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.

202203210830 When your model and reality conflict, reality is always right

Attachment to our models of reality is a trap. We spend too much time distracted by what we think is the case when we should be engaging directly with what reality is teaching us. Knowing that 202203210832 Models are necessarily incomplete, we should be easily persuaded to change and iterate on them.¹

It's easy to get stuck in some sort of failure mode regarding 202109251155 Desire vs expected outcome in decision making or the 202203210845 Sunk cost fallacy.

202203210831 Models are immutable but reality isn't, even the best models might become outdated.

In any case, reality is our teacher and guide to a better model. 202304102010 Interactions with reality drive innovation.

Larson, W. (2021, October 7). How to safely think in systems. https://lethain.com/how-to-safely-think-in-systems/ ↩