My recent efforts on this site didn't exactly go to plan. Apologies, this post is going to be a bit stream of consciousness writing. I will say some of what I had done recently worked really well. I think going to a markdown driven site was a good call. Additionally, using GitHub to drive everything was also a good …

So I got out of my habits for a while, and now that I'm getting back into them, I appreciate the effect that they have on me. It's little things, like when I walk around the house grabbing something and putting it away or even in the right room, or doing an exercise for a short duration - good efforts start building. I …

I never intended to go a while without posting anything, but life has been busy and things just happened. I still have this idea that I should make writing more of my daily practice. I think to do that more, I'll probably have to take more of a creative writing focus, and maybe some day I will. Recently, I've been …

I'm not quite done, but I've built out some of my documentation on git. I want to build out some additional thoughts, but it's been a good exercise. It's been a good reminder of 2 notions - I'm not an expert at any of these technologies and as such I shouldn't assume I have the best tool for the job in my toolbox. For …

I'm in the midst of some projects in my life where I'm trying to establish good standards to move forward with. For instance I recently stood up an instance of Airflow and I'm in the process of standardizing a bunch of legacy ETL processes. As such, I felt like it was a good time to maybe add some of this stuff to my …

A World Without Email 2 I've decided to set this book aside for now. Actually I set it aside several days ago, and instead spent my time reading a book on SSL. I'm not sure it was great time spent- while I did learn some things, I didn't really find the ah-ha idea I had hoped when I started. I think this book probably …

A World Without Email 1 I'm not sure how I feel about this book. I'm doing a lot of head nodding and I'm not really sure if that's good or bad. On one hand, this book fits into the same category as the E-Myth or It doesn't Have to be Crazy At Work or even Getting Things Done. They describe disfunction at a given level …

So today hasn't exactly gone to plan for personal reasons, but I'm trying to make the best of it. I'm not quite far enough along on some of my professional research stuff, but I more or less have a plan in mind to move forward, and it's just going to take some time to consume all the topics I need at the moment. I'm …

I'm still in the process of working on my professional development, so not too much reading has been done that would fit in my more operational research writing. I should probably try and merge that somewhere along the way, but I feel like the life expectancy of knowledge about software means that it's not particularly …

I've paused my normal reading for a bit. I've had on my list to spend a lot more time with AirFlow. I've spent a lot of time professionally writing what can best be described as ETL, but I've never had any of the specific tooling. Airflow has seemed to be a great solution for my purposes, especially with the maturation …