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.

202110212227 Moderate procrastination facilitates creativity

People who procrastinate moderately are much more creative.¹ Original thinkers are typically late to the party. They’re not the first people to build something but they are the people who build new and better things. When you procrastinate moderately, you give things time to incubate (202109090947 Idea gardening and 202109091124 Anti-flow state). A lot of great original thinkers are quick to start thinking on things, but slow to finish their thoughts and outputs.

Grant, A. & TED. (2016, April 26). The surprising habits of original thinkers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxbCHn6gE3U ↩