Now

Social Media

My host, Micro.blog, supports ActivityPub, so my posts are federated to Mastodon, and I can follow folks whose accounts are similarly federated. I believe in supporting work like this, so I am using a paid account. My posts will live here.

I’m also syndicating to Bluesky, and Nostr, as Micro.blog currently offers this.

I’m hopeful that with open protocols, blockchains, federation and syndication, we can make something that works even better than the collection of for-profit islands we’re all on.

I’m not sure what the future holds. I’m staking space in Wavelength and I’m interested in Threads and will follow developments as one does.

Family

Working on being a better father. Unlearning and retraining myself is hard. I see how angry and grumpy I act at home and it’s not lost on me how I’m affecting my wife and my daughter. Exploring shadow work via journaling.

Career

I’m at a very good place, in the sense that I’m confident in my abilities and I really enjoy my role. My current challenge is building a team by elevating everyone. When it seems easy, that is a clue I’m missing something. I have learned I have a lot to learn. The business continues to evolve as does personnel. Maintaining best-practices and sustaining organizational knowledge is more of a herculean task than I imagined.

Health

I haven’t come to terms with my diabetes diagnosis.

I hate it. I hate that I drank all the high-fructose corn syrup. I hate that I ate all the Cheetos and cheese puffs and Doritos and tortilla chips. And French fries and mashed potatoes and baked potatoes and white bread and rice. I crave the carbs hard. Still.

I’m not moving enough to compensate for poor choices. I need to eat more fiber and eat fewer carbs. I’m having difficulty and I am angry with myself.

By comparison, avoiding wheat because of being Celiac has been easy.

My hearing is stable. Hearing in my left ear is greatly diminished but hasn’t changed in a year.