It seems often the case that when you're busy doing the work, you're not counting the score. Reflecting on our week long visit in Romania, this was apparent. We were able to directly connect with…

This post is inspired by Doug Belshaw's review of what he has been up to over the summer. I don't think I have ten items, but I can live with that. I have just realized I haven't written a post since…

The mythical Woot bag of crap is finally mine! According to Woot, I've been a member since Wednesday, July 27, 2005, and in those 7,694 days of membership, I've never been able to score a bag of…

1 - i didn't know you were special quite from the start, but it was pretty close 2 - i think that we've both grown so much. we've seen so many version of each other. i'd love to see who we both…

What is what is what what is when what is what is when what is. Is what what is when what is? When is what? What is when? Is when what is when what is when? When is. What is. Is is. What? When.

I rolled credits on Big Walk on Monday. It was astonishing. I'm really excited to get into the post-game challenges, and I'm also eager to play the whole thing again with different groups of…

Growing up and maturing is realizing that Panera Bread is actually really enjoyable.

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i feel lost. free. but lost. it is hard to find the exact way to be. as a human. as a person. as a voice inside my own head. i’m not sure i’m doing any of it correctly. lately i’ve been questioning…

my trusty old s20 fe suddenly decided it didn't want to register any touch input out of the blue. so now i effectively can't use it and it sucks ass. i have been using it for 5 years and was going…

In the UK August is known in the press as "silly season" (because nothing of note happens, so the only stories published are nonsense ones). Turns out this doesn’t apply to the world of data…

Been a weird few weeks over here. Pretty sure my left shoulder is freezing up, thankfully it waited until my right one thawed out but was hoping to be able to get the torn labrum taken care of before…

My email quest is floundering because Slack is too high friction for triage. The fix is a surface tuned to my preferences.

Do you have what it takes to break down technical work for broader audiences? Can you prove it? As of August 20, 2026 the Challenge has begun. It’s also now housed inside of the FreshSpectrum…

Hello, it's been a few weeks. And quite honestly, at the moment I have very little mental space. I started a new gig, which is great of course! But its also summer holiday and my son is home from…

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Have the Fire done enough to join the inner circle of contenders? Is a rebuild on the way for Orlando in the Griezmann era? And what was Bradley Carnell thinking???

2026/08/20 Thursday I was working with my cousin this weekend, we were listening to this mixed playlist I made, a guy had recommended some modern [Brazilian] rap groups to me because I have no idea…

Some of my best customers barely use the product. That sounds terrible until you realise they may be getting exactly what they paid for.

An updated Multiengine Oral Exam guide by Aviation Supplies & Academics (ASA) was just released, making it the tenth edition of the book. I had the fortune of helping with this project and hope…

In a previous post, I argued that learning is a retrieval problem, and as a result, quizzing and testing as a learning mechanism beats persistent re-reading. But retrieval practice only works if you…

I don't know how to start this. I just know I wanted to write it. Yesterday, I lost my pet cat Dinah that meant a lot more to me than I had realized. She had a urinary blockage that was severe enough…

One thing I’ve learned, as Atlanta has expanded its bike path network, is that the paths need maintenance. They need more frequent maintenance than the roads, and a different kind of maintenance. I’m…

Many of you sent feedback about your experiences with agents at work—but it was all too positive! I want to hear about some goddamn disasters of team & organizational dysfunction, too! Send in…

This week my goal is for my Kindle to be at the top of my phone's screen time report. The last year, I've been working to replace my scrolling habit with reading. And recently started vibe coding…

It’s Monday morning. I woke up, checked my phone, got dressed, and walked out of my room. Mom was having breakfast at the table. She looked up. “Why are you up so early today?”, sounding confused.…

It's been a year since I really switch to another field for a job that is non-creative. More questions started to circling around me and my inner thought, understandably: You sure you want to do…

We bought a new car. A Kia EV5 in fact. Why did we pick that one, and how is it going?

Welcome to ✨The Joy Club Way✨, where we explore—together—ways to be more free and fully alive in the world. I’ve been playing Pokémon Legends on at the recommendation of my video gamer kids. It’s a…

I tried learning something. I started it. I was learning it well for almost a week and a half, then I saw a shinier toy and wanted to learn that, so I started learning it. I learnt it for almost a…

Another Newport Summer is about to end in our seaside enclave, and the thought is pulling at my heartstrings. But fortunately I just remembered…two friends wrote a fabulous book in…

Last Updated on August 20, 2026 by Kay Visiting Huis Ten Bosch in Nagasaki, Japan, and wondering whether you should stay at Hotel Amsterdam? I stayed at Hotel Amsterdam for one night with my family,…

I'm not even sure how to verbalize my difficulty

Find the move that makes the rest look like a footnote.

I recently attended an ‘Ask A Vet’ workshop hosted by Dr Vicki Bowes. During that session she referenced The FiveContinue Reading

We dig into the details of the model:

If I had a God I’d pray to him or her or it for fortitude and the strength to transcend fatigue, obtuseness and pettiness. For all the tens of thousands of hours spent over thirty years of…

Hello my name is Chris Grimmett, aka “Grimtech” Contact me at chris@grimtech.net What I’m working on A tool to help youtubers run giveaways Growing My YouTube Channel Selling stuff on my ebay Store…

So, who knew a trip to the hardware store would lead me to a theory about how to calculate a team's velocity, not in story points, but in complexity points?

If I’m only allowed to pick one thing in order to improve instruction at a school, I’d start with formative assessment. Why? Every other improvement relies on it. Crucially, one cannot know if…

Response to My writing is not 100% organic anymore I am so tired of posts about AI, so I'll try to write about everything besides it. Believe it or not, I am not a native english speaker either. When…

Write a blog post about how old you feel in your head. Why? i feel various ages at different times. this seems to extend to how i communicate, behave and act as well. sometimes i feel as though i am…

It has been a busy summer. On the personal front, my son got married, and the wedding was everything such an occasion should be, everything it could be, and then a good deal more. Things have been…

Last August I left my previous synagogue, which had just voted to merge with another and move out of the neighborhood, and joined Beth Shalom, the…

Last week was pretty good. Made quite a bit of progress in app development and also worked out quite a bit. App Development Grove Added some finishing touches to my app, Grove, and submitted it to…

Who am I, and what have I done with the real conchcat?

[I'm open-sourcing relevant sections of my Anti Fund (antifund.com) LP letters which I write monthly.]Dear Partners and Friends,Last month I wrote that alpha is rotating toward atoms (and hence…

I'm not at peace with dying alone But I'm not at war either No, I am planted on the shore knowing The ashen tide may or may not rise Well I drifted off pretty quick but woke up at 2 am, so fun. My…

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