The Lead In Alright, so I have been hanging out on the intertubes as https://htd.cloud for a while now. But, after talking to Taiwo, a pragmatic if not brutally honest WordPress developer (link pending), he said the domain is not easy to remember and doesn’t say anything about me. I guess, even amid the sea […]
I call it “coaching from the couch.” We all do it. It sounds like this: Sports: “Oh man, that coach is crazy. He shoulda sent his guy straight down the middle, with a bowl of ramen.” Movie: “What was the writer thinking? They didn’t have to kill everyone.” News: “What does Elon think he is
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Part 0: BLUF This post explores some reasons to invite more writing time into your life’s journey, and some tactics for using writing to up your personal and professional game, even in an era of tighter timelines and shorter attention spans. Summary in blue. Part I: Some reasons to love writing Anyone who knows me
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This is going to be an anything but scientific frolic through some things that have bugged me when people talk about evolution. Things that don’t add up. I am cool with being proven wrong, because I don’t try to hold any beliefs strongly enough that I threaten my identity letting them go. If there is
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We humans are curious creatures. We are all abuzz and a flurry with our lives. Those lives bump into other lives and we negotiate ways to smooth out rough edges. Patterns and strategies emerge, these get built into social mores and governance approaches, and after a few thousand years, we have unlocked all kinds of
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I have heard some crazy stories from people who have survived far more intense scenarios, and yet, I am compelled, if only out of noir pandemic comedy, to share the story of this day. Onsite Requirement My office has a requirement that folks be on site one day a week. That’s pretty darn good, compared
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People like to think in terms of “years-old”, and other folks contend we should be thinking in “years-young.” I have discarded years altogether. It’s just journeys around the sun on the best spaceship we have ever known: our own blue miracle, Planet Earth. I’ve recently completed my 50th trek. I’ve had a few people innocently
The Spectrum of Blah I was talking with a friend of mine, and we both used the phrase “blah blah blah” as filler for content that we could just gloss over in the conversation. However, by the end of the conversation, I ended up saying something like, “Sometimes, life is all about the ‘blah blah
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Wow, it has been a crazy few weeks. But I told myself, “Self! You need to write more in your blog.” Self: “but what if they judge me?” Self: “Get over yourself, Self! It’s not all about you!” Self: “Then what’s it about?” Self: “Meeeeee!! Muhahahahaha!” And now it is time for the reading comprehension
I just left my last post over on Steemit, going forward I am going to be blogging to Hive. Maybe people will think I chose sides, but as I mentioned in my Steemit post, I’m just following my plugin developers 🙂 Thank you Howo and Fredickaa!! I just want my posts to live on a
