Building things and writing about them. Sometimes in that order.
I was raised in a somewhat religious household. We used to go to church every Sunday and I used to believe in God. At some point, probably about 20 years ago, I started labeling myself as agnostic. I know there are aspects of the human experience that can't be entirely studied by science, and that...
I just turned 42 today, and ChatGPT called me obese. In all fairness, it's right. It even said it's not like it's calling me that, it's the objective truth based on my height and my weight. So what to do about it? Ever since I turned 40, I keep feeling like my body is starting to go downhill, an...
Well, here we go again, trying to put my ideas out there — not on paper, but in writing, at least. I've been reading books about randomness and decision-making. I started with Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke, then Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb, then The Black Swan, also by Taleb, and I...
By now we've all heard that AI is going to take away a ton of jobs — that maybe software engineers will disappear, or at the very least the market won't be what it used to be. There are lots of layoffs, and honestly, I don't know exactly what to do with my life at this point. I still have a job, a...
There's something I really should have thought about when I bought an outdoor security camera. I got a Reolink one — works fine most of the time, just like the indoor cameras — but during the winter it just stopped working. I think it was the temperature. I'm in Utah, so when it gets cold, the lit...
It's been about a month since I started intermittent fasting, and I wanted to share my experience so far. I decided to try intermittent fasting as a simple way to kickstart weight loss and, more importantly, to boost my energy levels, as I mentioned in my previous post. Overall, I think it’s going...
This morning, I was looking for an excuse to procrastinate on my day job, and lucky for me, YouTube’s algorithm came to the rescue. It recommended a podcast interview with a scientist talking about cancer research. So, naturally, I clicked on it. They discussed a lot about metabolic therapy for...