For a piece of technology that calls me "absolutely right" so often, you'd think that my little code idiot AI bot would, um, listen to me better.

Thursdays are a reminder that I've got time left to make a difference this week. Let's get to it.

If you *think* the nice thing, say it. If you *say* the grumpy thing, apologize for it. Thank you for attending my diary entry for the day.

I had three stated goals for the week during family prayer time on Sunday: 1. Finish the audiobook of "Surprised by Hope" (NT Wright). 2. Get to 900,000 points (was at 600,000+) on my scripture memory app. 3. 4 days of tricep dip/pullup workouts. I accomplished #1. I am

Y'all Cursor said I'm absolutely right, and I'm going to milk this high for the next 5 minutes until it apologies for not listening to my absolute rules.

Rolling into the weekend like

The best teachable moments for a team are when their leader can call out their own failure in helpful ways. Ask me how I know.

Before LLMs, I had the dev chops to get myself very stuck and need help. Since LLMs, when I get stuck, I can feed it the errors and 90% of the time I get unstuck. It's still very contingent on my own understanding of what's happening, but LLMs are pretty darn good at

Line I just typed in a support ticket: If they can't update to a standard (TLS 1.2) introduced when George W Bush was in office and "The Dark Knight" was still in theaters, perhaps I'd find a better host. 😆

People who step in with a great attitude in crappy situations are my favorite type of people. It's a great reminder to be less affected by my circumstances. Only I get to set my mind where it gets set.

It's remarkable how many policies at some companies seem to be built on the premise that the customer needs to be livid before they can get any real help. Have we considered just, treating customers how we would want to be treated? Just spitballing, here.

All the most-valid reasons people have given me for not doing my diet are centered around it being unsustainable. "but when you come off of that diet it's gonna..." 17 months in. The closest I've come to a cheat day is eating too many pecans, with their carbs. I'll let you know

I've reached the "googling how to make my own clean pork rinds" era of my life. Life comes at you fast.

How to go vegan: (9000 words about all the things you have to be careful to do to not literally die) How to go carnivore: Eat beef until you are full. Drink water with electrolytes. Eat again when you're hungry. (9000 words about all the ways you'll feel better)

Goals for the week: - Get all the way to Verse 30 of Philippians 1 from memory - 6 days of new stretching routine - 15 five-star reviews across all brands at work - Rehab my foot to be able to walk with no boot by Friday - Write one song

The entire statin industry (roughly $15 billion/annually if we believe the lowest numbers...) HAS to be very concerned that RFK just sat on a stage and said that he eats a "mainly carnivore" diet. They'd run out of customers by Q1 2026 if we all just switched. Quick, come up

Got the first royalty check from my book today, and can confirm, this is a great feeling not because it's some huge amount, but because it signals that I added value to lots of lives. Please clap.