My Writing
If I Can Fall in Love with ChatGPT, So Can You
I let ChatGPT take over and write this article for me. What started as a tool has become a collaborator—and it’s making me rethink how AI is changing how we work, think, and create...
My Word of the Year: Build
Shaping the year ahead with a single word. For 2025, the word is build....
Reading to Keep the Past Alive: Reflections on Man's Search for Meaning
In a distracted world, the power of reading remains essential. My reflections on the impact books have had on my life and the impact of Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning...
Mushrooms, Money, and the Creativeness of Frugality
Frugality can feel like a constraint, and in some ways, it is. Mostly, I’ve approached spending with the mindset of postponing fulfilling experiences for a hazy, unpromised future. It’s hard to see how that mindset will ever shift, considering the scarcity mindset I have ingrained in me...
What If It Were Easy? But Tech Is Hard
It's been about four months since I left my job in tech. In that time, I haven't done any hardcore technical work. I needed to recover from years of constant pressure (often self-imposed) and the feeling that my livelihood depended on being technically good enough. I did build this blog, though. The process wasn't technically challenging, and that was intentional...
From the Gym to Life: Accepting Both Good and Bad Motivations
A little like my love affair with coffee, I also have a love affair with the gym. Unlike coffee, though, this is a new love that has quickly become almost as non-negotiable. I get up most weekdays around 5 a.m. to go and sometimes even on Saturdays. When someone asks what I've been up to, I invariably mention the gym as if it's the most important thing going on. Frivolous or not, in some ways, it is...
Using Jira Automation to Clone Epics and Children into a Future Sprint
In my new personal Agile practice, I wanted to make the process of setting up sprints easier. I decided to automate the creation of epics and tasks, which recur each sprint. These would then be added to the next sprint automatically...
It Could Be Good. It Could Be Bad. Who Knows?
The book Never Play It Safe by Chase Jarvis introduced me to a Chinese parable this week, and it’s been on my mind ever since. It goes like this. A farmer loses his horse. His neighbors say how unfortunate it is, to which the farmer responds, “It could be good. It could be bad. Who knows?”...
Building Financial Resilience Through Money Tracking
The start of each month is one of my favorite times because I get to do an activity I love: tracking my cash flow. Maybe it sounds like an odd activity to enjoy, but it gives me a detailed breakdown of my spending habits, which builds my confidence in maintaining financial resilience...
Experimenting with the Maker's Schedule Using Agile
Nearly a year before I left my job, I began to seriously consider what life would be like afterward. I read a couple of books about living an intentional life, Living Forward and Designing Your Life, and I spent a significant amount of time working through their exercises to identify what mattered most to me...