Today is fathers day and I want to add my voice to that of many others in gratitude for fathers everywhere. Our species is something special with males engaged not only in procreation but in rearing the young in an involved and enduring way. Our culture is something special in expecting manhood to be earned […]
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Speaking at a conference on Youtube!
….and inspecting what you expect. I was fortunate to get a chance to present about how inspecting what you expect is important both in the military and with APIs at the Nordic APIs Austin API summit. If you’d like to check out the slides or the video of the presentation you can do so. This […]
What can the outsider see?
I’d like a phone number to your coffeeshop please. Today I had to drive into Raleigh for an event. I had to drive a little earlier to be there in time, and needed to take a call near my destination. So I looked for a coffee shop nearby. There was one within a block! But […]
Feelings about fractures
(the avulsion kind) I injured my ankle yesterday. It was around 6 AM. The leader of the day’s workout had us doing burpees, sprints and sit-ups in a field. Then he wanted ‘all you got’ sprints up and down the field. Then he wanted an ‘all you got sprint’ down the quarter mile back to […]
Andrew Yang 2020:
“since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it.” -Andrew Yang: attributed to Otto Von Bismark I’ve become a big fan of Andrew Yang. Why: Because our children deserve a future where they don’t face the bleak consequences of becoming unemployable through no fault of their own. […]
My Top 7 bits of advice for 2019
It’s a new year, some people like new years resolutions and some hate them. I’m not interested in the debate, but I have noticed that when people ask my advice or for suggestions I often end up saying the same things. I want to make it easier to reference and more widely available. You could […]