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.

202109251155 Desire vs expected outcome in decision making

Before doing something, ask yourself two questions:

If I do this thing, what do I want to happen?
If I do this thing, what do I expect to happen?

You may be surprised that you're doing something based on what you want but not what is likely.¹ We should strive to be rational when we make decisions whose outcomes are important to us. We should be realistic and understand the differences and biases that we bring to the table when we have an investment in a desired outcome.

Obviously, there are things in life that are good to do based on what you want to happen even if it's risky. However, we should be aware of the risk and prepared for what may come if it doesn’t turn out how we want it to.

Thorpe, E. (2017, January 24). A Man for All Markets. ↩