Tag: personal
From Stank to Standing Ready — Welcome Home, Dear Resume
After fourteen years as a Google Doc, my resume has finally moved home—wired into my blog with a pipeline that enforces the quarterly update discipline I knew I should have had all along.
The Cathedral and the Kludge
Two websites, two deaths, and what thirty years in electronic media finally made clear: nothing on the web is permanent — some things are merely kept.
Security for IT, Not for Thee
I tried to log into Google on a company iPad. Two hours later I had rebuilt my account security from scratch. Here is why the average person never gets that far.
Take the Long Way Home
Revised on:Part two of the Jackson, TN transmission saga: the Enterprise standoff, a lost license, the long solo drive home, and — at last — 'Habemus auto.'
Last summer, we snowballed Jackson
Revised on:A road trip to drop Katlyn off in Dallas turns into a transmission failure, a guitar store celebrity sighting, and two nights stranded in Jackson, TN.
What Forty Years of Displacement Looked Like Before It Was for Everyone
From PostScript in 1985 to AI in 2026, a career spent learning sideways through successive waves of technological displacement — and what that pattern looks like now that the wave is everywhere at once.
On Being Sculpted Down
Revised on:A reflection on medical age bias, patient agency, and refusing to be diminished by demographic expectations — prompted by a fall on a running trail and the fall-risk bracelet that followed.
The Middle Tract
What running a marathon taught me about sustainable health—lessons from Icarus, pickle juice, and the difference between what you can do and what you should do.