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.

202109251019 Highly effective people are leaders

As a person grows in effectiveness, there comes a point where they can't scale beyond their individual time and effort. They necessarily have to start collaborating, delegating, and inspiring. To put this another way, there comes a point where they have to lead others in order to be more effective.

The absolute most effective people are excellent leaders.

I believe this correlation only goes one way though. It's certainly possible to be a great leader — depending on your definition of great here — without being highly effective. E.g. you can inspire people and coordinate their efforts on a path that's not effective or is counterproductive. If you take the actual outcomes into account though, maybe we'd say that this mis-leader is not, in fact, a great leader.