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.

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Information and intelligence are subtle concepts. Subterfuge, espionage, propaganda, mis-information, and narrative intent are just some of the areas that can cloud the truthfulness or usefulness of information and intelligence.

More than ever it's important that 202109060835 Knowledge is constructed in the receiver, but authors and gatherers of information and intelligence can work to induce an intended construction.

It's important to use tools like 202203210833 Systems thinking to try and understand things. It's vital to cut through what we would like to be true to the base facts of reality (202109251155 Desire vs expected outcome in decision making and 202203210830 When your model and reality conflict, reality is always right).

Thoughts on the topic

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