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.

202108191029 Measure what you do

It's important to measure what you do. This comes into play in all sorts of areas, but is most generally related to productivity and value.

In 202104291523 Leadership, you need to measure what your team does. Remembering that 202108191025 Teams exist for a reason and 202104291524 Execution is the priority of team management, it's clear that you need to be able to say definitively whether the thing your team is doing is the right thing with the right outcome. Remember to 202309011342 Measure output instead of activity.

Regarding 202106221150 Procrastination, measuring what you do can be an effective way to stave off the emotional aversions that trigger procrastination (202106221122 Procrastination is triggered by emotional aversions).