A garage sale for your mind

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Latest — 20 Apr 2026

That Feeling When...

...you spend 10% of your car's value on a single instance of routine maintenance using an affordable mechanic. On the upside, our car apparently doesn't want its oil changed more than once every ~10k miles, so that's pretty sweet. On the other hand, it&

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Starlink Mini

My new Starlink Mini arrived today. It's not quite as "mini" as I thought it would be – smaller than a MacBook Pro, but not a lot smaller. Considerably lighter though. It is a bit wider than I had expected. I hope that it'll fit

Bat House

Sunday morning we woke up and the kids quickly identified a bat, perched on the wall, near the ceiling, in our dining room. These same kids will step on, over or around their toys and clothes on the floor day after day without a second thought, but one little thing

The Money is not Worth It

I'm not going to name names or anything. Obviously. I've had amazing jobs and I've had terrible jobs. I've had a lot of jobs. Throughout this month I've been struck by what a difference it makes to work in a

Affordable Luxuries

There are countless YouTube channels that get millions of views for showing us the experience of dining at a Michelin star restaurant, or what some $10,000 steak (?!?) is like, or the best Sushi in Japan. Some luxuries are expensive by their very nature. On Fridays, we grill. I grill.

Pull-ups for Screen Time

I went trail running with H (8yo) this morning. This was our third such run. Running on paved roads is (1) painful, and (2) painfully boring. Trails include ditches, rocks, roots, puddles, branches and all manner of other things to occupy one's attention instead of wondering how much

The Perfect [Poop] Storm

One kid is having difficulties keeping her bed dry at night. Another has pooped in every pair of underwear he owns, in a single day. And another can’t seem to poop quite enough. There’s a lot of parental challenges going on lately. It is good to have an

Driver's Licenses Around the World

We were stopping for gas at Kroger after doing the monthly pilgrimage to Home Depot for their Kid's Workshop when H asked me what my driver's license look like. I showed it to him, but I also recalled this guy, Glenn, I worked with at Bloomberg.

Kids and Office Work

I had the opportunity to talk briefly with an engineer at xAI about a software engineering job. Some things were certain: 1. You hit the ground running. 2. You don't watch the clock. 3. You're local (Palo Alto). 4. You're in the office every

Building vs Marketing

I can turn interesting ideas into high-quality, interesting, functional, problem-solving apps all day long. And no one will ever know because how in the world do you get people to notice your work??? I see similar laments online all the time. Decades of software engineering experience and zero idea of

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