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.

202110231433 Think week

Popularized by Bill Gates, a think week is a week spent in solitude, focused on thinking.¹

The purpose of a think week is to remove distractions and stimuli that will detract from our ability to think deeply on topics and ideas for an extended period of time. A think week can include books or other information sources but shouldn’t include distractions like social media, TV, and the like.

Seclusion, solitude, peace, quiet, light exercise, simple healthy food, and simple living arrangements focused on the environment are all conducive to effective think weeks.

Similar to, but more deliberate and less frequent that 202304112203 Ten percent time.

Runaway Suitcase. (2019, June 18). How to do a Think Week Like Bill Gates. Runaway Suitcase. https://www.reservations.com/blog/resources/think-weeks/ ↩