: Foggy morning in Upper Bidwell Park
: Never had this many flights booked at one time. Achievement unlocked.
: Fall in Upper Park is quite the thing.
: According to Strava Iโm only 17.9mi from hitting my yearly goal of running 1,200mi. Iโve got this.
: So I tried to use Claude to help make my 2024 new to me music list (inspired by โฆ
: Sunday hike on Saturday. Need to give the hamstring another day of rest.
: Currently reading: Platform Engineering by Camille Fournier ๐
: Currently reading: Polostan by Neal Stephenson ๐
: Bidwell Park is gorgeous in the Fall.
: Finished reading: The Mercy of Gods by James S. A. Corey ๐
: Sunday hikes are back, now that Upper Park is mostly open. The line the fire cut is quite a thing.
: Upper Park is still closed due to the Camp Fire, but finding ways to get the miles in.
: Currently reading: Hack Your Bureaucracy by Marina Nitze ๐
: Currently reading: Radical Respect by Kim Scott ๐
: Finished reading: The Engineering Executive’s Primer by Will Larson ๐
: Currently reading: The Engineering Executive’s Primer by Will Larson ๐
: Finished reading: The Manager’s Path by Camille Fournier ๐
: I love my Apple Watch. I love my Dexcom. Iโm not sure if theyโre ready for each other like this โฆ
: Finished reading: EMPOWERED by Marty Cagan ๐
: I used to work in a university library. This is one of my efforts to figure out where the data was โฆ
: More running in Verona ๐ฎ๐น
: View from a hotel window. In Venice.
: Currently reading: EMPOWERED by Marty Cagan ๐
: Finished reading: Transformed by Marty Cagan ๐
: Iโd work here. www.tbray.org/ongoing/W…
: Currently reading: The Manager’s Path by Camille Fournier ๐
: Finished reading: The Staff Engineer’s Path by Tanya Reilly ๐
: Added Glasgow Eyes to the collection.
: Want to read: Building Evolutionary Architectures by Neal Ford ๐
: Want to read: Transformed by Marty Cagan ๐
: Connections Puzzle #281 ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ ๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ช ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐จ๐จ๐จ๐จ
: Finished reading: Decisive by Chip Heath ๐
: Every once in a whilehile the stars align. Connections Puzzle #280 ๐จ๐จ๐จ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ช
: The Kill at Ace of Spades Sacramento. What a fantastic show!
: Want to read: The Engineering Executive’s Primer by Will Larson ๐
: Mistakes were made. By me. I made this mistake.
: Currently reading: Decisive by Chip Heath ๐
: Finished reading: The Friction Project by Robert I. Sutton ๐
: Currently reading: The Friction Project by Robert I. Sutton ๐
: Finished reading: The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu ๐
: Finished reading: How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg ๐
: Currently reading: Upstream by Dan Heath ๐
: Currently reading: The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu ๐
: Finished reading: Switch by Chip Heath ๐
: Currently reading: Switch by Chip Heath ๐
: Finished reading: Wiring the Winning Organization by Gene Kim ๐
: This day in the life of living with type 1 diabetes is spot on with my experience.
: Finished reading: Product Roadmaps Relaunched by C. Todd Lombardo ๐
: Currently reading: Wiring the Winning Organization by Gene Kim ๐
: Connections Puzzle #172 ๐จ๐จ๐จ๐จ ๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ช ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
: Obligatory new camera, I mean phone, photo.
: I know these aren’t new, but I still think it was a genius idea. When I’m donating โฆ
: It’s not the greatest dataviz, but here’s all the 5k runs I’ve done that I could โฆ
: Ah, the futility of raking leaves under a Liquid Amber.
: Want to read: Implementing Service Level Objectives by Alex Hidalgo ๐
: Want to read: Tidy First? by @kentbeck@hackyderm.io ๐
: Want to read: Product Operations by Melissa Perri ๐
: Currently reading: Product Roadmaps Relaunched by C. Todd Lombardo ๐
: Finished reading: Escaping the Build Trap by Melissa Perri ๐
: Finished reading: The Crux by Richard P. Rumelt ๐
: This almost makes him look like a puppy again.
: Back at it after a 3-week break
: Rad seats at the SJ Quakes match.
: Different Sunday hike, without the pup
: A successful trip to Murphys always involves brunch at Grounds
: Castles! (More 5 years ago Ireland)
: Five years ago we were in Ireland and it was awesome.
: Sometimes a dog with a stick is the happiest being imaginable
: Fire made for all to burn Foolish end for all concerned But water will still come Man should โฆ
: She really does love the park.
: Flowers in the park are in really popping.
: Really like this shot of Posey on our morning hike in Upper Bidwell Park
: Finally back at spring training and I love it.
: Kat and I went on the 2023 JoCo Cruise. It was awesome. Here are some photos
: Six-ish Years of Living with Type 1 Diabetes #t1d blog.patandkat.com/2023/03/s…
: Refueled at LAX, next stop Miami
: Itโs almost JoCo Cruise time! I canโt wait to grab a 6am flight ๐ฌ
: Blog post I wish I could write: You Canโt Fight Conwayโs Law with Project Managers
: Because on Sunday, we hike. The park is super green right now and wild flowers are starting to think โฆ
: Want to read: The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz ๐
: Doing our Sunday morning Upper Park thing.
: Made it to 16 miles today. This was at the 8mi turnaround point.
: This morning the channel had that cool layer of mist to make everything a little creepy.
: More from the park this morning
: The Sunday morning hike with Posey.
: Want to read: Strategic Monoliths and Microservices by Vaughn Vernon ๐
: Letโs check on the water level
: Surveying the park after the storm.
: As they say, goals matter. For running I am aiming for 24mi/week and 1,200mi/year. So far, so good.
: The bins needed a landing pad.
: Gorgeous morning in Upper Bidwell Park and Posey was having a blast.
: Added Living in Data by Jer Thorp ๐ to my reading list.
: Happy Friday, the new Ladytron album Time’s Arrow is out!
: velociraptor eating bananas, Photo, Realistic
: Just added Cherry Tree Vol. 4 from The National to my vinyl collection๐ค๐ผ
: Tim Burtonโs Lindo Channel
: Finished reading: Modern Software Engineering by David Farley ๐
: We saw a coyote in the park this morning, so then of course everything might have been a coyote.
: The Saturday long run had less than optimal timing. I donโt mind running in the rain, but torrential โฆ
: Morning and evening. The levels are still rising.
: Here Comes the Flood The flooding happening or coming soon to a California location near you is unlikely to have a direct โฆ
: Currently reading: The Dark Tower by Stephen King ๐Iโm really glad Iโm on the last book. While I โฆ
: Pretty good year on Strava. Iโm be of my favorite subscription services. โฆ
: It’s that time again. Time to list out the albums I added to my “Library” this โฆ
: Park check. Things are okay.
: Testing out SongShift playlist sharing songsha.re/open/1bfa…
: Currently reading: Modern Software Engineering by David Farley ๐
: I have TSA Pre, will I be shamed as well?
: Derping through the park on a foggy morning.
: I didnโt take any photos of Christmas. Iโm not sure why.
: Happy holidays from the bear and me.
: File footage: Duncan looking south from North Rim trail in Upper Bidwell Park
: Posey and me on our Sunday hike. Photo in Upper Bidwell Park, facing west.
: Denial? Itโs telling that, seemingly after years of denial, Apple has accepted the fact that it needs to not โฆ
: First water flow in the Lindo Channel since May 12, 2022.
: If youโre driving near downtown Sacramento and you see a purple beam going up into the skyโฆit means โฆ
: I know it can take a long time to run a marathon but 12 hours is probably past most cutoff times
: Looking east from Upper Bidwell Park while on the weekend long run.
: Over in the fediverse @jwz@mastodon.social provides us with one his timely reminders of whatโs โฆ
: Watch Billie Eilish do her sixth Vanity Fair interview. Still fascinating to watch somebody like โฆ
: Speaking of exploring new and old social apps, there was a piece on Last.fm turning 20 years old โฆ
: Watch Duty, a nice app/system for keeping a very close eye on fires is in a donation doubling โฆ
: overcast.fm/+7_XRjAE4… Great illustration of where markets failโฆwhen you need moral decisions โฆ
: Itโs a great time to explore the social space and maybe even find something again for the first โฆ
: While I love this victory, the narrative will remain โwhich Spurs are going to show up todayโ for a โฆ
: I really like the clouds in this one.
: The Last Emperox is coming out in April of 2020! This will be book three in The Interdependency โฆ
: Even though it was 71ยฐ, it was still a pretty nice morning for the run.
: Another nice upgrade in the Dexcom G6 is that it dumps my data right into Apple Health.
: I’ve switched to the Dexcom G6, which is more accurate than the Freestyle Libre that I was โฆ
: My alma mater has launched a podcast, Out of Curisosity. They also go the extra mile and provide โฆ
: Is Wimbledon the Glastonbury for the olds (aka rich) of England?
: I thought it would be fun to try and get on the newsletter bandwagon. It’s a really hard thing โฆ
: If you don’t already subscribe to The Ride Home, you should consider it. I may still have the โฆ
: The new K.Flay album Solutions is really fun. You should check it out and listen to it on repeat for โฆ
: Eternal Brightside The Killers playing Mr. Brightside at Glastonbury 2019 is fantastic, and not just because Johnny โฆ