2023-07-20
I've written about how to fix social media before but with the giants like Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter looking like they're begining a steep decline it seems like the perfect time to revisit the topic. There is a lot of talk about the "enshitification" of the...
2023-06-16
I really don't know where to begin with this post so I'm just going to start writing and see where it goes. 1 1/2 years ago on December 17, 2021 my older borther committed suicide. Unfortuneatly, this was not an altogether unexpected result. Rodd had suffered from bouts of depression...
2020-09-14
I've been working from home for almost 6 months now and as a programmer I spend a lot of time with headphones on listening to music. As such, lately I've really been itching for something new for my ears. Thankfully, as a subscriber to his newsletterhttps://austinkleon.com/newsletter/ I stumbled on Austin...
2019-12-31
My Biggest Accomplishments Running a Half Marathon and Getting Myself into Better Shape I may arguably be in the best shape of my life right now thanks to deciding late in 2018 that I wanted to run a half-marathon in 2019. It was a goal that, at the time, seemed...
2019-08-16
You screwed up? Someone screwed you? Now you find yourself in a situation you couldn't have imagined just moments ago? Are you angry? Feeling bad for yourself? Beating yourself up or blaming someone else for your problems. You know what? Maybe it's not your fault. That happens sometimes. But here's...
2019-08-11
I've noticed over the past year or so of my life that my days really blend together. As I'm approaching middle age time seems to be flying by and I feel as though I'm missing out on life a bit. I've been asleep at the wheelhttps://jonwhite.me/life/2019/08/02/turn-off-the-auto-pilot.html so to speak and...
2019-08-02
Sometimes in life we're stuck in auto-pilot and don't even realize it. One day bleeds into the next which bleeds into the next week, then month, then year. We're surviving, living each day just to make it to the next. Wake up, go to work, come home, eat dinner, prepare...
2019-05-14
On Sunday April 28, 2019 I completed my first half-marathon. Before that day I had only run in a 5k “fun run” once before and other than that, I had not really run at all since middle school. Looking back at where I started 7 months earlier I’m sometimes amazed...
2019-01-31
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald Format: audio - Part of my Reading Bucket List. I found the writing to be superb it was a pleasure to listen to on my daily commute while the story itself I found to be just so-so. That being said, Fitzgerald makes a...
2018-04-12
When news of the Cambridge Analytics scandal broke I was all on board the deletefacebook movement. I deactivated my account and started thinking about what I would do to replace the features I currently use on Facebook. What I discoverd is that it's not as simple as I might have...