A new weekend is upon us; time to begin the next cycle of Getting Shit Done. Remember last spring when I bought some vintage windows and said that I was going to be done that project so fast that I’d just tell you what I was going to do with them when I was done? [...]

Hannah: Can I get a cat and when I move away from home, I’ll take it with me? Me: Well, we won’t be getting a cat for a while, so we’d have to discuss that when you’re much older. But you can plan to have as many pets as you like if you want to [...]

Happy New Year, everyone. I hope you all had a Christmas as lovely or lovelier than mine was. I went back to work yesterday and we were all exchanging the post-break greetings: “Happy New Year. How was your Christmas,” and more than a few people just said, “Oh, no need to ask how your Christmas [...]

At a workshop with some of my coworkers today, we were discussing leadership strengths or some such and we ended up divided into tables according to strengths. Thusly, I was seated with three other developers, all very analytical people in order to explore the domain of strategic thinking. One of my fellow developers was laughing [...]