Month: December 2018

Every year, I do a retrospective in which I review the past year. Up until this year, I've kept those retrospectives private, for many reasons: I'm a fairly private person (though this year I've tried to change that a bit). I've been afraid I didn't measure up. I've been afraid that things I think might… Continue reading 2018 Retrospective

As someone who's worked from home for years, I've been asked about this a lot. How do I concentrate when I'm at home? How do I get things done? What keeps me from playing Zelda: Ocarina of Time all day? I think people ask me this because they think about how they behave at home… Continue reading Staying motivated while working from home

Ugh, Facebook, amiright? You've probably seen the news about how awful FB is about privacy, and how they've been sucking up all the info they can squeeze out of you and giving it to advertisers and other billion dollar companies. How can you mitigate this? You may be thinking it's too late, or that what… Continue reading Protecting yourself from Facebook

I hate waking up. A lot. Conversely, I love staying up late. This does not for a happy morning make. As I have struggled with this for most of my life, I thought I'd enumerate some of the coping mechanisms I've developed to deal with getting up in the morning. But first, a quick story… Continue reading Waking up when you’re NOT a morning person