I am…PhoneBoy

I learned a long time ago not to make decisions when I am emotional. Heeding this advice has probably saved me numerous times from making life-changing decisions needlessly. Sadly, there is one area in my life where I have not applied this same advice–when I eat. I’ve known about emotional eating for quite some time.…

From There Are No Fucking Keys To Success If you try to avoid the work by looking for all of their “keys” you’re only wasting time, procrastinating, and letting yourself down. And here’s the thing, I can’t guarantee that putting the work in will mean you’re going to succeed. But not putting the work in…

As I’ve written in the past: You’re better off assuming anything you input into social media, SMS, iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, or whatever can and will be made public. Act and share accordingly. Likewise, I assume everything I post will eventually be read by someone I wish didn’t. I had some experiences where I didn’t experience…

From Make Your Work Public or You Don’t Exist: That’s the world we’re living in: open, competitive. A world where people don’t read your cover letter — they search your name on Google and Linkedin. What have you achieved? What comes up if I Google your name? If nothing comes up, I’ll assume it’s because you haven’t…

It seems like every couple of years, I will change the CMS that is used for my various websites. This has resulted in some messy, messy transitions. As it is right now, phoneboy.com and phoneboy.org are both using Jekyll, one hosted on a VM somewhere, the other hosted on GitHub. For what I am doing…

From How Computers Are Killing Our Culture: Whether your desire to have a clean, perfect document is pathological or simply a result of the way you want to present yourself to the world, we are eliminating some of our finest work when we edit ourselves online, on the computer screen, in our writing programs. For…

I’ve seen many people on LinkedIn complain about how it’s starting to look like Facebook. In many ways, it is, with the sharing of articles (some of which aren’t necessarily about “work”), pictures (some are memes that have nothing to do with work), politics, and even deeply personal stuff. I’ve also heard that people use…

These days, people have millions of songs at their fingertips thanks to all the various streaming music services and ubiquitous-enough connectivity all from the palm of our hand. 25 years ago, the closest thing we had to that walkmans and cassette tapes. If you wanted something other than an album, you had to create it…

I’m a few weeks away from doing a presentation at Check Point’s booth for RSA Conference in San Francisco. Granted, it’s one of those “carnival barker” type presentations that vendors give in their booths that are meant to last no more than 10 minutes, but it’s been a while since I’ve created and done a…

From It’s Carbs: As a person with diabetes (T1D), my primary goal is to keep my blood sugar in a healthy range (for me that is 65-140 mg/dl). There is only one thing that consistently causes me to go above that range. It’s carbs. Now, I know there are many other factors that can cause…