone calls about my Personal Projects sections. Fellow techies all have their own personal projects and they want to know about mine. It sends a signal you’re intrinsically motivated.\nWhile my resume is long-ish, I try to think: what story does this bullet point tell? What story am I trying to convey?\n\n\n\nHow can I Help?\nI hope this helps! Send me a message at bryanwhitingcoaching@gmail.com if I can help review a resume or give more tips.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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How do you unit test that?\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "objectID": "posts/2022-11-12-what-is-a-model/index.html#the-same-name-for-different-things", + "href": "posts/2022-11-12-what-is-a-model/index.html#the-same-name-for-different-things", + "title": "What is a model?", + "section": "The Same Name for Different Things", + "text": "The Same Name for Different Things\nWhen I told my mom I build models for a living she shook her head. Turns out my dad had been telling her for years that he builds financial models, yet she never figured out exactly what it was that he did.\nLet’s be clear on the common ground. 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Several of them we recognize and brush off “oh that was close.” But how many events go unnoticed because we were unaware we even could have done harm (no red light to be found)?\nHow we identify and recover is a skill. How do you process such experiences? How do you get over the person who cuts you off on the highway? How do you get over not realizing you cut someone off?\n\n\n\nThe red lights of life\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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And why did they spend exactly $34.52?\nIf all you have outcome/results data then you can’t ever make predictions. But if you know what type of car Bob drives, how often he drives, how much gas he had in the morning when he left his house, etc, you can start to predict when he’ll next fill up.\nThe assumption behind a model is that what was true in the past will remain true in the future.\nWhy have there been so many issues because of COVID? Nobody could have predicted a world wide pandemic. The world wasn’t the same. All the models stopped working. Supply chain models. Financial models. Default models. 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I’m not sure what other snack (maybe a .60c banana) can fill me up for an hour.\nGenius.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "objectID": "posts/2022-11-12-what-is-a-model/index.html#how-do-you-build-a-data-science-model", + "href": "posts/2022-11-12-what-is-a-model/index.html#how-do-you-build-a-data-science-model", + "title": "What is a model?", + "section": "How do you build a data science model?", + "text": "How do you build a data science model?\nMost people build models every time they calculate the “mean”. This is the most ubiquitous model and anybody can use it. Sum your revenue and divide by number of purchases.\nIf you want to predict revenue for next Monday, just take the average revenue for every past Monday. That’s a model.\nIf Monday is a holiday or the Monday after Black Friday, your model might be very wrong. So you estimate black Friday’s sales by looking at last year’s sales. “Last Cyber Monday we sold 2x more than we typically do on a Monday. So I’ll predict that on this upcoming Cyber Monday I’ll do 2x more than what I did in the most recent Monday”\nNow that you’re taking in some data, your building a model. You’re translating a theory on how the world works into numbers. You’re taking last year’s sales and using it to predict tomorrow’s sales." }, { - "objectID": "posts/2022-06-28-pomodoro-principles/index.html", - "href": "posts/2022-06-28-pomodoro-principles/index.html", - "title": "Pomodoro Principles", - "section": "", - "text": "I’ve been trying a Pomodoro timer in TickTick and it’s changing how I approach my work day. I’ve been using it for two days so far and here are the differences I notice:\n\nWhen my mind knows I’ll get a break at 25 minutes, it allows me to focus more.\nIt’s easier to say not to slack messages or impulses to open the news if I know I’ll have time for those things later.\nA 5 min break is perfect.\nIf a distraction pops up, I write it down in my journal and tell myself I can follow up during my break.\n25 minutes is short. It’s amazing how time flies.\n\nI used to hate timing myself after working in consulting. I vowed I would never work on the clock ever again. But don’t the best athletes pace themselves? Any marathon trainer knows how to set a pace and have rest periods. Why wouldn’t the same principles apply to cognitive work?\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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It’s called a decision tree because it will put every user into mutually exclusive groups.\nSome “business logic” model might be making predictions around how your business operates. For example, if there’s a sale you may know that clicks increase." }, { - "objectID": "posts/bidens-debt-relief-wont-relieve-what-he-thinks-it-will.html", - "href": "posts/bidens-debt-relief-wont-relieve-what-he-thinks-it-will.html", - "title": "Biden’s debt relief won’t relieve what he thinks it will", + "objectID": "posts/water-as-a-currency.html", + "href": "posts/water-as-a-currency.html", + "title": "Water as a Currency?", "section": "", - "text": "Reading The Quest for Cosmic Justice, Sowell points out repeatedly how policies focused on helping a target demographic may not only hinder them, but those around them too. Policies are for politicians to pursue power, to win the next vote.\nWhat good does relieving 130bn in university debt do?\nthe argument is that our system is broken. So we’ll fix it with money.\nThe more flawed thinking is that “education is a right.” Should this be true, then food is a right. Then social media is a right. Our phones are a right.\nLife is a right. Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, too.\nBut my decision to go 200k in debt for an investment that didn’t return dividends (hence my inability to pay), is not a right. It’s a poor investment choice.\nSending out money signals a poor precedence, apart from the blatant desire to buy votes. The economics aren’t aligned. The incentives are bad.\n“Go learn about something, investing 4 years, and discover it’s not capable of helping you earn wages” is nothing more than a sabbatical.\nWe need to spend that money incentivizing innovation. Entrepreneurs. People who create value.\nThe “educated” masses (3.6m) who cannot afford to pay their debt, when they scoffed at tradespeople who were employable the moment they finished their 3 week training, and then asked those tradespeople to pay for their schooling, is disappointing.\nWe need to think about incentives, both long and short term.\n\n\n\nAt some level the government stole from the uneducated to pay for the unemployable ‘educated’\n\n\nThe solution: student loan officers should be on the hook to ask “what is your potential income return?” The loan must be payable within 8 years at a 10% additional tax on their wages. They need to be able to survive with this 10% tax, and the 10% tax over 8 years should be sufficient to pay the bills.\nSo if you have a $100k job, that’s $80k education. 10% tax for 8 years is 10k per year to pay the debt.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "The book Dune is amazing in many ways, but the one that piqued my curiosity today was this: what if water was a currency?\nThe book gives great reverence to water, specifically talking about the lengths the Fremen go to to preserve their water. They even harvest it the dead, as water is life. They see people around them as water vessels. If you’re 100 kg (220lbs), they say you carry 60 kg of water weight. That’s a 60 liters. If you drink an average of 2 liters per day, that’s enough water to sustain you for 30 days. Fascinating how you would die without drinking water for a week though, right?\nSome on this earth live with such water scarcity. Most in the US don’t. Consider what else we can focus on because we take the most life-giving substance for granted.\n\n\n\nWater is precious\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/trajectory-and-mindset.html", - "href": "posts/trajectory-and-mindset.html", - "title": "Trajectory and Mindset", + "objectID": "posts/leaving-my-startup-was-the-right-decision.html", + "href": "posts/leaving-my-startup-was-the-right-decision.html", + "title": "Leaving my Startup was the Right Decision", "section": "", - "text": "Tony Robbins has said:\n\nWhat we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are. Tony Robbins Quotes, Read These Famous Quotes from Tony Robbins\n\nThe book Mindset talks about “fixed” vs “growth” mindsets. My post Decisions are Like Hopping on a River Raft - decisions take you down to known endpoints.\nBring those two concepts together and on one hand there’s a trajectory - where you’re capable of going given your decisions (and mindset) and your mindset - how you perceive your circumstances.\nSomeone recently told me, “It’s not what you go through but how you perceive what you’re going through that matters.”\nI believe perception is powerful. Any negative situation can be reframed for a positive. This is mindset.\nBut the other component is also important: where your circumstances will take you if pursued every day for the next 30 years.\n\n\n\nAre you aimed toward the valley or the mountain? Neither is better, but one is probably better to you\n\n\nIf you’re an extremely happy person but you don’t take action to get out of a minimum wage job, such as spend time on self improvement, you’re going to stay in your minimum wage job (nothing wrong with that, just trying to illustrate a point).\nAnd so, to get what you want out of life you can’t just assume things will get better without any change on your part. You can 1) change your mindset or 2) change your trajectory.\nI’ve wondered whether at times in my career I was complacent or not, or whether I was growing doing what I was doing. That’s not a helpful question. Because if you’re too myopic you can miss that you doing your multiplication tables isn’t going to change anyone’s life, but if you can’t do multiplication you can’t be a machine learning engineer.\nMost days in our work are steps. Steps towards something.\nA spaceman can’t land on the moon unless they build a rocket. They won’t make a rocket unless they choose to land on the moon. And by choosing the moon they’re choosing to not open a Chinese restaurant.1\nSome roles have upper bounds. Staying at that upper bound isn’t a bad thing. It’s just a thing. Other roles open up different opportunities the longer you stick around, opportunities you won’t get else where perhaps.\nSo if you’re feeling stuck, ask:\n\nWhere will I be if I stay with this for the next two years?\nIs that directionally where I want now to head?\nIs there something about my mindset I can change today to help me reframe so that I don’t miss the opportunities already around me?\n\nHTH.\n\n\n\n\n\nWho has more impact? Well as cool as it is to land on the moon, it doesn’t actually do anything practically useful. A restaurant prevents millions of people from starving throughout its existence.↩︎\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I remember in 2014 deciding whether to leave my startup after having just helped raise a seed round and finish a highly successful kickstarter. It was either move with the team to Seattle or stay and finish my Master’s degree. My married cofounder even suggested “you could find your wife here!”\nI imagined every scenario in my anxiety. I specifically imagined all of my partners making $1M dollars or something. I felt like the decision to leave was a decision to not be a millionaire.\nI emotionally came to terms with that possibility. And suddenly, that possible outcome had no allure to me anymore.\nI chose to finish my degree and pursue a career in data science. I also luckily found my wife not in Seattle just a few weeks later.\nI’ve made this choice a few times in my life: go with the direction I want to go at that time. To hop on the right river.\nThis was the right decision, because I came to terms with alternate realties and chose what aligned with my goals.\nYou never know what happens when you flip-a-coin. But you can choose whether to flip.\nSee also: - how-to-decide-simple-tools-for-making-better-choices\n\n\n\nwalking-away\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/the-problem-with-public-opinions.html", - "href": "posts/the-problem-with-public-opinions.html", - "title": "The Problem with Public Opinions", + "objectID": "posts/2022-11-18-substance-over-style/index.html", + "href": "posts/2022-11-18-substance-over-style/index.html", + "title": "Resume Substance over Style", "section": "", - "text": "If you become a public opinion person (author, speaker, podcaster), you’re inherently inviting publicity bias.\nA message is like a product. If it’s not well received, either through attention, clicks, or books purchased, then most people may abandon the idea. Very few (those seeking truth), are staunch advocates of an opinion not popularly received.\nEven unpopular opinion people try out their ideas. They may rise on social media as “they want to cancel me, so trust my opinion”. That sales pitch only lasts so long as you’re a minority.\nPoint is: if your opinion gets reception, you’re less likely to change your opinion. This is a problem in politics for people who espouse something for a long time.\nInstead we should be like Galileo: show me the data.\nSo be cautious if people like your opinion because you may be at risk of not being able to change it, either through your own evolving greed or desire for social acceptance and popularity.\nThe reception of an idea doesn’t determine its truthfulness, but the ability of the idea to stand on its own.\n\n\n\nLook for the evidence, not the popularity\n\n\nI always try to think about this when listening to a popular author or podcaster: what about their idea has garnered popularity? Have they changed course in the face of evidence? I recall Amy Cuddy having one of the most popular Ted talks on Power Poses, only to have a Slate article come out that refused her research. She doubled down despite her research not being reproducible: the gold standard a scientist should seek.\nFew people are like Amy Cuddy in that their ideas cannot be easily tested and so the world lazily believes them. This is the risk: when people stop thinking for themselves.\nThings why Frank Herbert wrote Dune: to encourage people to think for themselves and not put too much trust in their leaders.\n\n2024-01-17 update:\nChapter 14 of The Quest for Cosmic Justice discusses this way better than I do here.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Earlier in my career I got feedback from a prospective recruiter telling me my resume was “visually imbalanced”. Of course, the recruiter wanted my business.\nBut I went on to get over 70 interviews with that same template. I got a job at FAANG and a top startup using that resume template. I haven’t changed it.\n\nTakeaway\nHow you write your resume and what’s on it will take you farther than how you design it.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2020-12-16-pretotyping-ml-solutions/index.html", - "href": "posts/2020-12-16-pretotyping-ml-solutions/index.html", - "title": "How to mock the value of an ML solution", + "objectID": "posts/nothing-to-lose.html", + "href": "posts/nothing-to-lose.html", + "title": "Nothing to Lose", "section": "", - "text": "IBM once launched a demo of speech-to-text in the early day’s of the technology. But there was a twist: it was smoke and mirrors. A typist in behind the stage was translating and typing.\nThis is a mechanical Turk.\nIn data science, we can present results or dashboards to audience members before they see anything. If you see a big reaction, you know you found a number they cared about.\nGo ahead, write the conclusion first. Fake the chart first. Then back out the code that could produce the insights they need.\nSometimes, unique insights appear along the way. But most of the time you can properly gut-check whether someone will care about what you’re doing. Save time. Work backward.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "There was a moment when I had everything to lose. When I was junior in high school, I was scared I’d be cut from the lacrosse team. There was only one coach and he didn’t have space for everybody. Coach held try outs.\nMy dad was traveling the week of try outs. I gave him a call. “What if I don’t make the team?”\nHe waits till I finish. And in a way characteristic of my Dad, he re-emphasizes the question. “What if? You go out there, you play your hardest, you give it your all. The rest is out of your hands. If you get cut, you get cut.”\nHe didn’t give me false praise or reassurance. He gave me perspective on life. He gave me “nothing to lose.”\nI never worked harder in my athletics than that week. I just didn’t want to get cut.\nWell, I passed try outs. So did everyone else because it was just a coaching trick to motivate us…but that’s beside the point. But my dad’s advice was never lost on me.\nI had low confidence the whole season. Yet my coach took a surprising interest in me. I got playing time as a junior. I was a part time defender.\nLittle did I know, nor could I ever have imagined as a defender who could barely pass or catch, that in my coach’s last game, I would be sitting on the wrong side of the field. I would be standing, as a defender, right in front of the opposing team’s goalie crease. I’m not quite sure how I got there as the whole season I always sprinted off the field whenever we transitioned from defense to offense.\nMy coach always yelled at me. “Stay on the field!! It’s a fast break!” But I was always terrified of dropping the ball. I was great at defense. Great at scooping the ball. Great at passing it to an offender. This was my safe place.\nYet here I was, in the final minutes of the game. We had three, they had five. And I’m on the crease. What was I doing here?\nMy eyes and voice called to my teammate who saw me. My teammate who knew full well I had no intention of actually catching the ball. My teammate who would love to pass it to me if he had any assurance I’d actually catch it. I could see his eyes lock with mine and it only takes 8 years playing a sport to recognize that split-second glance, “Are you going to actually catch this?” My eyes asserted in that moment with my stick extended and ready “I really don’t know. But I’m wide open and I’m on the crease. And you have the defender and not me. So make a call.”\nTo my surprise he actually passed it. It didn’t have to be a just perfunctory vanity motion to please the coach. Because I’ve called for the ball many times in that wrote script, “oh please pass it I swear it’s worth all our time okay I did my thing now you guys go score because I’m outta here!”\nI catch. I turn. I dunk. 4-5.\nWhat just happened?\nI asked Teddy later why he actually passed it to me. “I figured, what the heck? Maybe he’ll catch it!!” We both laughed. He had nothing to lose.\nI didn’t know it then, but it was the last goal anybody would score for my coach. It was the last game of the season. The last game of his 35 year career at our school. I was wholly undeserving.\nAnd that’s when you stand most to gain.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/your-mood-is-contagious.html", - "href": "posts/your-mood-is-contagious.html", - "title": "Your Mood is Contagious", + "objectID": "posts/2023-12-15-llms-can-find-a-needle-in-the-haystack/index.html", + "href": "posts/2023-12-15-llms-can-find-a-needle-in-the-haystack/index.html", + "title": "LLMs can find a needle in the haystack", "section": "", - "text": "Moods flow. Keep the negative waves at bay\n\n\nThere’s no question that moods are contagious. I once asked someone at the beach to leash their dog, and they slightly rebuked me, “this is a dog friendly beach.” Well, so it is, I thought, grumpily. I complained to a family member about this grumpy dog owner.\nMoods escalate. And negative moods are even more pervasive and contagious than positive ones. They say a disgruntled customer tells more friends and family than happy ones. Why is this?\nIn the “Black Cat” (The Best of Edgar Allen Poe), Poe describes a gruesome tale man who wanted to do evil just for the sake of it. That it’s in his nature. Not because you want to do the thing, but because you want to do a forbidden thing. The same goes the other way, for sure. But I think we trend slightly pessimistic because being an optimist is more beneficial, more rewarding and therefore more difficult.\nA leader once told me when I was managing a team, “They’ll pick up on everything you do or say.” Oddly, I was picking up on what he was saying.\nSo when you lead, lead carefully. Whether in home or work, lead with kindness, compassion, and restraint. Speak three kind words before a negative. Ask to understand before assuming. Lead as a servant. It takes all the effort to overcome negative vibes, and who better equipped than the leader to do it?\nDon’t be Moriarty:\n\n“Why can’t you be more hopeful for a change?”\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Is RAG necessary when you have incredible memory?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nContext\nCheck out this thread:\n\n\n(1/8) The Needle in the Haystack done by @GregKamradt was an amazing analysis of retrieval performance! Greg has graciously allowed us to build on his work with a repository that is now OSS.@natfriedman We have a much more rigorous test we’ve put out based on this idea.… pic.twitter.com/i5O8zrcwQT\n\n— Aparna Dhinakaran (@aparnadhinak) December 15, 2023\n\n\nThis is a powerful analysis. Sure, Anthropic will find a way to improve or challenge the results. But the point is clear: these technologies can remember hyper specific 7-digit random numbers out of a batch of 126,000 tokens, where a token is roughly 4 characters. GPT is clear winner here, too.\nAlso, open source is getting incredibly good. This implies the future is open source.\n\n\nComparing @OpenAI #GPT4 Turbo to @MistralAI GPT-4 is pretty good in that region in general. Interesting to see how @MistralAI scales to larger context windows pic.twitter.com/WQo6MmGIHh\n\n— Aparna Dhinakaran (@aparnadhinak) December 15, 2023\n\n\n\n\nImpact\nRAG can be used to make retrieval more efficient. But if retrieval is already super efficient maybe RAG is only a short term thing. Context lengths of 10m tokens…probably by next year right?\nStart of the year we were at 4K tokens. Now there are 126,000 tokens. 30x improvement. So to do another 30x improvement is 3.76M. So yea, by next year you should be able to just load the entire RAG database into memory. But…gonna be super expensive.\nPoint is: would GPT be this effective if it was using RAG over a database? Or is it more effective loading it all into context?\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2022-06-21-products-for-dads/index.html", - "href": "posts/2022-06-21-products-for-dads/index.html", - "title": "Products for dads", + "objectID": "posts/the-iceberg-theory-theory-of-omission.html", + "href": "posts/the-iceberg-theory-theory-of-omission.html", + "title": "The Iceberg Theory - Theory of Omission", "section": "", - "text": "Products I enjoy as a dad\nThird times a charm - I hope by(/if) kid number four I’ll have this all figured out. It’s amazing how I feel so new to it all despite raising two kids in the last five years. In starting fresh a third time I feel inspired to write down some things I’m rediscovering.\nTo anyone getting started on their baby journey, perhaps these suggestions can help. Your baby is definitely different than mine, so your mileage may vary! But since I’m still using this stuff five years later maybe it can help you too. Either way, congrats and good luck!\n\nProducts I still use on baby 3\nSince I’m a mega influencer (on my very established data science blog here), I get paid $500 every time you click a link below. So please, go crazy.\nI’ll also credit my wife for figuring out to buy these products in the first place.\n\nStretchy swaddle, like this. I like stretchy swaddles because they’re forgiving. The cotton muslin swaddles are nice and soft, but if the fabric doesn’t stretch the right way you may have to redo the swaddle.\nOllie swaddle (nighttime). This thing is ridiculously overpriced for a swaddle. $70? Don’t get it. But if you do, I like it because its super easy to put on and very sturdy (hard for baby to break). At month 2 the baby gets strong and the basic swaddles are so easy to break. That and I feel like I’m gonna hurt my kid if I try to make a cotton swaddle unbreakable. Enter Velcro! I can be gentle on the swaddle but have it be unbreakable. There are a lot of random contraption swaddles that tie the baby up like a pretzel. This is your classic burrito. Insert baby, wrap right side, Velcro left side and you’re done.\nUbbi Steel Odor Locking diaperpail. I also hated the thought five years ago of shelling out $70 for a trash can. Five years since and the thing still performs. I know how well it’s working when garbage day rolls around and I open it to change it. Smells like a gentle coastal breeze, maybe. To this day my wife hasn’t changed it more than a time or two because thankfully I have an iron stomach and unfortunately she does not. Point is: it keeps the diaper smell inside (for the most part) and uses normal garbage bags (cost saver).\nBaby K’tan Original Baby Wrap Carrier, Infant and Child Sling. I’ve tried several carriers. Boba wraps take way too much patience to learn how to put on (patience I ran out of quickly as a new dad). This thing is just two circular fabric swaths, which means it takes two seconds to throw on. The convenience is huge - baby crying? Grab the carrier and snuggle up in 10 seconds or less.\nDockATot Deluxe+ Dock. We just got one off Facebook marketplace for $50 for third kid. We got it because let’s be real - sleeping is hard. The hardest thing about sleeping is the uncertainty what’s happening on the other side of the room in the crib. Grunting. Coughing. Is baby waking up? Needs a pacifier? When it’s 5am and you’re on feeding three of the night, being able to just roll over and plop the little one into the co-sleeper and monitor the situation close up is nice.\n4moms rockaRoo Baby Swing. There are a thousand ways to solve the “where do I put my baby while cooking dinner” problem. We’ve liked this one.\n\n\n\nMust Haves\n\nDish soap. Honestly, nothing gets out a blowout stain like dish soap. That and drying in the sun is a miracle worker. (Apparently this is how cloth diaper people do it.)\nApple cider vinegar for diaper rash. Once the little pimples appear, you’ll try anything to get them to go away. We just discovered this hack recently and I was delightfully surprised how easily it worked.\nThis is the right way to carry a car seat. A friend of mine that has three kids didn’t know this was a thing until he saw me do it. It’s a thing. Do it! Your forearm will thank you.\n\n\n\nToddler Time\nDown the road, these products have hit home runs for me.\n\nMunchkin Miracle 360 Trainer Cup. Every time I put this cup together I consider applying to Munchkin for a job to be their sales rep. This company has very clever designs on their products and this one just crushes it for me. Acts like a normal cup. Performs like a sippy. (I’ll admit I’ve taken a few swigs out of this just to understand how it works!)\nContigo Spill-Proof Kids Tumbler. I think we have 80 water bottles in a junk drawer somewhere. Cheap ones. Expensive ones. They all end up scattered in pieces like the zebra herd before the lion that is your innocent child. This cup is no exception: I’ve lost a straw on one already. But! If you want a water bottle you’ll have the problem of spare parts. (Uhh, this isn’t a recommendation so far…) So why this cup? This cup is just good. I don’t know. It’s easy to assemble and clean (wide top). Doesn’t spill. Kids like straws?\n\n\n\nBooks\nNot that you’ll have time to read…\n\nThe Happiest Baby on the Block; Fully Revised and Updated Second Edition: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer. I’m sure there’s a quick YouTube video showing the 5 ways to sooth a baby. (Here’s an article.) But if you like books this is a good one. TLDR: sucking, swaddle, shushing, swinging, and side are all soothing to a crying baby.\n1-2-3 Magic: Gentle 3-Step Child & Toddler Discipline for Calm, Effective, and Happy Parenting. This is for toddlers, but I’ve learned this technique has been very helpful for giving me sanity in the terrible two phase. The approach doesn’t always work, but I’ve learned when it does, which is important. TLDR: don’t talk (engage in debate) with your toddler or show emotion when they’re misbehaving. Count them when they do bad acts. That’s 1. That’s 2. That’s 3. Break time. The book explains the method. YouTube is probably a friend here too.\n\n\n\nFinal word\nFatherhood has pushed my limits in all the ways. But I thank God every day I’m a dad. I do a nightly gratitude journal of my favorite moments of the day. If I’m paying attention during the day, at night it’s always my kids that have brought me the happiest moments and greatest joys of the day.\nJust remember: the clothes/products/trips are like the tools used to construct a fine painting. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what tools you use. Nobody cares and neither will you. It’s the output that matters most. I’ve found by just really paying attention to and getting curious about my kids in any moment helps me see the beauty of it all, while distractions cause me to think I need this or that be a better dad.\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Hemingway introduced through his writing style the Iceberg Theory. It was something I noticed while reading The Old Man and the Sea. You feel the depth of emotion from the “actions and dialogue”, rather than explicit descriptions.\nIt’s fun to contrast that with Frank Herbert’s style which is “lay out the environment, have dialogue, then draw conclusions in the mind”.\nBoth styles speak to the thought that the writing is more interesting the less you write about. They call this “negative space” in drawing. A sketch is interesting when the mind can fill in the gaps. As an artist, you just want to make enough dots that they can connect them themselves. This connecting process is the freedom and interest the mind craves. It doesn’t want to be coddled (The Coddling of the American Mind).\nBack to the book. The Old Man and the Sea can be summarized in one sentence: a tired, old, and recently-unlucky man catches the biggest of his life and it gets eaten before he makes it home.\nThat’s the surface story, and it’s rather boring when thought of that way. But you just feel so much while reading it. You feel for the old man through the young boy. You feel for him as he teeters between passing out and existing. You remember the breaking points in your own life and want the man desperately to succeed. Luck, however, was not on his side.\n“Talk less. Smile more.” - Hamilton\n\n\n\nLet their mind wander\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/losing-to-yesmen.html", - "href": "posts/losing-to-yesmen.html", - "title": "When Leaders Lose their People", + "objectID": "posts/2020-12-15-calendaring-todos/index.html", + "href": "posts/2020-12-15-calendaring-todos/index.html", + "title": "Get rid of the todo list. Calendar everything.", "section": "", - "text": "In a scene in Dune, Paul notices that his warrior turns into his worshipper. He laments the loss, wondering if his non-religious warrior will be lost too.\nBeing a worshipped means you’re worshipped. Unchallenged. Can do no wrong. As such, you’re left with the intellect of one.\nAs a leader, you need to avoid worshippers. People who fail to challenge you out of fear or an abundance of praise. This all has to do in the decisions you make as a leader. The culture you decide to build. Is every voice heard, or does one voice rule them all?\n\n\n\nOne voice to rule them all\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I’ve had less meetings and more unstructured time during WFH. It can be isolating, which can slow down productivity.\nHere’s a tip I read today on how to be productive with unstructured time: put your to-do list directly into a calendar.\nThat way, you’ll always have time for the important things. Remove the things that take up your time and aren’t as important. I like it.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "concepts/confirmation-bias.html", - "href": "concepts/confirmation-bias.html", - "title": "confirmation bias", + "objectID": "posts/2022-12-23-who-do-you-want-to-be-known-for/index.html", + "href": "posts/2022-12-23-who-do-you-want-to-be-known-for/index.html", + "title": "How do you want to be remembered?", "section": "", - "text": "When you see what you want to see.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "On the sports fields of high school, I was often asked, “How do you want to be remembered?” The energy behind that question is a rallying cry for someone to go out and score some goals and be victorious. Score goals → be remembered forever in the annals of high school lore, the thinking goes.\nThis question misses the point.\nIn “Ego is the Enemy”, Ryan Holiday asks the rhetorical question “to be or to do”. The mindset is that either we can focus on doing great work (spending time on action and education), or we can focus on being great (talking too much, dreaming too much). Ironically, greatness follows those who do, not those who say they will do.\nSo instead of asking “how will others remember me”, ask “what will I do for others?”\n\n\n\nDan Kiefer via Unsplash\n\n\nOn this Christmas season, remember that while Jesus Christ’s divinity has been debated for centuries, certainly he’s been remembered. He’s been remembered because of the actions he took and the kindness he showed.\nChristians believe he was the Son of God, one with literal power over death and rose from his own grave. He could calm the seas and turn water to wine. He was the rightful heir to the throne that his Roman captors sat on. He could have easily freed his oppressed nation to rest on his laurels forever.\nYet the recorded miracles we have from him don’t involve him showing moving mountains or collecting power and gold. The reason he’s remembered is because His miracles involve him spending time with individuals and in their service. He healed the sick. Caused the blind to see. He alleviated suffering.\nMay this Christmas be one where you don’t focus on what others think of you. May it be one where you enjoy following His example of doing good for others, however small.\n\nWhosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. Matthew 20:26–28\n\nMerry Christmas.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "concepts/christian.html", - "href": "concepts/christian.html", - "title": "Christian", + "objectID": "posts/2018-07-02-semantic-versioning-for-data-science-models/semantic-versioning-for-data-science-models.html", + "href": "posts/2018-07-02-semantic-versioning-for-data-science-models/semantic-versioning-for-data-science-models.html", + "title": "Semantic Versioning for Data Science Models", "section": "", - "text": "I’m a Christian, which means I believe in a Savior and Messiah who was born miraculously, lived perfectly, gave His life selflessly, and resurrected divinely so that there’s hope in this life for all of us. He was the perfect example of how to treat everyone with kindness, respect, and decency. He also taught his students how to think deeply, lead unconventionally, and live life with selfless purpose. His life is filled with a richness worth studying.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "If you’ve ever wanted to tag your data science model, you’ve probably wondered how to version it. Which will it be: vx.4.1, v34.1231.51.21, or v91.x4.dev34? After reading about semantic versioning, I propose a method for versioning data science models.\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "concepts/sacrament-covenant.html", - "href": "concepts/sacrament-covenant.html", - "title": "Sacramental Covenant", + "objectID": "posts/2018-07-02-semantic-versioning-for-data-science-models/semantic-versioning-for-data-science-models.html#an-example", + "href": "posts/2018-07-02-semantic-versioning-for-data-science-models/semantic-versioning-for-data-science-models.html#an-example", + "title": "Semantic Versioning for Data Science Models", + "section": "An Example", + "text": "An Example\nI build data science models by building python packages and committing the code to GitHub. The python package contains all of the support files and a main.py file to run the pipeline from start to finish. The support files could contain either helpful loggers to tell me where the pipeline is breaking down, diagnostic tools such as an AUC-ROC plot, files to engineer features, or files to train different model types. So there are really these three things that could happen to my code at any time. It doesn’t matter where those changes occur, or how many lines of code changed. What matters is what’s happened to the model. Each time I get a pull request approved, I’ll update the version number in my repo.\n\nChanging BETWEEN\nIncrement the BETWEEN version for the following changes:\n\nWhen the structure of your data changes\nIf your target variable changes (how you coded it, or data that produced the target changed)\nThe underlying population you’re training on changes\n\nAssume I discovered that I had a bad join. The join change might have been a minor one, but it’s now difficult to really compare the two models because my target was affected as a result. What I was predicting, even if slightly different, is now something different. If you ever feel like you’re comparing apples to oranges when looking at an AUC-ROC curve, update the BETWEEN version.\nWith each BETWEEN change, there should be a clear communication in the release notes of why the model is inherently different from prior models. These changes should be less frequent.\n\n\nChanging WITHIN\nIncrement the WITHIN number when the following happens:\n\nFeatures are added\nData sources are added or updated. (You might have several data sources today that help contribute to the target. But adding a data source might just mean adding new features. If you add data in such a way that it changes what you’re ultimately modeling, update the BETWEEN version.)\nNew modeling types are added. (You might be using a logistic regression, but add a mo)\n\nSo if I added files that allowed me to train different model types, or added files that engineered new features, I’d incrememnt the WITHIN version. In my mind, this shouldn’t be a count of features you include, but should just be incremented every time you do something that affects the model performance.\nAt any time, you might what to view different subsets of features and their effect on the model. So, you might not change the number of features, but add some functionality into your pipeline that now produces three different models in each run. I would increment the WITHIN version number in that case.\nRemember, the goal of this type of versioning is to show generally what’s changed in your pipeline.\n\n\nChanging PROCESS\nIncrement the PROCESS version when the following happens:\n\nA minor bug is fixed (unless this updates BETWEEN or WITHIN)\nEnhance a logger or aspect of the pipeline\nAdd a diagnostic plot or table\n\nBasically, any time you add something that doesn’t ultimately affect the performance of the model, you should update the PROCESS version. Your changes might improve the flow of your code and make you a much happier developer, but if it doesn’t improve the model, then the key priority of your code hasn’t improved." + }, + { + "objectID": "posts/mark-cuban-mogul-support.html", + "href": "posts/mark-cuban-mogul-support.html", + "title": "Mark Cuban Mogul Support", "section": "", - "text": "The sacramental prayers are covenants.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Great video, I’ve always loved mark cuban:\n\n\nread, be curious, adapt, sell.\nGet a sales job. → if money is coming in, you can do anything. There is no company without sales\nUse the simpler word. No cohort. Just “group”.\n\n\n\n\nMark!\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "concepts/the-book-of-mormon-another-testament-of-jesus-christ.html", - "href": "concepts/the-book-of-mormon-another-testament-of-jesus-christ.html", - "title": "The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ", + "objectID": "posts/becoming-an-expert.html", + "href": "posts/becoming-an-expert.html", + "title": "Becoming an expert is kind of a fallacy", "section": "", - "text": "A powerful book. Read it online, download the app, or ask for a free copy!\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Just watched this clip:\n\nImportant discussion points: as a novice you’re worried about where to go or picking the wrong thing.\nI remember not taking an opportunity to learn C++ because “that’s not what I want to do”. In another occasion I wanted to learn PySpark over SQL because Python…\nWhile I don’t regret that choice per se, because I chose something else I was interested in, I’ve largely come to realize that I don’t care what programming language I’m using. I care about getting the job done.\nAlso, I’m probably over the 10,000 hours of something, I just don’t know what. Am I an ML expert? Data expert? SQL? Python? R?\nIs it the application of the skill that makes you an expert? I’m not sure. Because I think novices can do some incredible things if they hone in.\nIf you read one book on a topic, you’re by no means an “expert”, but you probably know more about that topic than 99% of the nation. I learned this when I spent 6 months diving into the home security industry for my first job. Pretty sure I knew more about that than anyone I spoke to. Was I an expert? I really only had maybe 300 hours. Maybe I was inexperienced. Sure.\nAnd who spends literally 10,000 hours on any one thing? Like 10,000 hours on XGBoost? Image classification? Deep learning? Machine learning? A/B testing? Spreadsheets? Generalist vs specialist, etc. if you’re an ML scientist at Google, you worry about very different things than an ML scientist at a startup. At a startup, you worry about your bigquery allocation and pipeline failures. At Google you worry about what your 5th skip VP is going to deprecate that month.\nThat’s just the nature of education. There are so many things in the world to know…that being an “expert” is a relative thing. But I agree that working hard and learning useful things helps you innovate faster.\n\n\n\nI’d change my opinion on being an expert if I needed to beat Rocky.\n\n\nLast thing, the crux is: don’t compare yourself to others. Compare yourself to yourself. That’s how you assess your progress.\nBut I’d argue: why even compare yourself to yourself? Compare your solution to the problem. Does it matter if you have 10,000 hours? No. What matters is if the solution fits. This is why innovations and disruptions come from unexpected places: because novices can nail solutions.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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Because it’s tasty, I’d recommend it…” This came off the heels of multiple times recently where I’ve gone out with people who are foodies that criticize the meal I’m enjoying and I’m left wondering: am I a food plebe?\nExperiencing this last night was poignant. The whole meal was good. Not bad. Just good.\nThen came the fish tacos.\nThat’s how it is with reading. You need to read a lot before the good and the bad start filtering out.\nAnd like fish tacos, maybe there are even better ones out there, but I needed this one to point me in the direction of what’s possible.\nAnd to some degree, there’s a dulling of sensitivities. If you haven’t read good literature in a long while perhaps you assume it’s all fine and “why not finish this book?”\nBut this year I’m trying to read many authors across many genres to tackle just that: find the books I really enjoy reading. And then ask myself, “why? 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Our taste buds rewarded us. That’s why we came.\nBefore that I was telling my wife, “I don’t see why my friend didn’t like the sushi. It’s fine. I just don’t know how to evaluate if something is worth it or not. Because it’s tasty, I’d recommend it…” This came off the heels of multiple times recently where I’ve gone out with people who are foodies that criticize the meal I’m enjoying and I’m left wondering: am I a food plebe?\nExperiencing this last night was poignant. The whole meal was good. Not bad. Just good.\nThen came the fish tacos.\nThat’s how it is with reading. You need to read a lot before the good and the bad start filtering out.\nAnd like fish tacos, maybe there are even better ones out there, but I needed this one to point me in the direction of what’s possible.\nAnd to some degree, there’s a dulling of sensitivities. If you haven’t read good literature in a long while perhaps you assume it’s all fine and “why not finish this book?”\nBut this year I’m trying to read many authors across many genres to tackle just that: find the books I really enjoy reading. And then ask myself, “why? What was special there?” So that I know what to look for next.\nLast night I began The Old Man and the Sea and it was a fish taco moment. I don’t know how I’ve avoided this book so long. I’m sure I read it in like sixth grade, but does that even count? And why have I largely avoided fiction for most of my adult life? I suppose having studied something very technical in college it pushed me to stop using that side of my brain. But getting back to good books, written with such depth and creative imagination, renew me with an awareness of the dullness of business books I’ve been dwelling in.\n\n\n\nAn Old Man and His Tacos\n\n\nAnd now, for ChatGPT to answer the prompt: “in the style of Ernest Hemingway, write three paragraphs about a man eating fish tacos”:\n\nIn the style of Ernest Hemingway, characterized by his terse and direct prose, the tale unfolds on a weathered pier stretching into the gray, restless sea. The man, solitary and rugged, sits at the edge where the wood meets the water, a plate of fish tacos beside him. His hands, calloused and strong, deftly assemble the tacos with an economy of movement that speaks of a life shaped by necessity rather than choice. The fish, freshly caught, bears the scent of the ocean, a fragrance as old as time, mingling with the sharp tang of lime and cilantro.\nAround him, the world seems to hold its breath, the only sounds are the soft lapping of waves against the pilings and the distant cries of gulls, wheeling like specters in the overcast sky. He bites into a taco, the crispness of the tortilla giving way to the tender fish within, a simplicity that belies the depth of flavors. There’s a harmony here, between man and nature, a momentary peace found in the act of eating, of sustaining oneself with the bounty of the sea.\nAs he eats, his gaze is drawn to the horizon, where the gray of the sea blends indistinguishably with the sky. There’s a contemplation in his eyes, a man adrift in his thoughts as he is in life, finding solace in the simple pleasure of a meal. The tacos, humble yet fulfilling, become a metaphor for existence itself—uncomplicated in its components, yet profound in its satisfaction. In this moment, on this pier, the man and the sea are one, their stories intertwined in the quiet, unspoken understanding that life, in all its forms, is a series of solitary moments shared with the world.\n\nDang…“life shaped by necessity rather than choice” and “The tacos, humble yet fulfilling, become a metaphor for existence itself—uncomplicated in its components, yet profound in its satisfaction.” I’m glad Ernest is somewhere in there, AI. You may have a soul after all.\nSee also: Reading Ethos\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "A powerful book. Read it online, download the app, or ask for a free copy!\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/becoming-an-expert.html", - "href": "posts/becoming-an-expert.html", - "title": "Becoming an expert is kind of a fallacy", + "objectID": "concepts/sacrament-covenant.html", + "href": "concepts/sacrament-covenant.html", + "title": "Sacramental Covenant", "section": "", - "text": "Just watched this clip:\n\nImportant discussion points: as a novice you’re worried about where to go or picking the wrong thing.\nI remember not taking an opportunity to learn C++ because “that’s not what I want to do”. In another occasion I wanted to learn PySpark over SQL because Python…\nWhile I don’t regret that choice per se, because I chose something else I was interested in, I’ve largely come to realize that I don’t care what programming language I’m using. I care about getting the job done.\nAlso, I’m probably over the 10,000 hours of something, I just don’t know what. Am I an ML expert? Data expert? SQL? Python? R?\nIs it the application of the skill that makes you an expert? I’m not sure. Because I think novices can do some incredible things if they hone in.\nIf you read one book on a topic, you’re by no means an “expert”, but you probably know more about that topic than 99% of the nation. I learned this when I spent 6 months diving into the home security industry for my first job. Pretty sure I knew more about that than anyone I spoke to. Was I an expert? I really only had maybe 300 hours. Maybe I was inexperienced. Sure.\nAnd who spends literally 10,000 hours on any one thing? Like 10,000 hours on XGBoost? Image classification? Deep learning? Machine learning? A/B testing? Spreadsheets? Generalist vs specialist, etc. if you’re an ML scientist at Google, you worry about very different things than an ML scientist at a startup. At a startup, you worry about your bigquery allocation and pipeline failures. At Google you worry about what your 5th skip VP is going to deprecate that month.\nThat’s just the nature of education. There are so many things in the world to know…that being an “expert” is a relative thing. But I agree that working hard and learning useful things helps you innovate faster.\n\n\n\nI’d change my opinion on being an expert if I needed to beat Rocky.\n\n\nLast thing, the crux is: don’t compare yourself to others. Compare yourself to yourself. That’s how you assess your progress.\nBut I’d argue: why even compare yourself to yourself? Compare your solution to the problem. Does it matter if you have 10,000 hours? No. What matters is if the solution fits. This is why innovations and disruptions come from unexpected places: because novices can nail solutions.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "The sacramental prayers are covenants.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/mark-cuban-mogul-support.html", - "href": "posts/mark-cuban-mogul-support.html", - "title": "Mark Cuban Mogul Support", + "objectID": "concepts/christian.html", + "href": "concepts/christian.html", + "title": "Christian", "section": "", - "text": "Great video, I’ve always loved mark cuban:\n\n\nread, be curious, adapt, sell.\nGet a sales job. → if money is coming in, you can do anything. There is no company without sales\nUse the simpler word. No cohort. Just “group”.\n\n\n\n\nMark!\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I’m a Christian, which means I believe in a Savior and Messiah who was born miraculously, lived perfectly, gave His life selflessly, and resurrected divinely so that there’s hope in this life for all of us. He was the perfect example of how to treat everyone with kindness, respect, and decency. He also taught his students how to think deeply, lead unconventionally, and live life with selfless purpose. His life is filled with a richness worth studying.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2018-07-02-semantic-versioning-for-data-science-models/semantic-versioning-for-data-science-models.html", - "href": "posts/2018-07-02-semantic-versioning-for-data-science-models/semantic-versioning-for-data-science-models.html", - "title": "Semantic Versioning for Data Science Models", + "objectID": "concepts/confirmation-bias.html", + "href": "concepts/confirmation-bias.html", + "title": "confirmation bias", "section": "", - "text": "If you’ve ever wanted to tag your data science model, you’ve probably wondered how to version it. Which will it be: vx.4.1, v34.1231.51.21, or v91.x4.dev34? After reading about semantic versioning, I propose a method for versioning data science models.\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "When you see what you want to see.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2018-07-02-semantic-versioning-for-data-science-models/semantic-versioning-for-data-science-models.html#an-example", - "href": "posts/2018-07-02-semantic-versioning-for-data-science-models/semantic-versioning-for-data-science-models.html#an-example", - "title": "Semantic Versioning for Data Science Models", - "section": "An Example", - "text": "An Example\nI build data science models by building python packages and committing the code to GitHub. The python package contains all of the support files and a main.py file to run the pipeline from start to finish. The support files could contain either helpful loggers to tell me where the pipeline is breaking down, diagnostic tools such as an AUC-ROC plot, files to engineer features, or files to train different model types. So there are really these three things that could happen to my code at any time. It doesn’t matter where those changes occur, or how many lines of code changed. What matters is what’s happened to the model. Each time I get a pull request approved, I’ll update the version number in my repo.\n\nChanging BETWEEN\nIncrement the BETWEEN version for the following changes:\n\nWhen the structure of your data changes\nIf your target variable changes (how you coded it, or data that produced the target changed)\nThe underlying population you’re training on changes\n\nAssume I discovered that I had a bad join. The join change might have been a minor one, but it’s now difficult to really compare the two models because my target was affected as a result. What I was predicting, even if slightly different, is now something different. If you ever feel like you’re comparing apples to oranges when looking at an AUC-ROC curve, update the BETWEEN version.\nWith each BETWEEN change, there should be a clear communication in the release notes of why the model is inherently different from prior models. These changes should be less frequent.\n\n\nChanging WITHIN\nIncrement the WITHIN number when the following happens:\n\nFeatures are added\nData sources are added or updated. (You might have several data sources today that help contribute to the target. But adding a data source might just mean adding new features. If you add data in such a way that it changes what you’re ultimately modeling, update the BETWEEN version.)\nNew modeling types are added. (You might be using a logistic regression, but add a mo)\n\nSo if I added files that allowed me to train different model types, or added files that engineered new features, I’d incrememnt the WITHIN version. In my mind, this shouldn’t be a count of features you include, but should just be incremented every time you do something that affects the model performance.\nAt any time, you might what to view different subsets of features and their effect on the model. So, you might not change the number of features, but add some functionality into your pipeline that now produces three different models in each run. I would increment the WITHIN version number in that case.\nRemember, the goal of this type of versioning is to show generally what’s changed in your pipeline.\n\n\nChanging PROCESS\nIncrement the PROCESS version when the following happens:\n\nA minor bug is fixed (unless this updates BETWEEN or WITHIN)\nEnhance a logger or aspect of the pipeline\nAdd a diagnostic plot or table\n\nBasically, any time you add something that doesn’t ultimately affect the performance of the model, you should update the PROCESS version. Your changes might improve the flow of your code and make you a much happier developer, but if it doesn’t improve the model, then the key priority of your code hasn’t improved." + "objectID": "posts/losing-to-yesmen.html", + "href": "posts/losing-to-yesmen.html", + "title": "When Leaders Lose their People", + "section": "", + "text": "In a scene in Dune, Paul notices that his warrior turns into his worshipper. He laments the loss, wondering if his non-religious warrior will be lost too.\nBeing a worshipped means you’re worshipped. Unchallenged. Can do no wrong. As such, you’re left with the intellect of one.\nAs a leader, you need to avoid worshippers. People who fail to challenge you out of fear or an abundance of praise. This all has to do in the decisions you make as a leader. The culture you decide to build. Is every voice heard, or does one voice rule them all?\n\n\n\nOne voice to rule them all\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2022-12-23-who-do-you-want-to-be-known-for/index.html", - "href": "posts/2022-12-23-who-do-you-want-to-be-known-for/index.html", - "title": "How do you want to be remembered?", + "objectID": "posts/2022-06-21-products-for-dads/index.html", + "href": "posts/2022-06-21-products-for-dads/index.html", + "title": "Products for dads", "section": "", - "text": "On the sports fields of high school, I was often asked, “How do you want to be remembered?” The energy behind that question is a rallying cry for someone to go out and score some goals and be victorious. Score goals → be remembered forever in the annals of high school lore, the thinking goes.\nThis question misses the point.\nIn “Ego is the Enemy”, Ryan Holiday asks the rhetorical question “to be or to do”. The mindset is that either we can focus on doing great work (spending time on action and education), or we can focus on being great (talking too much, dreaming too much). Ironically, greatness follows those who do, not those who say they will do.\nSo instead of asking “how will others remember me”, ask “what will I do for others?”\n\n\n\nDan Kiefer via Unsplash\n\n\nOn this Christmas season, remember that while Jesus Christ’s divinity has been debated for centuries, certainly he’s been remembered. He’s been remembered because of the actions he took and the kindness he showed.\nChristians believe he was the Son of God, one with literal power over death and rose from his own grave. He could calm the seas and turn water to wine. He was the rightful heir to the throne that his Roman captors sat on. He could have easily freed his oppressed nation to rest on his laurels forever.\nYet the recorded miracles we have from him don’t involve him showing moving mountains or collecting power and gold. The reason he’s remembered is because His miracles involve him spending time with individuals and in their service. He healed the sick. Caused the blind to see. He alleviated suffering.\nMay this Christmas be one where you don’t focus on what others think of you. May it be one where you enjoy following His example of doing good for others, however small.\n\nWhosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. Matthew 20:26–28\n\nMerry Christmas.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Products I enjoy as a dad\nThird times a charm - I hope by(/if) kid number four I’ll have this all figured out. It’s amazing how I feel so new to it all despite raising two kids in the last five years. In starting fresh a third time I feel inspired to write down some things I’m rediscovering.\nTo anyone getting started on their baby journey, perhaps these suggestions can help. Your baby is definitely different than mine, so your mileage may vary! But since I’m still using this stuff five years later maybe it can help you too. Either way, congrats and good luck!\n\nProducts I still use on baby 3\nSince I’m a mega influencer (on my very established data science blog here), I get paid $500 every time you click a link below. So please, go crazy.\nI’ll also credit my wife for figuring out to buy these products in the first place.\n\nStretchy swaddle, like this. I like stretchy swaddles because they’re forgiving. The cotton muslin swaddles are nice and soft, but if the fabric doesn’t stretch the right way you may have to redo the swaddle.\nOllie swaddle (nighttime). This thing is ridiculously overpriced for a swaddle. $70? Don’t get it. But if you do, I like it because its super easy to put on and very sturdy (hard for baby to break). At month 2 the baby gets strong and the basic swaddles are so easy to break. That and I feel like I’m gonna hurt my kid if I try to make a cotton swaddle unbreakable. Enter Velcro! I can be gentle on the swaddle but have it be unbreakable. There are a lot of random contraption swaddles that tie the baby up like a pretzel. This is your classic burrito. Insert baby, wrap right side, Velcro left side and you’re done.\nUbbi Steel Odor Locking diaperpail. I also hated the thought five years ago of shelling out $70 for a trash can. Five years since and the thing still performs. I know how well it’s working when garbage day rolls around and I open it to change it. Smells like a gentle coastal breeze, maybe. To this day my wife hasn’t changed it more than a time or two because thankfully I have an iron stomach and unfortunately she does not. Point is: it keeps the diaper smell inside (for the most part) and uses normal garbage bags (cost saver).\nBaby K’tan Original Baby Wrap Carrier, Infant and Child Sling. I’ve tried several carriers. Boba wraps take way too much patience to learn how to put on (patience I ran out of quickly as a new dad). This thing is just two circular fabric swaths, which means it takes two seconds to throw on. The convenience is huge - baby crying? Grab the carrier and snuggle up in 10 seconds or less.\nDockATot Deluxe+ Dock. We just got one off Facebook marketplace for $50 for third kid. We got it because let’s be real - sleeping is hard. The hardest thing about sleeping is the uncertainty what’s happening on the other side of the room in the crib. Grunting. Coughing. Is baby waking up? Needs a pacifier? When it’s 5am and you’re on feeding three of the night, being able to just roll over and plop the little one into the co-sleeper and monitor the situation close up is nice.\n4moms rockaRoo Baby Swing. There are a thousand ways to solve the “where do I put my baby while cooking dinner” problem. We’ve liked this one.\n\n\n\nMust Haves\n\nDish soap. Honestly, nothing gets out a blowout stain like dish soap. That and drying in the sun is a miracle worker. (Apparently this is how cloth diaper people do it.)\nApple cider vinegar for diaper rash. Once the little pimples appear, you’ll try anything to get them to go away. We just discovered this hack recently and I was delightfully surprised how easily it worked.\nThis is the right way to carry a car seat. A friend of mine that has three kids didn’t know this was a thing until he saw me do it. It’s a thing. Do it! Your forearm will thank you.\n\n\n\nToddler Time\nDown the road, these products have hit home runs for me.\n\nMunchkin Miracle 360 Trainer Cup. Every time I put this cup together I consider applying to Munchkin for a job to be their sales rep. This company has very clever designs on their products and this one just crushes it for me. Acts like a normal cup. Performs like a sippy. (I’ll admit I’ve taken a few swigs out of this just to understand how it works!)\nContigo Spill-Proof Kids Tumbler. I think we have 80 water bottles in a junk drawer somewhere. Cheap ones. Expensive ones. They all end up scattered in pieces like the zebra herd before the lion that is your innocent child. This cup is no exception: I’ve lost a straw on one already. But! If you want a water bottle you’ll have the problem of spare parts. (Uhh, this isn’t a recommendation so far…) So why this cup? This cup is just good. I don’t know. It’s easy to assemble and clean (wide top). Doesn’t spill. Kids like straws?\n\n\n\nBooks\nNot that you’ll have time to read…\n\nThe Happiest Baby on the Block; Fully Revised and Updated Second Edition: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer. I’m sure there’s a quick YouTube video showing the 5 ways to sooth a baby. (Here’s an article.) But if you like books this is a good one. TLDR: sucking, swaddle, shushing, swinging, and side are all soothing to a crying baby.\n1-2-3 Magic: Gentle 3-Step Child & Toddler Discipline for Calm, Effective, and Happy Parenting. This is for toddlers, but I’ve learned this technique has been very helpful for giving me sanity in the terrible two phase. The approach doesn’t always work, but I’ve learned when it does, which is important. TLDR: don’t talk (engage in debate) with your toddler or show emotion when they’re misbehaving. Count them when they do bad acts. That’s 1. That’s 2. That’s 3. Break time. The book explains the method. YouTube is probably a friend here too.\n\n\n\nFinal word\nFatherhood has pushed my limits in all the ways. But I thank God every day I’m a dad. I do a nightly gratitude journal of my favorite moments of the day. If I’m paying attention during the day, at night it’s always my kids that have brought me the happiest moments and greatest joys of the day.\nJust remember: the clothes/products/trips are like the tools used to construct a fine painting. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what tools you use. Nobody cares and neither will you. It’s the output that matters most. I’ve found by just really paying attention to and getting curious about my kids in any moment helps me see the beauty of it all, while distractions cause me to think I need this or that be a better dad.\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2020-12-15-calendaring-todos/index.html", - "href": "posts/2020-12-15-calendaring-todos/index.html", - "title": "Get rid of the todo list. Calendar everything.", + "objectID": "posts/your-mood-is-contagious.html", + "href": "posts/your-mood-is-contagious.html", + "title": "Your Mood is Contagious", "section": "", - "text": "I’ve had less meetings and more unstructured time during WFH. It can be isolating, which can slow down productivity.\nHere’s a tip I read today on how to be productive with unstructured time: put your to-do list directly into a calendar.\nThat way, you’ll always have time for the important things. Remove the things that take up your time and aren’t as important. I like it.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Moods flow. Keep the negative waves at bay\n\n\nThere’s no question that moods are contagious. I once asked someone at the beach to leash their dog, and they slightly rebuked me, “this is a dog friendly beach.” Well, so it is, I thought, grumpily. I complained to a family member about this grumpy dog owner.\nMoods escalate. And negative moods are even more pervasive and contagious than positive ones. They say a disgruntled customer tells more friends and family than happy ones. Why is this?\nIn the “Black Cat” (The Best of Edgar Allen Poe), Poe describes a gruesome tale man who wanted to do evil just for the sake of it. That it’s in his nature. Not because you want to do the thing, but because you want to do a forbidden thing. The same goes the other way, for sure. But I think we trend slightly pessimistic because being an optimist is more beneficial, more rewarding and therefore more difficult.\nA leader once told me when I was managing a team, “They’ll pick up on everything you do or say.” Oddly, I was picking up on what he was saying.\nSo when you lead, lead carefully. Whether in home or work, lead with kindness, compassion, and restraint. Speak three kind words before a negative. Ask to understand before assuming. Lead as a servant. It takes all the effort to overcome negative vibes, and who better equipped than the leader to do it?\nDon’t be Moriarty:\n\n“Why can’t you be more hopeful for a change?”\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/the-iceberg-theory-theory-of-omission.html", - "href": "posts/the-iceberg-theory-theory-of-omission.html", - "title": "The Iceberg Theory - Theory of Omission", + "objectID": "posts/2020-12-16-pretotyping-ml-solutions/index.html", + "href": "posts/2020-12-16-pretotyping-ml-solutions/index.html", + "title": "How to mock the value of an ML solution", "section": "", - "text": "Hemingway introduced through his writing style the Iceberg Theory. It was something I noticed while reading The Old Man and the Sea. You feel the depth of emotion from the “actions and dialogue”, rather than explicit descriptions.\nIt’s fun to contrast that with Frank Herbert’s style which is “lay out the environment, have dialogue, then draw conclusions in the mind”.\nBoth styles speak to the thought that the writing is more interesting the less you write about. They call this “negative space” in drawing. A sketch is interesting when the mind can fill in the gaps. As an artist, you just want to make enough dots that they can connect them themselves. This connecting process is the freedom and interest the mind craves. It doesn’t want to be coddled (The Coddling of the American Mind).\nBack to the book. The Old Man and the Sea can be summarized in one sentence: a tired, old, and recently-unlucky man catches the biggest of his life and it gets eaten before he makes it home.\nThat’s the surface story, and it’s rather boring when thought of that way. But you just feel so much while reading it. You feel for the old man through the young boy. You feel for him as he teeters between passing out and existing. You remember the breaking points in your own life and want the man desperately to succeed. Luck, however, was not on his side.\n“Talk less. Smile more.” - Hamilton\n\n\n\nLet their mind wander\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "IBM once launched a demo of speech-to-text in the early day’s of the technology. But there was a twist: it was smoke and mirrors. A typist in behind the stage was translating and typing.\nThis is a mechanical Turk.\nIn data science, we can present results or dashboards to audience members before they see anything. If you see a big reaction, you know you found a number they cared about.\nGo ahead, write the conclusion first. Fake the chart first. Then back out the code that could produce the insights they need.\nSometimes, unique insights appear along the way. But most of the time you can properly gut-check whether someone will care about what you’re doing. Save time. Work backward.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2023-12-15-llms-can-find-a-needle-in-the-haystack/index.html", - "href": "posts/2023-12-15-llms-can-find-a-needle-in-the-haystack/index.html", - "title": "LLMs can find a needle in the haystack", + "objectID": "posts/the-problem-with-public-opinions.html", + "href": "posts/the-problem-with-public-opinions.html", + "title": "The Problem with Public Opinions", "section": "", - "text": "Is RAG necessary when you have incredible memory?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nContext\nCheck out this thread:\n\n\n(1/8) The Needle in the Haystack done by @GregKamradt was an amazing analysis of retrieval performance! Greg has graciously allowed us to build on his work with a repository that is now OSS.@natfriedman We have a much more rigorous test we’ve put out based on this idea.… pic.twitter.com/i5O8zrcwQT\n\n— Aparna Dhinakaran (@aparnadhinak) December 15, 2023\n\n\nThis is a powerful analysis. 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So yea, by next year you should be able to just load the entire RAG database into memory. But…gonna be super expensive.\nPoint is: would GPT be this effective if it was using RAG over a database? Or is it more effective loading it all into context?\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "If you become a public opinion person (author, speaker, podcaster), you’re inherently inviting publicity bias.\nA message is like a product. If it’s not well received, either through attention, clicks, or books purchased, then most people may abandon the idea. Very few (those seeking truth), are staunch advocates of an opinion not popularly received.\nEven unpopular opinion people try out their ideas. They may rise on social media as “they want to cancel me, so trust my opinion”. That sales pitch only lasts so long as you’re a minority.\nPoint is: if your opinion gets reception, you’re less likely to change your opinion. This is a problem in politics for people who espouse something for a long time.\nInstead we should be like Galileo: show me the data.\nSo be cautious if people like your opinion because you may be at risk of not being able to change it, either through your own evolving greed or desire for social acceptance and popularity.\nThe reception of an idea doesn’t determine its truthfulness, but the ability of the idea to stand on its own.\n\n\n\nLook for the evidence, not the popularity\n\n\nI always try to think about this when listening to a popular author or podcaster: what about their idea has garnered popularity? Have they changed course in the face of evidence? I recall Amy Cuddy having one of the most popular Ted talks on Power Poses, only to have a Slate article come out that refused her research. She doubled down despite her research not being reproducible: the gold standard a scientist should seek.\nFew people are like Amy Cuddy in that their ideas cannot be easily tested and so the world lazily believes them. This is the risk: when people stop thinking for themselves.\nThings why Frank Herbert wrote Dune: to encourage people to think for themselves and not put too much trust in their leaders.\n\n2024-01-17 update:\nChapter 14 of The Quest for Cosmic Justice discusses this way better than I do here.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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He gave me “nothing to lose.”\nI never worked harder in my athletics than that week. I just didn’t want to get cut.\nWell, I passed try outs. So did everyone else because it was just a coaching trick to motivate us…but that’s beside the point. But my dad’s advice was never lost on me.\nI had low confidence the whole season. Yet my coach took a surprising interest in me. I got playing time as a junior. I was a part time defender.\nLittle did I know, nor could I ever have imagined as a defender who could barely pass or catch, that in my coach’s last game, I would be sitting on the wrong side of the field. I would be standing, as a defender, right in front of the opposing team’s goalie crease. I’m not quite sure how I got there as the whole season I always sprinted off the field whenever we transitioned from defense to offense.\nMy coach always yelled at me. “Stay on the field!! It’s a fast break!” But I was always terrified of dropping the ball. I was great at defense. Great at scooping the ball. Great at passing it to an offender. This was my safe place.\nYet here I was, in the final minutes of the game. We had three, they had five. And I’m on the crease. What was I doing here?\nMy eyes and voice called to my teammate who saw me. My teammate who knew full well I had no intention of actually catching the ball. My teammate who would love to pass it to me if he had any assurance I’d actually catch it. I could see his eyes lock with mine and it only takes 8 years playing a sport to recognize that split-second glance, “Are you going to actually catch this?” My eyes asserted in that moment with my stick extended and ready “I really don’t know. But I’m wide open and I’m on the crease. And you have the defender and not me. So make a call.”\nTo my surprise he actually passed it. It didn’t have to be a just perfunctory vanity motion to please the coach. Because I’ve called for the ball many times in that wrote script, “oh please pass it I swear it’s worth all our time okay I did my thing now you guys go score because I’m outta here!”\nI catch. I turn. I dunk. 4-5.\nWhat just happened?\nI asked Teddy later why he actually passed it to me. “I figured, what the heck? Maybe he’ll catch it!!” We both laughed. He had nothing to lose.\nI didn’t know it then, but it was the last goal anybody would score for my coach. It was the last game of the season. The last game of his 35 year career at our school. I was wholly undeserving.\nAnd that’s when you stand most to gain.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Tony Robbins has said:\n\nWhat we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are. Tony Robbins Quotes, Read These Famous Quotes from Tony Robbins\n\nThe book Mindset talks about “fixed” vs “growth” mindsets. My post Decisions are Like Hopping on a River Raft - decisions take you down to known endpoints.\nBring those two concepts together and on one hand there’s a trajectory - where you’re capable of going given your decisions (and mindset) and your mindset - how you perceive your circumstances.\nSomeone recently told me, “It’s not what you go through but how you perceive what you’re going through that matters.”\nI believe perception is powerful. Any negative situation can be reframed for a positive. This is mindset.\nBut the other component is also important: where your circumstances will take you if pursued every day for the next 30 years.\n\n\n\nAre you aimed toward the valley or the mountain? Neither is better, but one is probably better to you\n\n\nIf you’re an extremely happy person but you don’t take action to get out of a minimum wage job, such as spend time on self improvement, you’re going to stay in your minimum wage job (nothing wrong with that, just trying to illustrate a point).\nAnd so, to get what you want out of life you can’t just assume things will get better without any change on your part. You can 1) change your mindset or 2) change your trajectory.\nI’ve wondered whether at times in my career I was complacent or not, or whether I was growing doing what I was doing. That’s not a helpful question. Because if you’re too myopic you can miss that you doing your multiplication tables isn’t going to change anyone’s life, but if you can’t do multiplication you can’t be a machine learning engineer.\nMost days in our work are steps. Steps towards something.\nA spaceman can’t land on the moon unless they build a rocket. They won’t make a rocket unless they choose to land on the moon. And by choosing the moon they’re choosing to not open a Chinese restaurant.1\nSome roles have upper bounds. Staying at that upper bound isn’t a bad thing. It’s just a thing. Other roles open up different opportunities the longer you stick around, opportunities you won’t get else where perhaps.\nSo if you’re feeling stuck, ask:\n\nWhere will I be if I stay with this for the next two years?\nIs that directionally where I want now to head?\nIs there something about my mindset I can change today to help me reframe so that I don’t miss the opportunities already around me?\n\nHTH.\n\n\n\n\n\nWho has more impact? Well as cool as it is to land on the moon, it doesn’t actually do anything practically useful. A restaurant prevents millions of people from starving throughout its existence.↩︎\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2022-11-18-substance-over-style/index.html", - "href": "posts/2022-11-18-substance-over-style/index.html", - "title": "Resume Substance over Style", + "objectID": "posts/bidens-debt-relief-wont-relieve-what-he-thinks-it-will.html", + "href": "posts/bidens-debt-relief-wont-relieve-what-he-thinks-it-will.html", + "title": "Biden’s debt relief won’t relieve what he thinks it will", "section": "", - "text": "Earlier in my career I got feedback from a prospective recruiter telling me my resume was “visually imbalanced”. Of course, the recruiter wanted my business.\nBut I went on to get over 70 interviews with that same template. I got a job at FAANG and a top startup using that resume template. I haven’t changed it.\n\nTakeaway\nHow you write your resume and what’s on it will take you farther than how you design it.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Reading The Quest for Cosmic Justice, Sowell points out repeatedly how policies focused on helping a target demographic may not only hinder them, but those around them too. Policies are for politicians to pursue power, to win the next vote.\nWhat good does relieving 130bn in university debt do?\nthe argument is that our system is broken. So we’ll fix it with money.\nThe more flawed thinking is that “education is a right.” Should this be true, then food is a right. Then social media is a right. Our phones are a right.\nLife is a right. Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, too.\nBut my decision to go 200k in debt for an investment that didn’t return dividends (hence my inability to pay), is not a right. It’s a poor investment choice.\nSending out money signals a poor precedence, apart from the blatant desire to buy votes. The economics aren’t aligned. The incentives are bad.\n“Go learn about something, investing 4 years, and discover it’s not capable of helping you earn wages” is nothing more than a sabbatical.\nWe need to spend that money incentivizing innovation. Entrepreneurs. People who create value.\nThe “educated” masses (3.6m) who cannot afford to pay their debt, when they scoffed at tradespeople who were employable the moment they finished their 3 week training, and then asked those tradespeople to pay for their schooling, is disappointing.\nWe need to think about incentives, both long and short term.\n\n\n\nAt some level the government stole from the uneducated to pay for the unemployable ‘educated’\n\n\nThe solution: student loan officers should be on the hook to ask “what is your potential income return?” The loan must be payable within 8 years at a 10% additional tax on their wages. They need to be able to survive with this 10% tax, and the 10% tax over 8 years should be sufficient to pay the bills.\nSo if you have a $100k job, that’s $80k education. 10% tax for 8 years is 10k per year to pay the debt.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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And suddenly, that possible outcome had no allure to me anymore.\nI chose to finish my degree and pursue a career in data science. I also luckily found my wife not in Seattle just a few weeks later.\nI’ve made this choice a few times in my life: go with the direction I want to go at that time. To hop on the right river.\nThis was the right decision, because I came to terms with alternate realties and chose what aligned with my goals.\nYou never know what happens when you flip-a-coin. But you can choose whether to flip.\nSee also: - how-to-decide-simple-tools-for-making-better-choices\n\n\n\nwalking-away\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I’ve been trying a Pomodoro timer in TickTick and it’s changing how I approach my work day. I’ve been using it for two days so far and here are the differences I notice:\n\nWhen my mind knows I’ll get a break at 25 minutes, it allows me to focus more.\nIt’s easier to say not to slack messages or impulses to open the news if I know I’ll have time for those things later.\nA 5 min break is perfect.\nIf a distraction pops up, I write it down in my journal and tell myself I can follow up during my break.\n25 minutes is short. It’s amazing how time flies.\n\nI used to hate timing myself after working in consulting. I vowed I would never work on the clock ever again. But don’t the best athletes pace themselves? Any marathon trainer knows how to set a pace and have rest periods. Why wouldn’t the same principles apply to cognitive work?\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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Fascinating how you would die without drinking water for a week though, right?\nSome on this earth live with such water scarcity. Most in the US don’t. Consider what else we can focus on because we take the most life-giving substance for granted.\n\n\n\nWater is precious\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "“Avocado and turkey over ciabatta, it’s a delicious way to start your day and fills you up for about six hours.”\nThat last part - six hours…I had never heard such a sales pitch from a deli person in my life.\n\n\n\nSix hour sandwich\n\n\nBut it’s the perfect sales pitch. Because I care how full I’m going to get off a $13.00 breakfast sandwich. But he just amortized the cost for me - implicitly stating it’s only $2.16/hr for 6 hours.\nWould I pay $2 to not be hungry for an hour? I’m not sure what other snack (maybe a .60c banana) can fill me up for an hour.\nGenius.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "TL;DR:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncan debug failed terminal errors\nshows git diff of revisions\ncan explore workspaces now with @workspace (still lags behind Cursor, which indexes everything in your code base)\nauto-commit messages (I’ll take this)\nauto-pr messages (sounds good to me)\n\nMore here:\nhttps://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2023/11/13/vscode-copilot-smarter\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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But they all do the same thing: use numbers to put structure on the world.\nEvery model has a few things in common: - They make assumptions about the world - They use data - They probably make some calculations to help someone make a decision\nA financial model might make assumptions in a spreadsheet about how many customers you’ll get per month for the next 12 months. This doesn’t seem complicated, and it shouldn’t: models don’t have to be complicated.\nA data science model is one that might try to predict whether a customer is going to click on an ad." + "objectID": "posts/2022-11-18-writing-a-tech-resume/index.html", + "href": "posts/2022-11-18-writing-a-tech-resume/index.html", + "title": "Writing a Tech Resume", + "section": "", + "text": "TL;DR: Use the “Accomplished [X] as measured by [Y] by doing [Z]” format.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting resume is painstaking, but let me help jumpstart you. My resume below has gotten me dozens of interviews with top tech companies (Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Waymo, LinkedIn, Hopper, etc).\nIt got me in the door, but let me be clear I didn’t pass most of those interviews 😝. That’s the point of the resume: open the door.\nLet me help you get in the door.\n\nMy template\nHere’s the google doc link to my resume template, also posted below.\nhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1n8W79UBiWYhMWHeF4sNDtwaWxySRwU3t9isodbUuycI/view\nYou can copy this template and put in your own content.\nI designed and wrote my resume the way I did by following the guidance of these resources: \n\nBlog: Google’s Accomplished X as measured by Y by doing Z formula\nYouTube Video: Google’s How to write a resume\nBlog: Cracking the Coding Interview: how to write a resume\n\n\n\nCommentary\n\nIt takes some practice, but the XYZ formula is very powerful.\nEmboldening words can be helpful to people who have 3 minutes to scan your resume.\nI’ve never gotten commentary on how long my resume is or crammed. I’m guessing people just glance for a few keywords and some decent content and assume the rest of the resume is good.\nI’ve had a lot of discussions in phone calls about my Personal Projects sections. Fellow techies all have their own personal projects and they want to know about mine. It sends a signal you’re intrinsically motivated.\nWhile my resume is long-ish, I try to think: what story does this bullet point tell? What story am I trying to convey?\n\n\n\nHow can I Help?\nI hope this helps! Send me a message at bryanwhitingcoaching@gmail.com if I can help review a resume or give more tips.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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And why did they spend exactly $34.52?\nIf all you have outcome/results data then you can’t ever make predictions. But if you know what type of car Bob drives, how often he drives, how much gas he had in the morning when he left his house, etc, you can start to predict when he’ll next fill up.\nThe assumption behind a model is that what was true in the past will remain true in the future.\nWhy have there been so many issues because of COVID? Nobody could have predicted a world wide pandemic. The world wasn’t the same. All the models stopped working. Supply chain models. Financial models. Default models. All of these assumptions across all industries started breaking down." + "objectID": "posts/my-tombstone.html", + "href": "posts/my-tombstone.html", + "title": "My Tombstone", + "section": "", + "text": "They call it a death meditation, to look back from the end of your life and reflect as if you had just died (out of body style). Here’s my tombstone:\n\nHere lies Bryan, son of Aragon, data scientist extraordinaire who knew how to use regular expressions and properly test linear regression assumptions\n\nSeem like a good tombstone?\nWhy do we measure our lives by something nobody cares about? Consider Steve Jobs, Isaac Newton, or whomever you idolize. What are they known for? Only a few things.\nI read Steve Jobs (Biography) a while back. And I also read Leonardo da Vinci. First was 25 hours, second was 17 hours. And guess what - that’s less than two days combined. Two “impressive” lives summed up in a few days.\nMy grandma’s obituary was brief. Yet her life was filled with millions of unwritten sentences - many written on my life. The in between moments. The laying around moments. The relationship moments. (Maybe it’s called a relation-“ship” because it sails the waters of life continuously, despite the infrequent dock postings.)\nNobody’s going to remember me, except those who call me dad, husband, brother, son, and friend. And I’m okay with that. I was never that good at data science anyway 😉.\n\n\n\nIf I’m going out as a data scientist, at least my resting spot will be cool\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2022-11-12-what-is-a-model/index.html#how-do-you-build-a-data-science-model", - "href": "posts/2022-11-12-what-is-a-model/index.html#how-do-you-build-a-data-science-model", - "title": "What is a model?", - "section": "How do you build a data science model?", - "text": "How do you build a data science model?\nMost people build models every time they calculate the “mean”. This is the most ubiquitous model and anybody can use it. Sum your revenue and divide by number of purchases.\nIf you want to predict revenue for next Monday, just take the average revenue for every past Monday. That’s a model.\nIf Monday is a holiday or the Monday after Black Friday, your model might be very wrong. So you estimate black Friday’s sales by looking at last year’s sales. “Last Cyber Monday we sold 2x more than we typically do on a Monday. So I’ll predict that on this upcoming Cyber Monday I’ll do 2x more than what I did in the most recent Monday”\nNow that you’re taking in some data, your building a model. You’re translating a theory on how the world works into numbers. You’re taking last year’s sales and using it to predict tomorrow’s sales." + "objectID": "posts/2022-07-03-when-data-collection-goes-too-far/index.html", + "href": "posts/2022-07-03-when-data-collection-goes-too-far/index.html", + "title": "When data collection goes too far", + "section": "", + "text": "Self Surveillance\nI came across this article in Flowing Data and thought it was fascinating.\nI’ve been on a productivity kick lately and notice these apps have habit trackers. I’ve tried using them in the past and have realized it gets too much too quickly. But that doesn’t mean as a data guy that I don’t think it’s a cool idea. It just overwhelms me.\nWe’ll I discovered that me tracking a few habits a day is junior varsity level. Felix’s blog is how it’s done to the extreme. Clearly this guy isn’t worried about Big Tech or Big Government harvesting his personal data. I love the boldness!\nThis is just 1/20th of the full page screen shot:\n\nThe number of slices and views he has is endless. It’s crazy to see everything he’s tracking, partly I’m sure because he has fun with it and the other part because he deep down hopes there’s something there.\nHis quote on Flowing Data has stuck with me:\n\nOverall, having spent a significant amount of time building this project, scaling it up to the size it’s at now, as well as analysing the data, the main conclusion is that it is not worth building your own solution, and investing this much time. When I first started building this project 3 years ago, I expected to learn way more surprising and interesting facts. There were some, and it’s super interesting to look through those graphs, however retrospectively, it did not justify the hundreds of hours I invested in this project.\n\nThis guy probably knows himself in a way that none of us ever will. He can’t ever lie to himself and say “yea, I’m good at exercising every day” because he’s got the data to back it up. But is this the life we want?\n\n\nSelf Surveillance as a Service\nSSaaS? Apparently. Exist.io tries to find patterns in your personal data and tell you when your most happy.\n\n\n\nExist.io\n\n\nWhen I researched the Apple Watch team a few years back I came to appreciate what they were/are trying to do: correlate heart monitoring with insurance claims data to proactively identify preemptive signs of cardiac arrest and other health issues.\nThat seems meaningful in theory because information about other people can be correlated with information about me.\nBut does info about myself correlate with info about myself? Probably. I have cycles. I have common traps and pitfalls like any human walking this earth. Some pitfalls are daily, some are quarterly or seasonal.\nBut I can also take 5 minutes to ponder reflectively or talk to a close friend and identify those patterns. What’s more human?\nAnd what’s more: if you end up changing your behavior then your past can’t really predict your future. So all of the data becomes moot once it achieves its purpose: true lasting change. Because if you truly change your behavior based on the insights you glean about yourself, those past triggers and anomalies no longer affect you in the way they did. So when you experience a personal step change in life, you’re a new you. Maybe not. But maybe.\nAlso, the new generations growing up on smartphones have a unique challenge: their online identities are given to them before they’re really conscious enough to determine if that’s what they want to show the world. Parents posting YouTube or TikToks of their kids are cementing for these kids an identity they themselves didn’t choose. We’ve all gone through phases of deleting Facebook photos from 15 years ago because it doesn’t reflect our current self image. What’s to be said of giving people an opportunity to change if everything they’ve ever said or done is recorded somewhere? Twitter. Instagram. TikTok. Facebook. Every post is cementing us in a way.\nI think it’s better to forget yesterday. Because it doesn’t have to have any bearing on where you’re going tomorrow. It can if you let it. But your past doesn’t have to define you.\n\n\nTakeaways\nWould you rather spend hours setting up digital automatic and manual tracking systems just to learn what you could by opening a gratitude journal every day? Sometimes less is more. I don’t think digital self surveillance is a direction we should go. (Not to mention the moment you do get hacked you’ll deeply regret it.)\nEven blogging can be dangerous for your career. Never know what’s gonna come back to haunt you years later.\nSo I should be careful what I say here, that is if I ever care to work for a self surveillance company in the future.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2022-11-12-what-is-a-model/index.html#start-simple", - "href": "posts/2022-11-12-what-is-a-model/index.html#start-simple", - "title": "What is a model?", - "section": "Start Simple", - "text": "Start Simple\nWhenever I build models, I always try to start simple and see if something more complicated can beat it.\n\nUse averages\nBuild a rules-based model\nBuild a regression model/machine learning model\nBuild a ML model with rules on top of it\n\nIf I’m trying to predict whether a user will click an ad, the simplest model is “what % of all users clicked this ad in the past?” If 20% of all users who see an ad click on it, then my “model” is “predict a 20% chance of click”.\nThen to make it more complicated, you can segment your users. “10% of men click on this but 25% of women do.” You now have more data and better predictions.\nA “decision tree” is a machine learning algorithm that just finds those segments in your data. “If man age 30 in Chicago then 22.3% chance of clicking based on all past behavior of all 30-year old men in Chicago”. It’s called a decision tree because it will put every user into mutually exclusive groups.\nSome “business logic” model might be making predictions around how your business operates. For example, if there’s a sale you may know that clicks increase." + "objectID": "posts/2023-12-25-ai-robots-are-mastering-tasks-faster-than-humans-/index.html", + "href": "posts/2023-12-25-ai-robots-are-mastering-tasks-faster-than-humans-/index.html", + "title": "AI Robots are mastering tasks faster than humans", + "section": "", + "text": "With a proper objective function, machines can do really hard, isolated tasks\n\n\n\n\nthey can walk\nthey can solve complex physical challenges\nthey can play the toughest strategic games on earth and win (AlphaGo 2017, AlphaStar 2019)\nbut can they determine the objective function by themselves?\n\n\n\n\nReinforcement Learning\nGreat article written at Techradar going over the advances in reinforcement learning that allow a robot to finish labyrinth faster than humans. The video does the feat even more justice:\n\nThis stands out to me in a few ways, principally that they crippled the machine to not take shortcuts. It still won.\nReminds me first of AlphaGo:\n\nWhich reminds me of AlphaStar. Here’s a video with commentary on AlphaStar’s performance:\n\nThe thing I connect this video (or some other I watched) with labyrinth is that AlphaStar devised brand new strategies. Players against AlphaStar remarked how they felt like it was indeed being creative. Likewise, Cyberrunner (labyrinth) found shortcuts.\nAll of this points to reinforcement learning as a viable solution to getting stuff done both in the digital and physical worlds. Take, for example, how RL is used to teach a robot how to walk.\n\n\n\nAn AI robot learning to play StarCraft for the first time…\n\n\n\n\nWhat’s the objective?\nThe goal for Super AI will be to figure out what the objective is. If we can marry digital and physical worlds, teaching the systems how to solve objective functions, the possibilities become…super/human.\nThe unique thing about a human, it seems, is that we have our objective function hardwired into us: survive. First this is “food/shelter”. Next it’s social survival.\nHow do humans figure out objective functions so fast? A human looking at labyrinth will know what to do within a second. Does it have interest/patience to sit there and learn it? Does GPT 4Vision have the ability to figure out these objective functions?\nWe learn by objective functions. Minimize wrong answers on a test. Minimize missed baskets on the basketball court. Minimize rejections in a sales funnel. Maximize great conversation and connection at a dinner party.\nHumans learn very quickly. For now, robots are being isolated to specific tasks and their results are impressive. But perhaps to become our overlords all they need is the one objective function to rule them all. Er, uhm, and by “them” I of course don’t mean “us”…\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2017-10-18-used-cars-scrape/used-cars-scrape.html", - "href": "posts/2017-10-18-used-cars-scrape/used-cars-scrape.html", - "title": "Buying a used car the data science way: Part 1", + "objectID": "posts/2020-12-18-productivity-notes/index.html", + "href": "posts/2020-12-18-productivity-notes/index.html", + "title": "Productivity notes", "section": "", - "text": "[Update 2021-11-16] This analysis was originally written on my old blog here. You can find the source code for it here. This code no longer works as TrueCar changed their CSS to make it more difficult to scrape. It’s still possible, but you’d need to build a custom scraper from scratch.\nThis is part 1 out of a two-part series on scraping used car data. Check out part 2 to learn how to analyze the data.\nIn another post, I describe how I use this data that I’ve scraped, but I wanted to provide a more in-depth tutorial for those interested in how I got the data. Note, this data belongs to Truecar, so all uses herein are for personal and academic reasons only.\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Time Management\n\nCalendar my ToDos.\nShorter work is better. Less to edit. Less mistakes. Keep it simple.\n\n\n\nDistractions\n\nBlock 30 min for email and review team members work twice a day.\nAggressively filter email spam.\n\n\n\nAnalysis\n\nStart with a story. End with story.\nIterate quickly with stakeholders.\nalways have one nights sleep before sending a presentation. Edit.\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2017-10-18-used-cars-scrape/used-cars-scrape.html#get-the-data", - "href": "posts/2017-10-18-used-cars-scrape/used-cars-scrape.html#get-the-data", - "title": "Buying a used car the data science way: Part 1", - "section": "Get the data", - "text": "Get the data\nIn order to do any good analaysis, you first need data. I prefer to have more data than less, where possible. In this case, I don’t have any data, so I use webscraping to get the data. There are much better tutorials on how to scrape data, so I’ll be light. I use R’s rvest package here, which does a decent job.1 Let’s look at Truecar’s Used Car postings2. First I use google to find the search query on Truecar that I like." + "objectID": "posts/2022-06-28-increase-focus-through-writing-down-everything/index.html", + "href": "posts/2022-06-28-increase-focus-through-writing-down-everything/index.html", + "title": "Increase Focus through Writing Down Everything", + "section": "", + "text": "The GTD framework preaches something to the effect of “get every todo item down and into a system. It may take dozens or hundreds of tasks to get it all out.” Essentially, if a task is in your mind, it will slow you down. But if you put it down on paper, it will free your mind to think on other things. Also, more ideas will come.\nI’ve put perhaps a hundred things down on paper in the last few days. Interestingly, ideas I had forgotten about came back to my mind. I wrote these down.\nThere got to a point today though where I had so much on my screen I felt overwhelmed. How will I ever sort through all this mess?\nThankfully, most of the things don’t need to get done and are either “eventually” or “someday maybe” tasks, and not “asap” tasks. So just ignore them.\nAnd secondly, I always “know” what’s most important. This documentation process doesn’t change that. It just helps me to get all the distractions out of my head and down on paper.\nSpending time organizing all this stuff seems like a potential waste. But what I realize is that it improves my just-in-time recall. If earlier in the day I planned to buy a dish scrubber in the evening, when the evening rolls around that task magically comes back to my mind. So it’s really just front loading all the decision making and prioritizing. I think our brains are capable of more subconscious processing than we realize.\n(Pause entry to buy dish scrubber…) okay, I’m back.\nAnother idea that’s having an effect on me is the 2 min rule. If a task takes less than 2 min, don’t organize it. Just do it. Powerfully, this mindset helps me to care less about two min tasks. Or, sometimes there’s a tendency to over exaggerate the stress something will cause. Like buying a scrubber could be a 10 min task if you want to find the perfect one. But if you only allocate yourself 2 min, you realize this is only a $6 decision and I have better things to do with my time.\nLastly, I love being deliberate about tasks by writing down the intended outcome of a task. It’s very easy as a data scientist to get swallowed up in all the weeds. Or, rather, when your task is to dig up a gem it’s easy to get distracted by all the weeds that need to be pulled that are in your way. So by being clear about the reason I’m diving into the data in the first place helps me re-surface less scathed. Data are a dirty business…\n\nTakeaways\nThe effect of the GTD framework?\n\nLess FOMO. By writing down everything I can see clearly that 1) I don’t have time for all of it and 2) the stuff I care about pops up.\nI don’t have to worry about what I’m not doing because I can easily say no to it as I say yes to something better.\nI can see broader connections between a litany of things. This helps me prioritize what my subconscious has been telling me by nagging me about X ideas.\nIf I start working on something not in my list it makes me ask if this thing is fealty worth my time when I know I have a ton of other stuff to do. (Recency bias I spoke about in my other blog post.)\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2017-10-18-used-cars-scrape/used-cars-scrape.html#load-packages", - "href": "posts/2017-10-18-used-cars-scrape/used-cars-scrape.html#load-packages", - "title": "Buying a used car the data science way: Part 1", - "section": "Load packages", - "text": "Load packages\n\nlibrary(rvest)\nlibrary(dplyr)\nlibrary(magrittr)\n# Find the URL of the data you want to scrape\nurl <- 'https://www.truecar.com/used-cars-for-sale/listings/ford/edge/'\nread_html(url)\n\n## {xml_document}\n## <html lang=\"en-US\">\n## [1] <head>\\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset= ...\n## [2] <body>\\n <!-- Element target for any partner code meant to execut ...\nYou’ll see there’s a head and a body. Our data’s in the body, so let’s use html_nodes() and html_text() to parse out the data we want. I used Selectorgadget to know what HTML classes to search for.\n\nread_html(url) %>% html_nodes('.col-xs-6.col-sm-8.no-left-padding') %>% html_text()\n\n## character(0)\nSo that’s how you get the data on a single page. If you look closer at the URL, you see a lot of helpful things. First, there’s the make, then the model, then the location-zip, then the year-range, and ultimately the trim. This is a very pretty and clean URL. If you click on a few additional pages, you’ll see the URL opens up with ?page=2.\nhttps://www.truecar.com/used-cars-for-sale/listings/ford/edge/location-90210/?page=2\nThis is our ‘in’ to scraping multiple pages. I won’t bore you with the details of how to get that data into a neat matrix for us to analyze, but suffice it to say that I’m able to do it. Just build a function to construct a URL, and build a loop to go through the different pages, then use lots of str_extract() from the stringr package and gsub to clean up the data.\n\nlibrary(stringr)\n\nmake = 'ford'\nmodel = 'edge'\nzip = '90210'\nyear = 2012\nnpages = 5\n\nurl <- paste('https://www.truecar.com/used-cars-for-sale/listings/', \n make, '/', \n model ,\n '/location-', zip,\n '/year-',year,'-max/?page=', sep = \"\")\n\nurls <- paste(url, 1:npages, sep = \"\")\n\nscrape <- function(pageno){\n try(\n read_html(urls[pageno]) %>% html_nodes('.col-xs-6.col-sm-8.no-left-padding') %>% html_text()\n )\n}\n\nlong_list = scrape(1)\nfor(i in 2:npages){\n print(i)\n new_list = try(scrape(i))\n \n error = (\"try-error\" %in% class(new_list))\n \n if( error == FALSE ){\n long_list = c(long_list, new_list) \n } else {\n break\n }\n}\n## [1] 2\nstats <- long_list\ndf <- as.data.frame(stats)\ndf$stats %<>% as.character()\ndf$price <- str_extract(df$stats, '\\\\$[0-9]*,[0-9]*') %>% \n gsub('Price: |\\\\$|,', '', .) %>%\n as.numeric()\ndf$year <- str_extract(df$stats, '^[0-9]* ') %>% \n as.numeric()\ndf$mileage <- str_extract(df$stats, 'Mileage: [0-9]*,[0-9]*') %>% \n gsub('Mileage: |,', '', .) %>%\n as.numeric()\n\n# a = df$stats[1]\ndf$trim <- str_extract(df$stats, '.*Mileage:') %>% \n gsub('FWD|AWD|4x[24]|[24]WD|V6|4-cyl|^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]|4dr|Automatic|Manual|Mileage:', '', ., ignore.case = T) %>% \n gsub(make, '', ., ignore.case = T) %>% \n gsub(model, '', ., ignore.case = T) %>% \n trimws() \n\n\ndf$awd <- grepl('AWD|4WD|4x4', df$stats, ignore.case = T) %>% as.numeric()\ndf$manual <- grepl('manual', df$stats) %>% as.numeric()\ndf$v6 <- grepl('V6', df$stats) %>% as.numeric()\ndf$location <- str_extract(df$stats, 'Location: .*Exterior:') %>% \n gsub('Location: |Exterior:', '', .) %>% \n trimws() \ndf$ext <- str_extract(df$stats, 'Exterior: .*Interior:') %>% \n gsub('Interior:|Exterior:', '', .) %>% \n trimws() \ndf$int <- str_extract(df$stats, 'Interior: .*VIN:') %>% \n gsub('Interior: |VIN:', '', .) %>% \n trimws() \ndf$vin <- str_extract(df$stats, 'VIN: .*\\\\$') %>% \n gsub('VIN: |\\\\$', '', .) %>% \n substr(., 1, 17)\ndf$deal <- str_extract(df$stats, '\\\\$[0-9]*,[0-9]* below') %>% \n gsub('below|\\\\$|,', '', .) %>% trimws() %>%\n as.numeric()\n\nAnd here’s what the results look like. You’ve got the original scraped data in the stats column and then everything else that you can parse out.\n\n# df was the dataframe object we needed\ndf %>% select(-stats) %>% head(10) %>% formattable::formattable()" + "objectID": "posts/flip-a-coin-and-not-fail.html", + "href": "posts/flip-a-coin-and-not-fail.html", + "title": "97 percent chance you’ll fail", + "section": "", + "text": "In Flipping the coins of life, I outline how you can succeed 5 times with a success rate of 3%. That also means you have a 97% chance you won’t succeed 5 times in a row.\n\n\n\nFlipping five coins will almost certainly yield at least tails\n\n\nIn life, we sometimes overemphasize winning. Even in the tech world of wanting to fail fast, I think most people just really want to win every time. Nobody seeks failure - that’s not the goal. They seek other things (learning, promotions, making more money).\nWhen making decisions, it’s easy to black-and-white them. If there’s only a 3% change we’ll win 5 times in a row (with a 50% chance of winning every time), there’s a 97% chance you’ll fail at least once every 5 attempts.\nIf your probability of success is lower, then the odds of failing at once in five are almost 100%.\nHow do you quantify a life decision though? Maybe you only get one big choice a year (job change, like as is discussed in How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices). Is there a 50% chance of “success”? If so, every five years you’re highly likely to “fail”.\nPer the book, it’s more likely that one bad thing happens and we hindsight bias our decision and black-and-white it.\nReality is: getting fired or your startup blowing up might be the best thing that ever happens to you. You just don’t know. Your story isn’t written yet. And actually, it’s not so much about if you made the right choice as if you just make the choice right in some way.\nChoose your love, and then love your choice, as they say.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2022-06-22-downstream-impact/index.html", - "href": "posts/2022-06-22-downstream-impact/index.html", - "title": "Downstream Impact", + "objectID": "posts/the-multiverse-of-careers.html", + "href": "posts/the-multiverse-of-careers.html", + "title": "The Multiverse of Careers", "section": "", - "text": "Every pea is unique. But it’s still a pea.\n\n\nOnline experiments are powerful tools to see the causal impact of a business strategy. Tweak something, see what users do.\nThe limitations of online experiments is that once you manipulate your user experience there’s no going back. Users are forever impacted by your choice.\nIf you give out a credit card with $100, $300, and $500 lines, people are going to spend more on the $500 line. They might also default more because they’re less able to pay back $500 than they are $100. As a result, you may lose these $500 users forever and might impact other aspects of their life, not to mention impact the marketing department’s strategy.\nA group of users is like a single living organism, if you treat it like that. If you only measure one metric (conversion rate) on the entire massive audience, then you’ll optimize for the “average” user.\nBut nobody is average. We are all distinct. We fall into categories, sure. But to really optimize the whole business we need to optimize for pockets of users. Or, we just need to set up a system that’s personalized.\nTakeaway? Personalize your experiments where possible. Consider the ethical and downstream impacts of the experiment.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Spoken about in The Dream State of Software, Paul of Dune has a moment where he’s both past and present in his mind. He doesn’t know even whether he’s had his kid or not.\nIn a podcast I listened to lately on happiness, one suggestion was to write out all your goals and cross them off from day one. Pretend like it doesn’t even matter if you accomplish them. This helps free you.\nCareers are like both of these things. We want everything. We can pretend like we have it. We can come to terms with it. And we can say “doesn’t matter if I don’t get that, because I’ve got a life outside my career.”\n\n\n\nWhich path you choose isn’t as important as who you choose as companions\n\n\nConsider your career from your deathbed (My Tombstone). What path did you take that mattered? What were all the alternate realities and multiverses you could have had.\nPut them all together. In one multiverse you’ve been fired. In another you end up getting insanely wealthy. In another you start your own company. In another you become an online blogger.\nAll of them can’t be true when you do this exercise extensively enough. And choosing which one probably doesn’t matter as much (right vs wrong path thinking). If you’ve ever left a job you realize that nothing really comes over with you. Most relationships at work are short lived and contextual, like your relationships in high school. And that’s life.\nHappiness is perhaps being okay with not having everything you desire, except for the few things that are truly attainable: peace with God, self, and cherished relationships.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/writing-is-enlivening/index.html", - "href": "posts/writing-is-enlivening/index.html", - "title": "Writing is truly enlivening", + "objectID": "posts/2023-12-24-twas-the-night-before-christmas/index.html", + "href": "posts/2023-12-24-twas-the-night-before-christmas/index.html", + "title": "Twas the Night before Christmas", "section": "", - "text": "Hamilton is running out of time\n\n\nI’ve been writing for my whole life. I have at least 15-20 journals. I have 3000 notes in one app, 2200 notes in another, at least 1800 digital journal entries over 10 years, I’ve built and replaced probably 5 blogs. This blog has 57 entries so far. What have I learned?\n\nMake writing daily as easy as possible. I set up some automation so I can write from my phone for daily blogging.\nWriting makes things feel real for me. It helps connect the dots. It’s a far more productive way to read the news. Less stuff, more thinking. Because if I can’t write at least one useful note about something I read, I realize it wasn’t worth reading.\nPerhaps reading is the more important daily duty. Well, to write I need something to inspire me. Usually that comes from the news. Sometimes inspiration comes from yesterday’s post. This inspiration came from editing my prior post.\n\nI’m not gonna worry about who reads this. But instead focus on writing every day because…\n\nI think it helps me practice storytelling\nhelps me practice communication\n\nHamilton wrote like he was “running out of time”. I’m writing because I want to use my time how I enjoy it.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Link to the 1912 publication, Twas the Night Before Christmas\noriginal poem was 1820’s\nSt Nick was 4th century\nDutch brought the name “Sinterklass” to the U.S. in the 1600’s.\nSt Nick becomes red by 1931, thanks to Coke\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe OG St. Nick\n\n\nEverything below is produced by GPT:\n“How long has the concept of Santa been around? Where did”st nick” come from?”\n\nThe concept of Santa Claus has evolved over many centuries, originating from the historical figure of Saint Nicholas. Saint Nicholas was a 4th-century Christian bishop in Myra, which is now part of modern-day Turkey. He was known for his generosity and for performing miracles, which earned him a reputation as a protector of children and sailors.\n\n\nThe name “Santa Claus” evolved from the Dutch “Sinterklaas,” a short form of Sint Nikolaas (Saint Nicholas). Dutch immigrants brought the traditions of Sinterklaas to America in the 17th and 18th centuries. In these traditions, Sinterklaas was depicted as a serious, religious figure who rewarded good children and punished the naughty ones.\n\n\nDuring the 19th century, especially in America, the image of Santa Claus as we know it today began to take shape. The 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (commonly known as “Twas the Night Before Christmas”) played a crucial role in shaping the modern character of Santa Claus, including his physical appearance and the tradition of delivering gifts to children.\n\n\nLater, in the 19th and 20th centuries, Santa’s image was further popularized through various media, including advertisements, films, and songs, which contributed to the jovial, red-suited, and reindeer-driving character recognized globally today. This character represents a blend of the historical Saint Nicholas, folk traditions from various cultures, and modern commercial and media influences.\n\nHow did St Nick become red?\n\nThe transformation of Saint Nicholas into the red-suited Santa Claus is a gradual evolution influenced by cultural, artistic, and commercial factors. The image of Santa Claus wearing red clothes began to become popular in the 19th century, but it was solidified in the 20th century, particularly through advertising.\n\n\n\n19th Century Literature and Art: In the 19th century, Santa Claus was often depicted in various colors of robes, including blue, green, and brown. However, by the latter half of the 19th century, the image of Santa in a red suit began to appear more frequently in literature and illustrations. Thomas Nast, a prominent American cartoonist, played a significant role in popularizing this image. In his illustrations for Harper’s Weekly starting in the 1860s, Nast depicted Santa Claus in a variety of outfits, including the now-familiar red suit.\n\n\n\n\nCoca-Cola Advertising in the 20th Century: The standardized image of Santa Claus in a red suit with white fur trim was popularized and became iconic largely due to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns. In 1931, Coca-Cola commissioned illustrator Haddon Sundblom to create a Santa Claus for their Christmas advertising campaign. Sundblom’s Santa was jolly, rotund, and dressed in a red suit with white fur trim, which matched the company’s color scheme. These advertisements were widely circulated and became immensely popular, cementing the image of Santa Claus in a red suit in the public’s imagination.\n\n\n\nWhile the red-suited Santa Claus is now ubiquitous, it’s important to note that the evolution of his image was influenced by a blend of historical, cultural, and commercial factors over several decades.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2022-06-25-how-i-use-ticktick/index.html", - "href": "posts/2022-06-25-how-i-use-ticktick/index.html", - "title": "How I use TickTick", + "objectID": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html", + "href": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html", + "title": "Buying a used car the data science way: Part 2", "section": "", - "text": "I’ve recently read “Atomic Habits”, “Deep Work”, “The Power of Habit”, “Getting Things Done”, “Essentialism” and “Effortless”. These productivity paradigms influence this post.\nInspired by this Reddit post, I’ve tried thinking how I want apply the principles of GTD and these other paradigms. I think GTD is great for me because it helps me get ideas out of my head and Essentialism is a better pursuit to make sure I’m not caught up in minutia. I don’t see them as incongruent, but one as an ideation organization approach and the other as a relentless focus.\nFive steps of GTD:\n\nCapture\nClarify\nOrganize\nReview\nEngage\n\n\nCapture\nI have an iOS shortcut that lets me quickly add a TickTick task to my inbox. I put this on my Home Screen for instant access and to avoid distraction. I want to capture the idea, not open TickTick and get distracted by other ideas.\nOr I use the TickTick today widget and upload it to today directly. Depends on the task and how detailed I want to be.\n\n\nClarify\nHere’s the system I use to clarify.\nDefinitions:\n\nTask: an action item.\nProject: an intended outcome with multiple tasks.\nEpic: an intended outcome with multiple projects.\nKey Result: high level, long term accomplishment. (Increase revenue 10%)\nObjective: a squishy, feel-good purpose statement. “Deepen relationships with loved ones.”\n\nTask grooming process: Groom the inbox every night and identify the intended outcome and next action. Tag the task.\n\nIf the task was “send Birthday card”, that’s really an intended outcome and is a small project. The tasks are 1) buy card from CVS, 2) put in envelope with stamp, 3) drop in mailbox. These three subtasks need to be understood. But a separate inbox entry may be “pay phone bill by sitting down at my computer at 10pm”. This isn’t a project. It’s just a one off thing. But it can still be clarified with details.\nLabel if it’s a project or not. Use iOS shortcuts to make this really easy. For example, gg = “🎯 #Project”\nThe challenge is if I should have things as projects or as individual tasks. I would say that as much as things can be independent, keep them tasks. Like “apply for credit card1” and “apply for credit card 2” are both personal finance tasks. But they are independent.\nA task isn’t necessarily short and a project isn’t necessarily long. It’s just whether this Indy ended outcome has multiple steps or not that might be done over a few days, whereas a task is probably done in one sitting.\nIt’s assumed that unless something is a task, it’s a project.\nEvery epic has its own name. I nest epics under “Work > #Epic1, #Epic2”, etc. This helps me organize my work deliverables. I have like 5 epics right now at work that will span several quarters.\n\nThen I may choose to add tags with metadata, which I haven’t figured out if this is useful yet. But “Atomic Habits” says the best way to get stuff done is to stack it. So here is my tagging system to help me stack:\n\nCommitment: ASAP, Eventually, Someday Maybe. Will I do this task eventually? Pay a bill - yes. Learn a language - someday maybe.\n\nDuration: 5min, 30min, 1hr, 2hr, 4hr. 9hr (all day)\nLocation (where to do the task): Home, Desk, Car, Backyard. Most work things are done at my desk. But perhaps some can be done while taking a walk. Most personal things are done around the house or on the couch at night.\nTime of Day: “1: Pre work”. “2: start of workday. 3: lunchtime, 4: afternoon, 5: after work, 6: nighttime”\nFocus: “Deepwork” or “shallow”. Deep work should be uninterrupted and be 3 hours long.\nSeverity: S1: if I don’t do this nothing will happen. S3: not doing this will have bad consequences or lots of regret. S2 - in between :).\nDeadline: I’m still thinking about this one. To me there’s a difference between mowing the law which has a linear cost of looking worse each day for not being cut and failing to pay my taxes, which has festeringly worse consequences the longer I put it off (pay a fine, end up in jail, etc.). I guess this is captured implicitly in “ASAP” commitment. But paying my taxes is only a cost (preventing negative outcomes) versus the ASAP of getting my project finished (positive consequences).\n\nNone (default): no consequence for never doing this.\nBinary: You either make the deadline or never and this opportunity ceases forever.\nRolling: If you miss the deadline there will be another.\nFestering: the longer you put this off the worse it becomes, but no deadline.\n\n\nAs I write this, this sounds like overkill…classic me. I sincerely doubt it’s useful to of all of this. But having the system available will let me use what I need when I need it. If I’m still using any of this in a month that’ll be a miracle. But I’m going to start with something in mind and go from there.\n\n\nOrganize\n\nOnce clarified, move out of inbox into a list “work” or “personal”.1\nPrioritize.\nDelegate. (Myself, someone else.)\nAssign due dates and times (if not already done)\n\n\n\nReview\n\nEach night I will review the days tasks and re-prioritize as needed.\nPin the one task/project I want to get done that day.\n\nEssentialism says to take the 6 tasks of the day and choose just one. Then identify what else you need to say no to to ensure you have the energy to accomplish that task.\n\nWeekly planning session to review all of this.\n\n\n\nEngage\n\nDon’t work on any tasks in a day/week that weren’t planned for that day (unless something comes up).\n\n\n\nFinal Thoughts\nA task system should be saving me time, not consuming it. It should be relaxing me and my anxieties, not amplifying them. I’m going to give this 30 days and see if my stress decreases and productivity increase. If so, I’ll keep using this system.\nGTD states that by not writing down all the ideas, you waste energy because things come back to nag you later. But surely energy is wasted by organizing a valueless idea.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTags and lists are identical except Lists have sections and views (such as Kanban). In a list you can sort by tag and vice versa. But each task can only appear in one list whereas tags are infinite. I noticed that choosing which list something belongs to can be cumbersome if it’s in a nested list, so I want only high level lists (no folders) and have this be simple. I also have “personal” and “work” tags which have projects within them, so I don’t really see why I’d need to duplicate this. On second thought, each task can only belong to one work project so it’d make sense for this to be my grouping. I suppose I just don’t want to manage all that. Or, I chose to use tags to manage my projects because I was cheap and I can only have 9 lists on the free version but unlimited tags? Either way this is easy to reorganize later if I choose to switch. Tags it is for now.↩︎\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "[Update 2021-11-16] This analysis was originally written on my old blog here. You can find the source code for it here.\nThis is part 2 out of a two-part series on scraping used car data. Check out part 1 to learn how to scrape the data.\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/book-summaries.html", - "href": "posts/book-summaries.html", - "title": "Book Summaries", - "section": "", - "text": "Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters\nLeadership from the bayonette. 10 points of leadership by dick winters.\n\nStrive to be a leader of character, competence, and courage.\nLead from the front. Say, “Follow me!” and then lead the way.\nStay in top physical shape—physical stamina is the root of mental toughness.\nDevelop your team. If you know your people, are fair in setting realistic goals and expectations, and lead by example, you will develop teamwork.\nDelegate responsibility to your subordinates and let them do their jobs. You can’t do a good job if you don’t have a chance to use your imagination or your creativity.\nAnticipate problems and prepare to overcome obstacles. Don’t wait until you get to the top of the ridge and then make up your mind.\nRemain humble. Don’t worry about who receives the credit. Never let power or authority go to your head.\nTake a moment of self-reflection. Look at yourself in the mirror every night and ask yourself if you did your best.\nTrue satisfaction comes from getting the job done. The key to a successful leader is to earn respect—not because of rank or position, but because you are a leader of character.\nHang tough!—Never, ever give up.\n\nHow to Win Friends and Influence People\n\n\n\nHow to win friends\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "objectID": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#youre-in-the-market", + "href": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#youre-in-the-market", + "title": "Buying a used car the data science way: Part 2", + "section": "You’re in the market", + "text": "You’re in the market\nSo you want to buy a car, but you don’t know anything about them? Welcome to my life.\nYou show up at the dealer and there’s a sticker on the window. You know the difference between make and model, but you soon learn what a trim is. Some versions come with leather. Some have a sun roof. Some have all wheel drive. Some have 20k in miles, and a similarly priced car in a higher trim is at 40k miles. How do you know what you’re really paying for, and what these features are worth? And how do you know what it’ll be worth when it’s four years older and has an additional 40k miles?\nPretty advanced questions for someone who just learned what a powertrain is.\nIn this analysis, I’ll dive into how you can use data to learn a lot about an industry in a short amount of time. I’ll first dive into knowing what you’re buying (now and later). Then, I’ll dive into how Truecar and others might be finding their ‘deals’." }, { - "objectID": "posts/write-despite-ai/index.html", - "href": "posts/write-despite-ai/index.html", - "title": "Write despite AI", - "section": "", - "text": "Write because you can\nI don’t write because anyone is actually listening. But if I’m lucky, the AI is actually listening.\n\nIf AI is listening (webscraping me), I’m fortunate to teach it. Essentially, good training data is hard to come by, especially as AI content proliferates on the internet. Let’s consider it a privilege I’m able to help it learn.\nWriting and telling stories are the oldest form of humanity. Even if an AI can do it better, perhaps we’ll just spend time doing more of it.\n\n\n\n\nWhen plume meets tablet\n\n\nSo yea, I’ll write despite AI. I’ll write because it’s very human to do so.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "objectID": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#what-am-i-paying-for", + "href": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#what-am-i-paying-for", + "title": "Buying a used car the data science way: Part 2", + "section": "What am I paying for?", + "text": "What am I paying for?\nTo do any analysis, you need data. Please see my most recent post if you’re interested in learning how I got the data for this analysis. Suffice it to say, I webscraped it. The data is not my own, but belongs to Truecar.\nI love using linear regression to understand my data on a granular level. In my data set, I was able to extract the make, model, year, mileage, trim, and a flag for whether the car was all wheel drive (awd == 1) or not. Putting this data into a linear regression, we can see some interesting results. First let’s look at the data we have:\n\nlibrary(dplyr)\nload('../../data/used-car/tc-ford-edge.Rda')\n# Get the prices into the appropriate scale and remove some extraneous\ndf$price = df$price*1000\ndf %>% select(-stats, -url, -int, -vin, -v6, -trueprice, -resid) %>% head()\n\n## price year mileage trim awd location ext deal\n## 1 16000 2014 28.477 SE 1 Sterling, VA <NA> 6514\n## 2 13300 2013 64.315 SE 0 Chantilly, VA <NA> 1784\n## 3 13800 2013 72.111 SEL 0 Fairfax, VA Mineral Gray Metallic 3331\n## 4 16000 2014 27.490 SE 0 Manassas, VA Oxford White 5448\n## 5 12000 2013 66.825 SE 0 Clarksville, MD Mineral Gray Metallic NA\n## 6 14900 2014 65.157 SE 0 Manassas, VA Tuxedo Black Metallic 4436\n## mpyr\n## 1 7.12\n## 2 12.86\n## 3 14.42\n## 4 6.87\n## 5 13.37\n## 6 16.29\nNow let’s see the regression results.\n\nmod <- lm(price ~ as.factor(year) + mileage + trim + awd, data = df)\nsummary(mod)\n\n## \n## Call:\n## lm(formula = price ~ as.factor(year) + mileage + trim + awd, \n## data = df)\n## \n## Residuals:\n## Min 1Q Median 3Q Max \n## -4755.7 -854.6 -2.7 877.5 5024.2 \n## \n## Coefficients:\n## Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) \n## (Intercept) 22216.400 788.885 28.162 < 2e-16 ***\n## as.factor(year)2013 1267.037 625.804 2.025 0.0442 * \n## as.factor(year)2014 3160.017 645.152 4.898 1.92e-06 ***\n## as.factor(year)2015 5664.470 710.322 7.975 9.56e-14 ***\n## as.factor(year)2016 6166.658 821.469 7.507 1.68e-12 ***\n## as.factor(year)2017 9082.971 878.956 10.334 < 2e-16 ***\n## mileage -91.951 5.625 -16.347 < 2e-16 ***\n## trimSE -4983.725 409.765 -12.162 < 2e-16 ***\n## trimSEL -1822.889 291.400 -6.256 2.17e-09 ***\n## trimSport 3419.270 374.977 9.119 < 2e-16 ***\n## trimTitanium 99.242 568.428 0.175 0.8616 \n## awd 1277.734 222.680 5.738 3.30e-08 ***\n## ---\n## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1\n## \n## Residual standard error: 1450 on 211 degrees of freedom\n## Multiple R-squared: 0.9231, Adjusted R-squared: 0.9191 \n## F-statistic: 230.2 on 11 and 211 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2022-07-20-de-sciencing-data-science-and-talking-like-a-normal-person/index.html", - "href": "posts/2022-07-20-de-sciencing-data-science-and-talking-like-a-normal-person/index.html", - "title": "De-sciencing Data Science and Talking Like a Normal Person", - "section": "", - "text": "Building a Data Science culture\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTL;DR: Always keep it simple and always bring it back to the business need.\n\n\n\nA coworker once asked me for advice on how to bring technical rigor into a non-technical culture.\n\n\nWhen the Simple Solution Wins\nA few years back I wanted to see if I could predict which NBA team would win in their next match. FiveThirtyEight is a blog that does this every day. Could I build a model as good as theirs?\nI built a few models and put up a site. Below I have a table of accuracies for each of my models compared to FoveThirtyEight’s.\n\nWhat I learned is that Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight three models are only 66% accurate. In 20 hours I got a model as accurate (V02 above) as his using just team level data (win %, recent win streak, etc.) and no player data (injuries, etc.). Also my model was built using data from 2005-2017 to predict 2019 performance. His model was updated daily with recent stats.\nBut even more glaring is that if I made a prediction on a single feature (Home % > Away %) I could achieve 63.7% accuracy. This feature is a 1 if the home teams win % is greater than the away teams win %, 0 otherwise. Meaning, the home team wins 63.7% of the time their season win % is higher than the away teams season win %.\nWas it worth building an XGBoost model with 30 features to get 65.8% accuracy when just a simple calculation is 63.7% accurate? Depends on business context and how valuable that 2% gain is and what the development/engineering cost of deploying a model is. But if I were you I’d start with the simple model to get it into production to start generating value and then come back later to optimize.\nCaveat: it took a lot of work to discover that feature. 90% of the problem was building the data set. So at the end, building a model was pretty simple once I had the data. (This is where cloud AutoML will take over going forward, sorry!.) And I needed the model to see the feature importance (this was the top feature.) This is a valid data science approach: use modeling to discover the patterns. But just because you have a model doesn’t mean it’s worth deploying.\nKeep it business focused: when building a recommendation system, start with “what’s most popular”. Why would you need K-means or whatever to begin? And can’t you build your own K-means by creating heuristic filters? For example: if you want to recommend me a shirt based on shirts I’ve searched, you can find all shirts of same color, price, and size and recommend those. Building a model to take into account dimensions, patterns, what others buy, etc is fine but should be a V2.\n\n\nMindsets\nThere’s a temptation to act like an academic professor and use fancy jargon when working with your coworkers. Even worse, there’s a temptation to think you’re smarter than your coworkers because you know this mathy thing that they don’t. But remember this quote:\n\nWhen they are learned they think they are wise…1\n\nThis pride power struggle is your downfall for two reasons:\n\nIt blinds you to thinking your solution is good just because someone else can’t understand it.\nIt blinds you from focusing on what matters most: getting the simplest and best solution.\n\nYour coworkers aren’t your students eating you. They’re your smart coworkers solving the same problems you are.\nA better mindset is that of a professional athlete, like a football player. They might be dumb as bricks at times but they’re all incredibly smart players. Can you explain your technical solution like a pro football player would?\n\nBad: “I built an XGBoost classification model that reduces the RMSE by minimizing the Gini coefficient on each node…”\n\nBetter: “I noticed that most users close the app after they reach this page. I tried looking at some reasons why and found a few common behaviors (DISCUSS, get feedback). I think we can predict when this will happen and here’s a framework to do that.”\n\nThere’s a temptation to think “I did all this technical work, I should get credit for it!” My manager once coached me, “Your stakeholders should be amazed by how simple you made it. Not by how complicated the problem is.”\nThe best example I know of this is Chris Voss, an FBI negotiator. Listen to his podcasts or YouTubes. He’s a humble guy and doesn’t get into the technical stuff. He knows the principles and keeps the explanations simple. He helps you feel smart when you listen to him. He’s one of the best negotiators in the world and if you were having dinner with him you’d think he was a normal guy. This is how data scientists should be.\n\n\nBugs\nThere are two types of bugs in data science: Software bugs and data bugs. You’ll spend 80% of your ramp up time on a project setting up your environment, learning the data, trying to understand the primary keys and logging and unique values, etc.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNobody cares about how you do any of this (the same way you don’t care about how cereal ends up in your grocery store), but they do care that you do it because it shows that you’re thinking about the right things.\nThey’ll also worry that you’re spending too much time on the wrong thing, so make sure you believe your actions are solving a business purpose.\n\n\n\n\n\nTakeaways\n\nFocus on principles, not technical details.\nGet the simplest, useful solution into production first to start creating value. Then figure out if it’s worth optimizing. If your product gets deprecated in 3 months then the fancy model will be wasted time anyway.\nYour stakeholders should be amazed by how simple you made it. Not by how complicated the problem is.\nIf you can’t explain a trend with a simple bar/line chart, a fancy regression model won’t do.\nStart with the non-technical (basic math) solution. Then see if you can beat the basic math with a fancy model. Evaluate the cost/benefit of the technical solution relative to the dumb version.\nwhen you have a fancy solution, make sure you compare it to the basic solution. Make sure you can beat the solution your teammates come up with. And make sure you carefully lead them from “their” solution to yours. “At first I tried X. X was fine. But X didn’t account for Y. So I built a model M and saw that M out performs X by 10%.”\nJust because you know/use math, doesn’t mean it’s right for the business. Data Scientists can easily be myopic because the work we do is challenging and deep in the weeds.\nYour boss doesn’t care about the nature of the bugs, but you should try to bring first principles to the table so she can cover for you. “I keep hitting this bug in the data. Can we ask/work with Infra team to solve this because it eats my time.”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 9:28↩︎\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "objectID": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#interpretation-matters", + "href": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#interpretation-matters", + "title": "Buying a used car the data science way: Part 2", + "section": "Interpretation matters", + "text": "Interpretation matters\nFirst, we see the (Intercept). This is the average value of a car for every level of every feature not show. So it represents the average price of a year 2000 with 0 miles, Limited trim, without all wheel drive. This allows us to now see what the average effect of, say, year is, holding all else constant. Every unit is in terms of dollars, so we can see that for as.factor(year)2013 that 2013 cars are worth $1,267 more than 2012 cars. This makes sense.\nI scaled mileage to be in the thousands so that it’s a little easier to interpret. So we see that for every 1,000 miles you drive a Ford Edge, it decreases the value of the car by $91 dollars. This tells you a few things. One, if I’m being offered two cars that are 10K miles different, there should be about a ~$900 difference in the car.\nSecond, if I’m planning on driving my car 30k miles over the next two years, how much should I expect the price to drop just due to mileage? Well, about -$91 * 30 = -$2,730. And maybe if you bought a 2014 model, two years later it could perhaps be like owning a 2012 model today. What’s the two-year difference between a 2014 and a 2012 model? About $3,160 dollars." }, { - "objectID": "posts/writing-only-makes-sense-to-the-author.html", - "href": "posts/writing-only-makes-sense-to-the-author.html", - "title": "Writing Only Makes Sense to the Author", - "section": "", - "text": "If you’re a bad author, your writing will only make sense to you.\nProblem is, we’re all bad authors.\n\nMy writing makes sense as I put it fown\nIt doesn’t always make sense to me 5 minutes later (my future self is practically another person)\nThe probability of it being perfectly interpreted by someone who isn’t even me, is likely near zero.\n\nSo when we write, we send out an idea. It then becomes a painting on the wall, up for anyone to interpret how they may.1 therefore, it’s best to put yourself as much in your audience’s shoes as possible (something discussed often in How to Win Friends and Influence People).\n\n\n\n“Now what on earth was Bryan trying to say?!?” “I think he was inspired” “nah man, he just wrote scribbles on the wall. That’s not writing!” “Yea, maybe he should slap a banana with duct tape on there. Would have gotten the point across better”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGoing to an extreme - ever write a kind word that was taken as an insult, or sent something sarcastic and it was interpreted as literal?↩︎\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "objectID": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#inference", + "href": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#inference", + "title": "Buying a used car the data science way: Part 2", + "section": "Inference", + "text": "Inference\nNow it’s getting interesting! You’re now starting to remember how your mom told you to never buy a car new, because once you drive it off the lot, it’s worth significantly less. Well, we can see that if you own a brand-new 2017 model and a 2016 model, they’re about $9082 - $6166 = $2916 different. So yea, just by getting the 2017 model you’ll lose $3,000 in the first year. See how 2016 is only $502 dollars more than the 2015? Having the 2015 model is practically the same price as a 2016. So you might as well buy the 2016 model and save a year of wear.\nWell, my theory kind of starts breaking down because 2015 cars and 2014 cars are similarly spaced as 2014 and 2013 ones. So maybe I shouldn’t read too much into this. But the ability to see these trends shouldn’t stop you from asking important questions, like, why is there a difference between years?\nWhen investigating the Nissan Murano, I observed a $5430 difference between 2015 and 2014. That’s non-trivial considering the other years were equally spaced. Doing a little research I saw that Nissan changed the 2015 Murano style, and the new style was apparently worth a lot more. Turns out the same thing happened here for the Ford Edge - the 2015 model is slightly longer with redesigned interior.\nYou can also use this framework to get a decent sense for what features are important to you. Like, is having all wheel drive really worth $1,277? If you live in an area where it snows, it probably is. But if you live in Florida, you may not need it.\nNot only is this framework helpful for comparing within-make-model differences, it helps you get a sense of between-make-model differences. Say, comparing the Ford Edge with the Nissan Murano and the Toyota RAV4. The coefficient for milage on the Edge is -$91. On the Murano it’s -$83, and on the RAV4 -$61. Remember this is the cost per 1,000 miles. That tells me that if I ‘spend’ 30k miles on a car over two years, I’ll lose -$2,730 on the Edge, but only -$1,830 on the RAV4, saving me $900. This also validates that Toyotas hold their value more." }, { - "objectID": "posts/2017-02-10-ggplot-plotly/ggplot-plotly.html", - "href": "posts/2017-02-10-ggplot-plotly/ggplot-plotly.html", - "title": "The DataViz battle: Plotly vs ggplot2", - "section": "", - "text": "R users fall in love with ggplot2, the growing standard for data visualization in R. The ability to quickly vizualize trends, and customize just about anything you’d want, make it a powerful tool. Yet this week, I made a discovery that may reduce how much I used ggplot2. Enter plot_ly().\nFor this post, I assume that you have a working knowledge of the dplyr (or magrittr) and ggplot2 packages. I caveat that this post is backed with only 4-5 hours using plotly(), so some statements here may not be fully vetted.\nPlotly and ggplot2 are inherently for different purposes. plotly allows you to quickly create beautiful, reactive D3 plots that are particularly powerful in websites and dashboards. You can hover your mouse over the plots and see the data values, zoom in and out of specific regions, and capture stills. Here’s a basic histogram:\n\nset.seed(1)\nlibrary(plotly)\nplot_ly(x = ~ rnorm(1000), type = \"histogram\")\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter a brief dabble this week in plotly, I realized quickly the many advantages that plotly has over ggplot2.\nSeveral initial impressions:\n\nPlotly handles multiple wide data columns. I always find it annoying that to color different series in ggplot2, your data had to be in long format. Granted, it takes one simple melt() command to get the data into wide format.\nPlotly also handles long format (see below).\nCustomizing the layout (plot borders, y axis) is easier.\nCustomizing the legend is easier (in ggplot2 I’ve wanted to remove just one series, which isn’t always easy).\nDocumentation is better in Plotly.\nPlotly syntax is very intuitive (learning how aes() in ggplot2 works is tricky at first)\nPlotly also works for Python, Matlab, and Excel, among other languages.\nIt’s very easy to add new series and customize them (one line, one scatter, and one bar, for example)\nYou can use other fonts (which is possible in ggplot2, but I’ve never gotten to work on my Windows machine)\nYou can toggle series on and off by clicking the series name in the legend\n\nBenefits of ggplot2 over plotly:\n\nFacet wrapping is very easy in ggplot2. (I think you have to do subplots in plotly.)\nggplot2 is probably quicker for exploratory analysis.\n\n\nConverting ggplot2 into plotly\nAn additional benefit of plotly is that you can convert your ggplot() graphs into a plotly object.\n\nlibrary(ggplot2)\np <- qplot(x = rnorm(1000), geom = \"histogram\")\np\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThen, invoking the ggplotly(p) command, we see the transformation:\n\nggplotly(p)\n\n\n\n\n\nA draw back of ggplotly() is that if you do refined customization (like putting your legend on the bottom of the graph), ggplotly() doesn’t seem to pick this up by default.\n\n# ggplot with legend on the bottom\np <- qplot(\n data = iris,\n x = Sepal.Width,\n y = Sepal.Length,\n geom = \"point\",\n color = Species\n) +\n theme(legend.position = \"bottom\")\np\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n# Plotly doesn't pick up the legend change\nggplotly(p)\n\n\n\n\n\nBut since Plotly also saves to an object, you can use the %>% notation to pipe and add additional plotting commands. This is similar to the + operator in ggplot().\n\np <- qplot(\n data = iris,\n x = Sepal.Width,\n y = Sepal.Length,\n geom = \"point\",\n color = Species\n) +\n theme(legend.position = \"bottom\")\np2 <- ggplotly(p)\n# Use the plotly layout() command for legend customization\np2 %>% layout(legend = list(orientation = \"h\"))\n\n\n\n\n\nThe legend doesn’t do exactly what we want, but you can manipulate the legend location manually using x and y coordinates. The orientation = 'h' setting in the docs puts the legend on the bottom for default plot_ly() objects. Graphing the same series, we see the legend at the bottom:\n\nplot_ly(iris,\n x = ~Sepal.Width,\n y = ~Sepal.Length,\n type = \"scatter\",\n mode = \"markers\",\n color = ~Species\n) %>%\n layout(legend = list(orientation = \"h\"))\n\n\n\n\n\n(You notice the Plotly X-axis title can get cut off1, so let’s put that +1 to ggplot2.)\nPlotly seems very intuitive relative to ggplot2 in doing layout customization. Things that took me many iterations on StackOverflow to figure out, like adding a black line on y = 0, are built in to Plotly.\n\np <- plot_ly(iris,\n x = ~Sepal.Width,\n y = ~Sepal.Length,\n type = \"scatter\",\n mode = \"markers\",\n color = ~Species\n)\n# Put legend on bottom, change the x-axis range, and turn on the x-axis line. \n# Also, make the zeroline visible, and turn it red.\np <- p %>% layout(\n legend = list(orientation = \"h\"),\n xaxis = list(\n zeroline = T, # Turns x = 0 on\n zerolinecolor = \"red\", # colors x = 0 red\n showline = T, # Shows xaxis border line\n range = c(-2, 7)\n )\n)\n# Or, save parameters into a list. Use new fonts (a huge plus)\nf1 <- list(\n family = \"Arial, sans-serif\",\n size = 18,\n color = \"lightgrey\"\n)\nyax <- list(\n title = \"Sepal length\",\n titlefont = f1\n)\np %>% layout(yaxis = yax)\n\n\n\n\n\nThings I’d like to further explore:\n\nYou can export static plotly images out to file. My hypothesis is that Plotly images take longer to generate than ggplot2. So if I’m mass producing 30,000 plots (which I had to do last month), which is the faster approach? I would assume ggplot2.\n\n\n\nPlotly in RShiny Dashboards\nThe goal in learning Plotly was for me was to eliminate the Excel-VBA dashboard I created using for my manager. Excel has (some) benefits over ggplot2 static charts: you can easily hover your mouse over a series to see the data value, and most industry users know how to manage an Excel axes. Grated, you can build in an RShiny widget to allow the user to control the axes, but Excel comes with that knowledge base built-in. ggvis allows for the powerful library of Google charts, but I think for a reactive dashboard, plotly is a great way to go2.\nSo Plotly solved the Excel problem for me. Now my manager can click and zoom to the parts of the graph that are interesting, and hover the mouse to see the values. Just use renderPlotly() instead of renderPlot() in the server.R file, and plotlyOutput() instead of plotOutput() in the ui.R file.\nMore info here: RShiny and Plotly\n\n\nRShiny vs Plotly Dashboards\nBoth RShiny and Plotly allow for creating dashboards. Plotly allows you to build dashboards as well. If you’re just interested in only visualizing charts and trends, Plotly dashboards seem like the way to go. But to build reactivity into your dashboard (like subsetting your sample, changing date ranges, etc.), RShiny still seems like the more customizable solution.\n\n\nFinal thoughts\nOverall, it seems that ggplot2 is quicker to build and find what you want. With facet wrapping, the qplot() command, and ggsave(), you can whip something up fast. Plotly is better for dashboards, as you can interact with the plots. I feel like Plotly has a better syntax and documentation, and so it may be easier to get a basic plot to look how you want it to. But ggplot2 seems to have more advanced features, so if you want to get into refined customization, you may want to stick with ggplot2. They’re both great, and serve different purposes, but I’ll be using plotly for my RMarkdown and RShiny visualizations going forward.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis may depend on your screen.↩︎\nOf course, this is relative to the chart you’re trying to make.↩︎\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "objectID": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#identify-a-good-market-deal-and-how-truecar-might-do-it", + "href": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#identify-a-good-market-deal-and-how-truecar-might-do-it", + "title": "Buying a used car the data science way: Part 2", + "section": "Identify a good market deal (and how TrueCar might do it)", + "text": "Identify a good market deal (and how TrueCar might do it)\nBeyond the research above, you can use such a model to identify deals in the market and guide your buying decision. Here’s how:\n\nMake a PriceFinder: Get the residuals (actual minus predicted value) for each car. The more negative the residual, the more this car is a good price! This may be how TrueCar and CarGurus get their ‘deals’. They fit a model (probably one better than what I’ve created here) and use its residuals to value each car.\nIdentify ‘overpriced’ cars and try to possibly haggle those dealers down. Again, use the residuals here.\nUse this model to predict ‘out-of-sample’ cars. You can use this model built on TrueCar data and find a car on the classifieds or another site and evaluate whether it’s a good deal or not.\n\nHere’s an example of how we do that. First, let’s predict a hypothetical 2015 SEL Ford Edge FWD with 27.6k miles:\n\nthat_car <- as.data.frame(list(\n year = 2015,\n mileage = 27.6,\n trim = 'SEL',\n awd = 0\n))\n\npredict(mod, newdata = that_car)\n\n## 1 \n## 23520.13\nWe’d expect, on average, such a car to cost $23,520.13. Is what the dealer’s offering you above or below that? If they’re offering $25,000 then you know the car is $1,479.87 higher than what you might expect." }, { - "objectID": "posts/a-10-week-self-guided-data-science-intro-course.html", - "href": "posts/a-10-week-self-guided-data-science-intro-course.html", - "title": "Become a Data Scientist in 10 Weeks", - "section": "", - "text": "How do you get a job in data science if you currently aren’t a data scientist?\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "objectID": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#how-to-improve-our-model", + "href": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#how-to-improve-our-model", + "title": "Buying a used car the data science way: Part 2", + "section": "How to improve our model", + "text": "How to improve our model\nNow, this is a pretty naive model, but it’s a model. As George Box said, “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” But here are some quick ways to improve this model:\n\nCheck for interactions. An interaction between miles and year would tell you whether the effect of miles would change across different years. For example, I think adding 10k miles to a 2017 would devalue the car more steeply than adding 10k miles to a 2012 model. During my quick research I checked for interactions, but I didn’t find many to be significant and I chose to ignore them for simplicity.\nUse a linear trend for year rather than a ‘factor’ trend. I’ve chosen here to treat year as a factor, which implies that I think that each year is completely different. Had I used year as a numeric feature, I could have possibly interpreted year as, “Each additional year increases/decreases the price by X on average, holding all else constant.” I liked the simplicity of thinking that each year was different, and since cars usually update models every four years, I wanted to be able to see where this happened. You couldn’t easily see this if year were a linear trend. Objectively, what would be a good way to choose? Fit both models and see which had better R-squared or AIC.\nDo model diagnostics. Check the residual plot to make sure the errors are normally distributed. Check for outliers. Each of these affects the accuracy of your residuals. 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It’s simple, but it’s powerful.\n\nIt’s All A/Bout Testing: The Netflix Experimentation Platform | by Netflix Technology Blog | Netflix TechBlog\nA seven part series by Netflix: Netflix: A Culture of Learning. Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng… | by Netflix Technology Blog | Netflix TechBlog I put here the seventh post because it likes to parts 1-6 in the intro. This part 7 is probably the best to start with because it explains the context behind A/B testing.\nExperiment Guide – Accelerate innovation using trustworthy online controlled experiments This book tells you how Microsoft, Amazon, and Google use online experimentation to make billions of dollars. It’s written by the people who invented online experimentation and who are top data scientists at those companies.\nSequential A/B Testing Keeps the World Streaming NetflixPart 1: Continuous Data | by Netflix Technology Blog | Feb, 2024 | Netflix TechBlog" + "objectID": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#takeaways", + "href": "posts/2017-10-19-used-cars-analysis/used-cars.html#takeaways", + "title": "Buying a used car the data science way: Part 2", + "section": "Takeaways", + "text": "Takeaways\nSo, a data scientist walks into a dealership with a computer with a registry of thousands of used cars on it. He negotiates with the front-office salesman. And the salesman says…\n\nNon-statistical considerations\nWhen you’re buying a car from a dealership, remember that it’s their job to sell you that car. Here are other random things I learned to think about during the car-buying process.\n\nHow many miles has it been driven, and how old is it? (We found a car with 45,000 miles in one year. That’s almost two trips around the entire world in a year! This is also 3750 miles per month (a cross-country US trip), or about 125 miles per day. What kind of driving do you have to do in a year to get that?\nHow many prior owners were there?\nWas the car previously a rental? A lease? A fleet?\nRental: Abused by X number of people? But also perhaps better maintained by rental companies?\nLease: What kind of person would lease?\nFleet: Probably a corporate car. Like a rental, but different kind of drivers.\nWhere did the car come from?\nIs there snow where they live? And do they use salt on the roads there? (Salt = rust underneath)\nWhat else does the geography tell you about the possible wear on the car (causing long-term problems)\nWhat does the CarFax or Autocheck say?\nWas the car sold at auction? When? What could the time between sales tell you about the car?\nIf someone gets into an accident and doesn’t report it, the CarFax won’t tell you. I drove 45 minutes to look at a ‘great’ deal only to learn the door was nearly falling off.\nGood luck haggling the dealer down. Car dealerships don’t usually make that much on the car, but make their money on warranties and fees. Your best chance is to haggle on the deals being offered (terms and agreements).\nDon’t get the powertrain warranty. This is like the “french fries” of the auto industry. Pure profit.\nEvery dealership has quota. Going in at the end of the month might help you, but the dealership will be packed.\nUsed cars are bought at auction. Carmax buys all their cars at auction and only keeps 1/3 of them. Local dealers also get their cars this way, and they don’t always know what the car looks like till it gets to their lot. Check the Carfax to see if any prior dealers ‘flipped’ the car quickly.\n\nUsed cars have a shelf life. If a car isn’t sold in 45-60 days, some dealerships might have to auction off the car. That means you’ll see a tiering in the price. Less-favorable cars will see the price drop several times in its life cycle. Check CarGurus to see how many times the price has dropped, and try to guess for yourself if it might drop again (or just get sold). They know their prices. They’ve got their back-office guys looking at every price of every same car within 100 mile radius. While I’m also able to get as many of those cars as available on TrueCar, I’m not able to segment by all the various features. It’s easy to webscrape for Make, Model, Year, AWD/FWD, and maybe V6 engine, but it’s very hard to get the details like leather, sunroof, twin-turbo, etc. That’s where the pricing gets really interesting.\n\n\nFinal thoughts\nUltimately, a car is bought by irrational humans, and sold by more experienced ones too. So all of this data will probably go out the door when you try to make a deal.\nSo a data scientist walked into several dealerships, and left frustrated because nobody budged on their prices. Doesn’t matter how much data I have, or what I think I know, everyone’s got their price." }, { - "objectID": "posts/2023-12-13-learn-by-doing/index.html", - "href": "posts/2023-12-13-learn-by-doing/index.html", - "title": "Learn by doing", + "objectID": "posts/2022-06-21-the-power-of-party-pay-by-visible/index.html", + "href": "posts/2022-06-21-the-power-of-party-pay-by-visible/index.html", + "title": "The Power of Party Pay by Visible", "section": "", - "text": "TL;DR: Yes, unintelligent people can use things without fully understanding them\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMany people have their noses up their ass when they claim you can't use an algorithm you don't fully understand.They give themselves this fake moral superiority. They must be the only ones who belong because they know every detail.This is all bullshit.Here are a few simple…\n\n— Santiago (@svpino) December 12, 2023\n\n\nWhile the language is perhaps a bit strong, I agree with the sentiment here.\nI don’t have a PhD but have been limited twice in my career by those who wish I had one. What would having a PhD give you that I don’t have?\nWell, I trust you more if you had one.\nJeremy Howard, a world renowned research and creator of fast.ai and answers.ai started his lectures on deep learning with “you don’t need to have a math degree, you just need to know a little bit of code”. With that philosophy he’s helped entrepreneurs create amazing products that left his free online program.\n\nBlindspots tho\nConcepts are important to understand. Understanding your training data and how the machines learn from them and the biases they’re prone to is very useful, perhaps mission critical, to creating value.\nSo what’s the line? Well, if you got a PhD you’d probably spend 80% of your time on your dissertation and taking some non relevant coursework. How does that help you today?\nWell, you should learn as many concepts as you can. Like driving a car, you don’t need to know hydroplaning but you should learn hydroplaning. You don’t need to know how to drive in snow but you should know that driving a car in the snow with rear wheel drive is a different experience.\nIf you live in Arizona you don’t need to know how to drive in the snow. Your bias is you’ll never know why that would be necessary.\n\n\nPrinciple\nBe so curious that you explore the boundaries of your space such that you learn “oh, cars work differently in snow, but I don’t have snow so I’m safe”. Once you reach the boundary you probably know enough. Then ship your code and learn by how you messed things up.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Visible’s party pay madness\nVisible wireless offers $25 off to users who join a party. So a user who signs up to pay $50 for unlimited data can click one button to join a party and only have to pay $25/mo from then on. Why not just offer users $25 to begin with?\nIt’s really confusing to me as a user - why not just give me the $25 automatically if it takes nothing to join a group? Because of gamification.\n\n\nWhy it works\nI think their strategy is as follows:\n\nThey hope some people get brought in on marketing and never remember to activate a party pay. Let’s say this number is 20-40%. Perhaps these users fund the rest of the discounts.\nJoining a party pay group for free is an easy way to make your customers win. I.e., a user gets $25 off for joining. Gimmicky, but I think it works. So a user has an immediate sense of gratification - a great way to build a strong emotional bond. “Click a button to get $25 off in perpetuity? Nice!” Anyone would agree this feels better than just starting off with $25.\nThis makes users want to share and tell others. Especially if customers feel they’ve gamed the system. Who today doesn’t like a hack?\n\nBut even if (1) is wrong, and that 95% of people join a party I’m sure they’ve done the math to consider how many people they need to sign up to make the money work.\n\n\nThe Larger Strategy\nWhy would Verizon cannibalize their own sales? I switched my wife out of a $70 unlimited plan on Verizon to a $25 plan on visible for the same service. Well some customers will stay with Verizon because of its prestige and the add on benefits. But users who are cutting the cord are going somewhere else, I’m thinking Verizon wants to stay ahead of the curve. It’s a race to the bottom, sure. But it doesn’t hurt to try to win the race.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2022-12-06-more-new-businesses-than-ever/index.html", - "href": "posts/2022-12-06-more-new-businesses-than-ever/index.html", - "title": "Models as a Service and the Future of Data Science", + "objectID": "posts/decisions-are-rivers.html", + "href": "posts/decisions-are-rivers.html", + "title": "Decisions are Like Hopping on a River Raft", "section": "", - "text": "Businesses are Launching Like Crazy\nThere’s never been a better time to start a business. The Census shows there are over 200,000 new business applications per month more than pre pandemic.\n\nWhat’s driving this?\nListening to The Unintended Consequences of Working from Home it dawned on me that there’s a hyper acceleration of innovation happening.\nConsider the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT and StableDiffusion. Chamath Palihapitiya discusses the expansive applications for these services. What was once SaaS will become MaaS (models as a service). There will be models for everything: copy writing, code debugging, converting wireframes into working apps, ad generation, book writing…\nWhile tools like ChatGPT are just in demo mode, it’s wildly apparent they’ll be an impetus for new ideas and reducing the friction of getting to the answer. For example, as a data scientist if I need boilerplate code to clean some data, I can ask ChatGPT for the 80% solution. I’m already spending 30% of my day copying code snippets from StackOverflow and making it work for my problem. ChatGPT will just accelerate that process. 10 years from now if Neuralink can read my thoughts I don’t even need a keyboard to do this…we’ll build things at the speed of thought.\nConsider this for writers and marketers. They’ll use ChatGPT to unblock them, generate ideas, and get started. Innovation across the board will accelerate because the kinetic friction to getting started will reduce to zero. You can then spend your time on the editing and refining.\n\n\nThe Best Time to Start a Business\nI digress. Why is now the best time to build a software business?\n\nCompute is cheap. Gone are the days of having to build a server to prototype and idea.\nBarriers to prototyping are nearly free and scaling with the cloud is nearly infinite. Consider how the Gas App can launch to 100,000 new users per day with just a few developers.\nModeling is now easy. All cloud services have their own AutoML tools to build machine learning models for you.\n\nThe center of all of this is scalable data infrastructure and AI.\n\n\nFuture of Data Science\nThe data scientist of today may still be using sklearn to manually do hyperparameter tuning, but the data scientist of tomorrow will either be exclusively building MaaS B2B products or be the one person in their organization who will leverage all the MaaS tools.\nIf we can ask ChatGPT for complex answers it learned from the internet, why couldn’t something similar be trained on your company’s internal data? If that’s possible, then why couldn’t you just have a Q&A session with your internal ChatGPT? Consider the following example:\n\n“Hey KITT, what are the user segments generating the most revenue on Tuesdays at 5pm?” (Analytics)\n“How many sales do we anticipate from these users next Tuesday?” (Machine Learning)\n“What ads have been most effective for us in driving new sales in the past 7 days?” (Statistics)\n“Okay, KITT, generate 3 variants of that ad for next Tuesday” (StableDiffusion generating a new Ad)\n“I like ads A, B and C. launch an experiment on Facebook/TikTok, run it for three days and dynamically allocate ad spend to the best ad.” (Business integrations, statistics, ML models)\n\nThe data scientist of the future will be the one with deep understanding of these tools and an awareness of their biases. It will be very difficult to know when they’re lying to you. The in-house data scientist will be keen on knowing the biases in the data fed into these algorithms and how to make judgments on where to go next.\nEarly stage companies won’t need data scientists because most of this stuff will be off the shelf and easy for an engineer to integrate. That means that the data scientists will join these MaaS companies to build out optimized products that solve these niche problems.\n\n\nTakeaways\nData Scientists shouldn’t be scared their jobs will disappear. They should be excited that they’ll be joining companies that automate what they’re currently doing and offer it as a service.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I’m reading How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices and thinking about decisions. I like to think of decisions as rivers.\nLike decisions, all rivers lead somewhere. Where is your river heading?\nThe decision is which river to get on in your little boat. You can only envision the destination.\nBeing a high school English teacher is a decision. Where will that life take me after 5/10/20 years? Is that appealing? Only I can choose.\nThis thinking process is the decision choice. The rest is up to luck.\n\n\n\nWe’re all just Huck and Tom to some degree\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2020-12-15-data-beats-opinions/index.html", - "href": "posts/2020-12-15-data-beats-opinions/index.html", - "title": "Data Beats Opinions", + "objectID": "posts/quarto-from-phone/index.html", + "href": "posts/quarto-from-phone/index.html", + "title": "How to blog from your phone using quarto (or hugo/jekyll/etc) using Working Copy and Obsidian", "section": "", - "text": "When I co-started a company several years ago, my founders and I would canvass neighborhoods knocking doors. We’d discuss our ideas for a new product one door at a time. After each conversation, the product took a new form. Eventually, the product took shape and we had a successful kickstarter launch.\nSince that time, I’ve thought about how valuable it was to get information straight from the source.\nAlberto Savoia’s new book, “The Right It”, is re-teaching me this principle. Data beats opinions, he says. In another book I’m reading, “Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments”, the former CEO of Netscape is quoted saying,\n\nIf we have data, let’s go with data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine. - Jim Barksdale\n\nData sourced from your manager, your stakeholder, or your customer are invaluable to help you know if you’re solving their problem. Too often it’s easy to get stuck in the original solution that comes to our mind.\nData from customers directly shape the product. Data sourced at scale from online experiments refine it.\nOpinions from the customer shape the product. Their behavior (captured as data) speaks louder than their words. Frequently, it’s challenging to correlate the two. We’re left to guess why someone actually clicked, bought, churned. It’s a beautiful cycle.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Here are the steps I use to post content from my phone to bryanwhiting.com.\n\nCreate a new, empty vault in Obsidian\nOpen working copy, set up synced repo. This means any changes are auto-synced.\nAdd remote, point it at your GitHub repo where your blog is\nSet up a “pull, stage, commit, push” shortcut\nSet up GitHub actions to build, and push (use my repo’s workflow.yaml if you need an example)\nHave GitHub pages (if your repo is private) or Netlify (if your repo is private, because you can’t have a private GitHub repo without paying)\n\nAnd that’s it! Write markdown in obsidian. Push when you’re ready, let GitHub actions build and deploy. Check GitHub actions logs for any errors! (You’ll get an email if it fails.)\n\n\n\nSet up synced repo\n\n\n\n\n\nLink the repo\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2022-06-20-blogging-with-quarto/index.html", - "href": "posts/2022-06-20-blogging-with-quarto/index.html", - "title": "Blogging with Quarto, and why I don’t use Medium anymore", + "objectID": "posts/quarto-vs-quartz-for-obsidian.html", + "href": "posts/quarto-vs-quartz-for-obsidian.html", + "title": "Quarto vs. quartz for Obsidian blog", "section": "", - "text": "Been here before, eh?\nI probably shouldn’t write this post considering I’ve also written posts “blogging with Jekyll”, “Blogdown”, and “distill” before. I’m flaky, what can I say. I’ve changed my blogging framework 7 times in 5 years (I started with blogger.com and Wordpress before Jekyll, and even used Medium for 25 posts.)\nBut it’s not my fault. There are too many static site generators and it seems that Rstudio is as flaky as me. Meaning, they built rmarkdown, created hugodown, blowdown, bookdown, and distill. Hugodown is a lightweight version of blogdown, and I never figured out why it exists. Then there’s workflowr and so many other great, random products out there.\nWhy quarto for me? It seems to have all the stuff that distill has, and then some. And given its design and collaboration with Wes McKinney (pandas guy) in building quarto, and given that Wes wrote his latest book with it, I think this will be here to stay for at least 5 years.\n\n\nWhy do I avoid Medium\nWhy don’t I blog with Medium? I wrote 25 posts there over 9 months and loved it. It makes writing and publishing incredibly easy, which is why I did it. With distill/blogdown the limiting factor was I’d have to be at my computer to get a post in. I love writing on my phone - I have over 2000 journal entries with Day One over seven years, several of which are “draft” posts for a blog that won’t see the light of day since I don’t care about them after I’ve written it. I want to be able to blog frequently, a short little blurb to keep up my writing, and medium enabled this.\nBut 1) I didn’t get many views (not that I care) and 2) my writing is stuck on their platform (confirmed to me this week as I’ve tried several old, broken tools that attempt to export posts out of medium).\nI got 50x the views on my blogdown site just from organic google searching. From reading other people’s posts about leaving Medium, it’s seems that most traffic to Medium posts comes from outside of Medium.\nSo while I’m certainly not into blogging for the money, I wouldn’t mind getting the content to people who it can help. And if medium didn’t enable this, what is its purpose?\nSo I’m back and finally decided that I’m going to own my own platform. Seth Godin wrote a blog about this topic once. Why be on Medium, substack, Facebook, etc or any other up an coming platform? We’ll they’re all skewed toward the 1% of people who make money on the platform. Everyone else is wasting their time. So might as well own your content. And better to focus on writing than waste time catching up on every platform.\nAlso, it’s fun! There’s a fuzzy feeling to blogging.\n\n\nFuture of quarto?\nI’m speculating here, but Quarto can be used withR Studio, Jupiter or VS Code. The last editor seems excitingly suspicious.\nPerhaps R Studio sees the writing on the wall that VS Code is taking over the IDE world and perhaps taking over the long term future of R Studio IDE. I personally don’t see why anyone would pay for R Studio when VS Code is free and has a better interface. And while R Studio has a few better integrations for R at the moment, it won’t once enough people see the light for VS Code and turn their contributions there. I’ve been using R on VSCode for two years now and it rivals R Studio in 95% of the feature set, but 100% has better window management.\nSo Quarto seems like a great opportunity for R Studio to begin monetizing on a publishing platform like R Studio connect. Platforms like Notion and Confluence are great for everyone except data scientists trying to share reproducible research. But a quarto server seems like a great way to finally bring in Python data scientists into the markdown-flavored documentation world. (Man, I personally can’t use Jupyter/Google colab notebooks when I can use R Markdown!) I’d heartedly welcome this prospect, though I have no idea what their plans for Quarto really are.\nTill next blog post about what blogging tool I’m going to use…\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "Things I like/dislike about quarto are listed here.\nGenerally, I love quarto and the main thing I don’t like about quarto is how slow it is, compared to say, hugo.\nI looked heavily into quartz, which is explained here as a way to publish your Obsidian vault on GitHub. And here’s an example of a digital garden someone uses with quartz, it’s pretty slick. Here are the features of quartz.\nWhy quarto? I really like the design of a blog, as I tend to think better in “post” form rather than never-ending-garden-of-thoughts. I like reading blogs because I assume the thoughts are complete. Quartz is great if you just want your own wiki. I just don’t really care about the network graphs and all and I don’t think other people reading them care either.\nI want to focus on writing and sometimes long form writing. Quarto enables a lot, is easy to setup and customize, has great search, has a ton of markdown desires (tabs, callouts, asides, footnotes), can render code (Python/R) when I want to be adventurous, and has a blog interface for posts.\nLargely they’re the same, and maybe I’ll use quartz at some point. But I’m happy where I am now.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html", - "href": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html", - "title": "What is the best todo list manager?", + "objectID": "posts/quarto-feature-requests/index.html", + "href": "posts/quarto-feature-requests/index.html", + "title": "Things I’d like in a blog", "section": "", - "text": "Wirecutter reviewed the best todo list apps and declared “ticktick” the winner. After all my research here’s what I’ve learned.\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "quarto has strengths and drawbacks\n\n\n\nOther frameworks (like Hugo) are more flexible. But quarto offers a lot more out of the box and handles the stuff I really don’t want to have to think about.\n\n\n\n\n\nA traditional Quarto\n\n\nThings quarto is good at:\n\nHandles metadata really well (easy to get a title image, description, Twitter card, etc.)\nheavily customizable: can organize posts as a list, as a table, as a grid, etc. can easily customize what’s in that. The main thing I didn’t like about Hugo was that the style was just slightly different than I liked it.\ncomments\nsearching\ncategories/tags\neasy to create different/custom listings\ncan blog from my phone using Working Copy and GitHub actions\n\nThings wish quarto were better at:\n\nFaster render (Hugo speeds plz)\nDon’t render future posts\nA blog landing page that had a stream of entries, rather than just a list. 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It’ll produce a CSV.\nGo through that CSV and creat a column “read” that identified the ones you actually began (sigh…so many books I placed holds on but never read….)\nRun this python script and it’ll create an obsidian markdown file for each. Tweak it to match your preferences. I personally use quarto to blog so I have a naming convention for the files and metadata.\nOr! 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Read on {row['date']}\ndate: {row['date']}\ncategories: book-review\ncreated: {row['created']}\ndraft: false\nauthor: {row['author']}\nbook-year: 1000\nbook-time: 0\ndate-start: {row['date']}\ndate-finished: {row['date-finished']}\npct-complete: 0\n---\n\n![]({row['cover']}){{.preview-image}}\n\"\"\"\n filename = re.sub(r\"[^\\w]\", \"-\", row[\"title\"]).lower()\n filename = re.sub(r\"-+\", \"-\", filename)\n file_path = os.path.join(output_directory, f\"{filename}.md\")\n with open(file_path, \"w\") as file:\n file.write(markdown_content.strip())\n print(f\"Created {file_path}\")\n\n# Zip the markdown files\nzip_file_path = os.path.expanduser(\"~/Desktop/markdown_files.zip\")\nwith zipfile.ZipFile(zip_file_path, \"w\") as zipf:\n for root, dirs, files in os.walk(output_directory):\n for file in files:\n zipf.write(os.path.join(root, file), file)\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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Morning is not the best time to plan a day for me, so I lost interest here.\n\n\n\nTo Do has smart text parsing.\n\n\n\n\n\nTo Do has “smart suggestions” that you can add to your day." + "objectID": "posts/the-compounding-interest-of-reading.html", + "href": "posts/the-compounding-interest-of-reading.html", + "title": "The Compounding Interest of Reading", + "section": "", + "text": "I’m on my way to get 52 books read this year. I think I can do it.\nBut it’s not to finish 52 books. It’s to read two hours of fifty two books. Why?\nBecause of compounding interest. One book doesn’t level you up. But multiple books over time will affect you for a long while to come.\nIf you improve just 1% each day for 365 days, and that improvement compounds, then you’ll have improved 37x over a year. (invest $100 and gain 1% each day and reinvest that money is $137 by the end of the year).\nSo don’t worry what any one book gives you. Just keep investing. A few will pay off big, and the many “wasted” will have little downside.\n\n\n\nImage: compound interest and reading a book\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#todoist", - "href": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#todoist", - "title": "What is the best todo list manager?", - "section": "Todoist", - "text": "Todoist\nI’ve tried many times to get into Todoist. It has smart text parsing which is apparently best in class from my Reddit research.\nThings it has:\n\nProjects can have section labels. This lets you organize your list more meaningfully. This is great, only that TickTick does it better. Each project in TickTick can have subprojects. These subprojects act like sections. You can also move subproject from one list to another.\n\n\nThings it lacks:\n\nCan’t nest labels (tags)\nCan’t create labels dynamically - you need to manually add them on the label screen before a task can leverage them.\nCan’t pull in my calendar.\nDoesn’t have check items, only subtasks." + "objectID": "posts/how-to-blog-with-obsidian-and-quarto.html", + "href": "posts/how-to-blog-with-obsidian-and-quarto.html", + "title": "Blogging with Obsidian and Quarto", + "section": "", + "text": "First half is my philosophy on the relationship between learning, notetaking, and blogging.\n\nI love to learn\nWriting helps me learn\nPublicly writing increases my focus\n\nSecond half is how I use Obsidian and Quarto, alternatives I’ve tried, and my actually flow. I detail what tools I use, how I use them.\n\nset up relative links\nHave one img folder\nUse templater to manage new post templates and relative links\nUse linter\nUse commander for toolbar palette\ndataview to find drafts\nTags to flag ideas\n\n\n\n\nI’ve had a blog since 2016. Started with Jekyll. Then blogdown. Tried medium in 2020 because it had a good mobile app and I was able to publish every day. Then I didn’t know how to get my posts out of there so I lost interest. Then I found quarto, which I was excited about because I have always loved Rmarkdown (things like tabs, executable code, etc.). Then I tried Substack, which I did for a few weeks but eventually gave up because 1) no mobile app to write and 2) how do I get my stuff off of there?\nSeth Godin writes every day, and I love his blog and take it as an inspiration. In one post he mentions how “some say do a podcast, others say write on platform x or platform Y”. (Medium, Substack, etc.) He recommends: those tools always serve the 1%. If you’re the 1%, you make money. Otherwise you don’t. So you might as well own your own content.\nI know two Instagram and TikTok influencers with 100k and 300k followers respectively. The 100k made $5k in 2022. The 300k TikToker still makes maybe $100/mo. They each put in 20 hours+ a week.\nSo I’m giving up the illusion I’ll ever make money off a blog or my content. I write because I always have. I write publicly now because I found a way to do so online, from my phone.\nThis is how I blog daily using quarto (for the website) and Obsidian (for the editor).\n\nOwn your platform\nAfter all the years blogging, giving up, coming back, etc, there are many things that are my personal needs.\n\nMobile first. I can’t write at my computer. This isn’t my job.\nFootnotes: many blogging platforms don’t allow for them or handle them well. Footnotes are essential in long content.\nCustomizable: I need to be able to add styling how I like it. This is part of the creative process.\nTags: having and filtering by tags is nice\nPortable: if I stop blogging for 9 months I need to be able to move it to the next shiny object platform. I need to own my content. I also don’t like posting on LinkedIn or Facebook directly because I see my writing as my creative work. Those platforms don’t let you save or share those links later on.\n\nRelative links: I need to be able to link to other posts. This is part of the mental note taking journey.\nSubscribe button. (Substack and Medium are built for this!)\nComments: 99% of people don’t comment, but when people reach out it feels like I did something for the world. It also makes the blog more approachable, even if nobody every posts.\nHackable/automatable: I need templates. I need code. I need to be able to automate things. (At one point I figured out how to set up automations to post straight to Instagram from GitHub actions. I’m going to bring that back!)\n\nSubstack does footnotes well, linking to notes poorly, doesn’t have a mobile editor for posts, and isn’t portable. It handles tags, subscribers, and distribution extremely well, and makes it easy to have multiple publications. But it’s got the vendor lock in.\nMedium had an excellent mobile editing experience, but again - vendor lock in. And you’ve gotta kinda buy into the Medium-way-of-doing-posts.\nAll platforms have their vibe. If you want to be popular on TikTok, you gotta dance. Although I personally love to dance, I want my site to be creative and my own.\n\n\nWhy blog with obsidian/quarto?\nEnter Obsidian and Quarto. Obsidian makes managing and editing content a breeze (things like draft management, sorting files, organizing images, etc is all super easy):\nWhy obsidian as my editor?\n\nIt makes writing markdown a breeze\nIt has tons of extensions, such as managing footnotes, linting files, spell checking, etc.\nIt makes it really easy to link to other files (relative links)\nIt makes it easy to refactor (move stuff around)\nIt works with markdown. The files are just plain text files in my Files app on my iPhone.\n\n\n\nWriting flow\nEvery writer has their flow. The tools they use should reflect their mental process of writing, and not the other way around. If you’re trying to get your brain to work like the tool does, rather than using tools that working like your brain, you’re ngmi. If you’re like me, you’ll try it for a while and then give up. (I may give up after this post, but at least this post isn’t saved on Blogger.com!)\nHere’s mine:\n\nGet an idea\nCategorize it (religious, tech, life, etc)\nCreate a file\nMark as draft\nWrite some ideas\nEdit it (if long), reread a few times\nUnmark as draft\nPost to the internet, read a few more times in live version and make edits\nTag it\nFind old drafts, finish them\nAdd an image, either from my phone camera or chatgpt. Save image in the right folder.\nWrite alt text to the images.\nCreate links to other entries.\nMake some footnotes for content that doesn’t flow\nCry and debate if I’m a good writer or if anyone is even listening anymore\nAdd a subscribe button\nshare a good one to social media\nCheck my Google analytics to see if I’m popular. Check subscribers to see if I got any. Wonder why I care anyway because I know I won’t make money off this.\nGet an idea for a new post while reading a book and start again\n\nThe process of getting ideas from a source, and writing from those ideas, makes me want to be able to connect the entry to the source (book or podcast). Sure, I don’t have to write. And sometimes writing is wasted time (writing for writing’s sake), but I enjoy it.\n\n\nMy writing flow with Obsidian and Quarto\nAt the risk of nobody ever reading this far, I’ll keep this high level, and if someone cares about something ask me in the comments.\nFirst, see Quarto from Phone to see how I set up Working Copy to sync my Obsidian repo with GitHub.\nHere’s my flow with obsidian:\n\nRead a book. Create new book note using new-post via the Templater obsidian plugin. This lets me create a new note in a folder of my choice, give a title, make a filename with a good url slug. Adds some categories automatically.\nWhen idea comes up, take note in book note. When substantial idea comes up, create a quick draft of a new post using Templater. Enable draft: true if i don’t finish.\nUse Obsidian Dataview to create a list of all outstanding drafts. I can come back and finish.\nUse Obsidian Custom Sort to sort the files in my repo how I want. This package helped me to stop time-stamping my URLs (which I thought was good for sorting). Instead, I can sort by modified time (note custom sort isn’t necessary for modified time sorting), but custom sort allows for sorting by yaml front matter.\nWhen I’m ready to post, create an image using ChatGPT app. Click on the image in the app, share, save to files. It will save to the img/ folder in my root. Next image? Saves here (iPhone remembers).\n\nAt some point I was creating folders for every blog post so I could reference images there. I’m giving this up for two reasons: 1) every file would then need to be named “index.md” and 2) more folders is more noise. So instead, I have one place for all images, which makes it easier to save and I don’t have to click a bunch of subfolders every time I add an image.\nAlso, screenshot any photos you may want to add so as to remove the location metadata.\n\nUse Footnote Shortcut plugin to more efficiently write footnotes. Add a hotkey to the mobile obsidian editor toolbar to quickly add footnotes. 1\nSet up an iOS shortcut to do a “git pull”, “git commit”, “git push” on the repo. Put this shortcut on my home page. Since I have a synced folder, this happens very efficiently!2\nSet up a github actions to build the blog using quarto render. See Quarto vs. quartz for Obsidian blog\nPublish to GitHub pages with the docs/ folder.\n\nAnd that’s it. That’s my flow. If you like this, ask me a question.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis footnote is added with the tap of a button. 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Then check in.\nThe irony is that, despite saving the cake, he sneezes and ruins the cake. → Despite all the effort, the greatest protection to the cake was him staying away from it. Sometimes by trying to solve a problem we can make things way worse and create all these problems. (Politics? Create problems by creating solutions to problems that need solutions.)\n\nDon’t mistake a beaver for a dodo. But don’t mistake a dodo for a wedding guest.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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I’ve recently listened to some bangers that were only 90 seconds long. They left me hanging.\n\n\n\nEnjoy the music while it lasts\n\n\nWhy was my song so short? Because nobody gets paid after 30 seconds.\n\nApple’s decision made artists want to have more interesting 30 seconds in the iTunes Store\nThat evolved into: an artist doesn’t get paid if you don’t listen at least 30 seconds. And they don’t get paid any more if you listen 31 or 900 seconds. In fact, they get paid more if you listen to two songs, 30s a piece.\n\nSpotify, Amazon, YouTube, Apple, etc all pay based on views. They each define views their own way, but they need to negotiate with the labels who already decided to agree to Apple’s 30s schemes in the early 2000’s. They may have different payment schemes, but some have a scheme of “take all revenue, distribute it according to the artist’s share of views.” So if I pay $10/mo for Spotify and don’t use it, my money goes to someone I didn’t listen to.\nSo how do small artists compete? They’ve got to build their following. Proportionally, the major artists (rather, their labels) soak up all the streaming royalties.\nWhat would be more fair is if my $10 went to the artists I actually listened to, as if I bought their music.\nWhy does any of this matter? Algorithms. Optimization. Monetization.\nIncentives drive outcomes. How we designed our music payment incentives altered music forever (try to be super catchy for 30s). Now, with AI, music can be created much faster which will dilute the pool.\nIn the end, one simple decision changed billions of lives. 30s? That’s all you need to get paid.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#sunsama", - "href": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#sunsama", - "title": "What is the best todo list manager?", - "section": "Sunsama", - "text": "Sunsama\n$20 per mo or $192/year. Super fast customer support.\nFeatures: * Mobile app, Mac app. * Duration\nPros: * Channels (lists) * great shortcuts * can align tasks with objectives * more of a mindful daily planner * Integrates with Todoist and other apps. You can pull in all to foist metadata including subtasks and check them off in Sunsama. 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Plans are changeable. Plans and ideas aren’t the IP of your company. It’s the people and the execution. Thats the hard part.\n\n\n\nWe’ve been to the moon. Now let’s go to the sun.\n\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#reclaim.ai", - "href": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#reclaim.ai", - "title": "What is the best todo list manager?", - "section": "Reclaim.ai", - "text": "Reclaim.ai\nTask manager isn’t as good as Sunsama. Only $8/mo for pro. Has todoist integration too, but that’s a pro feature.\nThis is one I’ll want to try later. It has the habit tracking and smart flexible calendaring. Not sure how good of a task manager it is. 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And it’s oddly the case that big businesses are capable of massive disruption from upstarts. They can’t afford to stay glacial much longer (5-10 years).\nWith all of this, what about this blog post won’t change? Well, the timeless principle is that the nature of the game has changed permanently. Pandora’s box was opened.\n\n\nThe rise of a new equalizer\nGo into a poor part of town and you’re guaranteed to see one thing: poor people using smart phones.\nThey have access to all the same information that the rich people have. The same excellent software. Same excellent hardware. All for a fee of $50/mo for the hardware and $25/mo for an unlimited data plan.\nSo that out the rich and the poor on the same level.\nWell now, knowledge and reasoning is as accessible as Google Maps. You don’t have to pay $20/mo for ChatGPT plus. You can use Bing, Claude.ai, bard.google.com, You.com, or perplexity.ai for free. Now.\nSure people hate on bard and want to use the latest and greatest. But even the crappiest of the four I mentioned above (granted Bing/You.com use GPT in the background), is still leaps ahead of where we were just a year ago. If we were stuck only using one of these tools forever we’d still be massively more productive than not.\nSo knowledge and intellectual reasoning is going to be commonplace amongst the plebes.\n\n\nif you value intelligence above all other human qualities, you’re gonna have a bad time\n\n— Ilya Sutskever (@ilyasut) October 7, 2023\n\n\n\n\nMore of the same\nSo…what’s going to happen? Well, I’m not sure human nature will change much.\nThey say “being rich doesn’t make you happier. It just makes you more of what you already were before being rich”.\nAnd so, the mentally poor will remain so. They’ll use AI for entertainment. Better video games. Better, faster content. More consumption.\nThe creatives will be more creative. Nobody will be at a barrier of being silo’d. So what if you’ve only done data science for 10 years. You know coding. It’s easy to now do web design. Or copy writing. Or art. Or…\nAnd I won’t be able to stop the masses from using Code Interpreter to do data science. The systems will only become more powerful, so cloud companies will make it easier to write sql or whatever. Heck, 5-10 years English will be the only programming language. (Who here does firmware/bit mapping anymore? Only a select few.)\n\n\nThe hottest new programming language is English\n\n— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) January 24, 2023\n\n\nPython programmers will become like the engineers who create the seeds. And the rest of us just get bigger, better, and more efficient farms. There will always be those who specialize, as there are people who write compilers today, but fewer and farther between. Perhaps intellectual interest and economic incentives will equalize.\n\n\nFestivus for the rest of us\nCompanies will become smaller. But the same human needs will need to be met:\n\nfood\nshelter\nclothes\nphysical toys\ndigital entertainment\n\nMore people will just be able to do more things. Perhaps there will be more prosperity as a result.\nAnd more people will unionize and try to prevent the change. But that’s a short term thing. Can’t last forever. A union is only as good as it’s needed.\n\n\nTakeaways\nGet ahead by focusing on what’s essential. Leverage what’s around you to develop new skills to prepare for the future. And be excited. It’s going to be a wild ride.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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However, once the bread is baked and the hen asks who will help her eat it, all the animals eagerly volunteer. She declines their offers, choosing to eat the bread with her chicks, who assisted her in the work.\nSo, too, do startups everywhere struggle to get funding. 100 rejections, etc.\nAnd great products don’t get attention until there’s social proof. Many e-commerce companies understand this - sales take off as more people buy, which gets more reviews, which gets more trust - even if the product didn’t change much between first sale to the last.\nThe only difference between startups and the red hen is she perhaps had a recipe. She didn’t have to wonder, “is baking bread possible? Will the recipe be delicious?”\nIt takes a founder’s belief to see what isn’t yet so and build it anyway. Be the founder. Be the hen. Dream big. Go bake some bread even if nobody’s watching.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#asana", - "href": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#asana", - "title": "What is the best todo list manager?", - "section": "Asana", - "text": "Asana\nOh man, how many times have I downloaded Asana? I started with it in 2014 and thought it was cool. Trying it again in 2022 it had a similar feel.\nAsana is the only task manager app I reviewed that has dependency management. Sure, Jira has blockers and all that but Jiras more aimed toward high level project management. It’s not fast at the\nOther things I remember liking:\n\ninfinite subtasks. This was fun and also distracting.\nAutomation features. 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Three moving trucks. Why? I wondered.\nMy philosophy now is: RAM and Hard drive.\nRAM: the random access memory. The things you see when you open doors affect your brain state. Your brain can only hold so much. If you live in clutter you have clutter. So the things you see in your house should reflect what you can hold in memory.\n\nToys should have a theme (blocks, action figures, doll house). If it doesn’t match a theme, it’s gone (begone random slap bracelet! “Afuera!!!”, (quote from new Argentine President))\nThings you see should be things you use. Don’t use flower every day? Don’t have it in the pantry. Put it in the corner thing. Cereal every day? Put that front and center.\n\nThen long-storage is the hard drive. It’s about keeping stuff you know you’ll want. This is easier to say than do.\n\nHoliday decoration? (Theme) keep those in the attic, out of sight out of mind. But when you need it you know where it is.\nYou get the point.\n\nThe same goes for code. Maintenance and search cost increase as you add garbage. When it doubt, delete code. Afuera!!\nWhen in doubt, “afuera!!”\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#jiragithub-projects", - "href": "posts/2022-06-23-the-best-todolist-manager/index.html#jiragithub-projects", - "title": "What is the best todo list manager?", - "section": "Jira/GitHub projects", - "text": "Jira/GitHub projects\nGreat at a high level but messy to manage the gritty day to day. Doesn’t let you schedule or put due dates. 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And “open recreation.gov when walking around the house and find a campsite.”\nOrganize tasks around where you’ll do them. This is in line with Atomic habits which states to be hyper specific about where and when you’ll do something. “Call grandma when I get into my car tomorrow morning to go to work.” Or “take a moment at my desk during lunchtime to find a mechanic by opening Google Maps and plan an oil change. Find 1 open hour on the calendar.”\n\n\n\nPutting it into practice\nI’ve been using TickTick for my task manager, which has Lists (folders) where I can put my tasks and tags so I can label and categorize each task. 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First time reading it and I love it.\nWhat I love about the storytelling:\n\nDeclare something as unavoidably true, even if ridiculous, and build all content off of it.\n\n\nNobody cares that the infinity probability drive is absurdly improbable. But once the reader just accepts this as fact the rest of the story make sense.\n\n\nget into the mind of the reader\n\n\nsperm whale? I love when he’s detailing the whales first and last thoughts. Just so random, but hilarious.\n\n\nbe spontaneous, but connected.\n\n\nI recently watched the second season of Loki and couldn’t stand it. It was all over the place. Random here, random there. But this is great because the spontaneity flows within the confines of the story.\n\n\nlogic, with social proof, can invert the mind\n\n\nArthur dent is flabbergasted by mice being the most intelligent species. Well the logic is sound: they were just fooling us and running experiments on us the whole time so we wouldn’t think anything of it. This flip on expectation, backed by “isn’t it obvious?!” gets the reader wondering for a second before they snap back to reality: no, mice aren’t running the universe.\n\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "2024-01-16\n\nSatan delights in giving war, regardless if he can’t win.\nSatan delights in having raised war, feeling he is proud and strong for resisting good. Being courageous to walk out. But his courage only warranted misery.\n“The mind is powerful. Can make heaven of hell or hell of heaven.”\nWhy would Satan want to walk away, knowing he was giving up godhood? 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It lays out how a team can truly work together as a team to complement each other’s strengths.\n\n2024-03-11\nThe 6 Types of Working Genius: Book Overview | Shortform Books\nWe all have things that either energize or drain us. If we’re aware, we can complement each other.\nThree phases of work/a task: ideation, activation, and implementation. Each task requires two types of genius.\n\nIdeation\n\nWonder: Ask why? Ask “is there a better way?”\nInnovation: figure out solutions.\n\nActivation\n\nDiscernment: use intuition and judgment in figuring out good/bad ideas\nGalvanize/rally people/buy-in\n\nimplementation\n\nEnable: volunteer. Help people. Empower.\nTenacity: cross the finish line. Execute. Pound obstacles.\n\n\nSix type of genius more concretely defined:\n\nWonder: Involved the ability to ponder, speculate, and question the state of things. Asking the questions that provoke answer and action. People with this genius are naturally inclined to do these things, to lose themselves in observing the world around them and wondering if things shouldn’t be different or untapped potential that should be tapped.\nInnovation: come up with new ideas or solutions. They’re drawn to origination, creativity and ingenuity, even with little context or directions. Though every type is a genius, these are the people who are most often referred to as geniuses because many of their ideas seem to come out of thin air.\nDiscernment: related to sanctity, intuition, and uncanny judgment. People with this genius have the natural ability to assess an idea or situation even without a lot of data or expertises. Using pattern recognition and gut feel they’re able to provide valuable advice and feedback around most subjects in a way that transcends their levels of specific knowledge or information.\nGalvanizing: is about rallying, motivating, or provoking people to take action around an idea or an initiative. People with this genius are naturally inclined to inspire or enlist people to get involved in an endeavor. They don’t mind persuading people to rethink or change their plans to embark on something worthwhile.\nEnabling: providing people with support and assistance in a way that it is needed. People with this genius are adept at responding to the needs of others without conditions or restrictions. They’re naturally inclined to help others accomplish their goals and can often anticipate what people might need before they ask. Individuals with this genius are frequently unaware that this is a genius at all.\nTenacity: is about the satisfaction of pushing things across the finish line to completion. They’re not only capable of and naturally inclined to finish projects to ensure they’re completed to specification. They gain energy by pushing through obstacles and seeing the impact of their work and they find joy from crossing tasks off their list and getting closure.\n\nCategories of genius - each person has two geniuses, two competencies, and two frustrations. (Per their research)\n\nGenius: it energizes you. Joy, energy, and passion.\nCompetency: it neither energizes nor drains you. Can do fairly well. But we will eventually grow weary if we can do our geniuses.\nFrustration: it drains you. Struggle. Hate it. 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This is like a modern day Meditations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2023-12-20 9-11\n\nhappiness of pleasure, grace (appreciation), excellence (emotional resilience)\nsome of the poorest countries are the happiest.\n\n2023-12-19 Essays 1-8\n\nwe all started as strangers\nto change your beliefs, go have experiences that manifest and confirm the beliefs you want to have\ncan only have a few truly\nour relationship with others is a pure reflection of our relationship with our self. Work on your relationship with yourself to improve your relationship with others.\ndo you look at your leg and say “that’s me?” No. That’s my leg. Do you look at your eye, heart, hair? No. Do you look at your fears, hopes or dreams and say, that’s me?\nfear and Anxiety aren’t feelings. They’re symptoms.\nWhat emotion do you feel the most often? Is it positive? If not, why does a negative feeling deserve the spotlight? 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The focus is on Chrisf\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Mar 8, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Sun on turf\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Mar 8, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSetting up a New Mac\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Mar 8, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHendrix, a Machine Learning Platform by Spotify\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nml-tools\n\n\nmachine learning platforms\n\n\n\nSpotify has an internal machine learning platform\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Mar 8, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInterviewing as an ML engineer\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nreactions\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Mar 8, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 22.2\n\n\n\n\n\n\nfavorite scriptures\n\n\n\nSelected quotes.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Mar 7, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for New Job\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nIt’s a new way to see things\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Mar 4, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Costly Mistake\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nlife lessons\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nA kind word goes a long way\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Mar 4, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 20.3–4\n\n\n\n\n\n\nfavorite scriptures\n\n\n\nSelected quotes.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Mar 4, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Long Naps\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nThe best part is the part you never remember. \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Mar 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMere Christianity\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nChristianity \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Mar 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Baby\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nstartups\n\n\n\n“…the kid is not my son”\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Mar 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMy Testimony 2023-03-03\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nmy testimony\n\n\nepistemology\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for the story and reality of Christ\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Mar 3, 2024\n\n\n9 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 18.19\n\n\n\n\n\n\nfavorite scriptures\n\n\n\nSelected quotes.\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Mar 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImplementing Culture\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ninterviewing\n\n\nculture\n\n\nbusiness\n\n\n\nA small boat with a large rudder will get there faster than a large boat with a small rudder.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Mar 2, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBand of Brothers\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nWWII\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Mar 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNothing to Lose\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nmemories\n\n\n\nPerspective is everything.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Mar 1, 2024\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 14 - Personalized Guidance\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nPersonalized guidanve\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Mar 1, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 13 - Enduring Beauty\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nTrue beauty\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 29, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Dune\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nGreat writing deserves attention\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 29, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Great Gatsby\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nfiction\n\n\n\nThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published by Blackstone Audio, Inc., with ISBN 9781433241451.0. Read on 2024-01-08\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 29, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for the Barber\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\npeople I meet\n\n\n\nHis kindness was simple, but powerful\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Feb 28, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 11 - Seeing My Redeemer\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nrevelation\n\n\n\nSeeing the Savior isn’t as mysterious as it sounds. Many who seek Him can experience this blessing\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 27, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for my Laundry Machine\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 27, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Choice\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nIt’s a gift from God. It’s what enables happiness.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 26, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Sun Also Rises\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nfiction\n\n\n\nMeanderings across France and Spain.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 26, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 9 - Familial Covenants\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\ncovenant\n\n\n\nHe’s a God of personal promises\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 25, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Waterfalls\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nnature\n\n\n\nHow it looks, and how it feels to dip your toes in\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 25, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Basketball Games\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 24, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 10\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 24, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 9 - Infinite Atonement\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\natonement\n\n\n\nThe Lord’s mercy knows no bounds\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 23, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Guitars\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nmusic\n\n\n\nA portal to another world\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 23, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Fog\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nnature\n\n\n\nIt’s blinding when you’re in it, gorgeous when admired from afar\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 22, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 8 - Perspective\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nperspective\n\n\n\nThe Lord is with us.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 22, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nhistorical\n\n\nbiography\n\n\nworld war 2\n\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 22, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Copilot Money\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nSimplicity, beautiful design, and does what you’d hope it would do\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Feb 21, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 7 - He is Near\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nWe may wander and wonder, but He is near.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Feb 21, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Marriage\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 20, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5 Questions You Should Ask Before Adopting AI\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 20, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 6 - Waiting on the Lord\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nfaith\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nHe will support His covenant people\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 19, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Green Hills\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nnature\n\n\nsports\n\n\nhiking\n\n\n\nHome is where you remember who you are\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 19, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaring Greatly\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 19, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOvercoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nbusiness\n\n\nleadership\n\n\nteam building\n\n\nemotional intelligence\n\n\n\nMotivates the reader to want to have an excellent, high performing team by addressing concerns\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 19, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 5 - Sometimes there’s war\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nResolution requires both to want it\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 18, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for The Coach\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 18, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGood AI News Aggregators\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlists\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 18, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAir Canada’s failed AI-generated Refund Policy and other AI mishaps: When you need guardrails on your AI\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai mishaps\n\n\nai\n\n\nai guardrails\n\n\n\nBe careful what your AI bot says. We can’t yet contain today’s AI - how do we expect to contain tomorrow’s?\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 18, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for brownies\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nfood\n\n\n\nBut really, is there anything better than a warm Costco brownie with vanilla ice cream?\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 17, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuilding a Story Brand\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nbusiness\n\n\nmarketing\n\n\nsales\n\n\nstorytelling\n\n\n\nEye opening, simple, to the point on marketing.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 17, 2024\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 5.14\n\n\n\n\n\n\nfavorite scriptures\n\n\n\nSelected quotes.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 17, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 4 - Heaven and Hell in One\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nOne person, two worlds.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 16, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Board Games\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nNever bored.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 16, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUnreal AI: Meet Sora\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nWhen AI uses reinforcement learning on a physics engine…\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 16, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpellbook AI Reviews\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nlegal-ai\n\n\nai tools\n\n\n\nAn AI focused on editing and revising legal documents and redlining\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 16, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 4 - Love and Despair\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nHow can one person feel God’s love, but also not?\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 15, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Book Club\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nIt’s how old people pretend like they’re still young, and have a good time doing it.m\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 15, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nObservable Framework 1.0 vs Quarto\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nobservable\n\n\nquarto\n\n\ntool comparison\n\n\n\nAnother markdown-based dash boarding solution, similar to Quarto\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 15, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPackage Installer: “uv”\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\npython\n\n\nsoftware engineering\n\n\ndev ops\n\n\ndev tools\n\n\n\nFaster than pip and poetry\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 15, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 4 - A Prophecy of Another Branch\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Feb 14, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Explorers\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\ngratitude-ThingsIHaveAtAnothersSacrifice\n\n\n\nThe knowledge of islands on maps is often connected with many lost lives.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Feb 14, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Wager\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nhistorical\n\n\nnon-fiction\n\n\nsurvival\n\n\n\nCrazy story in so many dimensions. Very well written. \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Feb 14, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTrajectory and Mindset\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ncareer\n\n\ncareer advice\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nWhy do people say “don’t be complacent” in your career?\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Feb 14, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 3 - Two Scriptures\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nThe books work together\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 13, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Foam Mattresses\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nhome\n\n\n\nComfy, affordable, and comfy.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 13, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA/B Testing Resources\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nA/B testing\n\n\nstatistics\n\n\n\nLearn from the best.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 13, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTimeGPT and Lag-Llama: Two foundation models for time series forecasting\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nmachine learning\n\n\nml-tools\n\n\n\nA foundation model for time series?\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 13, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTeam Misfits\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nlife lessons\n\n\nleadership\n\n\n\n“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid” - Einstein\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 13, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCoalesce - Revelation first, then Agency\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nrevelation\n\n\n\nFirst obey the Lord, then do your own will with Him involved when He hasn’t given instruction.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 13, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 4 Ask\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 12, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Chicken Sliders\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nfood\n\n\n\nGood food exists\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 12, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWar Tech\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nTech cannot control the hearts of the men and women who wield it. It can only enable them.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 12, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 2 - Enticement is Agency\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nmental health\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nWe can’t make choices without being enticed. Are we aware of that?\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 11, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Gatherings for the Super Bowl\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nsports\n\n\n\nIt brings people together\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 11, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 2 - His Capacity to Carry Our Burdens\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nadversity\n\n\natonement\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nprayer\n\n\n\nHe has borne our sorrows. He wants us to be yoked with him so those sorrows can be light.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 10, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Old Movies\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nmovies\n\n\n\nAnd how they’re still so relatable and human\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreate AI images with Google’s Gemini model\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai tools\n\n\nGemini\n\n\nchatgpt\n\n\nllm wars\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nChatGPT vs Gemini. The battle begins.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 10, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsaiah 53.4\n\n\n\n\n\n\nfavorite scriptures\n\n\n\nSelected quotes.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 2 - Redemption\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nredemption\n\n\natonement\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nWe are capable of being healed because we are loved and because He did what needed to be done\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 9, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Skimboarding\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nsports\n\n\n\nIt’s that buttery feeling\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 9, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 2 - Consecration\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nconsecration\n\n\nadversity\n\n\n\nIt’s a state of mind.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 8, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Long Runs\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nOh the places you’ll go.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 8, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProtobufs - Everything I don’t know\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nraw notes\n\n\ndata engineering\n\n\n\nWhat they’re potentially used for\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 8, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPkl for Configuration Management\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\ncoding\n\n\ndata engineering\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ndata pipeline\n\n\nconfiguration\n\n\n\nYet another config system\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 8, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 1 - Shake off the Chains\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nWhat holds you back?\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Feb 7, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for New York\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nAnd it’s way of life\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Feb 7, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGalileo AI\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai tools\n\n\nui generators\n\n\ndesign\n\n\n\nText to UI generation\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 6, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 1 - Obtaining a Promised Land\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nindividual covenant\n\n\ncovenant\n\n\nland of promise\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nLehi waited a long time to receive his inheritance. But through perseverance and faith, their time came.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 6, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Kindness\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nparenting\n\n\ncharity\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nThe kindness I’ve been shown every day of my life.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 6, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to share an HTML file (like a quarto output in GitHub)\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nquarto\n\n\ngithub\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nhtml\n\n\n\nDo you have an HTML file saved on GitHub that you’d like to share?\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 6, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2 Nephi 1 - Alternative Endings\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nhindsight\n\n\n\nWe often ask ourselves, “what if?” Rarely do we get the answer.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 5, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorld’s Longest Drive\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nsports\n\n\ngolf\n\n\n\nFull send\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 5, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Avocados\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nfood\n\n\n\nThey enrich everything they’re combined with, even life itself.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 5, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmbedding audio in Quarto\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nquarto\n\n\nblogging\n\n\ntutorial\n\n\nobsidian\n\n\n\nHow do I use audio in Quarto? Here are three ways.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 5, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 22 - His Covenants will be the key of the Gathering of Israel\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\ngathering of israel\n\n\nAbrahamic Covenant\n\n\n\nWe are gathered in when we make and keep covenants.\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 4, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Divinely Discontent Chatbot User\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nsoftware\n\n\nsaas\n\n\nllm\n\n\nai\n\n\nai strategy\n\n\n\nIt’s the early days. One will emerge as the next “Google” of the search engines. Expectations of what software can do are rising. Those expectations are becoming indiscernible from the magic that software is becoming.\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 4, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLLM Chatbot Arena Leaderboard\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nllm benchmarks\n\n\nai\n\n\nai tools\n\n\nai benchmarks\n\n\n\nHead to head challenges of chatbots.\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 4, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for bowling\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nsports\n\n\n\nIt’s a sport anyone can do, nobody cares about who’s better, and you can actually do at night pretty easily.\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 4, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Home Depot Saturday Morning Crafts\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nBringing families together through crafts\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Iceberg Theory - Theory of Omission\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nstorytelling\n\n\nwriting\n\n\ncreativity\n\n\n\nA captivating writing style\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 3, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 21 - I Have Graven Thee\n\n\nHe has not forgotten you\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nThe Lord wants us to know he’s there for us. He always has been.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 20 - Baptism in the Old Testament\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nold testament\n\n\nAbrahamic Covenant\n\n\nbaptism\n\n\n\nBaptism is a covenant that was lost from the Old Testament\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Peloton\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nAnd the many great workouts it’s given me\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShift\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nSilo series book 2\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHoliday Demand Forecasting using XGBoost\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nmachine learning\n\n\ntime series\n\n\nforecasting\n\n\ninternet article bookmark\n\n\n\nHow DoorDash makes precision predictions with decision trees and spiky holidays\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Compounding Interest of Reading\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nreading\n\n\ninvesting\n\n\n\nAsk not what one book can do for you. Ask instead what you couldn’t do without one book?\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of a Good Book\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nai\n\n\nreading\n\n\n\nIt takes one to know one.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrivate GPT\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai tools\n\n\nprivacy\n\n\nopen source\n\n\n\nIndex your local files and chat with them\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLM Studio\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai tools\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGPT4All\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai tools\n\n\nedge device\n\n\nprivacy\n\n\nopen source\n\n\n\nRun LLMs locally\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeam AI\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai tools\n\n\nai\n\n\nlocal ai\n\n\nprivacy\n\n\nedge device\n\n\nclosed source\n\n\n\nRun OpenAI in a native Mac App\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Compliments\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nleadership\n\n\ncharity\n\n\n\nThey’re financially cheap, but when sincere are incredibly valuable\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 1, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 19 - Yieldeth Himself\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nThat the Lord gave himself to His persecutors is the power of the atonement\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 1, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Old Man and the Sea\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nfiction\n\n\nclassics\n\n\n\nBeautiful\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 1, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExport your Libby Timeline to Obsidian\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ntutorial\n\n\npython\n\n\nlibby\n\n\nquarto\n\n\nblogging\n\n\n\nDownload the Libby timeline, export to markdown files using pandas\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 1, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Basketball\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nIt brings people together, and many people can contribute in their own way\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 31, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 18 - The Power of Prayer\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nadversity\n\n\n\nThe winds in our life can cease when we turn to God.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 31, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Loop\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nx\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 31, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInfluence The Psychology of Persuasion\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nSeven realms of influence\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 31, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 17 - He will strengthen us\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nstrength\n\n\ntrust in the Lord\n\n\n\nDon’t ask for obstacles to be removed. Ask to be strengthened to overcome them\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 30, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for YouTube\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nAnd for everything I’ve learned on it\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 30, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 16 - Christ Guides us in Unique Ways\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nrevelation\n\n\nhand of the Lord\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nThe same person can receive different guidance at different times. Two people in the same circumstance can be guided differently.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 29, 2024\n\n\n5 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Rescue Workers\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nWe in America have hundreds of people ready to help us at a moment’s notice\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 29, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Tyranny of Experts\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\neconomics\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 29, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-01-28 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 22-28 1 Nephi 11-15\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\ncome follow me lesson plan\n\n\n\nSummary and notes for the lesson week\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 28, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Imagination\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\ncreativity\n\n\n\nA boring tree is only boring to a boring person\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 28, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Chirping Birds\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nnature\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for the time of day and time of year they make their presence known.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 27, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 15 - Hearken and Hold Fast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nobedience\n\n\n\nFind the word. Listen. Hold on to it.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 26, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBecome a Data Scientist in 10 Weeks\n\n\nHow to break into data science with an understanding how the modern data economy works\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nfeatured\n\n\ncareer\n\n\nrecommendation systems\n\n\nA/B testing\n\n\nanalytics\n\n\nbeginners\n\n\n\nYou only need the desire. The rest is freely accessible. Focus on breadth at first and creating content for your resume (tips included on that too!)\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 26, 2024\n\n\n11 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Rock Climbing\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nadventure\n\n\npersonal stories\n\n\n\nBecause I’m still alive, and I had fun.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 26, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 14 - Convincing unto Peace\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\npeace\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nWill I be convinced?\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 25, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Only Mind that’s Clear Is the One That Sees No Alternative\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nmy principles\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nSeek not to be right. Seek to understand.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 25, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for New Perspectives\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nperspective\n\n\npersonal stories\n\n\n\nNever know when you’re gonna break a bone. But sometimes it’s a good thing.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 25, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 13 - Publish Peace\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\npeace\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nThe world is a crazy place. We can make it a little less crazy.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 24, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Challenges\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nchallenges\n\n\n\nLife has a way of refining us. But isn’t refinement what we seek?\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 24, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWool\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\napocalyptic\n\n\nfiction\n\n\ndystopian\n\n\nsci-fi\n\n\n\nLiving in a Silo\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 24, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 12 - Broad Roads\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nYou can do down any path you choose. How you go down the path matters.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 23, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Coddling of the American Mind\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\npsychology\n\n\npolitics\n\n\neducation\n\n\n\nWe are meant to be challenged, and our nation faces a risk of coddling\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 23, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Navajo Code Talkers\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nThe freedoms I enjoy come at the sacrifices of those who came before\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 23, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting Only Makes Sense to the Author\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nwriting\n\n\nart\n\n\n\nThe rest of us are left guessing. But the more the author puts themself in the shoes of the audience, the less guesswork needs to happen.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 23, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTurn to God in All Things, and Not Your Idols\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nfaith\n\n\nconsecration\n\n\n\nWhere do we turn when things get hard?\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 22, 2024\n\n\n5 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 11 - Angel shows signs to Nephi\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nfaith\n\n\n\nWe can see signs if we are believing.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 22, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Early Morning Workouts\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\npersonal stories\n\n\n\nIt was good then, and the effects have been lifelong\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 22, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-01-21 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 15-21 1 Nephi 6-10\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me lesson plan\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 21, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Similarities\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nmemories\n\n\npersonal stories\n\n\n\nWe’re all very similar in many ways\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 21, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaints Book 1 The Standard of Truth 1815-1846\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 21, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 8 - Press Forward Continually\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nlove\n\n\nlove of God\n\n\nagency\n\n\n\nAlthough His love is unconditional, we have to work to put ourselves in a position to recognize and feel that love.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 20, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Social Gatherings\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nHumans are made for social gatherings, whether you’re introverted or not\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 20, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to Win Friends and Influence People\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\ninfluence\n\n\nleadership\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nThe business and relationship bible. Practical ideas for understanding and adapting to various human needs\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 20, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Baby Formula\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nIt saves lives.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 19, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Wealth of Nations\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\neconomics\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 19, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Inklings\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nx \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 19, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 10 - Rely on the Redeemer\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nWe are all lost and fallen. Perhaps we can fall to our knees to grow.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 19, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 9 - Write with a Purpose\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nSome of your work can focus on the savior, other work on not the savior.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 18, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Things I Don’t Understand\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nepistemology\n\n\n\nThe process of discovery and enlightenment is fulfilling\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 18, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Music\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nmusic\n\n\n\nIt heals. It moves. It communicates.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 17, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of Habitual Prayer\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nmy testimony\n\n\npersonal stories\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nfeatured\n\n\n\nWhy praying sometimes doesn’t work like it “should”, and how I fixed that\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 17, 2024\n\n\n7 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 8 - Think for yourself\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nDon’t let the haters of the world blind your perceptions. Think for yourself. Experience for yourself.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 17, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 7 - Make a Choice, Don’t go Halvsies\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncommitment\n\n\nlearning\n\n\nepistemology\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nLaman and Lemuel struggled committing. As a result they had a lot of issues. If you’re going to follow the prophet, do it.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 16, 2024\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Problem with Public Opinions\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\nsocial media\n\n\n\nEveryone has one, and they all stink…\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 16, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParadise Lost and Paradise Regained\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nBy John Milton\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 16, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Open Source\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nThis site is built using open source tools, hosted for free on GitHub\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 16, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 6 - God of the Covenant\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\n\nFocus on the covenants that He has made and will fulfill\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 15, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Ice Skating\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nFor the people who make communities thrive\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 15, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 5 - Will a promise be delivered?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nfaith\n\n\ncovenant\n\n\nindividual covenant\n\n\npromised blessings\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nTrust in what you’re promised. Don’t worry about what you’re not.\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 14, 2024\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Heaven\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nAs a concept and as a place\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 14, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Church Culture of Missionary work\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nopinion\n\n\nlds culture\n\n\n\nHow members talk about sharing the gospel\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 14, 2024\n\n\n8 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Healing\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nThat it’s possible and that I’ve experienced it\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 13, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 4 - Why not?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nWhy wouldn’t Christ want to help me?\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 13, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 3 - Dreamed a Dream\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nOn complaining\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 12, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can plan your life in 5 minutes\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\npurpose of life\n\n\n\nYou know what’s good for you.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 12, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for My Childhood\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nA few good choices, a lot of good fortune, and great parents.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 12, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJunk attracts Junk\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nlaws of human nature\n\n\nobservations\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nThe law of junk\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 12, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBiden’s debt relief won’t relieve what he thinks it will\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\npolitics\n\n\neconomics\n\n\n\nAsking a tradesperson to pay for someone else’s education isn’t right \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 11, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Strollers\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nGet there faster.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 11, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 2 - Receiving a promised land\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncovenant\n\n\nindividual covenant\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nThe Lord gives us one thing, takes it to give us another even better\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 11, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nList of Study Topics\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlists\n\n\n\nThings I want to study\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 11, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind the Fun\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nparenting\n\n\nmental health\n\n\nmindfulness\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\ntech\n\n\nA/B testing\n\n\nmindset\n\n\n\nA mindset for the madness.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 11, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Quest for Cosmic Justice\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\neconomics\n\n\nsocial justice\n\n\npolitics\n\n\n\nI’m shocked this was written in 1999. I didn’t learn the date until after finishing the book. That illustrates that we live in the same general state of challenge that he wrote about, and things haven’t changed for 20 years. People in power still seek power. Seek to restrict freedoms of few, in an attempt to empower the many, in the name of equity and cosmic justice.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCool Quarto Site\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nquarto\n\n\ntech\n\n\ncoding\n\n\n\nDifferent things you can do pretty easily with quarto.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNewsletters I follow\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlists\n\n\n\nxxx\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStop trying to change people. Stop it.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nprayer\n\n\nagency\n\n\nmindfulness\n\n\nperspective\n\n\n\nLiving the Gospel isn’t about changing others. It’s about changing yourself through Christ.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n5 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 1 - He prepares us to teach us\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nrevelation\n\n\nprophets\n\n\nepistemology\n\n\n\nHe teaches us line upon line. He is the master teacher, and if we listen he will teach us.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nListening to ‘This is the Christ’ right now, grateful for good music\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nmusic\n\n\n\nBy Calee Reed\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-01-14 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 7-14\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me lesson plan\n\n\n\nLesson plan\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for small things\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nretrospective\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\nprinciples\n\n\n\nThe smaller the better. If you can appreciate a blade of grass, you can appreciate anything.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Sandwich Shops\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nI grew up near some of the best\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe six hour sandwich\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nsales\n\n\nlife musings\n\n\npeople I meet\n\n\n\nHow to sell a breakfast sandwich\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGuide to Decision Making\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nGuide to Decision Making by Helga Drummond. Published by Wiley, with ISBN 9781118240557.0. Read on 2024-01-10\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 10, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 Nephi 1 - Praying for Other People\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nHow to have an influence on others and allow them to influence you for good as well.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis drug is habit forming\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nsocial media\n\n\n\nAn argument against societal acceptance of things not good for us\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Matrix: Social Media’s Influence on Human Interaction\n\n\n\n\n\n\nsocial media\n\n\ndigital minimalism\n\n\ntech\n\n\nmodern living\n\n\n\nCan you enter it? Or can you leave it?\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nhistory\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nby Colin Duriez\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat’s your decision framework?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ninsights from books\n\n\ninvesting\n\n\nmemories\n\n\npersonal stories\n\n\nemotional intelligence\n\n\n\nFacts? Gut? Blend? Do you track your emotional decisioning performance?\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganization and Minimalism\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nminimalism\n\n\norganization\n\n\nsoftware\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nWhen in doubt, “Afuera” it out!\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReading Ethos\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nreading\n\n\n\nHow I approach reading.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAudiobooks\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nreading\n\n\n\nListen here, there, anywhere.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 9, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScriptures within Scriptures\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nscriptures\n\n\n\nHow Nephi feels about scriptures, and all the things one verse can yield.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 8, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDune: Messiah\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nby Frank Herbert. More political than the first. Focusing on the torment of a leader who has it all. What must it be like to have everything? The thought experiment is worth the read.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 8, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLegal AI\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nLegal AI companies and solutions\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 8, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for the Toothbrush\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nThe power to clean and the power to refresh\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 8, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Knife to a Gun Fight: Why I’m off Social Media\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\npersonal experiments\n\n\nA/B testing\n\n\nsocial media\n\n\nbig tech\n\n\nincentives\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nrelationships\n\n\nai\n\n\nemotional intelligence\n\n\npurpose of life\n\n\ndigital minimalism\n\n\n\nTim Ferris has a viewpoint that is 100% aligned with what I experienced working in tech.\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 8, 2024\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBecoming an expert is kind of a fallacy\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\npersonal development\n\n\ngrowth\n\n\ngrit\n\n\nlife lessons\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nDoesn’t matter how many hours you work at something. What matters is if you figure out the lightbulb. Could have been the first by luck, no?\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 7, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMy testimony: Moving across the Country\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nfast sunday\n\n\nmy testimony\n\n\nmemories\n\n\nlet god prevail\n\n\n\nAfter prayer, a door immediately opened. It doesn’t always work like this, but there’s no mistaking this was the Lord’s hand.\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 7, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to preside?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\ndoctrine and covenants\n\n\npriesthood\n\n\nleadership\n\n\nthe family a proclamation to the world\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nIt means to care for and love those you serve\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 7, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-01-07 Come Follow Me CTR 7 Jan 1-7\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\ncome follow me lesson plan\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\n\nLesson plan\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 7, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCars\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jan 7, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Grateful for Haircuts\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nIt’s not about the hair, but who cut it\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 6, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAI won’t replace us. We’ll always create.\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\nhumanity\n\n\ncreativity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 5, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Cuban Mogul Support\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nentrepreneurship\n\n\nYouTube clip\n\n\n\nAMA from Twitter\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 5, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTime\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for time, however temporary.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 5, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow I use the Book of Mormon\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\ntestimony\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\n\nPray. Sincere. Have a question in mind.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 5, 2024\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHard Work and its Reward\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nperspective\n\n\neffort\n\n\nlife lessons\n\n\nmemories\n\n\n\nGood work, consistently done, is meaningful and a reward itself\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat startups and musicians have in common\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nstartups\n\n\nmusic\n\n\n\nA recently signed Artist is their own startup\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe future wave of AI hype\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nnews\n\n\nchart critique\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWrite a thousand songs\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ncreativity\n\n\nwriting\n\n\n\nTake the pressure off and write a little.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen Leaders Lose their People\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nleadership\n\n\n\nHave I lost you too?\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Multiverse of Careers\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nmeditation\n\n\ndeathbed meditation\n\n\ncareer\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nWhich path you choose isn’t as important as the companions to journey with\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen a Person Changes their Perspective on Christ\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nbook of mormon\n\n\nepistemology\n\n\ntheology\n\n\n\nWhat is a witness? What if someone flip flops? How do we know what is true?\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n9 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n30 Seconds is All You Get\n\n\n\n\n\n\nmusic\n\n\neconomics\n\n\nincentives\n\n\nposts\n\n\n\nApple set the limit to 30s. That impacted music forever.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jan 4, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZoom\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nA video is worth a thousand words\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYour Mood is Contagious\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nleadership\n\n\nparenting\n\n\nemotional resilience\n\n\ngrit\n\n\n\nIt may take twice the effort to overcome negative vibes.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting Ethos\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlists\n\n\n\nWhy and how I write\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Dream State of Software\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\ndesign\n\n\nai\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\n\nGen AI will blur the lines between what’s dreamed and what’s real - hopefully in a near instant blend of ever evolving software adapting instantly to needs\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSteve Jobs (Biography)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nby Walter Isaacson\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare your testimony\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ntestimony\n\n\n\nStand before nations, even in your living room\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMy Tombstone\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nmortality\n\n\nwork\n\n\nwork life balance\n\n\nperspective\n\n\nmeditation\n\n\npriorities\n\n\n\nWhat will your tombstone actually read? What do you want it to read.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLove Thy Neighbor, But Have Friends\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nlove\n\n\nfamily\n\n\nfriendship\n\n\n\nTo love someone doesn’t mean spend all your time with them. You can focus on relationships that bring you joy while loving all mankind.\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 3, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThings I’m grateful for\n\n\n\n\n\nMaybe I’ll write these in a post, maybe not.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Psychology of New Software Releases and its Parallels with Fashion\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbusiness strategy\n\n\nsaas\n\n\nsales\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nWhat the software industry and fashion have in common: a divinely discontent customer and excited competitors\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Miracles of Christ\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nscripture of the day\n\n\nmiracles\n\n\nfaith\n\n\nsigns\n\n\n\nWhat is a miracle? How does He do His work?\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInnovator’s Dilemma\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nby Clayton Christiansen.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGood Books\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nBooks always have been and always will be a captivating way to tell a thought provoking story.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Socrates A Life Worth Living” by Devra Lehman\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jan 2, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for rest\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nobservations\n\n\n\nRest is restorative\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 1, 2024\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReplacing human work with AI\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nai\n\n\nautomation\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nleadership\n\n\n\nReactions to an MIT article ‘4 questions to ask before swapping out human labor for AI’\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 31, 2023\n\n\n5 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEyes\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nI’m grateful I can see.\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 31, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCome follow me, December 25-31, Revelations 15-21\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ncome follow me\n\n\nraw notes\n\n\n\nSea of glass. \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 31, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWater as a Currency?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nwater\n\n\neconomics\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 30, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmotional Recovery\n\n\n\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\n\nEveryone recovers differently.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 30, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeaches\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nwater\n\n\nbeach\n\n\nsunset\n\n\n\nThe rhythmic but unique crash of each wave is soothing\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 30, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuarto vs. quartz for Obsidian blog\n\n\n\n\n\n\nquarto\n\n\nobsidian\n\n\npkm\n\n\nbuild in public\n\n\ntool\n\n\ntool comparison\n\n\n\nWhy I use quarto to manage my knowledge database.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 29, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlogging with Obsidian and Quarto\n\n\n\n\n\n\nobsidian\n\n\nquarto\n\n\ntutorial\n\n\n\nMy framework and flow for blogging from my phone using Obsidian and Quarto.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 29, 2023\n\n\n8 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nbusiness\n\n\n\nChoose wisely, and enjoy the ride.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 28, 2023\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeaving my Startup was the Right Decision\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nstorytelling\n\n\nhindsight\n\n\n\nBut not because of the outcome.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 28, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFlipping the coins of life\n\n\n\n\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nAre you right just because you got heads?\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 28, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDecisions are Like Hopping on a River Raft\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nChoose wisely, and enjoy the ride.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 28, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n97 percent chance you’ll fail\n\n\n\n\n\n\nsuccess\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nThe odds of constant success are against you every 5 decisions. So there’s gotta be another way to define success.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 28, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPost Christmas blues? Remember the empty tombs\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nchristmas\n\n\n\nAn empty room and an empty tomb. There is meaningful symbolism in taking down the tree. \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 27, 2023\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for artists\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nThose who create, who learn, who think in new ways, who pioneer, who explore. \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 27, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn Unknown God\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\ntheology\n\n\nfaith\n\n\ndoubts\n\n\n\nGod is indeed unknown, but that doesn’t mean He doesn’t exist. And learning His ways requires seeing all sides, being intellectually and spiritually honest, and open. \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 27, 2023\n\n\n10 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting is truly enlivening\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nwriting\n\n\n\nWrite in public. Write daily. Write about nothing. \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 26, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWrite despite AI\n\n\n\n\n\n\nai\n\n\nhumanity\n\n\n\nI’m fully aware an AI is listening and all that I write just trains it. Perhaps this is a perversion of my work (if I made money off it). Why write if everything I write just trains an AI agent to do their job better? \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 26, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThings I’d like in a blog\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nquarto\n\n\n\nWhat quarto is great at and what I’d like out of it. \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 26, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for blankets\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nMy grandma made blankets cool \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 26, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to blog from your phone using quarto (or hugo/jekyll/etc) using Working Copy and Obsidian\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\ntech\n\n\ntutorial\n\n\n\nWorking copy is $20, obsidian is free (and optional). I’ll show you how to set this up (iPhone only I think?) \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 26, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m grateful for doctors\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nDoctors of the body. Doctors of the mind. Doctors of the soul…Any engaged in the pursuit of healing. \n\n\n\n\n\nMon Dec 25, 2023\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAI Robots are mastering tasks faster than humans\n\n\n\n\n\n\nai\n\n\ntech\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\n\nFrom walking to labyrinth, the future looks bright for these machines. The key is the objective functions, time, and training data. \n\n\n\n\n\nMon Dec 25, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwas the Night before Christmas\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristmas\n\n\nask gpt\n\n\n\nThe origin of the story, and a link to the 1912 publication. \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 24, 2023\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Christ Child\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nThe birth of Jesus Christ teach us what we can do to have greater peace in this life \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 24, 2023\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLight\n\n\n\n\n\n\ngratitude\n\n\n\nI set up 72 lights today. \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 24, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHis is the light that we should share\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nWho is the source of light? \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 24, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDune\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\nsci-fi\n\n\n\nThe plans and risks of generations\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 23, 2023\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Best of Edgar Allen Poe\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nYou think me mad?\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 23, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKillers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI\n\n\n\n\n\n\nstorytelling\n\n\nmurder mystery\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nAn incredible story of how low, sick and twisted humanity can get, and how good people can truly be.\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 22, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Allegory of the Dodo\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nbusiness\n\n\nkids books\n\n\n\nWhen in having solved a problem we inadvertently create problems for ourselves \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 21, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGitHub copilot levels up\n\n\n\n\n\n\nai\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nWhat will it do next? \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 21, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUnbelievable\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nA man’s separation from Christianity\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 20, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Little Red Hen\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook review\n\n\nstartups\n\n\n\nPeople love to enjoy the fruits, but who will bake the bread? \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 20, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n101 Essays that will Change the Way You Think, by Brianna Wiest\n\n\n\n\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\nmindfulness\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nWe all started as strangers. It’s a choice who stays that way.\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 19, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to encourage your kids\n\n\n\n\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nUnexpected advice on how to be a great parent when fostering talent \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 19, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy\n\n\n\n\n\n\nstorytelling\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nHow did it take me so long to finally read this?\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Dec 18, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristmas celebrates a Living Christ\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\nai\n\n\nchristmas\n\n\n\nChrist is the way, the light and life of the world. Always has been. Always will be. \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 17, 2023\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is humanity\n\n\n\n\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nHumanity seeks to resolve problems. What happens when they’re too easily solved? \n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 16, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrompt techniques\n\n\n\n\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nOpen AI strategies \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 15, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLLMs can find a needle in the haystack\n\n\n\n\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nGPT outperforms Claude. \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 15, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCool AI Tweets\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nRunning list of cool things I’ve seen. \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 14, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThree Little Pigs\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook review\n\n\nchristianity\n\n\n\nA story with a terrible but incredibly relatable morale \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 13, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearn by doing\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nYou don’t need a PhD. Or a masters. You just need to hustle \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 13, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScientific Freedom\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nInnovation comes by varied incentives: intellectual curiosity and economic incentive\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 12, 2023\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFuture of Coding\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nAs our jobs are automatable, we need to discover what’s not \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 12, 2023\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFour Thousand Weeks\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nFour Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman. Published by Macmillan Audio, with ISBN 9781250834386.0. Read on 2023-08-17\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Aug 17, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvery City Is Every Other City\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nEvery City Is Every Other City by John McFetridge. Published by ECW Press, with ISBN 9781773057620.0. Read on 2023-07-22\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jul 22, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSapiens\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nSapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. Published by HarperAudio, with ISBN 9780062796233.0. Read on 2023-06-15\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jun 15, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1984\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\n1984 by George Orwell. Published by Blackstone Publishing, with ISBN 9781483050935.0. Read on 2023-05-08\n\n\n\n\n\nMon May 8, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen Breath Becomes Air\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nWhen Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780399566172.0. Read on 2023-04-25\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Apr 25, 2023\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow do you want to be remembered?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nleadership\n\n\nservice\n\n\n\nIt’s a question as old as time, but misses the mark and is distracting from the more important question. \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 23, 2022\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuilding a complex R Shiny Dashboard Using ChatGPT\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nr\n\n\nshiny\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\nchatgpt\n\n\n\nChatGPT can create amazing boilerplate code and can point you in the right direction, but it cannot debug data problems easily (yet). It can read in data from the internet, make time-series forecasts, and visualize the data (with a little assistance). \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Dec 15, 2022\n\n\n8 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModels as a Service and the Future of Data Science\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nstartups\n\n\nbusiness\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nData Scientists shouldn’t be scared their jobs will disappear. They should be excited that they’ll be joining companies that automate what they’re currently doing and offer it as a service. \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 6, 2022\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting a Tech Resume\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\n\nHow to write a resume to get into a FAANG company. \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Nov 18, 2022\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nResume Substance over Style\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\n\nThe content of your resume is more important than the design. \n\n\n\n\n\nFri Nov 18, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is a model?\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nPutting the mysterious in context. \n\n\n\n\n\nSat Nov 12, 2022\n\n\n5 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Powerful Laws Nature\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Powerful Laws Nature by Richard Koch. Published by Ascent Audio, with ISBN 9781469093048.0. Read on 2022-09-11\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Sep 11, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThink Again\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThink Again by Adam Grant. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780593394762.0. Read on 2022-09-07\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Sep 7, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHuman Compatible\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nHuman Compatible by Stuart Russell. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780593148631.0. Read on 2022-08-22\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Aug 22, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAntifragile\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nAntifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780739370704.0. Read on 2022-08-17\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Aug 17, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNever Split the Difference\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nNever Split the Difference by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz. Published by HarperAudio, with ISBN 9780062471253.0. Read on 2022-08-15\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Aug 15, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWillpower\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nWillpower by Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney. Published by Penguin Publishing Group, with ISBN 9781101543771.0. Read on 2022-08-06\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Aug 6, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThinking, Fast and Slow\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780739357996.0. Read on 2022-08-04\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Aug 4, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of Regret\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Power of Regret by Daniel H. Pink. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780593555576.0. Read on 2022-08-01\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Aug 1, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDigital Minimalism\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nDigital Minimalism by Cal Newport. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780525643555.0. Read on 2022-08-01\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Aug 1, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDe-sciencing Data Science and Talking Like a Normal Person\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nprinciples\n\n\n\nHow can data scientists bring their technical knowledge to a non-technical audience? Here are my lessons learned from seven years in the data trenches. \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jul 20, 2022\n\n\n6 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Willpower Instinct\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal Ph.D.. Published by Gildan Media Corp, with ISBN nan. Read on 2022-07-15\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jul 15, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEffortless\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nEffortless by Greg McKeown. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780593153925.0. Read on 2022-07-08\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jul 8, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhy We Sleep\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nWhy We Sleep by Matthew Walker. Published by Simon & Schuster Audio, with ISBN 9781508240013.0. Read on 2022-07-04\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jul 4, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen data collection goes too far\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\ntech\n\n\nsurveillance\n\n\n\nIt’s important for us to track certain things about ourselves. But this is clearly not exactly healthy IMO. \n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jul 3, 2022\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPomodoro Principles\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nticktick\n\n\n\nThe art of focus through 25min work blocks. \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jun 28, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIncrease Focus through Writing Down Everything\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nmusings\n\n\nticktick\n\n\n\nTo be more present, get it all down and into a system. \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jun 28, 2022\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow I use TickTick\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\n\nAn overview of how I apply the principles of “Getting Things Done”, or GTD. \n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jun 25, 2022\n\n\n7 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGetting Things Done\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nA system of thought and action\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jun 24, 2022\n\n\n6 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Organized Mind\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Organized Mind by Daniel J. Levitin. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780698162235.0. Read on 2022-06-24\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jun 24, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGive and Take\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nGive and Take by Adam Grant. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9781101621479.0. Read on 2022-06-24\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jun 24, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is the best todo list manager?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\napp review\n\n\n\nI’ve reviewed 20+ apps. I think I’m done reviewing them. \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jun 23, 2022\n\n\n11 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew ideas are distractingly exciting\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\npriorities\n\n\nideation\n\n\n\nBe careful of recency bias with your ideas. \n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jun 23, 2022\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRadical Candor\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nRadical Candor by Kim Scott. Published by Macmillan Audio, with ISBN 9781250245786.0. Read on 2022-06-22\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jun 22, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownstream Impact\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nexperimentation\n\n\n\nWhen you do an online experiment, you’re changing the future forever. \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jun 22, 2022\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of Party Pay by Visible\n\n\n\n\n\n\nstartups\n\n\nstrategy\n\n\n\nVisible wireless, owned by Verizon, offers users $25 off per month if they join a meaningless party. What’s the effect? \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jun 21, 2022\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProducts for dads\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nfatherhood\n\n\n\nWhat products am I still using 5 years later? \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jun 21, 2022\n\n\n6 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlogging with Quarto, and why I don’t use Medium anymore\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nI’m trying out quarto and I like it. \n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jun 20, 2022\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Obstacle Is the Way\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday. Published by Penguin Publishing Group, with ISBN 9781101620595.0. Read on 2022-06-17\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jun 17, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCourage Is Calling\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nCourage Is Calling by Ryan Holiday. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780593456262.0. Read on 2022-06-17\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jun 17, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZero to One\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nZero to One by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780804165266.0. Read on 2022-06-09\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jun 9, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRich Dad Poor Dad\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nRich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki. Published by Plata Publishing, LLC., with ISBN 9781612680163.0. Read on 2022-06-09\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Jun 9, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorld Travel\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nWorld Travel by Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever. Published by HarperAudio, with ISBN 9780063055568.0. Read on 2022-06-08\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jun 8, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrinciples\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nPrinciples by Ray Dalio. Published by Simon & Schuster Audio, with ISBN 9781508243250.0. Read on 2022-06-05\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Jun 5, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGood to Great\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nGood to Great by Jim Collins. Published by HarperAudio, with ISBN 9780062045874.0. Read on 2022-06-04\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jun 4, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo Rules Rules\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nNo Rules Rules by Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9781984891174.0. Read on 2022-06-03\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jun 3, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLife of Pi\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nLife of Pi by Yann Martel. Published by HighBridge Company, with ISBN nan. Read on 2022-05-14\n\n\n\n\n\nSat May 14, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSteve Jobs\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nSteve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. Published by Recorded Books, Inc., with ISBN nan. Read on 2022-04-12\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Apr 12, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDeep Work\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nDeep Work by Cal Newport. Published by Hachette Audio, with ISBN 9781478930082.0. Read on 2022-03-31\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Mar 31, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMidnight in Chernobyl\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nMidnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham. Published by Simon & Schuster Audio, with ISBN 9781508278511.0. Read on 2022-03-30\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Mar 30, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne Second After\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nOne Second After by William R. Forstchen. Published by Blackstone Publishing, with ISBN 9781483057736.0. Read on 2022-03-20\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Mar 20, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGetting to Yes\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nGetting to Yes by Roger Fisher, William Ury. Published by Simon & Schuster Audio, with ISBN 9781442339538.0. Read on 2022-03-16\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Mar 16, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Hard Thing About Hard Things\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz. Published by HarperAudio, with ISBN 9780062347992.0. Read on 2022-03-15\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Mar 15, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe First 90 Days\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe First 90 Days by Michael D. Watkins. Published by Ascent Audio, with ISBN 9781469025476.0. Read on 2022-03-12\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Mar 12, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGuns, Germs, and Steel\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780307932433.0. Read on 2022-03-10\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Mar 10, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTribe of Mentors\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nTribe of Mentors by Timothy Ferriss. Published by HarperCollins, with ISBN 9781328994974.0. Read on 2022-03-06\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Mar 6, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Storytelling Animal\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Storytelling Animal by Jonathan Gottschall. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, with ISBN 9780547644813.0. Read on 2022-03-01\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Mar 1, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMindset\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nMindset by Carol Dweck. Published by Gildan Media Corp, with ISBN nan. Read on 2022-02-22\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Feb 22, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAtomic Habits\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nAtomic Habits by James Clear. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9781524779269.0. Read on 2022-02-21\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Feb 21, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEinstein\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nEinstein by Walter Isaacson. Published by Simon & Schuster Audio, with ISBN 9780743560979.0. Read on 2022-02-10\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Feb 10, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeonardo da Vinci\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nLeonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson. Published by Simon & Schuster Audio, with ISBN 9781508241997.0. Read on 2022-01-21\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 21, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHidden Figures\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nHidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly. Published by HarperAudio, with ISBN 9780062472076.0. Read on 2022-01-15\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jan 15, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Alchemist\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Published by HarperAudio, with ISBN 9780060879075.0. Read on 2022-01-10\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jan 10, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDare to Lead\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nDare to Lead by Brené Brown. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9781984844224.0. Read on 2022-01-05\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jan 5, 2022\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTalking to Strangers\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nTalking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell. Published by Hachette Audio, with ISBN 9781549150340.0. Read on 2021-12-29\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 29, 2021\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGreenlights\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nGreenlights by Matthew McConaughey. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780593294185.0. Read on 2021-12-28\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 28, 2021\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Body\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Body by Bill Bryson. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780147526922.0. Read on 2021-12-07\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 7, 2021\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGrit\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nGrit by Angela Duckworth. Published by Simon & Schuster Audio, with ISBN 9781442397149.0. Read on 2021-12-03\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Dec 3, 2021\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Author’s Angle Matters\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nwriting\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Jul 17, 2021\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of Habit\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780307966650.0. Read on 2021-05-03\n\n\n\n\n\nMon May 3, 2021\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Richest Man in Babylon\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Richest Man in Babylon by George Clason. Published by Ascent Audio, with ISBN 9781469055695.0. Read on 2021-03-20\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Mar 20, 2021\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy Team Six Seal Operator Adam Brown\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nFearless by Eric Blehm. Published by christianaudio.com, with ISBN 9781610454827.0. Read on 2021-03-12\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Mar 12, 2021\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoseph Smith\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nJoseph Smith by Richard Lyman Bushman. Published by Tantor Media, Inc., with ISBN 9781541488717.0. Read on 2021-02-17\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Feb 17, 2021\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProductivity notes\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\n\nRunning list of productivity ideas. \n\n\n\n\n\nSat Dec 19, 2020\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to mock the value of an ML solution\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ninnovation\n\n\n\nSell your solution before training your model. \n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 16, 2020\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGet rid of the todo list. Calendar everything.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\n\nIf you’re not willing to block time for it, does it event matter? \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 15, 2020\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nData Beats Opinions\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nOpinions from the customer shape the product. Their behavior (captured as data) speaks louder than their words. \n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 15, 2020\n\n\n2 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStart with Why\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nStart with Why by Simon Sinek. Published by Penguin Publishing Group, with ISBN 9781101149034.0. Read on 2020-03-21\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Mar 21, 2020\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Anatomy of Peace\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Anatomy of Peace by The Arbinger Institute. Published by Blackstone Publishing, with ISBN 9781602834477.0. Read on 2019-12-31\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 31, 2019\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of a Positive No\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Power of a Positive No by William Ury. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780739342152.0. Read on 2019-12-25\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Dec 25, 2019\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeadership and Self-Deception\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nLeadership and Self-Deception by The Arbinger Institute. Published by Blackstone Publishing, with ISBN nan. Read on 2019-12-16\n\n\n\n\n\nMon Dec 16, 2019\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeeling Good Together\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nFeeling Good Together by David D. Burns, M.D.. Published by Tantor Media, Inc., with ISBN 9781400178209.0. Read on 2019-09-14\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Sep 14, 2019\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRising Strong\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nRising Strong by Brené Brown. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9781101913819.0. Read on 2019-09-10\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Sep 10, 2019\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Giver\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Giver by Lois Lowry. Published by HarperCollins, with ISBN 9780547345901.0. Read on 2019-08-25\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Aug 25, 2019\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Innovator’s Dilemma\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen. Published by HighBridge, with ISBN 9781598874365.0. Read on 2019-07-23\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Jul 23, 2019\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAstrophysics for People in a Hurry\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nAstrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Published by Blackstone Publishing, with ISBN 9781538408063.0. Read on 2019-06-26\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jun 26, 2019\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlexander Hamilton\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nAlexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. Published by Penguin Publishing Group, with ISBN 9781101200858.0. Read on 2019-01-04\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Jan 4, 2019\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBetween the World and Me\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Published by Random House Publishing Group, with ISBN 9780679645986.0. Read on 2018-12-30\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Dec 30, 2018\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSemantic Versioning for Data Science Models\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nmachine learning\n\n\n\nMeaningful versioning for data science models and machine learning pipelines. \n\n\n\n\n\nMon Jul 2, 2018\n\n\n5 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe War\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe War by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780739357293.0. Read on 2018-06-27\n\n\n\n\n\nWed Jun 27, 2018\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 4-Hour Workweek\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss. Published by Blackstone Publishing, with ISBN 9781483058757.0. Read on 2018-05-01\n\n\n\n\n\nTue May 1, 2018\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Lean Startup\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbook-review\n\n\n\nThe Lean Startup by Eric Ries. Published by Books on Tape, with ISBN 9780307939845.0. Read on 2018-03-16\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Mar 16, 2018\n\n\n1 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuying a used car the data science way: Part 2\n\n\n\n\n\n\nwebscraping\n\n\nr\n\n\nregression\n\n\nanalysis\n\n\npricing\n\n\nbuying things\n\n\n\nHow I analyze used car data to find under-valued cars, and why none of my analysis matters.\n\n\n\n\n\nSun Feb 19, 2017\n\n\n14 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuying a used car the data science way: Part 1\n\n\n\n\n\n\nwebscraping\n\n\ncars\n\n\npricing\n\n\nr\n\n\n\nHow I scrape used car data.\n\n\n\n\n\nSat Feb 18, 2017\n\n\n4 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe DataViz battle: Plotly vs ggplot2\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndataviz\n\n\nr\n\n\nggplot\n\n\nplotly\n\n\n\nWhat can you do with plotly vs. ggplot2 and how do they compare on a simple chart?\n\n\n\n\n\nFri Feb 10, 2017\n\n\n7 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStarting with Jekyll\n\n\n\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nblogging\n\n\njekyll\n\n\n\nHello world.\n\n\n\n\n\nThu Nov 17, 2016\n\n\n5 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReading List\n\n\n\n\n\nWish list of books\n\n\n\n\n\nTue Dec 1, 2015\n\n\n3 min\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo matching items\n\n\n \n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "“I write what I learn. I learn by what I write”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n Order By\n Default\n \n Date - Oldest\n \n \n Date - Newest\n \n \n Title\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook Summaries\n\n\n\npersonal development\n\n\nlists\n\n\n\nThings I want to remember and review\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday March 9, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Costly Mistake\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nlife lessons\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nA kind word goes a long way\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nMonday March 4, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImplementing Culture\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ninterviewing\n\n\nculture\n\n\nbusiness\n\n\n\nA small boat with a large rudder will get there faster than a large boat with a small rudder.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday March 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNothing to Lose\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nmemories\n\n\n\nPerspective is everything.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday March 1, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTrajectory and Mindset\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ncareer\n\n\ncareer advice\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nWhy do people say “don’t be complacent” in your career?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday February 14, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTeam Misfits\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nlife lessons\n\n\nleadership\n\n\n\n“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid” - Einstein\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday February 13, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorld’s Longest Drive\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nsports\n\n\ngolf\n\n\n\nFull send\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nMonday February 5, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Iceberg Theory - Theory of Omission\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nstorytelling\n\n\nwriting\n\n\ncreativity\n\n\n\nA captivating writing style\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday February 3, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Compounding Interest of Reading\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nreading\n\n\ninvesting\n\n\n\nAsk not what one book can do for you. Ask instead what you couldn’t do without one book?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday February 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of a Good Book\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nai\n\n\nreading\n\n\n\nIt takes one to know one.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday February 2, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExport your Libby Timeline to Obsidian\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ntutorial\n\n\npython\n\n\nlibby\n\n\nquarto\n\n\nblogging\n\n\n\nDownload the Libby timeline, export to markdown files using pandas\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday February 1, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBecome a Data Scientist in 10 Weeks\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nfeatured\n\n\ncareer\n\n\nrecommendation systems\n\n\nA/B testing\n\n\nanalytics\n\n\nbeginners\n\n\n\nYou only need the desire. The rest is freely accessible. Focus on breadth at first and creating content for your resume (tips included on that too!)\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday January 26, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Only Mind that’s Clear Is the One That Sees No Alternative\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nmy principles\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nSeek not to be right. Seek to understand.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday January 25, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting Only Makes Sense to the Author\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nwriting\n\n\nart\n\n\n\nThe rest of us are left guessing. But the more the author puts themself in the shoes of the audience, the less guesswork needs to happen.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday January 23, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Problem with Public Opinions\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\nsocial media\n\n\n\nEveryone has one, and they all stink…\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday January 16, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can plan your life in 5 minutes\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\npurpose of life\n\n\n\nYou know what’s good for you.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday January 12, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJunk attracts Junk\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nlaws of human nature\n\n\nobservations\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nThe law of junk\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday January 12, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBiden’s debt relief won’t relieve what he thinks it will\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\npolitics\n\n\neconomics\n\n\n\nAsking a tradesperson to pay for someone else’s education isn’t right\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday January 11, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCool Quarto Site\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nquarto\n\n\ntech\n\n\ncoding\n\n\n\nDifferent things you can do pretty easily with quarto.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday January 10, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe six hour sandwich\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nsales\n\n\nlife musings\n\n\npeople I meet\n\n\n\nHow to sell a breakfast sandwich\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday January 10, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat’s your decision framework?\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ninsights from books\n\n\ninvesting\n\n\nmemories\n\n\npersonal stories\n\n\nemotional intelligence\n\n\n\nFacts? Gut? Blend? Do you track your emotional decisioning performance?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday January 9, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganization and Minimalism\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nminimalism\n\n\norganization\n\n\nsoftware\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nWhen in doubt, “Afuera” it out!\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday January 9, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBecoming an expert is kind of a fallacy\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\npersonal development\n\n\ngrowth\n\n\ngrit\n\n\nlife lessons\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nDoesn’t matter how many hours you work at something. What matters is if you figure out the lightbulb. Could have been the first by luck, no?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSunday January 7, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Cuban Mogul Support\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nentrepreneurship\n\n\nYouTube clip\n\n\n\nAMA from Twitter\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday January 5, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWrite a thousand songs\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\ncreativity\n\n\nwriting\n\n\n\nTake the pressure off and write a little.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday January 4, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen Leaders Lose their People\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nleadership\n\n\n\nHave I lost you too?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday January 4, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Multiverse of Careers\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nmeditation\n\n\ndeathbed meditation\n\n\ncareer\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nWhich path you choose isn’t as important as the companions to journey with\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday January 4, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n30 Seconds is All You Get\n\n\n\nmusic\n\n\neconomics\n\n\nincentives\n\n\nposts\n\n\n\nApple set the limit to 30s. That impacted music forever.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday January 4, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMy Tombstone\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nmortality\n\n\nwork\n\n\nwork life balance\n\n\nperspective\n\n\nmeditation\n\n\npriorities\n\n\n\nWhat will your tombstone actually read? What do you want it to read.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday January 3, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYour Mood is Contagious\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nleadership\n\n\nparenting\n\n\nemotional resilience\n\n\ngrit\n\n\n\nIt may take twice the effort to overcome negative vibes.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday January 3, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmotional Recovery\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\n\nEveryone recovers differently.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday December 30, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWater as a Currency?\n\n\n\nposts\n\n\nwater\n\n\neconomics\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday December 30, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlogging with Obsidian and Quarto\n\n\n\nobsidian\n\n\nquarto\n\n\ntutorial\n\n\n\nMy framework and flow for blogging from my phone using Obsidian and Quarto.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday December 29, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuarto vs. quartz for Obsidian blog\n\n\n\nquarto\n\n\nobsidian\n\n\npkm\n\n\nbuild in public\n\n\ntool\n\n\ntool comparison\n\n\n\nWhy I use quarto to manage my knowledge database.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday December 29, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n97 percent chance you’ll fail\n\n\n\nsuccess\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\n\nThe odds of constant success are against you every 5 decisions. So there’s gotta be another way to define success.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 28, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDecisions are Like Hopping on a River Raft\n\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nChoose wisely, and enjoy the ride.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 28, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFlipping the coins of life\n\n\n\nphilosophy\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nAre you right just because you got heads?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 28, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeaving my Startup was the Right Decision\n\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\nstorytelling\n\n\nhindsight\n\n\n\nBut not because of the outcome.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 28, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to blog from your phone using quarto (or hugo/jekyll/etc) using Working Copy and Obsidian\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\ntech\n\n\ntutorial\n\n\n\nWorking copy is $20, obsidian is free (and optional). I’ll show you how to set this up (iPhone only I think?)\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 26, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThings I’d like in a blog\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nquarto\n\n\n\nWhat quarto is great at and what I’d like out of it.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 26, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWrite despite AI\n\n\n\nai\n\n\nhumanity\n\n\n\nI’m fully aware an AI is listening and all that I write just trains it. Perhaps this is a perversion of my work (if I made money off it). Why write if everything I write…\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 26, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting is truly enlivening\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nwriting\n\n\n\nWrite in public. Write daily. Write about nothing.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 26, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAI Robots are mastering tasks faster than humans\n\n\n\nai\n\n\ntech\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\n\nFrom walking to labyrinth, the future looks bright for these machines. The key is the objective functions, time, and training data.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nMonday December 25, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwas the Night before Christmas\n\n\n\nchristmas\n\n\nask gpt\n\n\n\nThe origin of the story, and a link to the 1912 publication.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSunday December 24, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGitHub copilot levels up\n\n\n\nai\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nWhat will it do next?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 21, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Allegory of the Dodo\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nbusiness\n\n\nkids books\n\n\n\nWhen in having solved a problem we inadvertently create problems for ourselves\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 21, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Little Red Hen\n\n\n\nbook review\n\n\nstartups\n\n\n\nPeople love to enjoy the fruits, but who will bake the bread?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday December 20, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to encourage your kids\n\n\n\nparenting\n\n\n\nUnexpected advice on how to be a great parent when fostering talent\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 19, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is humanity\n\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nHumanity seeks to resolve problems. What happens when they’re too easily solved?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday December 16, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLLMs can find a needle in the haystack\n\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nGPT outperforms Claude.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday December 15, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrompt techniques\n\n\n\nai\n\n\n\nOpen AI strategies\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday December 15, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearn by doing\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ntech\n\n\n\nYou don’t need a PhD. Or a masters. You just need to hustle\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday December 13, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFuture of Coding\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nAs our jobs are automatable, we need to discover what’s not\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 12, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow do you want to be remembered?\n\n\n\nleadership\n\n\nservice\n\n\n\nIt’s a question as old as time, but misses the mark and is distracting from the more important question.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday December 23, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuilding a complex R Shiny Dashboard Using ChatGPT\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nr\n\n\nshiny\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\nchatgpt\n\n\n\nChatGPT can create amazing boilerplate code and can point you in the right direction, but it cannot debug data problems easily (yet). It can read in data from the internet…\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday December 15, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModels as a Service and the Future of Data Science\n\n\n\ntech\n\n\nstartups\n\n\nbusiness\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nData Scientists shouldn’t be scared their jobs will disappear. They should be excited that they’ll be joining companies that automate what they’re currently doing and offer…\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 6, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nResume Substance over Style\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\n\nThe content of your resume is more important than the design.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday November 18, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting a Tech Resume\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\n\nHow to write a resume to get into a FAANG company.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday November 18, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is a model?\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nPutting the mysterious in context.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday November 12, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDe-sciencing Data Science and Talking Like a Normal Person\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nprinciples\n\n\n\nHow can data scientists bring their technical knowledge to a non-technical audience? Here are my lessons learned from seven years in the data trenches.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday July 20, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen data collection goes too far\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nfuturism\n\n\ntech\n\n\nsurveillance\n\n\n\nIt’s important for us to track certain things about ourselves. But this is clearly not exactly healthy IMO.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSunday July 3, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIncrease Focus through Writing Down Everything\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nmusings\n\n\nticktick\n\n\n\nTo be more present, get it all down and into a system.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday June 28, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPomodoro Principles\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nticktick\n\n\n\nThe art of focus through 25min work blocks.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday June 28, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow I use TickTick\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\n\nAn overview of how I apply the principles of “Getting Things Done”, or GTD.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday June 25, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew ideas are distractingly exciting\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\npriorities\n\n\nideation\n\n\n\nBe careful of recency bias with your ideas.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday June 23, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is the best todo list manager?\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\napp review\n\n\n\nI’ve reviewed 20+ apps. I think I’m done reviewing them.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday June 23, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownstream Impact\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nexperimentation\n\n\n\nWhen you do an online experiment, you’re changing the future forever.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday June 22, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProducts for dads\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nfatherhood\n\n\n\nWhat products am I still using 5 years later?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday June 21, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Power of Party Pay by Visible\n\n\n\nstartups\n\n\nstrategy\n\n\n\nVisible wireless, owned by Verizon, offers users $25 off per month if they join a meaningless party. What’s the effect?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday June 21, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlogging with Quarto, and why I don’t use Medium anymore\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\n\nI’m trying out quarto and I like it.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nMonday June 20, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Author’s Angle Matters\n\n\n\ncommunication\n\n\nwriting\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting, Bryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday July 17, 2021\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProductivity notes\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\n\nRunning list of productivity ideas.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday December 19, 2020\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to mock the value of an ML solution\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ninnovation\n\n\n\nSell your solution before training your model.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nWednesday December 16, 2020\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nData Beats Opinions\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\ndecisions\n\n\n\nOpinions from the customer shape the product. Their behavior (captured as data) speaks louder than their words.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 15, 2020\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGet rid of the todo list. Calendar everything.\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\n\nIf you’re not willing to block time for it, does it event matter?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nTuesday December 15, 2020\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSemantic Versioning for Data Science Models\n\n\n\ndata science\n\n\nmachine learning\n\n\n\nMeaningful versioning for data science models and machine learning pipelines.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting, Bryan Whiting\n\n\nMonday July 2, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuying a used car the data science way: Part 2\n\n\n\nwebscraping\n\n\nr\n\n\nregression\n\n\nanalysis\n\n\npricing\n\n\nbuying things\n\n\n\nHow I analyze used car data to find under-valued cars, and why none of my analysis matters.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting, Bryan Whiting\n\n\nSunday February 19, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuying a used car the data science way: Part 1\n\n\n\nwebscraping\n\n\ncars\n\n\npricing\n\n\nr\n\n\n\nHow I scrape used car data.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting, Bryan Whiting\n\n\nSaturday February 18, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe DataViz battle: Plotly vs ggplot2\n\n\n\ndataviz\n\n\nr\n\n\nggplot\n\n\nplotly\n\n\n\nWhat can you do with plotly vs. ggplot2 and how do they compare on a simple chart?\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting, Bryan Whiting\n\n\nFriday February 10, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStarting with Jekyll\n\n\n\nproductivity\n\n\nblogging\n\n\njekyll\n\n\n\nHello world.\n\n\n\nBryan Whiting\n\n\nThursday November 17, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo matching items\n\n\n \n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:", + "crumbs": [ + "Writing", + "Posts" + ] }, { - "objectID": "quotes/artillery-takes-the-joy-out-of-life.html", - "href": "quotes/artillery-takes-the-joy-out-of-life.html", - "title": "Artillery takes the joy out of life", + "objectID": "quotes/it-all-depends-on-me.html", + "href": "quotes/it-all-depends-on-me.html", + "title": "It all depends on me", "section": "", - "text": "“Artillery takes the joy out of life”\nBand of Brothers\nThese men would have given anything to be home for Christmas. I come home every day.\nThere are those who, today in this world, will not come home to their families.\n#perspective\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "A leadership failure mode is thinking I have the answers. Thinking I’m smart. Thinking it all depends on me. Thinking I’m the solely accountable individual.\nIf it all depended on me, why did I hire someone? Why do I have direct reports?\nIt depends on my people. It depends on all of us. It depends on teamwork.\nAnd my team relies on me for their livelihood. Their child’s medical bills. Their alimony payments. Their parental care.\nThey chose me way more than I chose them.\nTeamwork makes the dream work baby.\n#leadership\nI’m going to let you down : leaders will let you down.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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Process is controllable.\n#decisions #process #affirmations\nHow to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "The 10,000 hour rule doesn’t make any sense. And it’s harmful in a lot of ways.\nIt implies to be an expert in a field you need to spend 10,000 hours on something.\nExpert relative to whom?\nAnd have we asked ourselves what the value of being an expert even is?\nPerhaps it gives some benchmark of “if I can make it 10,000 hours I’ll be useful to society”. But that’s a less useful mindset than just asking “what does it take to be valuable?”\nTwo counter perspectives:\n\nHow much do you know about how peanut butter is made? How long would it take you to know more than everyone in your neighborhood? Sure you may not know more than those who have spent 10,000 hours, but 100 hours may be enough to come up with a new recipe.\nThere are 260 million people above the age of 18 in the U.S. Per a Google search there were 490,000 #datascience jobs in the U.S. in 2018. That’s 0.3% of the population. I’m guessing most of those people compare themselves to the 0.3% of the population rather than to the 99.7%.\n\nValue is driven by the problems you’re able solve and the willingness of someone to pay for those problems because they don’t have the time or energy to solve them for themselves. It doesn’t take 10,000 hours to solve 99.9% of problems.\nOther thoughts:\nThe Great Practice Myth: Debunking the 10,000 Hour Rule • Six Seconds\n#innovation #perspective #experts\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "“Look at the plot”\n“No, look at the plot”\n“No, seriously, look at the plot”\nChris Peterson’s three rules for data science never left me.\nI can’t help but look at the plot every time I look at a plot.\n#datascience #PeopleIAdmire\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I knew the moment I joined this team I made a mistake.\n\nBryan, 3x unlucky team picker.\n\nYea, I’ve had a few jobs.\nOn one team, I was told day one “I think you applied for the wrong job family” when I was vulnerable with my manager about my career objectives.\nOn another team I joined I was asked to unionize the first week. “If we all unionize, leadership can’t do anything”. Though no union was formed, that person and ten others were let go six weeks later.\nOn a third team, I was told “But that’s what we hired PhD’s to do, and you don’t have a PhD”.\n\nOn another team I joined after 3 members had just quit. My leader sat down and asked us all what could be done better. Changes were made. 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He’s one of the most humble people I know. But his words never left me - even if it was a joke on both sides.\nHe didn’t care about titles. He didn’t want to brag to people about his titles or pull rank. I don’t think he wanted a corner office (but I’m sure he didn’t mind at some level).\nPoint is: do you talk the talk or walk the walk? I hope people can trust me for who I am, and not where I’ve been or what I’ve done.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "A good decision is associated with, but not causal of a good outcome.\nYou can make a bad decision and have a good outcome.\nA decision happens before the consequence. Making a decision is a process. Making a good decision involves a thoughtful process.\nMost choices are probabilistic. 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Because the person you were before the millionth dollar will be the same person after the millionth dollar.\nAre you enjoying life today? Am I?\nBuffett told Brian Chesky to make his money slowly.\nAnd then there’s this banger:\n“On the last day of class, I ask my students to turn those theoretical lenses on themselves, to find cogent answers to three questions: First, how can I be sure that I’ll be happy in my career? Second, how can I be sure that my relationships with my spouse and my family become an enduring source of happiness? Third, how can I be sure I’ll stay out of jail? Though the last question sounds lighthearted, it’s not. Two of the 32 people in my Rhodes scholar class spent time in jail. Jeff Skilling of Enron fame was a classmate of mine at HBS. These were good guys—but something in their lives sent them off in the wrong direction.”\n\nClayton Christensen\n\nHow Will You Measure Your Life?\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I wasn’t much of a founder until I found her.\nIn 2015 I was running a startup. I had a choice: stay with the company as they moved to Seattle or finish the final year of my masters.\nI chose to finish school. I found her. We founded our family the next summer with a marriage certificate in NY.\nMy family has been the most rewarding thing in my life. 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If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "quotes/the-more-you-give-the-happier-youll-live.html", - "href": "quotes/the-more-you-give-the-happier-youll-live.html", - "title": "The more you give, the happier you’ll live", + "objectID": "quotes/i-wrote-this-on-march-9th-to-hold-myself-accountable.html", + "href": "quotes/i-wrote-this-on-march-9th-to-hold-myself-accountable.html", + "title": "I wrote this on March 9th to hold myself accountable", "section": "", - "text": "The more you give, the happier you’ll live.\nGive more, think less.\nThe principle of reciprocity: Influence The Psychology of Persuasion\n“I’ve never worried about how much I give away”: Building a Story Brand\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "I wrote this on March 9th to hold myself accountable. My personal 100 day challenge.\nI scheduled this for 100 days after March 9th for June 17th, the day you see this.\nI’m going to post for 100 days. I’ve been writing for the last 100 days on my blog, bryanwhiting.com.\nWhy am I going to write every day for 100 days?\n\nTo learn. Posting is like promoting a thought to prod. #devops I learn from feedback, please challenge my thoughts.\nTo empower. I believe I have thoughts worth sharing. I’ve been terrified to share them my whole life, so I’ve kept them to myself. Perhaps someone will benefit from these thoughts.\nTo be rejected. I want to be unfollowed. Disliked. I want the freedom to fail. I’ve been too hesitant to post or write because “what will they think?”\nTo get over myself. Maybe posting frequently comes off as vainglorious. Your call. For me I believe\nTo trust in myself. I’ve relied on external validation my whole life to know if I’m doing the right direction. For some, posting incessantly shows a high degree of self insecurity - that they’re looking for validation. For me, I post my #failure s, my #lessonslearned . Vulnerability is growth. Trusting in myself is holding to a belief that I have something worth sharing and I don’t need approval to share it.\nTo connect. If you follow me, you’re a human following someone quite human. I hope to promote humanity. We’re all in this together.\n\nHow’d I do?\n#goals #reflection\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" }, { - "objectID": "quotes/two-types-of-smart-people.html", - "href": "quotes/two-types-of-smart-people.html", - "title": "Two types of smart people", + "objectID": "quotes/create-positivity.html", + "href": "quotes/create-positivity.html", + "title": "Create positivity", "section": "", - "text": "I’ve walked into many rooms where I’m far from the smartest person. Sometimes it leaves me feeling bad about myself. Other times it leaves me feeling empowered. What explains the difference?\nThere are two types of smart people. Those who make you feel smarter and those who remind you how smart they are.\nTruly brilliant people are focused on learning, and sharing, and helping those who were once like them: eager to learn.\nLess brilliant are those who are focused on themselves. Living in an insecure sand castle, they’re helplessly trying to reinforce as the waves of life crash on their egos.\nI’m not sure what makes one person the one or the other. It has nothing to do with their background, the titles they hold, the accomplishments they’ve achieved.\nPerhaps Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters explains it (paraphrasing): “war either makes you or breaks you. Either it makes you better or ruins your perception of life”.\nA favorite scripture of mind echos the sentiment:\n\nBut behold, because of the exceedingly great length of the war between the Nephites and the Lamanites many had become hardened, because of the exceedingly great length of the war; and many were softened because of their afflictions, insomuch that they did humble themselves before God, even in the depth of humility. 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It must mean this time is for the parents.\n#Parenting #Priorities #HowWillYouMeasureYourLife\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "The problem with all the advice in all those books is that none of it was written for you.\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. 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She finishes with a smile and a joke and everyone leaves talking.\nNobody likes meetings, because they’re not executed like this.\n#leadership #PeopleIAdmire\n\n\n\n_________________________ Bryan lives somewhere at the intersection of faith, fatherhood, and futurism and writes about tech, books, Christianity, gratitude, and whatever’s on his mind. If you liked reading, perhaps you’ll also like subscribing:" + "text": "There’s something really boring about numbers.\nMaybe it’s that glazed look my friends and family yield every time I try to describe what I do. I really do tire of that glazed look.\nSometimes I like to think I’m Cypher from The Matrix, looking at that iconic cascading array of green numbers and saying “there’s a brunette, there’s a blonde”…\nBut even after 10 years sometimes I just see numbers. 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