Todd Grotenhuis

Woot! My blog now has webmentions and micro.blog replies included on post pages.

Saw an older gentleman in the airport that looked 100% business…except for a blue-dyed rat tail. Trendsetter!

Ok, I’m trying an experiment:

I’ve set up a page where you can schedule a discussion with me.

If any of the topics are interesting to you, click the Calendly buttons and setup an online or in-person chat. Thursday nights only, for now, but I may expand it.

I’m enjoying Roam but I’d really prefer an app that I buy (note: not subscribe to) that has similar features and syncs my data on a standard service (WebDAV, iCloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc.). What are you using for linked notes? DEVONThink? OmniOutliner? Something else?

I started Cal Newport’s 📚 Deep Work and it has me pondering something.

As expected (since I really enjoyed Digital Minimalism), though I have just started, I am appreciating the book. However, his early focus on productivity is concerning to me. Often, we think of productivity as the One True Measurement ™ of success, and I’m not sure that’s right.

While effectiveness (towards whatever goal(s) you set) is important, it leaves out factors such as quality, value, repeatability, learning, etc. You could argue that we should build those into the measurements of productivity, but I’d argue we often don’t.

Perhaps my disagreement is due to me being philosophically less of a consequentialist and more of a deontologist or virtue ethicist. In my way of thinking, it’s better to do right with less immediate output than to crank out good output that may be short-sighted.

What about you?

edited to add: Cal addresses this a somewhat when he gets into “busyness” being a (bad) proxy for “productivity”.

OK, who wants to have a Watchmen discussion group?

Catching up on some six nations 🏉

Stop giving public attention to arrogant jerks

Sunday Quote

Labyrinth Adventure Game came today, and it’s even cooler than I thought it would be! Who wants to play?

it me:

Field Notes made a D&D 5E Character Journal. 🎲

Another great decision-making question from James Clear’s newsletter:

“Will this cost me time in the future or save me time in the future?”

🎵 thoughts for today:

1. Front Line Assembly makes great music
2. Millenium is their best album
3. Millenium is not like their other albums
4. #3 does not invalidate #1

Sunday Quote

I want to go to a Demon Hunter concert and they’re like “surprise!” and just play Training For Utopia songs. 🎵

Finished 📚 Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Remove layers of abstraction and build relationships with people as directly as possible. Serve others.

Too accurate

I wanted to buy SmashingMag’s Ethical Design Handbook, but since I can’t even add the book to the cart without disabling my privacy & safety content blocker, I figure they still have to do on this topic.

When information is crowdsourced, new avenues of manipulation arise. Consider this hack of driving directions as an example.

I’d cosign most of these: “Things I Believe About Software Engineering” by Wesley Aptekar-Cassels

Sunday Quote

Reminder, you can use RSS feeds to follow specific categories of my blog, if you want to check only certain topics. Here’s my list with explanations and RSS feed links.

Software Assurance Maturity Model v2 is live! #appsec #OWASP #SAMM #OpenSAMM