We're Thriving
My family and I are on cloud 9. Tyler, my oldest, is joining Lehi Fire! When I was in the hospital and doctor's were telling my wife "its time to say goodbye to him", my wife said my son told her "Well, I need to…
Doing Things That Scare You
In late 2000, I stood on the edge of an airplane door, heart racing like a cheetah on Red Bull. I was a few days away from leaving for 2 years to Holland and Belgium, and I needed a last hoorah. Despite loving fast and wild adventures, skydiving was new.…
Death Comes
Death comes for everyone This is not threat This is certainty Fear lives in the pretending In the looking away Look at it Let it see you back Now you are free Not from death From the flinch -- For everyone it waits Not with malice With certainty It does…
2 Years, and I still feel you. I shouldn't be here.
0:00 /1:20 1× 2 years ago: Continued from last year ---- And I still vividly about this particular aspect of it: “You need to call Lindsey, right now.” “I can’t….” When Lindsey arrived, she said I was crying out to you, “...come back, Mom!” Yet the hospital…
Eros
Every room I enter, I am looking. Not scanning. Not browsing. Looking. The way the faithful look for signs. Years of faces. Years of almost. Years of wrong mouth, wrong laugh,wrong silence. Then you. Not lightning. Not revelation. Just recognition, like remembering a word I didn't know…
Your Technical Interviews Suck
You're rejecting candidates because they didn't reverse a binary tree in 12 minutes. On a whiteboard. While someone watched. That's not evaluation. That's a hazing ritual with a MacBook. You want to know if someone can build your CRUD app. So you…
Transparent Accountability: The Core of True Productivity.
In my career, I've had the pleasure of working with and consulting with a lot of companies. As I'm sure we can all relate, there's a demand to improve productivity. As one digs deeper, I quite often encounter a lack of accountability, which stems…
GET. YOUR. HORMONES. CHECKED.
Anxiety? Depression? Restless? No Energy? Stuck in a fog? Yes, men and women! This isn't some tale about the AI-generated water I drink daily, or the fleet of 33 cars I've amassed from passive income, all thanks to selling photos of my ears online at OnlyEars.…
The Ruby on Rails Moment
In software engineering, there's always a moment where the community erupts over some new framework or technology. Sometimes it's genuinely new. Sometimes it's just something old that got rediscovered and paraded around like a returning messiah. 2009, enter Ruby on Rails for me. I…
Never Bored.
Total Lego sets I’ve built: 1,298,398 Total Lego sets I’ve played with: 0. At ten years old, amidst memories of Knight Rider, A-Team, and AirWolf, a vivid memory stands out: our forever silent, "broken" lawnmowers. Drawn to our garage each day, I sought to…