I've been working with the Sacred Bow challenge to close out the year. I did this last year and this lead to my monthly check-in posts about my progress. For this year I've been working through the step of figuring out what I would like to let go and what …

I've been re-reading to "Deep Work" lately and I've really taken to the idea of reducing the number of "Any Benefit" things that eat up my time. These are sites / services where the lure of them is that they provide some benefit that makes them attractive to keep around. What …

Some of you might know that I'm working on a book called "The Mediocre Programmer". I'm in the editing phases of the book now (cleaning up the language in the book and hopefully releasing something that isn't a confusing mess). One of the things that I've committed to is doing …

Over this past weekend I borrowed Deep Work: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport from the local library. True to the spirit of the book I blocked out large chunks of the weekend to read it. In the book Cal Newport drives home …

I'm making a challenge for myself for this week to get as many things off of my list as I can.

Each week I do my weekly review and I notice that certain things just sit there and don't move. They're kind of like the bottom of the soup kettle …