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.

202106241527 Think win-win

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

Thinking win-win includes genuine feelings that mutually beneficial solutions and agreements are possible and favorable to ones that maximally benefit ourselves.¹

Valuing and respecting others are the core of this habit. Notice that this is distinct from being nice or a pushover. Instead it's a principled way for humans to interact and collaborate.

Covey, S. R. (2004). The 7 habits of highly effective people: Restoring the character ethic (Rev. ed.). Free Press. ↩ ↩²