The Ship Operations / Activity Bingo Board mashup I made a few days ago was hard to read, so I ordered engineering prints from Staples. They have a big HP Inkjet printer that prints in "business color", which is good enough for diagrams but not good for photos. My
I have been thinking about how I miss the old internet before social media turned it into a dumpster fire of shills competing to sell advertising and clicks. It turns out that I'm not alone in thinking this! Here are a few hashtags that I've started
When I had trouble answering the question What Should I Work On Today last year, I created a diagram called the Activity Bingo Board (aka ABB). I describe the idea in the article Making Operational Diagrams, but briefly it is like a buffet of tasks that I can pick from
I spent a good chunk of the day reorganizing and finalizing the diagram as the core of a spaceship. I started with this rearranged ship diagram. It puts the human interaction into the water line, and moves the hybrid section from the right to the left so an engine connection
Today I worked on refining the ship diagram from yesterday, which started out as a GoodNotes 5 diagram drawn on my iPad, printed out, and then annotated by hand. The idea behind the revised diagram, other than making something more easily editable, is to have a map of all the
It's the day after Memorial Day, and with this the unofficial beginning of Summer is upon me! It is a good time to start a new habit, which is simply writing. I want to get in the habit of writing publicly again. The challenge is getting over the
In my last Groundhog Day Report, I concluded that I had a lot of social anxiety related to the feeling that I was too different in my thinking to get along with others. This is an existential anxiety that I want to face down, because it's likely that
March 3rd is the monthly progress review day for my 2026 goals, and it's just around the corner! I kicked-off this year's goal setting with a bunch of questions to reflect upon: * How can I be myself without pushing people away? * Am I not intrinsically motivated?
I've wanted to try out the Ghost publishing platform for a while, but technical stuff got in the way and then I got busy. I just want to yammer without so much structured thinking, and this could be a good place to do that!