Fins up!
It's stayed unusually cold in Seattle, hovering around the 20-30 degree range. On the other end of the country, it's even colder; there's a non-trivial chance that, as I'm typing this, my father is shoveling our old driveway out of ten inches of snow. Balm is relative, I suppose.
Last week, I wrote about how I stay productive. Productivity tips are a fairly rote topic, I know, but I think you'll like this: my techniques aren't really unique, but I do a couple specific things that I think are pragmatic and easy to implement. (I wrote this in between sprints on rewriting Barback, my cocktail app for iOS -- writing is sometimes difficult, but I think it's funny when writing becomes my procrastination outlet because I'm too lazy or unfocused to work on other things.)
Some other stuff:
Last week, I wrote about how I stay productive. Productivity tips are a fairly rote topic, I know, but I think you'll like this: my techniques aren't really unique, but I do a couple specific things that I think are pragmatic and easy to implement. (I wrote this in between sprints on rewriting Barback, my cocktail app for iOS -- writing is sometimes difficult, but I think it's funny when writing becomes my procrastination outlet because I'm too lazy or unfocused to work on other things.)
Some other stuff:
- Today was the first Dolphins playoff game since '08. It was a fairly crushing loss. We were ten point underdogs that played like twenty point underdogs: it was an ignoble end to a very weird season where we started out 1-4 and ended up 10-6 despite a bottom-five defense. I know most tech people don't really enjoy football -- and, right now, after that game, I don't particularly enjoy it either -- but this was a fun season and I'm sad to see it go. (Naturally, it's time to root against whoever'd playing the Patriots.)
- Last night I watched Cafe Society, the new Woody Allen produced by Amazon Studios (it's free if you have Prime!) . It's exactly what you think it is, but still nice -- a pleasant, relatively predictable narrative serviced with great music and visuals and a charming cast.
- I'm finishing up Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut, which I went into with low expectations. Vonnegut is my favorite author, and it's the only book of his I've never read -- he considered it his worst. The plot itself isn't great, but the surrounding atmosphere feels very apt: the book is a morality tale on the perils and merits of heavy industrialization, job loss, and what a universal basic income could do to the psyche of the American people.
Have a great Sunday. I hope you have a productive offseason.