Hey! 👋🏼 I'm the dad of 5 humans and 3 dogs who loves a good cup of coffee and an even better book. Follower of Jesus. Major nerd. Sales executive. Tech geek. BBQ enthusiast. This is where I share what I am learning as I go.
In case you missed it, I’ve been blogging at Meditations and Marginalia. I’ve started using that more than this site for various reasons, but I may change my mind, depending on how things go in the future. I was having some issues with GitHub Pages, but that seems to be resolved now.
Moral of the story, check out the new site if you happen to stumble on this page.
Have you ever thought about going back to get a degree in your topic here?
I have. Many times.
Yet, I have never been able to personally justify spending tens of thousands of dollars to get a formal degree that may or may not provide a return on that investment. I signed up to do an MBA program several years ago with the University of Illinois, but ended up never taking a single class when I found out that most graduates with that degree don’t make significantly more than their non-MBA degree holding peers.
I recently read the book The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga. If you are unfamiliar, it is an overview of Adlerian Psychology, also known as Individual Psychology.
I’ll admit that I had never heard of Alfred Adler or the psychology he was a proponent of, but I am glad that I gave this book a read. Unlike many psychology or self-help books, this one is written in the form of a narrative dialogue between a student and a mentor, which makes it very easy to read.
Life isn’t always fair. It’s not easy. Difficult circumstances will arise for all of us from time to time. The question is how will you choose to respond during tough times?
It is tempting to give into our emotional response and allow that to dictate how we react. This, however, is not good. Emotions are fleeting and driven by hormones flooding your body. They are indifferent to reality outside your current circumstance. They have no perspective.
Ask any top sales performer the secret to their success, and chances are, you won’t get a flashy answer. You won’t hear about a secret script or a viral campaign or some once-in-a-lifetime pitch that changed everything. What you’ll hear — if they’re being honest — is something much simpler, and far less exciting:
💡Sales Success Comes Down To Consistency, Discipline, And A Commitment To The Basics.
Those who code spend a lot of time in the terminal. I actually take my daily notes for work and life in the terminal in addition to any coding projects I work on in my spare time.
When you become comfortable using it, the terminal becomes a magical place, where you can fly around like a wizard performing all sorts of tasks without ever needing to lift your fingers off the keyboard. Seriously… who uses a mouse these days 😜.
Code Tutor is built to allow you to learn to code yourself rather than just vibe code your way to success. This AI agent is supportive and uses the Socractic method to walk you, the coding student, through solving the problem on your own with guidance.
🧠 Code tutor is built on the principle that we can use AI to accomplish great things, but we need to protect our ability to think critically and learn.
Better Tasks is a lightweight, modular and opinionated Neovim plugin for managing Markdown-based task lists across your notes, journals, or project files. It adds intuitive task management commands, persistent storage, status highlighting, and upcoming fuzzy-finding and popup UIs.
As always, you can find out more about this project and all my projects in my GitHub.
As you can see below, the tasks can be formatted into a table-like structure (not truly a table due to markdown limitations) that allow you to quickly see your tasks at a glance and view them through the perspective of title, due date, category, or status.