Cobbler’s Paradox is a specific irony where one’s professional expertise in a field leads to the total neglect of that same thing in one’s personal life. A cobbler spends all day crafting footwear for customers, yet doesn’t have time to…

Have you ever been to a bar with a sign that promises Free Beer Tomorrow? At first you’re like this is amazing, I’ll be back tomorrow for that free beer. However each day you come back the sign does not…

WP CLI had a huge impact on my career, I had the opportunity to chronicle some of my favorite commands on a now archived engineering blog at WP Engine (resurrected the content with Wayback Machine). WP-CLI changed the game for working…

Getting Things Done was recently recommended to me. If you want to be more productive with much less stress go read it now! The premise of the book is that you have open loops, ideas that you’re constantly remembering over…

When watching the Walking Dead I often wonder if smart phones are the real Zombie Apocalypse. People wandering sidewalks aimlessly with their heads down… The vast majority of us have all fallen into a trap, looking to our cell phones…