I’ve burned more Saturday afternoons than I care to count fixing Docker Compose files that should have worked fine from the start. Here’s what I actually learned, and it wasn’t from documentation.

Executive dysfunction doesn’t care how capable you are. It targets the start of things, not the ability to do them, and for people in high-stakes technical roles, that gap between knowing and beginning can quietly hollow out everything you think you know about yourself.

Five years ago I was busy every single evening and had almost nothing to show for it. Turns out there’s a difference between working on things and working toward something.

AI-assisted coding is genuinely useful until the moment it isn’t, and the problem is you won’t see that line coming until you’ve already crossed it.

Most people pick a tattoo artist the way they pick a restaurant on a Tuesday night, whoever’s available and has decent reviews. After six tattoos and one more going on today, I can tell you that approach is how you end up with permanent regret.

AuDHD hyperfocus isn’t a productivity tool you switch on. It’s more like a flash flood, and my homelab is the proof of what it leaves behind.

I own both QNAP and Synology hardware, and the most useful thing I’ve learned has nothing to do with throughput or RAID types.

Every April, something happens at Augusta National that has nothing to do with birdies or bogeys. It’s the only place I know where the world actually gets quiet.

I’ve worn a lot of labels over the decades: hardware guy, IT veteran, self-taught coder, grandfather. None of them tell the whole story, and some of them are starting to feel like clothes that don’t fit anymore.

I got an AuDHD diagnosis at 54. Not because something was wrong, but because I finally had a name for everything that had always been exactly this way.