Nov 22, 2024 from nutcroft Goodbye I had been struggling to write for many years. Back then I was dreaming of having a blog with lots of entries. Now I do. I admired the people who did and now I'm one of them. The feeling now is: th...
Nov 20, 2024 from Meadow Initial thoughts on The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle I finally started reading The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. I've tried to start this book many times before, but I always stopped in the first chapter or so because I felt that the author was bein...
Nov 20, 2024 from Meadow Initial thoughts on The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle I finally started reading The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. I've tried to start this book many times before, but I always stopped in the first chapter or so because I felt that the author was bein...
Nov 12, 2024 from nutcroft Why I Will Always Be Angry About Software Engineering Why do I bother getting angry about software? When I started writing, it came from a place of ennui — absolute despair at the amount of waste I was seeing in the technology sector since leaving uni...
Oct 10, 2024 from nutcroft Get Me Out Of Data Hell It is 9:59 AM in Melbourne, 9th October, 2024. Sunlight filters through my windows, illuminating swirling motes of dust across my living room. There is a cup of tea in my hand. I take a sip and sav...
Oct 03, 2024 from Meadow On surrendering and the fallacy of control Yesterday, around 1:30 AM, I woke up with a feeling that I needed to vomit. I tried getting up, but I immediately felt faint and did indeed faint. I was a bit sick all over the place. Thankfully, i...
Oct 03, 2024 from Meadow On surrendering and the fallacy of control Yesterday, around 1:30 AM, I woke up with a feeling that I needed to vomit. I tried getting up, but I immediately felt faint and did indeed faint. I was a bit sick all over the place. Thankfully, i...
Sep 19, 2024 from nutcroft Tossed Salads And Scrumbled Eggs With the decision to focus on our consultancy full-time in 2025, my time as an employee draws to a close. My attitude has become that of an entomologist observing a strange insect which can miracul...
Sep 09, 2024 from Meadow Judging is a trap I was going through my Obsidian notes and noticed that there are a couple of almost-finished posts that are actually quite good—more than a couple, in fact. My intuition tells me it’s both good and...
Sep 09, 2024 from Meadow Judging is a trap I was going through my Obsidian notes and noticed that there are a couple of almost-finished posts that are actually quite good—more than a couple, in fact. My intuition tells me it’s both good and...
Sep 06, 2024 from Meadow Emojis are cool I use a lot of emojis when I write (especially chat), and it has always struck me as interesting that most people around me don’t. “Don’t they want to convey how they feel about this?” I ask myself...
Sep 06, 2024 from Meadow Emojis are cool I use a lot of emojis when I write (especially chat), and it has always struck me as interesting that most people around me don’t. “Don’t they want to convey how they feel about this?” I ask myself...
Aug 30, 2024 from Meadow RE: Write like you talk Earlier today I was reading some new posts by Visa. There’s not much to say about that, except that he uses pretty normal words and writes very well. This might seem like an odd comment, but it ste...
Aug 30, 2024 from Meadow RE: Write like you talk Earlier today I was reading some new posts by Visa. There’s not much to say about that, except that he uses pretty normal words and writes very well. This might seem like an odd comment, but it ste...
Aug 21, 2024 from nutcroft Quitting My Job For The Way Of Pain I gave you the chance of aiding me willingly, but you have elected the way of pain!1 Every few weeks, I receive an email or have a conversation that makes me reflect on whether I'm living up to my ...
Aug 06, 2024 from nutcroft Kneel Before The Emperor Of Mecatol Rex Mecatol Rex. A blasted hellscape, scarred and pitted, haunted by the ghosts of ancient custodians who await the next fools to aspire for lordship over its husk-corpse. A million billion xenos of sp...
Jul 11, 2024 from nutcroft My Glorious Ascension To Thought Leadership I. This Escalated Quickly I mentioned one post ago that this blog has done approximately 2M+ lifetime views, with over a million of them being in the past two weeks in response to the now-infamous ...
Jul 08, 2024 from nutcroft An ontology of political decisions Not all political decisions are the same. Some are easier to make but potentially less effective while others harder to make and effective yet potentially dangerous. It’s important that we understa...
Jul 02, 2024 from nutcroft On Burnout, Mental Health, And Not Being Okay This blog did so many hits last week that the host platform experienced timeouts. I've been invited onto podcasts, and offered both small technical projects and journalism work, of all things. It w...
Jul 01, 2024 from nutcroft Introducing Shoshin College Have you ever thought that universities are boring and we might be able to make one that's not? Well, my friends and I went ahead and started one. We call it Shoshin College and it’s here, in Londo...
