A spoken word piece at TEDxUGA which I enjoyed.
Doing a training thing for work next week. The training coordinator sent an email to 25 of us about how to access the learning portal. The username is email and password is a single word with an exclamation point. My first instinct was get in ASAP and change the password since so many other people…
My first in person TEDxUGA was last year. I returned again this year. It opened with this spoken word poem to set this year’s theme: Illuminate.
Read 75Â books. I should be at 18.75 read by this point. So, 18 is pretty good. Hit 25,000 pages. I should be at 6,250 pages read, so my 6,270 is on pace. Finish series already started. I finished the Millennium series (one book) and make progress on both the Robot and Expanse series (4…
Received an email that looked phishy: Greetings, Please read this important e-mail carefully. Recently you registered, transferred or modified the contact information for the following domain name: ezrasf.com In order to ensure your domain name remain active, you must now click the following link and follow the instructions provided. http://verify.domain.com/registrant/?verification_id=999999&key=BFrrpxGDbb&rid=999999 Sincerely, Domain Registrar The web…
The “just” part is the hard part. Ego depletion may not be real (another), but it certainly seems so for myself. Recently when stressed, I made lots and lots of bad decisions earlier in the day than normal. These tactics are essentially my own strategy for getting in gym almost every day: Chaining:Â Add it as…
I learned electronics as a kid by messing around with old radios that were easy to tamper with because they were designed to be fixed. Lee Felsesnsteinin The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson The story I tell about how I ended up working in information…
13.7: Cosmos and Culture has a good article on predictions. Making good predictions isn’t just about your accuracy; it’s also about your calibration. Accuracy = how often correct Calibration = confidence level in the prediction All too often when we see predictions no one asks about the calibration. Nor do we go back and check the…