Due to a screw up with flights, we ended up with a fast expiring credit with United. Not wanting to waste it, we decided to go visit Vancouver for the weekend. Ky has already headed off with Swock, and I’m writing this from the tarmac, about to take off. I’m looking forward to it, and…

Ky and Occi are off to Vancouver today, enjoying sometime with a few good friends of ours. Due to work, I’m flying out tomorrow afternoon. It should be fun. With an empty house, I invited three other dads around for some steak and potatoes. We talked about everything and nothing; from supersonic flight, to how…

I was reading X while waiting for some data to upload this afternoon, and found out that a mere 3 minutes prior, and ~500 miles away, Charlie Kirk had been assassinated at a rally. It’s a terrible thing to happen. I don’t share Mr Kirk’s politics, or at least not most of them. But there…

Ky and I are trying to have a No Spend September, which is really just a hard curtail on as much discretionary spending as possible. This is things like Amazon, coffees or meals out, events. It’s certainly not dumpster diving. It hasn’t been too hard so far, but conversely, we haven’t seen the benefits of…

We often hear about the concept of going from 0 to 1, which comes from Peter Thiel’s excellent book of the same name. It’s all about creating something new. However much I enjoy that kind of work, what feel more common, and probably more useful, is going from 1 to 1.1, or having a marginal…

I recently went past the the library, and picked up two books. One was on Deep Learning (the machine version), the other was on cooking. I’ll focus on the second. I never really watched any of Anthony Bourdain’s many shows, but I did read his best seller, Kitchen Confidential. Now, I have his second best…