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For most of my career, I was an individual contributor. Usefulness was visible: write the code, review the change, fix the problem, publish the document. The output was easier to see.Moving into management changed that relationship...
Yesterday I published the blog post Apple again black-holed my App Store Connect bug report, which complained that Apple has twice given up on investigating my bug report without requesting additional information from me. This morning I...
Orange Smoke Day in Chicago https://www.joshbeckman.org/blog/orange-smoke-day-in-chicago We’re having another wildfire smoke day in Chicago (previously), with air so thick that your nose gets black and you taste it in every br...
It’s been three weeks since my wife and I adopted our dog. This post is intentionally brief: Our walks started off far too ambitious. Our dog needed more time to get used to our neighborhood, as well as the sounds of the city. (I had no...
Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis This story begins some 125 million years ago on the lush floodplains of what is now the Isle of Wight, back in the Cretaceous.Forget the cool, windswept English coastline of today. This was a warm,...
I've been back on Twitch as an Affiliate streamer for a couple of months, which has been plenty of time to get a feel for it and reflect on it. After talking with Danny about it kind of in-depth last night, I made the decision to stop...
An excellent interview! From deleted government records to disappearing music, our digital culture can be erased overnight. The Internet Archive’s Mark Graham and Chris Freeland explain what it will take to save it. adactio.com/links/22660
For over half a century, people taking the psychedelic drug DMT have reported meeting alien beings. Now a scientist says these aliens might be real, and that he has the mathematics to prove it. Forget string theory and extra dimensions;...
Walt Disney’s “Flywheel” diagram, describing its many internal promotional mechanisms, prepared for investors in 1957, resembles the classic form of the “it’s all connected” diagram. ▲ Disney Flywheel diagram (1957)
The cover is a simple, cardstock cover with simple gold foil lettering on the cover. I picked up the Midori “Commonplace Book” ($5 and available in 2 colors) . This A6-sized, 61-numbered-page mini notebook includes a paper bookmark that...
Homer, Odyssey, tr. Daniel Mendelsohn (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2025), p. 57 (from "A Note on the Translation"): Wherever possible, I have tried to avoid words whose modernity would jolt readers out of the world that is...
Football Book Review #1: A Season With Verona by Tim Parks Football Book Review #2: She Stood There Laughing by Stephen Foster Football Book Review #3: Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters by Daniel Gray Football Book Review #4: The Bottom...
“Daddy, what is the most beautiful thing you have seen in your whole life?” my little one asked. “You,” I replied. She laughed while hugging me tightly.
Robyn Hitchcock - 40 Watt Club, Athen, Georgia, April 24, 2026Robyn Hitchcock — the hardest working man in showbiz? Well, one of ‘em anyway. Now well into his 70s, Hitchcock has a new memoir (Stranded in the Future) and a new album (The...