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.

202109081301 You'll never get what you don't ask for

Careers are long term games with compounding payouts (202304102048 Compounding Interest). The surest way to succeed in the long term is to work hard and build what you can as early as you can in your career. (202109251140 Play long term-games)

The simplest way to maximize lifetime earning is to earn more sooner. That is obviously not an easy thing to do, but it is a simple thing. The more that you earn early, the more time that you have to compound that earning into more value.

One real tactical approach for getting more sooner is to ask for it. If you're delivering valuable results, someone will reward you for it — whether that's your current company or a different one.