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Random thoughts on technology, teams, and leadership. Content from defunct blogs and companies will be added from time to time. Opinions expressed here are my own.

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Jan 18, 2026

Same as it Ever Was: The Luxury of Ignorance

The Luxury of Ignorance: When We Choose Not to Know It’s late Friday afternoon and as I am finishing up for the day, a customer email comes in with some new information on a low priority bug we’ve been working on. I thank the customer, and then while the thought is still in my head I write up a quick note in slack asking a colleague to help validate my new understanding of the bug. Read more

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2026

  • Jan 18, 2026 - Same as it Ever Was: The Luxury of Ignorance

    • 2025

  • Nov 14, 2025 - Building World-Class Support: Commandos, Not Armies or MPs
  • Oct 11, 2025 - Drowning in Beeps
  • Sep 24, 2025 - The Metrics Game: When Toxic Leadership Comes Full Circle
  • Sep 2, 2025 - Marketing Fluff: What Tech People Really Mean (and How to Avoid It)
  • Aug 28, 2025 - From Line Cook to Chef: Lessons for Presales Engineering
  • Aug 2, 2025 - Leaders Who Fail Up: The LinkedIn Rebrand of Failure
  • Aug 1, 2025 - Running Slurm and Flux on Oxide: Dual HPC Schedulers in Your Own Rack
  • Jul 15, 2025 - PXE Booting on Oxide
  • Jun 12, 2025 - Printed on 24 lb. Paper
  • Jun 10, 2025 - Everything Is Political: Embrace It
  • May 23, 2025 - ‘This Is Just How We Do Things Now’: The Quiet Collapse of Standards
  • May 13, 2025 - Find a New Band
  • Feb 21, 2025 - The Fence We Keep Ignoring

    • 2024

  • Dec 23, 2024 - The Parable of the Slow-Boiled Frog
  • Aug 13, 2024 - Managing Kubernetes Contexts with kubectx
  • Apr 18, 2024 - Mirroring Github to Gitlab…Without Premium
  • Apr 15, 2024 - Of NGINX and Pianos
  • Feb 7, 2024 - Cleaner Dockerfiles with HEREDOC
  • Jan 7, 2024 - Setting up Harbor as a Local Docker Registry

    • 2023

  • Sep 10, 2023 - Installing the Official NGINX OSS via Ansible Playbook
  • Aug 7, 2023 - Installing the Official NGINX OSS Package via Script
  • Aug 1, 2023 - Breaking Down Silos
  • Jul 14, 2023 - Proxmox LXC and Terraform
  • Jul 13, 2023 - Setting Up Devboxen With Ansible
  • Jul 5, 2023 - Proxmox VMs and Terraform
  • Jun 25, 2023 - Building Proxmox Templates via Script
  • Jun 22, 2023 - Convergent and Divergent Thinking
  • Jun 14, 2023 - Systems and the Cobra Effect
  • Jun 13, 2023 - Umpires
  • Jun 12, 2023 - Situational Awareness
  • Jun 9, 2023 - Back Online