Hey RSS readers! Time for another RSS-only article. I really need to vent about this because two days later, it's still bothering me...

Sometimes the upgrade isn't always better

July 27, 2024 Jim Nielsen What my blog is now is a result of me wrestling with what it even means to blog. What I love about “blogging” is how personal it is. Even the word, “blog”, doesn’t give you any classifying genre of what content or experience you’ll get from any one individual’s blog. Blogging is all about...

In a manager’s life, the manager tries to immerse themselves in deep work but fails to do so and ends up in shallow work due to many meetings they can’t avoid. In everything they do, they try to restore energy that was depleted in sudden bursts of shallow but demanding work. That’s, at best, inefficient and...

Goededag and welcome to the third issue of the Tiny Sparks newsletter! If you just stumbled upon that greeting, it means “good day” in Flemish (a Dutch dialect spoken in a region of Belgium). You’ll find out very soon why I choose that language (or have already figured it out, it’s not hard 😉). I hope you’re...

Yesterday at 14:08:35 local time, my ADS-B station tracked 62 aircraft. It is by far the highest number of airplanes my station tracked at any given moment. Normally during the rush hour in the skies, the average number of machines in range of my ADS-B station is somewhere between 40 and 50.