Aramark, University of Kentucky to end partnership, eliminating more than 900 jobs
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Ground
Courage Patience Diligence Love I believe in me.
Ready to Leave
It’s been almost a year now since things started changing. not fully a year yet, but close enough that i notice it constantly. sometimes i try to remember what life felt like before all of this and…
morning thoughts
it's just 9 am. i slept at 4, i don't know what I'm doing up already. i am adamant to open my laptop for work. I've just finished my honeymoon trip and i know how crazy everything has since i left. i…
05-06-2026
I'm alive. just tired. hope you're having a great day!
Time-blocking IV – my planning routine
Time-blocking my way through postdoc life IV – my routine to plan my academic life This is a post about my planning routine. I promised to write about it and share my time-blocking…
Monday, May 4th, 2026
# Happy Star Wars Day...
The Player-Coach BS
I’ve seen the term “player-coach” now come up enough times that I’m going to write about it while I enjoy my morning coffee.
10 Lessons I Wish I Knew When I Was 25
#1. Buy a domain and choose a professional handle. And no, a hacker-like handle isn’t cool. #2. Start that blog. Seriously! Write anywhere. You’re going to like it. #3. Open a brokerage account and…
Managing Tasks is a Hard Problem
To-do lists are often touted as the solution to task management. It makes sense on the surface—what better way to keep track of what needs to be done than by writing everything down in a list? This…
🌧️ May Blues
Quick post with some life updates!
Academic Reviewing Is Not Fun Anymore
Academic reviewing used to be more fun. (As fun as it can be, of course.)
No Free Ratings
Banning a digit doesn't kill the cowardice — it relocates it. I banned 7s on my bake ratings, and the middle 6 inherited it. The rule is a lens, not a fix.
At Crossroads
It’s been some time since I updated this blog. I was on a family vacation to Singapore and Malaysia for close to two weeks. Now that I’m back to my regular routine, frankly speaking, I’m stuck in a…
✅ A letter from founder to a fellow entrepreneur?
How about adding such letter on main Nozbe home page? Just to show the prospective buyer that the same tool we’re selling is the same tool we’re using and it’s reflecting our values and the way we…
Founder Archetypes
Eight founder types from three orthogonal axes. Pick the playbook that fits your psychology, not the one that worked for someone else.
[Post] - Formula 1 - Round 6 2026 - summary and memes
Formula 1 Round 6 2026 recap: Kimi Antonelli wins in Miami; McLaren, Ferrari, and Red Bull bring upgrades and become more competitive, while Mercedes no longer has such a big advantage, and there is…
Reading Roundup: Misunderstandings and failures
How about some links that aren’t about computers? Or, not directly related. Mostly. On the enshittification of Audre Lorde. Landslide; a ghost story. Of course, here I am sharing a bunch of…
Mar & Apr '26
How far back in time can you understand English? The same passage written in 100 year intervals, here’s how English in the year 1000 reads: And þæt heo sægde wæs eall soþ. Ic ƿifode on hire, and heo…
small changes
a quick one. small adjustments to how i work with agents, none of them deep on their own. but i can feel them adding up, the workflow shifting in a way that feels worth pausing on before any of it…
We need to allow ourselves to be vulnerable more
Short snip of a thought but this was something I thought about today. Allowing yourself to be corrected when wrong by someone you know has that experience you lack (that happened to me today) is…
31
I turned 31 this year!
bruh
so the knobs on the closet doors in our apartment entry way are olddunno if it is as old as the building (40+) but they are oldand because they are plastic, well, they were already cracked when we…
The path to vCTO
I’m moving into a new role at Node4, as a vCTO (the “v” is for virtual). It formalises the type of work I’ve found myself doing more of over time — working with clients to…
126/365 - lucky
I guess it’s my lucky day.
05/06/26 New Diary Entry
New Diary Entry!
Bismarck’s Accidental Investment
A professional transition, twelve months of ALG1, a MacBook Pro, and the open-source immune system for the post-AI internet. Every word is true. And it’s AI slop.
Building Strathcona Power — April 2026
The retailing business is growing slightly more quickly, up 18 sites to a total of 110. Part of this is we pushed a fundraiser with one of our fundraising partners, and part of this is…
Agile Yorkshire – May 2026 notes
An event of two halves. I was only there for the first as it's been a long few days and I needed some downtime afterwards. Some notes on the first half.IntroDave West, CEO of Scrum.org, on What…
Since When Do Rats Need a Vacation
This morning wasn't that eventful. Just more scam calls and texts. Indeed sure does love to send them. Their scams are so easy to read through — it's a wonder how anyone gets caught. I'm not worried.…
Instagram Anonymous
Hi, I’m Lena, and I’ve been off of instagram for 462+ days now. This could be a thing you know? And if you think I’m poking fun at it, I really am not. After ‘quitting’…
how being korean has poisoned my self worth: thoughts of a 20 yr old
(writing this instead of studying! >. I have always said and will continue to say that Koreans are the truest, most biblically accurate looksmaxxers. I used to think it was mainly a K-pop thing,…
it’s been two days and i’m already happier
it’s subtle but feeling a lot like my old self these past two days. listening to my inner self, changing the routine up a bit and spending less time rotting on the computer. the future excites me.…
I turned 26
Reading Time: 2 minuteson the first of May. I am always grateful to have been born on Labor Day, and grateful for a life I live contingent on so many hands who have built for me, as distant as the…
Sixo
Good days. Good bonding. New app? Transcript
The blog post that went viral in the exited founder community | Built to Sell News
Join John Warrillow on Wednesday, May 13, at 12 pm ET, for an exclusive live session on creating a business that can thrive without you. Sign Up Free This week on Built to Sell Radio, Boris Berenberg…
StuyCS in Boston - connecting generations
Devorah and I are spending the week in Boston, well techincally Cambridge. We came up last year around this time and had a big StuyCS meet up hosted at Formlabs. I was talking to my friends in the…
Introducing Atticus. Books re-imagined.
I’ve always been a voracious reader. Non-fiction mostly. In fact, I credit a lot of my early professional success to learning to leverage the big ideas I discovered in books written by people a lot…
Is feedback really a gift?
I've been thinking a lot about feedback, because I've been taking an improv class, and part of taking an improv class is getting a lot of notes on my performance. I expected to hate this because…
Golden Happy. Golden Happier.
Photos of/by Muffy Aldrich Our Third Golden
servant leader, peer leader
People who go for leadership...may be viewed as one of two extreme types. There are those who are so constituted physically and emotionally that they like pressure — seek it out — and…
Me at EDGEWAYS this Saturday
This Saturday (9th May) EDGEWAYS presents "Acid Renaissance: Albion’s True Standard Advanced" with me talking about my artwork on Zoom from 20:00 BST. Attendance is free, but places are limited so…
A Transatlantic Keynote (No Travel Required)
Earlier this year, the University of Glasgow held its first International Symposium on AI in Education, organized by the School of Education and the Centre for Teaching Excellence. I was invited to…
Green Line’s C Branch On Beacon Street Shuts Down for 12 Days, May 6 – 17
Two C branch stations in Brookline – Englewood and Tappan Street – will also have limited service until mid-July as part of the MBTA’s accessibility upgrade projects.
$20M Series A. 14 Failed Go-To-Markets. EVs Were "Dead." Jimmy Douglas, Plug
IntroductionThe press was calling EVs dead. The Inflation Reduction Act incentives had just expired. Roughly $20 billion in EV investment between the OEMs and the federal government had been…
Appearing Of Being Productive
This is how things work: you, being a “literally who?” nobody, wrote approximately 13 pages of titles of articles, about exactly how and why the current incarnation of AI is only an…
comfort
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“What have you tried?”
After starting at Panic back in 2012, I quickly learned that my then-coworker and now-pal James is a fountain of knowledge. He’s the kind of guy who has a deep understanding about all kinds of…