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So what had happened was, my daily reading sort of tailed off. Distractions and all that. Then my writing dropped off. And then, the web hit me with three great ideas hit me right in a row. The web provides energy for reading, the reading transforms into energy for writing. Suddenly, here we are, posting the links again. The web is good.

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Mandy Brown, Umyazu:

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Nor do we read when we slip through the stream or flick through the feed. Reading is an awakening of attention, not a deadening of it. We read to come alive to ourselves, not to forget who we are or what we are doing, or what is being done to us...

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Grass touched, wind felt. Mountains driven, autocross done in ski resort parking lots. Bend, OR and its surrounding areas.

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Silvermoon Brewing and McKay Cottage in Bend, Oregon

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You ain’t got time for all this – the latest newsletter edition from yours truly. Some of my recent writing, remixed. Some all new links. If you’re seeing this on your computer screen, you might like it!

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🎧 Human Touch is the Phil Collins-est of Bruce Springsteen albums. From one Oscar winner of the 1990s to another.

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📚 Finished: In a Narrow Grave by Larry McMurtry. If you’ve ever lived in Texas, even more so if you’re from Texas, this is a great read. It’s not quite Texas as I remember it, as the author was writing a decade or two before my time. But it captures the spirit and backstory of 20th century Texas. Contains...

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The local maxima we need to reach the next global maximum: therealadam.com

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Exploring the Rich History of Funk and Soul Music: A Journey Through Rhythm and Emotion:

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Funk and soul music aren’t just sounds; they’re vibrant threads woven into the fabric of musical history. Emerging from the rich cultural tapestry of African American communities in the 20th century, these genres have become a cornerstone of musical innovation. They blend gospel’s fervor, jazz’s complexity, rhythm and blues’ groove, and rock’s edge to create a sound that moves both the heart and the feet. Here, we’ll dive into their roots, evolution, and the enduring influence they wield, keeping audiences...

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🛬Back from Spain. Vermouth de grifo, Hieronymus Bosch and Matisse, old buildings, and public green spaces are pretty great.

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📚Still at it with Power Broker and the first six Dune novels. Larry McMurtry essays are making me a little nostalgic for the idea of Texas (but not contemporary Texas itself)....

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@jcsalterego.bsky.social pulls up birkenjorts in this case, cork is actually very uncomfortable if not wildly impractical saunters away

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Fits on a floppy, great idea:

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Software has lost its way. Apps that once shipped on a single floppy disk now demand gigabytes of your storage, minutes of your time, and far too much of your patience. We accepted this gradual bloat, but that’s not progress.

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Software should be as small as it can be. Not as a gimmick, but as a discipline. The floppy disk is the measuring stick: 1.44 MB. If the software that ran entire businesses could fit in that space, then a modern, focused, single-purpose tool certainly can.

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Yep, these criteria make the good stuff:

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Launches instantly. Faster startup, nothing...

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@evanphx.dev No wireless. Less space than the Nomad. Lame.

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Soundgarden’s Badmotorfinger is underrated. Twenty five years later, still no skips.

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Previously in tech, the joke was that Microsoft’s org chart was a bunch of divisions in a Mexican standoff.

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Fast-forward to now, instead of pointing guns at each other, every division at Microsoft is yoked to the other via KPIs and bonus allocations. None can maneuver freely enough to ship excellent...

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Madrid–Barajas and Heathrow, day 10.

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Madrid, day 9.

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Toledo, day 8.

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Toledo, day 7.

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Madrid, day 6.

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Madrid, day 5.

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Madrid, day 4. Museo Prado not pictured at the request of the Museo Prado.

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Madrid, day 3. Sometimes, you gotta sleep in and take a short bus tour.

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Madrid, day 2

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@jcsalterego.bsky.social Cheffy would blnever

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Examples of The Eponymous Trifecta:

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Hopefully you’re starting to see the pattern. (There’s way more of these out there. Let me know your...

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git-spice – stacked diffs, but without another (SaaS) tool to provision and pay for. Excellent ergonomics, if you’re comfortable with the git CLI as-is. I’ve tried this for one project so far, things went as hoped. Moving between commit ‘stacks’ is easy, and rebasing changes from the main branch is...

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When you’re stuck or uninspired, reach for your spark file:

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This is why for the past eight years or so I’ve been maintaining a single document where I keep all my hunches: ideas for articles, speeches, software features, startups, ways of framing a chapter I know I’m going to write, even whole books. I now keep it as a Google document so I can update it from wherever I happen to be. There’s no organizing principle to it, no taxonomy–just a chronological list of semi-random ideas that I’ve managed to capture before I forgot them. I call it the spark file.

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Steven Johnson, The Spark File

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It’s a...

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@mikker.dev Can you blame it, when its creators named “Go, run like a wild horse” after Ralph Wiggum?

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@dnulkjkjh.bsky.social it was RuneStone (couldn’t get it to work) and CodeEditKit (got it to work, but the tree-sitter integration was a lot of awkward Xcode integration work)

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@therealadam Thanks!

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I’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. 🙃

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@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!

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buttondown.com/therealadam…

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@therealadam.com It won’t change your luck, but it will make you more prepared when it comes ‘round.

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@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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@therealadam.com If you’ve ever worked with Bradford, or had a deep conversation with him, I bet he’s happy to extend the same favor to you.

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@therealadam.com He gave me great feedback on making an impression on interviewers and how to stand out at every stage. I got good ideas on how to answer “what’s your salary range?” confidently but without letting myself down.

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@therealadam.com That mutual, Bradford Fults if you know him, took more than an hour, no strings attached, out of his day to listen to holistically consider my whole process.

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@therealadam.com A pal suggested I talk to a mutual friend who knows more, from experience, about most things than most folks do. A systematic and intense thinker who could help me troubleshoot my efforts.

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@therealadam.com For a while, I thought debriefing myself, on what went well and what could go better, was sufficiently rigorous. But, I was sometimes easy on myself or a bit lazy. Figuring out improvements that would have the most impact, and acting upon them, is tricky on one’s own.

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@therealadam.com Our society has made some short-sighted decisions that are all manifesting suddenly. Eroded social safety nets, AI slop, and questionable approaches to growing the economic pie are all hitting at once.

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It sucks to experience it out in the cold, instead of under a warm blanket.

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@therealadam.com If you’re still out there looking, remind yourself that the situation you find yourself in, the parts that feel real bad, are not your fault.

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@therealadam.com If you have an opportunity, sing a job seeker’s praises to the hiring manager! The best interviews I had came this way.

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@therealadam.com How to help someone (still) looking:

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Keep in touch, even if you don’t have a warm opportunity. It keeps the lonelies/dismals away. A 15-minute text/chat conversation could be the highlight of the day for the job seeker.

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@therealadam.com More than half of my interview rejections were after the first recruiter/hiring manager screen. This despite feeling like that was my strongest phase!

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Goes to show, paying attention to how you’re failing to convert opportunities is crucial.

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@therealadam.com My search, by the numbers:
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Of the 33 times I talked to humans, I was only ghosted after speaking with humans once.

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@therealadam.com Spend more time on practice, less time on cold applications.

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Out-of-network applications are the part of the whole process that is the most broken, for recruiters and applicants.

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@therealadam.com Opportunities are so hard to come by (I did ~1.5 legit interview cycles per month), you have to make the most of them.

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Practicing 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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@therealadam.com What worked:
\nLuck * preparation = success (eventually)

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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.

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@therealadam.com When you prevail, you fight another algorithm (word count) to thank all the people who helped along the way.

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Thanks to: Brian B, Rob E, Ryan S, Brad F, Brian S, Melissa S, Alissa R, Marcos A, Geoffrey G, and my patient, loving wife.

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Couldn’t have done it without your support!🤗

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@therealadam.com Landing a job feels like winning an Emmy these days.

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You put yourself out there, a lot,
\nfight an algorithm,
\ntry to put your best self out there despite all the rejections,
\nand hope you don’t end up in the “this is their 7th nomination, no wins” category.

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