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.

202407081040 If you can't cancel the project you're not the product owner

If you can’t cancel the project, you’re not the product owner.¹

A simple enough statement but deep nonetheless. It cuts at the heart of whether or not you have real ownership over a product — or in the general sense anything. Only someone who actually owns something can make final decisions like these.

Some more questions that distill ownership and autonomy in similar areas¹ are:

Circle who can buy pizza on the org chart
Who needs to be consulted to install or uninstall something in the office space

A lack of this kind of ownership commonly results in overly cautious behaviors and remember that 202408060133 Caution and perfectionism hurt progress.

Suresh, N. (2024, April 22). Jokes for Jokers [Broadcast]. https://open.spotify.com/show/57i8sYVqxG4i3NvBniLfhv ↩ ↩²