“Deep Work” & “So good they can’t ignore you”by Cal NewportIntroductionI went down the Cal Newport journey a several months ago. I hadn’t heard of him until recently, but he has been blogging and wr...

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Published on April 24, 2022 | 5 min read

Twitter NLP and analysisGo straight to the code.ProblemWhy are some people so good at drawing followers and gaining influence from their social media posts?...

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Published on March 13, 2022 | 8 min read

Thoughts from leadershipLeading his hard. I have had successes and failures throughout my personal and professional life. In my career I have overseen projects with a handful of other engineers at the same stage of their careers, or more junior. I have r...

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Published on August 21, 2021 | 6 min read

I started reading the book, “Show your work”, and it talks about reading obituaries in the morning to get some perspective on life. People worry way too much about the little things that really don’t matter. The idea is that reflecting on how other people lived and died may put things into per...

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Published on August 09, 2021 | 2 min read

I have a 14 year old macbook pro that barely works. I ended up getting an iPad pro to supplement my technical work (see “going paperless”), but it’s really not designed for technical work. There are some good native tools for basic python and web development if that is your thing, but support ...

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Published on May 03, 2021 | 5 min read

Millennials don’t have printers. We just don’t.Okay, I do actually have a printer. It’s a really old HP that is so old that I have to go in the BIOS to reset it every time I have to print something because it no longer recognizes the cartridge. The ink is expensive and dries out, so I...

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Published on April 29, 2021 | 4 min read

Thoughts on ProductivityI have had quite a bit of time to think, learn, and grow over the past months. I used the time to read a bit more, learn some skills, write some more, and try to get better. I read a few books on productivity that I thought were...

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Published on February 24, 2021 | 11 min read

We have all been there. You get your shiny new Mac or access to a new server and need to set up your python environment. Mostly you just want it all to work so you never have to touch it, but this time you decide to get fancy with it and start using virtual environments for stuff. That, or you...

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Published on February 02, 2021 | 3 min read