February 2024 Influences

AI is exciting and tiring. Many new products, tools, and ideas yet I’m not sure what’s worth our time?

I am curating a list of AI Products and testing tools. If you find a specific tool for your use case send me a message on my contact page or X/Twitter message. Let’s be friendies.

I am reminding people today, cough cough clearing my throat.

Encourage people!

Ask people, what would you do?

We all need a little help and a push sometimes.

Now Page

I updated my website to feature a /now page. Not sure who I took this from but I noticed that Derek Sivers does this.

For me, the point is that if people want to know what I am working on there is a place to do this. In addition, I can park an idea and practice recording myself.

I don’t want to Vlog on YouTube unless I have something to share. However, I would like to practice without overwhelming myself with a title, description, and a quintillion idea to think through.

NuShell

A lot of my day-to-day work is using C# and LinqPad to execute a bag of data. Then I convert JSON to Objects again, and again, and again. I love bash, powershell, jq, and piping functions. However, it’s tedious.

Why NuShell? I want to call an endpoint and see a JSON response in a tabular form.

NuShell is a replacement of bash/powershell.

Health, Strength, and Building Muscle

I never tried to build muscle until this year. This year I will. This is my before picture.

My plan is using a combination of kettle bells, 108 bows, and dumbbells and measure as I go.

Alan Barr's minuscule tiny muscle you ever saw.

Books and Media

Don’t tell anyone about the secret book summary page!

I’ve read a lot of books over the years, yet I did not save my notes or summarize them. Yes, I could use AI to make it easier for myself, and I do.

I will polish and update my book summary and share personal notes as I find the time.

Anything you want by Derek Sivers
Information Architecture and the work by Abby Covert.
On Quality: An Inquiry into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings by Robert Pirsig.
The Most Important Thing Illuminated: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor by Howard Marks.

Big Questions for Myself

What is the intersection between quality and risk?

How do you manage the software development life cycle while running a skeleton crew, managing business priorities, and controlling risk?

What are the practices, insights, and crystallized knowledge that build on top of your moat, so that you don’t lose the value, the brain drains, the essence that is lost in the mist of space and time that we can collect and harvest into our sieve?