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Reflections on leadership, workplace culture, and the intersection of technology and humanity. Thoughts from 20+ years of building people-first organizations.

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Leadership & Culture
November 9, 2025

What Pro Athletes and Career Software Engineers Have in Common

For the modern software engineer, peak performance relies less on raw coding hours and more on high-level decision-making. We must adopt the maintenance and training regimen of a professional athlete to keep our critical thinking sharp.

Cognitive HealthCareer LongevityWellnessNootropicsSoftware Engineering
Leadership & Culture
November 7, 2025

Work-Life Balance: Investing in Peak Performance

Work-life balance is often mistaken for laziness, but it is actually the critical factor in maintaining the mental and physical capacity required for peak creative performance in technical roles.

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Technology & Society
November 6, 2025

Building a Lightweight Home Network Monitor

How I built a minimal Docker-based network monitoring solution on a Raspberry Pi to diagnose intermittent connection issues with real data—demonstrating hands-on technical problem-solving and purposeful architecture decisions.

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Miscellaneous
November 1, 2025

Guam's $250-a-Night Problem

A deep dive into why Guam is losing the Korean tourism market to Vietnam, focusing on the critical hotel price crisis and actionable solutions.

GuamVietnamTourismKorean MarketTravelEconomyHotel Prices
Technology & Society
October 31, 2025

Why I Built an AI Assistant

FAQ sections have become information mazes. AI chatbots can eliminate repetitive customer service inquiries while actually doing something useful—like scheduling meetings or pulling specific information instantly.

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