Sometimes, it takes 66 shots to get pissed enough to start doing something drastically different enough to start doing something different enough to have affects.

I don’t think I’ve ever actually closed the club face properly before.

Solid all around podcast on personal and team flourishing.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/econtalk/id135066958?i=1000747689415

Tried Google’s Antigravity — right now, I’d say I like it more than Cursor.

TIL: `rails -T` shows rake tasks.

I got what I finally feel like is closing the club face. At the beginning of the downswing, if I’m in the right setup, I can put as much pressure on the part of my trail hand circled in red. If I feel that and the lead hip counter balancing the club head, that seems to close the face properly.

Accidentally updated the laptop to Tahoe. Man! It's ugly.

My go-to breakfast so far in 2026. Scrambled eggs with Tabasco. Toast, tomatoes, and sliced banana peppers.

My teenage son calls me. But instead of asking for money, he asks for the username / password to the application he uses to pay for gasoline because it had logged him out.

Someone working on an assembly line 100 years ago:

There is no way a machine can do this work.

A hackathon, but the output of a team is a prompt, and at the finale, the judged output will be the autonomous output of the prompt for each team.

The reason most people are afraid in the woods at night is because they think every little sound is an alarm bell.

But, they are just unfamiliar with the sounds of the woods.

And, they aren’t alarmed when the actual danger is present because they can’t get past the small issues.

This can be extrapolated to life, business, money, love, …

I’m always surprised at how many birds I see on this pasture in South Alabama.

On the golf course, I’ve been pretty frustrated with balls going right lately. About 2 weeks ago, I started placing trail thumb over the club to have a more foundational group instead of along top of it. I’ve really struggled to shut the face.

I spent some time doing some drills with the Hack Motion to ensure the lead wrist is flexed at impact. With a weak grip that has the trail hand attached to the club properly, I don’t think I’ve ever actually felt how much extension is required in the trail wrist until today. To the point that after 50-ish swings, that trail wrist is tired.

TIL: “ normalization of deviance”

Saw my wife using an insufficiently sharp knife — now, all the knives in the house are sharp AF.

Need to rethink my hunting strategy.

The first step of my annual tax process is to take the basic income documents, throw them into tax preparation software, and get federal / state estimates.

Just having a guesstimate number keeps me from going crazing imagining what it could be.

Goal for 2026: have a killer mentality when executing.

Gross 34. Net 40. I’m currently tied for the lead. My distance off the tee was a huge help on this course.

In-season oranges are a delight.

I’m my best self when I expend a significant amount of energy outside.

Database indexes are hit or miss.

The 2025 National Championship game was old school football. Great defense. Big hits. Running the ball to soften up the defense for the pass. And the refs kept the flags in their pockets.

Today may require multiple re-drawings.

I saw a shooting star this morning. Before sunrise, the sun’s light could be seen, a green flash quickly shot across sky.

25 degree chilly morning. Have some coffee in a thermos with me for later.

You know how Solomon suggested cutting the baby in half knowing that the real mom would give up the baby rather than see it die?

I suspect the Noble Peace prize winner be like that too.

Reminder on writing an article on the importance of spending time to digest information.

TIL: Treaty of the Danish West Indies

> a 1916 treaty transferring sovereignty of the Danish West Indies from Denmark to the United States in exchange for a sum of US$25,000,000 in gold ($722 million in 2024) and a declaration from the United States that it would "not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland".

Regarding today’s events:

“If you are anti-war, you better get on board with being pro-suppression”

- Jimmy Carr

“Built to float down rivers, not climb up mountains”

- me

Super windy, not cold day.

This is a reminder I need to write a longer article on pursing metrics with authenticity.

A shortcut isn’t a shortcut if it didn’t take you to the goal.

Cursor's performance before 8am eastern is amazingly responsive. After 10am eastern, it turns downright sluggish.

“Gratitude is the mother of all virtues”

- Jimmy Carr, comedian

I imagine each day, the president’s supporters start the day by erasing the previous day’s line-in-the-sand marking what they’ll permit and create a new one.

I swear I can’t hit an 80% 7-iron to save.

#golf

Posted a 27 — left a lot of points out there with bad putting and randomly missing long due to high altitude adjustments.

#golf

Clubbed down to a 6-iron to be short of water. Still hit it 260 yards into the water.

The latest version of Kamal is quite nice. It is much faster since the implemented of build-host container registries instead of remote registries.

#rubyonrails

Using AI, this site took about an hour to build and deploy to AWS using a script to build the infrastructure, and Kamal to setup the host and deploy the application.

#rubyonrails

I've mentored a lot of folks who hit their late-20s, early-30s and feel lost. The truth is: this is life. It's a choose your own adventure game, and always has been.

Many of these people feel lost because they have grown more than the people telling them the path, or organizations telling them the path. Honestly, the path never existed, it was just a story that someone told them to get them to do certain things.

#life

Following is a skill.

Me in 2023> America has changed.

Me in 2026> Did we change?

My minority friends> That's cute that you thought America changed.

Escape to the personal micro-blog!