4 new words added to the script. I want my lawyer. Every day is shut the fuck up Friday

I often see people tempted to rely on what authority they have to force “progress” for their awesome idea. There are too many reasons why this almost never works. People often forget that ideas are the easy part.

An important part of professional growth is realizing being right doesn’t matter if you can’t get people to listen to you.

I guess no one was paying attention during Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

This is a good baseline indeed. I like surveying devs as another metric. I ask them to capture how they spent their time (their last work day) based on a few buckets. These buckets are either value generating or non value generating time. I find it a valuable measurement.

Continuing to work on building confidence with wardley mapping, and this time tried to map out meta-developer productivity tooling space (e.g. tools to measure and improve dev productivity). lethain.com/measuring-de...

What a bizarre place that Canada will become when this man becomes our prime minister. I really hope I’m wrong about him winning the next election. Should I start farming crickets in case Trudeau pulls off the comeback?

Desi Lydic has a hard time believing Nancy Mace wants to "protect women and girls"

Flying home on a Sunday morning is a nice way to travel for business. I need to remember this in the future. It is an extra day away from my family but it is nice to spend a Saturday in a distant place.

I want to live in a world where authors can easily sell me their books in convenient forms, while the platform that makes it happen takes a reasonable convenience fee. Some say I am a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.

Saw @pattonoswalt.bsky.social live tonight at the comedy store. It was a good reminder that good standup comedy can be a powerful elixir. Thank you Patton.

Exited to be at a show at the world famous Comedy Store on Sunset Blvd. Hopefully it can take a little sting out of a very long week.