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Subtracting projects

Subtracting projects

Lately, I've been exploring the idea of simplifying my life by subtracting rather than adding. This journey began with the book Please Unsubscribe, Thanks! and was further inspired by Subtract by Leidy Klotz. In this post, I'll focus on subtracting projects I've started over

Refocusing on one thing

Refocusing on one thing

The past week has been a valuable exercise in discipline, pushing me to write and learn more frequently. However, I've come to the conclusion that I was devoting too much time to these activities rather than building and experimenting. This post touches on the above, but it primarily

On two months after leaving my full time job

On two months after leaving my full time job

It's been a full two months since I left my full time job at Block as a software engineer. The first month included days where I didn't even look at a computer screen and did what is essentially the capitalism version of "wasting time"

Reviewing 2023's first half

Reviewing 2023's first half

Looking back at the last 6-ish months of projects, happenings, thoughts, and life changes, I wanted to collect all that together into one post. What has happened over the first half of 2023 and a few months before then is actually a fallout event caused by the release of Warzone

Deprecating BoardSearch

Deprecating BoardSearch

Over the last 10 months, I've been working on BoardSearch, on and off. With "mild success" I have been chugging along on adding features but recently I've had to consider if working on the current implementation is the right decision? There have been less