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  • Five simple goals for 2016

    June 5, 2016 • 10 min read

    NOTE: Ironically enough, I started writing this post around New Year’s Day. However, I’m just now getting around to publishing it. But I promise I’...

  • Breaking a year of silence

    May 12, 2016 • 3 min read

    I haven’t blogged in the past year. Actually more than a year. The past year turned out to be one of the most difficult of my adult life after my m...

  • Why we fear

    February 28, 2015 • 4 min read

    Today I got some news that scared the shit out of me. Someone very close to me was diagnosed with cancer rather unexpectedly. My heart sunk, and it...

  • Five simple goals for 2015

    January 8, 2015 • 8 min read

    Last year I set five simple personal goals for 2014. I wrote them on a chalkboard in a visible location in my office where I see them daily, and it...

  • Why I love being part of a company over being a freelancer

    November 12, 2014 • via medium

    Over the course of 10 years in the workforce, I’ve been a freelancer for 9 years, and I’ve been an employee for 5 years. These are some of my refle...

  • A time to work and a time to play

    July 5, 2014 • 7 min read

    Growing up, I often heard people I respect say, “trust God, and work hard.” That saying epitomizes the American dream: the idea that with a combina...

  • Busyness, or laziness?

    March 23, 2014 • 4 min read

    I have four outdoor lights. One is a porch light at our front door. Two more are lights on either side of the garage. And the fourth is a lamppost ...

  • Five simple goals for 2014

    January 4, 2014 • 9 min read

    I love setting goals. In fact, that’s pretty much the best part of New Year. Oh and of course there’s the partying. New Years is great for that too.

  • Making Gravlax - Part 2

    October 11, 2013 • 5 min read

    This is Part 2 in my experience on making gravlax. You can read Part 1 here.

  • Making Gravlax - Part 1

    October 8, 2013 • 5 min read

    This is Part 1 in my experience on making gravlax. You can read Part 2 here.

  • On Love

    June 14, 2013 • 1 min read

    To the world, love means “you make me happy.”

  • A Fond Farewell To appendTo

    June 3, 2013 • 2 min read

    Over the past year I’ve had the enormous privilege to be part of an amazing team of professionals called appendTo. AppendTo provides front-end deve...

  • Leaving CURE, but staying involved.

    April 9, 2012 • 2 min read

    An open note to my colleagues, family, and friends:

  • The 2 Most Important Things

    April 4, 2012 • 2 min read

    In working at CURE the past two and a half years, I've had the chance to work alongside two of the most brilliant and talented programmer/developer...

  • A Sabbath Christmas

    December 30, 2011 • 4 min read

    This year Christmas fell on a Sunday. ("You're welcome" - sincerely, Captain Obvious)

  • My Dad

    November 11, 2011 • 1 min read

  • Life at Surface Level

    August 7, 2011 • 2 min read

    For the past week I’ve spent time with my Kenyan brother in Colorado for his wedding. I’ve had the amazing privilege of meeting and experiencing th...

  • Headache Free Gum

    May 30, 2011 • 4 min read

    DISCLAIMER: So I want to rant about gum for a little bit...and marketing. This post has nothing to do with design, code, or anything even remotely ...

  • I'm a tabaholic & Chrome doesn't help

    May 3, 2011 • 3 min read

    So by now some of you that know me know I'm a huge Chrome fan - in fact I try to convert anybody I know using Firefox to jump to the Chrome boat. I...

  • Spirit of Peace & Adoption

    April 30, 2011 • 5 min read

    Recently life has been filled with changes and new things. In so many ways this is just great. I thrive on the excitement of change and fresh thing...

  • User Testing & A Trip To The Eye Doctor

    April 17, 2011 • 3 min read

  • I don't deserve my wife

    April 2, 2011 • 3 min read

    I have an amazing wife, in many ways and I love her deeply. She just proved how amazing she is yet again, and that I really don't deserve this woma...

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