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\n📚 The Pine Barrens by John McPhee – I would not have thought I could enjoy a series on the ecology and peoples of an obscure yet famous, out of the way yet vast, part of New Jersey. Or such a place would be the setting for idiomatic language, proposals for supersonic jet ports, intense but rejuvenating...
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\n\nOn our last visit to California (outside the...
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\nWatched: Slow Horses Season 6 📺 The show is as perfect as ever, in its own way. It’s the best show on Apple TV that you’re probably not watching. Horses has everything: flawed people, workplace comedy, spy thriller stuff. And it asks the questions not typical in the spy genre: who are the people behind the...
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\nFinished: Plato’s The Republic by Plato 📚. Plato sure doesn’t like creative-types! Talk about zero self-awareness. Though, I suppose “philosopher” wasn’t considered the same school as sculptors and poets back in the day.
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\nI wanted to find more shape, variety,...
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\nYou may think it’s where...
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\n\n\nWe’re living through the big blur. Product, design, engineering, mobile, web, QA. Roles are fluid. Previously clear lines now fade at the edges like lines in an Agnes Martin painting.
\n
I’ll yes-and this and add that not only are roles and activities blurring, but time is as well. A day spent discussing code in reviews, grilling a feature with an agent, steering another agent to focus on what’s important, keeping projects on track, providing feedback, and monitoring Slack channels leaves the brain feeling like a page full of great...
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\nFinding focus when working with coding agents, flying too close to the multitasking sun. But, it turns out concise output and taking intentional time away from tokens is the...
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\nWatched: Spider-Man: Brand New Day 🎥 Properly rated at ~71% positive. It’s a fun movie. Definitely better than the second Spider-Man, probably better than the third, not as good as the first. Only 2.5 hours, but it felt way longer. There’s a bunch of plot movement to get through.
\nHolland and Zendaya still...
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\n\n\nThink about it — if you’re fast, you get data more quickly. That helps you make better decisions, sooner. It also means you learn faster, and over longer periods it means you learn more. Being fast also means you can try out multiple approaches to a problem and pick the best one.
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Fast is more learning is better execution.
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Frozen 2 should be rated R (Interconnected):
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While we’re piling on lazy writing here: LOST, and most American television, is particularly lazy about generating consequence and tension with lines spoken with characters holding guns at each other. Do we need the cheap escalation of a gun to know that the character really wants to coerce the other to action? To paraphrase Laurence Olivier, did the writers consider letting the actors act?
\n(Granted, firearms warp most parts of American culture, but this one is difficult...
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\nI’m impressed by Cursor, the holistic product. I wish the shortcut keys made more sense as a whole and not like they evolved from the work of 3 divisions over 3 decades. 🙃
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/therealadam/81231123","date_published":"2026-01-03T00:08:14+00:00","author":{"name":"Adam Keys","url":"https://therealadam.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F09%2F14828.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"therealadam"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-03 00:08","date_timestamp":1767398894,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"80251337","content_html":"@therealadam.com Planning out a project by developing an estimate, rather than just hacking it out, is a way of developing software and enough of a creative effort that you might enjoy it more than sitting in meetings and updating budget spreadsheets!
\nbuttondown.com/therealadam…
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\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a72dw6ymlmuqmshx2hbigmsu/post/3m7bbrhrpnp24","date_published":"2025-12-05T20:03:03+00:00","author":{"name":"Adam Keys","url":"https://therealadam.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F09%2F14828.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"therealadam"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-12-05 20:03","date_timestamp":1764964983,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"80251339","content_html":"@therealadam.com If you don’t know Bradford, find that kind of person in your personal/professional network who can deeply consider your job search, from extensive hiring experience, and ask them for an hour of their day to talk things through.
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\nIt sucks to experience it out in the cold, instead of under a warm blanket.
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\nGoes to show, paying attention to how you’re failing to convert opportunities is crucial.
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\n46% explicitly rejected,
\n38% rejected by ghosting (never talked to a human).
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\nOut-of-network applications are the part of the whole process that is the most broken, for recruiters and applicants.
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\nPracticing at coding, design, or behavioral screens will make you feel better. You’re putting circumstances back under your control, even if only a little bit.
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\nLuck * preparation = success (eventually)
Find the forum(s) your people are on, post that you’re looking every month or two.
\nPractice at every kind of interview you might face.