A running list of blog posts that I’ve found interesting, impactful, or just worth remembering. This list is small right now — I wish I’d been keeping track all along — but it’ll grow.

The Three Paragons of IT: Chidi, Ted & Jules — Tom Bridge

A MacAdmins Conference talk framing three pop culture characters — Chidi Anagonye, Ted Lasso, and Jules Winnfield — as archetypes for IT virtues. It’s a clever and genuinely useful lens for thinking about what good IT work looks like. The slides are worth a read even if you never watch the video.

End of Year IT Reflections — Tom Bridge

A custom set of 20 end-of-year reflection questions tailored specifically for IT professionals. Less navel-gazing, more practically useful than most year-in-review frameworks.

This Is Not the Computer for You — Sam Henri Gold

A piece that took me right back to late-night childhood tinkering sessions — pushing a machine past its limits, crashing it beyond recovery, then reinstalling from the recovery disks, relieved the machine was alive again. A reminder that humble beginnings — breaking things and putting them back together — can lead to a career, a passion, or at minimum the confidence to keep going.

You have more time than you think. Here are 5 science-backed ways to find it. — Vox / Future Perfect

Five concrete, research-backed strategies for reclaiming time: track how you actually spend it, run a weekly planning session, engineer a better workday, identify your golden hours, and pair big dreams with small plans. Less productivity-guru fluff than most pieces on the topic. (Full article requires a Vox membership or Apple News+ subscription.)

Can We Preserve Knowledge… Forever? — NPR (TED Radio Hour)

A TED Radio Hour episode on what it actually means to preserve human knowledge in the digital age — and how fragile the systems we’ve built to do it really are. A significant portion focuses on the Internet Archive, which makes the question feel both urgent and quietly hopeful.

Can You Rewire Your Brain? — What Now? with Trevor Noah

Emily McDonald on neuroplasticity — what the science actually supports, what “rewiring your brain” means in practice, and where the hopeful self-help mythology diverges from reality.

Conditional Values Aren’t Values — Kitzy

On what it actually means to hold a value — and how values that only apply when it’s convenient aren’t really values at all. A short read with a sharp point.

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