#thoughts
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On Innocence
Saw a cute video of a toddler kissing a living statue today. Living statues are artists who paint themselves to look like stone figures and hold a stationary position as people walk by. In this case, it was a woman painted gold sitting on a park…
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The most dangerous phrase in the language is, “We’ve always done it this way.”
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On Wanting
What do you want? Do you know? Can you say it?
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Why We Build
We build because we believe that the universe should exist - That there should be something instead of nothing. We build to step outside of ourselves.
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My Values
Values that I try to live by tenets Enforce personal boundaries (show up for myself) Choose actions, principles, and relationships that give to life Live with integrity - don't compromise your soul tenets Let go of what is not useful Trust that…
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2024 Review
2024 has been a rough year. In the last six months, I've experienced a major reset across every pillar of my life (family, work, community, and health). Some of these things were self inflicted, others karmic retribution from prior lifetimes.
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On Pain
There are two parts to pain.
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Making Peace
Peace is hard. ” When we talk about peace, it does not need to involve humans killing each other in battles for scarce resources. Peace (and its absence) also describes the bonds between people and organizations.
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Longcuts
David Chang on the long, hard, stupid way - Herbert Lui This is a blog covering Chang's thoughts on the craft of cooking. The title also explains the position - in a world hyperfocused on efficiency, sometimes its worth doing things the long way.…
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How to Work With Me
Hi 👋 Welcome to Kevin's user manual. If you're reading this, we'll likely collaborate on something soon. I'm looking forward to working and learning from one another!
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Frugal Architec
Without careful observation and measurement, the true costs of operating a system remain invisible. Like a utility meter tucked away in a basement, lack of visibility enables wasteful habits. Making meters more visible can profoundly shift behaviors.
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To Be Seen
The want to be seen is part of the human condition. From Abraham Lincoln to Steve Jobs. Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk.
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Slack Is the Modern Knowledge Base
Javascript is the most popular programming language in 2022. Markdown is the most widely used markup. The browser has become the universal virtual machine. Slack is the modern knowledge base.
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Product Market Fit
The ONLY job of a startup founder is getting to product market fit.
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moderating discussion
source: https://overcast.fm/+BlzGS0p68 a16z seeking to understand vs understood be able to paraphrase bridging and linking and connecting ask other people, how does what sally said related to our theme X moderator is GPS i don’t remember what you…
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On Suffering
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. — Friedrich Nietzsche I divide suffering into the following categories: 1. Suffering for a greater good (aka type 2 fun) 1.
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An Iterative Approach to Writing
The waterboarding of the ego. The crushing of the soul. The realization that I can't spell. What I mean when I talk about writing.
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Avenging Software Development
Over the weekend I was sick with a fever and crashed on the couch with the dog and watched Avengers: Age of Ultron. Tony Stark, in an attempt to create an AI that can bring peace in our time, accidentally creates a killer AI that wants to wipe out…
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Google Cloud vs AWS Onboarding Comparison
As part of YCW21, Dendron was eligible for significant credits from all major cloud providers. This articles goes over my experience redeeming credits in two in particular: AWS and Google Cloud. DISCLAIMER: I used to work at AWS and have both…
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2020-06-21 Weekly Review
Opinions and Facts, Power and Accountability, Wonder and Awe
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2020-06-07 Weekly Review
George Floyd, Antifragile Democracy, and Chekhov's Gun
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2020-05-31 Weekly Review
Nature vs Nurture, The Sum of Parts, and Character in Crisis
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2020-05-24: Weekly Review
Cognitive Technology, Economics of Open Source, and the State of Podcasting
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2020-05-17: Weekly Review
Second-system effect, Tools of Thought, Twitter Lists
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2020-05-10: Weekly Review
Structured Knowledge Management, Retrospectives and Using (aw)less
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2020-05-03: Weekly Review
Highlights of things I've been thinking and working on over the week
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My Podcasting Setup
My setup and process for podcasting
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Luck and Chance
Looking back at my life, something that stands out like a garden gnome in a basketball lineup is that most of the significant moments of my life seemed to have happened by chance. The joining of the cross country team in middle school because the…
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Why I Write
I enjoy the art of creation. Maybe enjoy is too light of a word for what I'm trying to describe. I feel compelled by.
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Abstractions - Part1
I think about abstractions a bunch. It comes with the territory of writing code for a living. Software is, after all, just a series of abstractions, translating the written word into instructions for a machine to follow.
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Peloton
Over the weekend, I copeted in Ski To Sea, a seven leg relay where each leg features a different sport. The relay starts off with downhill skiing off Mt Baker and ends with a kayak race into Bellingham, Washington. I did the road bike leg, a 41 mile…
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Reflections on Asia
Today is my last day in Japan and first day back in the states after half a month of travelling. I've made it a tradition to take a trip at the end of each year as it helps clear my head and helps me prepare for the next one. Last year, I spent a…
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Some Thoughts on VR
VR champagne. So sweet that I can taste it. At least that's what I tell my colleague as we make a bet about the future of VR.
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What Losing My Luggage in Nepal Taught Me About Decision Making
You know that feeling you get when you're in a Nepalese airport and realize that all your luggage is gone? If so, my sincere condolences. Otherwise, let me fill you in.
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Why I Choose Vim
Helen of Troy might have had a face that launched a thousand ships but the Trojan war pales in comparison to the flame wars developer wage today over their favorite editor. As a developer, a lot of time is spent inside an editor writing code.…
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Sunk Costs
When I started this entry, I intended to write an essay about keeping resolutions. After all, it was still close to new years and people did this sort of stuff at this time. After three weeks of procrastinating, I got around to writing the thing.
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Do you remember?
If a tree falls in the forest and no one remembers hearing it, does it make a sound? Memory is a fragile thing. Like grains of sand scattered across the beach, they have a short half life.
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Personal (Cloud) Computing
Clouds. Everywhere. Especially true if you live in Seattle.
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Of Growing Up
Me and my roommate have this tradition where we cook a large meal Sunday night and complain about having to do the dishes afterwards. There always seems to be more plates leftover than what would seem reasonable for two honest working folk. So…
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How are you?
This question, along with developing for IE6, bothers me. A lot. I dislike this question because most of the time I hear it, it is a disingenuous offhand remark when the actual words would suggest a real sort of empathy.
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Update S3 DeletionPolicy in Cloudformation
Found an interesting quirk in Cloudformation when trying to update an AWS::S3::Bucket resource. All AWS Cloudformation Resources have the DeletionPolicies attribute which determines the fate of said resource after the CFN template is deleted. If a…
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Noticing the trees among the forest
Its been two months now that I've lived in Seattle. This is strange to me because my body still feels like it stepped off the plane yesterday. During this time, I’ve been mocked by a robot giving driving directions to a climbing gym, run a half…
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I have a plan
Sitting awake at 5:00 am due to jet lag, figure I make use of the time and write. Today is my first day back in the states. My lease and my job start in a week and I'm currently unemployed and homeless, squatting at a friend's house in Bellevue.
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Uno
Hello world (I flatter myself... hello to the handful of people that have stumbled onto this blog)! Today, I partake upon the noble tradition of expressing myself through the tubes .
