Day 22: Hometown 📷
Photo challenge day 21: Silhouette 📷
My partner and I have been working on this business since last year but somehow having something physical makes it feel more real. This is my personal space on the internet so I won’t be promoting my work here. If you’re interested to see what it is I do you can find me here: findcommonground.ca
Photo challenge day 20: Gather 📷
New Shoes, Same Treadmill #3
Stuff I’m doing 👨🏻💻 I’ve been taking care of administrative shit related to my new business. When you work in the field of mental health and wellbeing you typically have to register for all kinds of stuff. That means fees, lots and lots of fees. On to the cool stuff I’ve read this week. Stuff I’ve read 👨🏻💻📚 💉🎨✨Why Is Everyone Getting Their Tattoos Removed? The worst part of getting a tattoo removed, apart from the searing pain and the two-year commitment, is the sound the laser makes as it hits your skin: a violent, unnatural popping and crackling that could soundtrack an animated video of someone being electrocuted.
Photo challenge day 19: Equal 📷
📷 Day 18: Texture
Another Piece of Content (Kill Me)
Content: I fucking hate that word. My skin crawls every time I hear an influencer, tech exec, or web 3 grifter use it in a video, blog post, or Instagram Story. If I run into someone and we inevitably start asking what we do for a living and the person answers; “I make internet content”, I automatically know how they think about their work. What they “create” is nothing more than chum to feed the algorithm so they get views, clicks, whatever.
📷 Day 17: Warmth
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Great article from M.G. Siegler regarding Apple’s WWDC responses to it’s problems with shipping features around AI.
Paddle boarding in Canmore, Alberta. 🏔️📷
New Shoes, Same Treadmill #2
Stuff I’m doing 👨🏻💻 My wife and I have been packing up furniture, cutlery, clothes, anything we think we might need for our new place in West Kelowna. We’ll be spending most of our summer there this year. We’re trying to get everything packed into one U-Haul so we can do it one seven hour drive. 🤞 Stuff I’ve read 👨🏻💻📚 🤑The Age of The Double Sell-Out In the 1990s, there was a single ethical principle at the heart of youth culture — don’t sell out.
A Bicycle For The Mind
Before the WWDC keynote I had read rumours that iPad multitasking was, yet again, going to be changed. Those of us that love the iPad as a platform have been burned by this promise before. However it’s not a feature I would use that often anyway. Years ago I worked for Apple. I was a Manager at two different retail stores. I started back when the current iPhone was the 3GS and the iPad hadn’t been released yet.
I worked for Apple for 10 years and I still get excited to watch the WWDC keynote. Yes, the company has been dropping the ball in more ways than one but I can’t help myself. 🤓
I’m lucky to live right next to the second largest urban park in all of Canada. Over 80 kilometers of trails. 🏃🏻♂️🚴🏻🇨🇦
When you decide you’re worthy, the Universe doesn’t argue; it adapts. New people, new chances, new energy all begin to align with the version of you that finally believes in better.
- Vex King
💬 When you’re going through a massive career change the impostor syndrome hits hard.
New Shoes, Same Treadmill #1
If you’re new here this is a weekly post where I summarize some of the interesting stuff I’ve read lately. Stuff I’m doing 👨🏻💻 I started taking clients for the first time as business owner! This is a huge step for me. While I’ve been in the corporate world my entire life, I’ve always had an entrepreneurial itch that needed to be scratched. I might talk about this in more detail in the future.
Living her best life. 🐶🐕
From Bear to Here
Hey everyone! I’m in the process of moving from Bear to micro.blog. I’ve been working in corporate tech for most of my life. I started my long career in Web Development back when CSS was relatively new and you had to optimize for IE 5 (shudder). Like many people in Tech, I started to get burnt out. I stopped chasing the promotions and larger teams and started putting more energy into creativity.