🎶 “Roll with the Changes” by REO Speedwagon. What an absolute banger. 🎶
I’m going to get an AWS Certification this year. Trying to decide between Developer and Solution Architect. Any thoughts either way?
Genesis. What a wild ride. Also, I’m trying to read some Pannenberg (“Jesus—God and Man” and “Basic Questions in Theology”) and some of it sure feels like word salad. 🤷♂️
Do you agree with this “Tact Filters” theory?
“When normal people talk to each other, both people usually apply the appropriate amount of tact to everything they say, and no one’s feelings get hurt. When nerds talk to each other, both people usually apply the appropriate amount of tact to everything they hear, and no one’s feelings get hurt. However, when normal people talk to nerds, the nerds often get frustrated because the normal people seem to be dodging the real issues and not saying what they really mean. Worse yet, when nerds talk to normal people, the normal people’s feelings often get hurt because the nerds don’t apply tact, assuming the normal person will take their blunt statements and apply whatever tact is necessary.”
Which Bible passage has been used to justify more evil: Romans 13 or Matthew 18?
A thought-provoking, depressing look at the state of the internet today. “The Enshittification of TikTok”
I keep getting questions about my journey into software engineering via a coding bootcamp. So, I think I’m going to start blogging my answers! Do you have any questions for me? I did a 14-wk coding bootcamp (Tech Elevator) and have worked for 1 yr as a software engineer.
Resurrecting my Twitter cross-post. Writing this on micro.blog and it goes out to Twitter and to my Mastodon.
Stay curious. Stay humble.
Happy Friday! What’s the best thing that happened to you this week?
Hard to believe that, as of tomorrow, I’ve been a professional software engineer for one year! Doing a coding bootcamp at Tech Elevator changed my life. I love my job, my company, and my new line of work!
This Sunday, it’s been 6 years since I preached my most controversial sermon: “Getting Ahead in God’s Upside-Down Kingdom.” Preached in Mountain Brook, AL on the Sunday after Trump’s first “travel ban.” joshuapsteele.com/getting-a…
“One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present. When you defend those who are absent, you retain the trust of those present.” (The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People)
Do we serve the platform? Or does the platform serve us? Good stuff from Seth Godin seths.blog
“Lectures at home, classes are for homework.” Thoughts on this? I found it intriguing. The End of the High School Essay - seths.blog/2023/01/t…
“So consider making March 20th the start of your personal new year. In so doing, you’ll combine the power of temporal landmarks with the power of matching your inner rhythm to that of Nature.” www.artofmanliness.com/character…
What’s a book you wish you would have read EARLIER in your career? 📚 #books #career
“Quite often, the most important knowledge is tacit. It’s not documented or codified but resides only in the minds of domain experts. The only way to access it is to ask questions.”
from “Learning Domain-Driven Design”
“A software project’s success depends on the effectiveness of knowledge sharing between domain experts and software engineers. We have to understand the problem in order to solve it.”
from “Learning Domain-Driven Design”
“Every book has a skeleton hidden between its covers. Your job as an analytical reader is to find it.” (Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book)