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no ordinary plant

My friend gave me a Philodendron Birkin plant a few months ago to put in my apartment. Initially, I was enamored by the beauty of its lush green leaves filled with white stripes, but over time I became used to seeing it sit by the window and eventually my fascination with it dampened. It became an ordinary plant — an ornament in my apa...

Vacation Diary | Week 1

The first week was off to a rocky start thanks to another COVID scare—a friend called in on Monday to tell us they were positive whom my SO had met at the weekend, which meant checks and being hyperalert to every real or imagined physical irregularity until we could be sure we didn’t catch it after all, which was around Thursday. Thing...

Rush - Spirit of the Radio

Best intro ever! Live in Frankfurt, 2004. https://youtu.be/nlrjt1tmKoU

Utility-first CSS

Recently I've found myself with the need to use a CSS toolkit a couple of times. The motivation was building from scratch some internal admin tools. I had heard great things about Tailwind, and David had bootstrapped a Rails integration for it, so we decided to go with it for building a new version of our internal Basecamp admin panel....

You have two choices.

Recently a dear friend of mine, on the steps of our church, confessed to me that he wasn't doing well. His business, his marriage, and other areas were in unrest. I stood there listening in disbelief. The man I always saw as joyful showed a sign of weakness and opened his armor; what I saw were deep wounds. His demeanor also told it al...

Portico Darwin: Historically Good

TODAY'S RAMBLINGS Last Friday, it was a history of concerts - at least my own. Today, I'm going to share some different history, yet keep the focus on my favorite subject: myself (shocker). Because I've found some great historical photos of my beloved SF, and specifically, our own neighborhood here, The Marina District. Sounds exciting...

finding the time

There’s a fairytale that we often tell ourselves: That someday our to-do lists and responsibilities will lighten up enough and provide us with the perfect vacancy in our schedule to do what’s important to us. The thing is, there will always be more to do and there will always be responsibilities to tend to. The challenge of getting to ...

I can't save you, nobody can

In the two decades I've been managing people, there's never been a termination that didn't sting. Acting on the knowledge that someone isn't working out is probably the hardest task for any conscientious manager. It's only natural to meet that difficulty and that sting with regret: I could have done more. But the hard truth is often a ...

Where are you in your career? What’s your endgame?

I was writing in my journal this morning and thoughts about my career and where I’m at occurred to me. Here’s what I wrote that I’d love your thoughts on: Career wise - I wonder if I’ll ever be content? Will I forever go from chasing one thing to the next? Ultimately, I know what I want my career to look like, I guess what I’m asking m...

Update on working with Alex + sorry for being late :(

Hey there 👋 I'm writing to you in the passenger seat of my parent's Honda CRV. Katie and I are headed to Minneapolis. She has her 6-month routine checkup for MS at Mayo. (My parents let us borrow their car when we go – this is only our second visit) We're excited to spend the weekend with family but a little anxious about the appointme...