Tech — Work — Ramblings

by Mike Kalvas

I see you're not using JavaScript (which is awesome!) on one of my pages that uses it to provide a better experience. If you see something not working right, please let me know. My site should work exactly the same without it apart from any exceptions noted here.

I use prism.min.js to do syntax highlighting. It clocks in at 23kb total in size. Since the majority of the writing I do involves coding, I personally find this to be a worthwhile trade off. If you choose to keep this disabled, rest assured, the code examples are still there, they just may have some extra whitespace and obviously no syntax highlighting.

I do no tracking at all and am a zealot about keeping my pages as small as possible. If you're reading a page of mine that transfers more than about 250kb over the wire (including my most gratuitous indulgence — fonts) I've messed up.

So, if you'd like to have a slightly richer experience, consider enabling javascript for my site and I promise your trust won't be misplaced.

202106241526 Seek first to understand, then to be understood

One of the 202106221713 Seven habits of highly effective people that can move people out of the 202109121536 Maturity of independence and into the 202109121530 Maturity of interdependence.¹

Understanding people, fully, empathically listening to them, and being open to being influenced by them can cause them to reciprocate that behavior towards you. Without this trust and cooperation, we cannot build meaningful relationships and cooperation.

This habit borrows from Greek Philosophy. Ethos, pathos, and logos: your character, your relationships, and lastly your reasoning. The order is important. #thread

Covey, S. R. (2004). The 7 habits of highly effective people: Restoring the character ethic (Rev. ed.). Free Press. ↩