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.

202110052025 The quality of your decisions is the currency of leadership

Check your work. Ask for help. Slow down.¹

As a leader, our reputation and competence comes from our track record on decision making and trust situations. Often we're asked to 202104291526 Make the hard decisions and how we handle that situation ends up being our track record. You don't get an infinite number of chances at these things either. At some point, you'll lose the trust and confidence of the people you work with. That's a place that's very hard to come back from.

So we need to check our work, ask for help, and slow down even when people are screaming that everything is on fire and you're the only one who can make a decision.

Lopp, M. (2021, June 25). The Hotel Giraffe. Rands in Repose. https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-hotel-giraffe/ ↩