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Trying out Wei, a minimalist WordPress block theme
This is part 2 of my project to experiment with switching themes in WordPress, which I originally planned to finish in October until sicknesses hit and I was swept up in playing Elden Ring way too much. Never mind though; let’s continue shall we? See part 1 if you missed the overview but long-story-short I’m…
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Switching WordPress themes on Get On With It (Part 1)
It’s been a bit since I refreshed the design of the ‘ol blog and, as part of my amplify and reduce goals, I wanted to ensure I did it this month. Since I work with WordPress and this site is a super-simple blog site, the transition to a new theme should be pretty painless. Let’s…
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Maintenance mode
This is a term used in the tech biz for when a company or team is no longer investing in a feature, tool, or app. They put it into “maintenance mode” and don’t work on it until something breaks. Of course, something always breaks.
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Build an intro and outro into your day, week, or month routine
One of my colleagues recently raised the idea that often we’ll do retrospectives and futurespectives (i.e. roadmapping, visiontyping) but that many or most of us don’t do introspectives. While I’m not great at these kinds of things, I can say with certainty that writing out what I want to do and then what I did…
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Build a reputation around the type of work you want to do
When you aren’t doing the work you want to be doing, things are going to go one of two ways: Either way, it’s untenable and there is a better choice.
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Being nice vs being kind
When we give feedback to another person, be it at work or home, with friends or family, why do we so often default to being nice instead of being kind?
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Don’t break the chain, except when you need to
I’m a big fan of consistency. I’m a believer that small daily habits add up to monumental achievements. It’s well known that the comedian Jerry Seinfeld said his advice to anyone getting started was to write every day and “don’t break the chain”. Write a joke every day. Draw something every day. Run every day.…
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Take your “self” out of it
When you are thinking about what other people are doing, did, or are about to do, take yourself out of it. For example, you might think “My friends went to the park and didn’t invite me.” Remove that last bit. “My friends went to the park.” That’s all you really know anyway, isn’t it? Likewise,…
