All Blog Posts

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Posts

Igor's Eulogy (2020-04-01) Tags: how igor ticks, emotional intelligence, search-featured
Reducing job hunt stress (2020-01-09) Tags: emotional intelligence, software engineering, job-hunt
I don't want to die knowing I spent too much time at work, and I bet you don't either (2020-01-04) Tags: manager, how igor ticks, emotional intelligence, health, job-hunt
The recruiter does not think you're hot (2020-01-01) Tags: software as a story, early career
Decision making 201 (2019-09-21) Tags: book-notes, manager
Care about Total Compensation (2019-01-09) Tags: job-hunt
Microsoft Azure - The Genesis Node (2018-12-09) Tags: software as a story
What makes a leader (2018-11-25) Tags: hbr, emotional intelligence
Sleeping bag sacrifices (2018-11-06) Tags: software as a story, early career
Save the Souse (2018-11-05) Tags: software as a story, early career
Save the Soup (2018-11-04) Tags: software as a story, early career
My Dream Job (2018-06-07) Tags: how igor ticks, manager, software engineering, strategy
My Strengths from Strength Finder (2018-05-24) Tags: how igor ticks
Magical memories (2018-04-21) Tags: how igor ticks
Moments at work (2018-04-09) Tags: book-notes
Being the best manager I can be (2018-03-18) Tags: software engineering, how igor ticks, manager
Tech leads, software architects and engineering managers - oh my! (2018-01-14) Tags: software engineering
Seven Habits: A manual for life (2018-01-04) Tags: emotional intelligence, book-notes, how igor ticks
That is pride fucking with you (2018-01-01) Tags: how igor ticks, emotional intelligence
Shipping incubations: Cache (2017-12-24) Tags:
Physical Health Lets you look good in your jeans, and wrestle bears (2017-10-07) Tags: health
Tech for health (2017-10-06) Tags: tech, health, toys
Staying warm (2017-09-29) Tags: toys, biking, health
Happy (2017-04-12) Tags: emotional intelligence, emotion
Biking (2017-03-01) Tags: toys, biking, health
Canadian Spotting (2017-01-10) Tags: software as a story
Voices in my head (2017-01-01) Tags: how igor ticks, emotional intelligence
Be easy on yourself, job hunts are hard (2016-11-26) Tags: how igor ticks, emotional intelligence, job-hunt
The Immutable Laws of Hard Things (2016-06-30) Tags:
Vim For Writing (2016-05-01) Tags: vim, writing
My Brompton and its accoutrements (2016-04-09) Tags: biking, toys
How to EM: Be the manager everyone wants (2016-03-03) Tags: manager, search-featured, manager-book
Welcome to Holland (2015-12-26) Tags: emotional intelligence, wisdom
Getting to yes with yourself (2015-12-23) Tags: emotional intelligence, book-notes
Humans are underrated (2015-12-12) Tags: book-notes, emotional intelligence
Essentialism (2015-11-28) Tags: book-notes, strategy
Books that defined me (2015-11-02) Tags: how igor ticks, book-notes
Why Is No One Referring My Project (2015-03-13) Tags: startupville

Pages

D Collection

Igor's plan for 2025 (2025-08-31)
Igor's plan for 2024 (2025-08-31)
Writing is Thinking (2025-08-31)
Life in Weeks (2025-08-31)
IINA Player Keyboard Shortcuts (2025-08-31)
Data Visualizations and Visual Storytelling (2025-08-31)
Igors Vim Tips (2025-08-31)
Vibe Coding: Best Practices for Flow, Fun, and Results (2025-08-31)
Upstream - How to solve problems before they happen (2025-08-31)
Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood (2025-08-31)
My Tribe (2025-08-31)
Things that make me cry (2025-08-31)
Tori (2025-08-31)
Table of Contents (2025-08-31)
Getting the most out of time off (2025-08-31)
When Past Igor Meets Future Igor (2025-08-31)
Time off August 2025 - Meta Recharge (2025-08-31)
Time off August 2024 (2025-08-31)
Time off Spring break 2024 - Chillin (2025-08-31)
Time off Midwinter break 2024 - Divide and conquer (2025-08-31)
Ashland T-Day 2023 (2025-08-31)
Time off August 2023 (2025-08-31)
Time off April Break 2023 (2025-08-31)
Time off X-mas 2022 (2025-08-31)
Time off November 2022 - New York with Ammon, and Then Maureen and Brian for Thanksgiving (2025-08-31)
Time off July 2022 - FISM and Canada. (2025-08-31)
Time off Mid winter break 2022 (2025-08-31)
Time off X-mas 2021 (2025-08-31)
Time off Turkey Day 2021 (2025-08-31)
Time off X-mas 2020 (2025-08-31)
Adventures March and April 2020 (2025-08-31)
How to build rapport and set people at ease (2025-08-31)
Test Auto-Generated Sunburst (2025-08-31)
Tony (Tessie) the Tesla (2025-08-31)
Terzepatide: The magic weight loss shot (2025-08-31)
Tech Rituals (2025-08-31)
Tax and Saving (2025-08-31)
Switch (2025-08-31)
Brain Attacks: A Better Model for Suicide (2025-08-31)
Training the sublime states (2025-08-31)
Humane Structure - A Gentle Framework for Wild Minds (2025-08-31)
Stock Concentration: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Capital Gains Tax (2025-08-31)
Welcome to Steve's jungle and bar! (2025-08-31)
Start small,stay small/Re-Work (2025-08-31)
Rest and Digest - Sometimes you'd rather go slow (2025-08-31)
Keep life on easy mode - Prioritize Sleep (2025-08-31)
Search inside yourself (2025-08-31)
Shame (2025-08-31)
Seattle (2025-08-31)
Satisfaction is not the lack of dissatisfaction (2025-08-31)
Retirement: Stop Planning the Exit, Start Planning the Life (2025-08-31)
Parkinson's Law: The Paradox of Plenty (2025-08-31)
Resistance: Why you can't make yourself take an ice cold shower (2025-08-31)
Regrets (2025-08-31)
Recently Modified Content (2025-08-31)
How to build rapport (2025-08-31)
Psychic Weight (2025-08-31)
Psychic Shadows: Crafting Spells to Banish Ruminating Thoughts (2025-08-31)
Prompts, your guide to starting a conversation (2025-08-31)
Productive (2025-08-31)
Building products (2025-08-31)
The Producer's Paradox: Why Creating Beats Consuming Every Time (2025-08-31)
Daily Journaling: From Psychic Diarrhea to Polished Turds (2025-08-31)
Podcasting (2025-08-31)
Physical Pain: Understanding and Managing It (2025-08-31)
Double Trouble: From Lust to Love to Lost (2025-08-31)
Igor's OSX Tools (2025-08-31)
Igor the operating manual (2025-08-31)
On being Mortal - Guess what? You're dying (2025-08-31)
Mood - Our blazing fast heuristic for subjective experience (2025-08-31)
Creator Monetization: From Dreams to Reality (2025-08-31)
Micro Economics (2025-08-31)
Playing w/Mermaid (2025-08-31)
The thoughts that pain us (2025-08-31)
Media Editing (2025-08-31)
Mania: It's like a free cocaine drip (2025-08-31)
Manager Book Appendix (2025-08-31)
Types of interviews (2025-08-31)
Loneliness (2025-08-31)
Life as a Business: Managing Energy, Assets, and Satisfaction (2025-08-31)
Learn to Code (2025-08-31)
The Immutable Laws of New Skills (2025-08-31)
Kick the Bucket List: Your Guide to an Epic Last Year on Earth (2025-08-31)
Kayak Commuting: From Parking Fees to Paddling Adventures (2025-08-31)
Smiles, Joy and Wonder (2025-08-31)
Drafts (2025-08-31)
Insecurity and Imposter Syndrome (2025-08-31)
Will Igor Take a Gap Year? Wrestling with Dragons and Dreams (2025-08-31)
Your idle loop (2025-08-31)
Feelings/Human Meetings (2025-08-31)
Why a Engineering Manager masquerades as a magician on the weekends (2025-08-31)
Dealing with Task Overload (2025-08-31)
Getting to yes (2025-08-31)
Getting things done (2025-08-31)
My favorite group chats - the forever dinner party (2025-08-31)
Gratefulness (2025-08-31)
Isn't that curious (2025-08-31)
GPT3 and language models (2025-08-31)
System Design Interviews- The SHINE Method (2025-08-31)
NURTURE- The Gottman Method (2025-08-31)
Being a Good Dad - A Guide to Fatherhood (2025-08-31)
LEADER: Another Take on the 7 Habits (2025-08-31)
Being a GOOD Husband (2025-08-31)
Goals - How to define and ensure success (2025-08-31)
Your new interns - GenAI for fun and profit (2025-08-31)
The Gap Year Paradox: Why Taking a Year Off at 50 beats retiring at 65 (2025-08-31)
Eat that frog (2025-08-31)
Failure is not an option, it is a necessity (2025-08-31)
My thoughts on Facebook (2025-08-31)
Things I enjoy (2025-08-31)
Control your Energy (2025-08-31)
Igor - how do you have the time to complete all the stuff on your blog? (2025-08-31)
Enabling Environment (2025-08-31)
Emotions (2025-08-31)
Emotional Health Practices (2025-08-31)
Wrinkles and Wisdom: A Guide to Aging Like Fine Wine (Not Milk) (2025-08-31)
Igor's Identity (2025-08-31)
Four enemies (2025-08-31)
Diet (2025-08-31)
Depression is the opposite of vitality (2025-08-31)
Stewardship Delegation 101 (2025-08-31)
MD Debug Toc (2025-08-31)
Notes from Covid 19 (2025-08-31)
Learning from mistakes (2025-08-31)
Content Creation: From Shaky Selfies to Social Superstar (2025-08-31)
Content Audience (2025-08-31)
Coaching - helping others find insight (2025-08-31)
Be a class act (2025-08-31)
Being a Class Act - How to Stand Out with Grace and Dignity in Any Situation (2025-08-31)
The CHOW Kitchen: Where AI Meets Writing (2025-08-31)
Chasing Daylight: Imagine you're gonna die in less then 100 days (2025-08-31)
The chapters of our lives (2025-08-31)
Caring - The story of emotional intensity (2025-08-31)
Building a bubble bike (2025-08-31)
A playground for brython and pystory (2025-08-31)
Breathing as if your life depends on it (2025-08-31)
How to write a book (2025-08-31)
Business Model You (2025-08-31)
Bryan Johnson - A 50 year old 18 year old (2025-08-31)
Kettlebells - A rock with a handle (2025-08-31)
BC Vacation Guide: Vancouver & Chilliwack Adventures (2025-08-31)
Being a Ballooner (2025-08-31)
Balance - The Holy Grail (2025-08-31)
Augmented Reality (2025-08-31)
Appreciate (2025-08-31)
Quality (2025-08-31)
Anxiety Management (2025-08-31)
Anxiety, the gap between reality and expectations (2025-08-31)
Anger is the enemy (2025-08-31)
My thoughts on Amazon (2025-08-31)
Donating to charity (2025-08-31)
AI and art (2025-08-31)
All posts on AI (2025-08-31)
Training LLMs (2025-08-31)
Testing AI (2025-08-31)
AI Security (2025-08-31)
Seminal AI Papers (2025-08-31)
Igor's AI Journal (2025-08-31)
AI Image Generation (2025-08-31)
AI Developer (2025-08-31)
The CHOP Shop: Where AI Meets Code (2025-08-31)
AI Security (2025-08-31)
Igor's AI Bestie Simulator (2025-08-31)
Affirmations (2025-08-31)
The Advice Lab: Where Wisdom Gets Beta Tested (2025-08-31)
Escape Artists: The True Face of Addiction (2025-08-31)
Activation Energy (2025-08-31)
The first 90 days (2025-08-31)
Sharpen the saw (2025-08-31)
Creating Synergy: Making 1+1 = 3! (2025-08-31)
Seek first to understand, then to be understood (2025-08-31)
Win/win or no deal (2025-08-31)
First things first (2025-08-31)
Begin with the end in mind (2025-08-31)
Be Proactive (2025-08-31)
7 habits concepts (2025-08-31)
The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) (2025-08-31)
The 48 laws of power (2025-08-31)
What I wish I knew at 42 (2025-08-31)
Age Before Beauty: The Vanishing Act of Older Coders (2025-08-31)
What I wish I knew at 22 and so might you! (2025-08-31)
Time.ltd - Mortality Software (2018-04-29)
Remote Work (2018-04-03)
NURTURE: The Gottman Method (2018-04-03)
Engineering Moments (2018-04-03)
Software as a service is good for users (2018-02-10)
Positive computing a whirlwind tour (2018-02-03)
Atomic habits (2018-01-04)
The Dip - Should you fold or double down (2017-11-12)
Clean Architecture (2017-11-04)
Software Rot (2017-09-10)
Vacation Photos (2017-07-22)
To Sell Is Human (2017-02-05)
Transportation as a Service (2016-09-18)
12 Tech forces that will shape our future (2016-08-01)
Companies with customer obsession (2016-07-14)
Steve Jobs -- The Lost Interview (2016-05-09)
Sleight Of Mouth (2016-03-12)
Seth Godin- Ideas (2016-02-15)
Emotional Health In My Head (2016-02-14)
What I should do when I can't sleep (2016-02-11)
Body at home, mind at work (2016-02-10)
On strategy (2015-11-18)
On outsourcing (2015-11-18)
Mind monsters (2015-11-11)
Where have all the bugs gone (2012-07-13)
Mind-Lines (2010-09-23)
Random Uncategorized Notes (2010-02-15)

IG66 Collection

Personal Journal (2025-08-31)
Week 761AZ - Back in the blog+boat (2024-11-18)
Week 749AZ - Summer 2024 - That's a wrap (2024-09-01)
Week 738AZ - Camp Chaperone; Amelia Teenager; Love as shoes (2024-06-15)
Week 734AZ - Some great lines and middle school and grade 4 are a wrap (2024-05-21)
Week 732AZ - Tesla camping with Zach (2024-05-16)
Week 731AZ - Amelia turns double digits (2024-04-21)
Week 721AZ - Friends and Photos (2024-02-21)
Week 720AZ - A few random blessings (2024-02-18)
Week 719AZ - Crusader Kings III - Zach's favorite game today! (2024-02-12)
Family Journal 718AZ - Zach's take on the Yellow Deli (2024-02-11)
Achievement Unlocked- Yellow Deli (2024-02-10)
Week 716AZ - Just Another Week (2024-01-14)
Week 715AZ- Calibrations '24 - A very atypical day. (2024-01-07)
Jump in the Lake Day 2024 - Hot cocoa edition (2024-01-01)
Week 708AZ - Sick, and ready for the holidays (2023-12-01)
Week 707AZ - Dad, guess what? What!? I got married today (2023-11-12)
Week 706AZ - Happly Halloween 2023 (2023-11-05)
Week 700AZ - Father burries grand father; Son burries father (2023-10-01)
Week 687AZ - Manic meatballs, and our new car (Tesla!)! (2023-07-10)
Week 686AZ - Summer at home (2023-07-03)
Achievement Unlocked - Meditation Habit (2023-07-01)
Week 684AZ - Schools out! (2023-06-30)
Week 682AZ - Achievement Unlocked. Cave Rescue. Wow (2023-05-29)
Week 681AZ - Zach's Improv; Amelia's Art; And Igor getting some programming time. (2023-05-28)
Week 680 AZ - Chaperone Camp Coleman, SUV Bike with Folding Kayak, Trip to MPK! (2023-05-20)
Week 664 AZ - Zach cooking Cous Cous, and having root beer! (2023-01-27)
Week 663 AZ - Beards, and Biking (2023-01-21)
Week 662 AZ - Zach Programming, Amelia Biking, Igor grinding through performance reviews (2023-01-14)
Week 661 AZ - Movies, Friends, (2023-01-07)
Jump in the lake day 2023 - Class Act Edition (2023-01-01)
Week 658 AZ - Ballooning and Zach the Great (2022-12-15)
Week 657 AZ - Ashland 2022! (2022-11-27)
Week 656 AZ - Layoffs and NYC w/Ammon (2022-11-14)
Week 655AZ - Great Kids Lines - Clearance Sale (2022-11-07)
Week 654 AZ - Halloween 2022, and remember in Haloween 2023 (2022-11-06)
Week 653 AZ - Welcome back, 50lbs lighter edition! (2022-10-30)
Week 647 AZ Calendar power Dating, Blacksmithing, Making Movies, and Kissing Alpacas (2022-09-30)
Week 646 AZ - Kids activities are always worth it. (2022-09-14)
Week 645 AZ - 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens (2022-08-14)
Week 643 AZ - Perfect Day, Self Propelled Transport Edition (2022-08-14)
Week 644 AZ - Amelia's rough camping luck. (2022-08-07)
Week 641 AZ - FISM 2022 Quebec City (2022-07-29)
Week 640AZ - Canada Trip, Mom and Sister (2022-07-20)
Week 639AZ - Canada Trip, work and baltasar (2022-07-14)
Achievement Unlocked - Outdoor Super Zach (2022-07-12)
Achievement Unlocked - Virtual camping! (2022-07-09)
Week 636AZ - Happy Fourth of July! (2022-07-04)
Week 634AZ - That was awkward, back on the paddleboard (2022-06-30)
Week 632AZ - FREMONT PARADE - Summer is finally here (2022-06-18)
Week 631AZ - Biking, it's in the genes (2022-06-12)
Week 630AZ - Reruns (2022-06-05)
Week 628AZ - Zach Comedy Class, and why I love living in Seattle (2022-05-30)
Week 629AZ - Wonderful Weather, and wonderful discoveries (2022-05-22)
Achievement Unlocked - Ballooner! (2022-04-20)
Week 620AZ - The family who gets COVID together (2022-04-17)
Week 614AZ - Back to the normals ... (2022-03-20)
Week 613AZ - March 12th, 2022 - Masks complete (2022-03-13)
Week 612AZ - Quiet Week (2022-02-28)
Week 611AZ - Downtime (2022-02-21)
Week 610AZ - Pandemic Ending, life getting back to normal. (2022-02-14)
Week 609AZ - Play open - The mystery of Irma Vep (2022-02-07)
Week 608AZ - Chilling' (2022-02-01)
Week 607AZ - Reviews complete (2022-01-23)
Week 606AZ - The review push part 2. (2022-01-23)
Week 605AZ - Calibrations, calibrations, calibrations. (2022-01-16)
Week 604AZ - Swimming, Zemory and amazing habits, productivity (2022-01-09)
Ice, ice baby - Jump in the lake day 2022 (2022-01-01)
Achievement Unlocked - Zong! (2021-12-24)
Family Journal 601AZ - Dim sum and grocery store treats (2021-12-13)
Family Journal 591AZ - Turkey Day 2021 (2021-11-29)
Family Journal 590AZ - Kids are VAX'D!!! (2021-11-07)
Family Journal 589AZ - Happy Halloween 2021 (2021-10-30)
Family Journal 588AZ - SUPER PRIDE! Zach learns GitHub (2021-10-02)
Family Journal 587AZ - Amelia Noodles with Amelia on the side (2021-10-01)
Family Journal 585AZ- Last Camping Trip of the 2021 (2021-09-07)
Family Journal 584AZ- Portland Train Day Trip (2021-09-01)
Achievement Unlocked - Double Dates! (2021-07-30)
581AZ - Chef Zach's amazing week of cooking. (2021-06-06)
Achievement Unlocked - Bubble Bike (2021-05-30)
Achievement Unlocked - Best Fathers Day Ever (2021-05-30)
579AZ - Bubble Bike! (2021-05-30)
578AZ - Perfect Camping Trip (2021-05-24)
577AZ End of corona virus - the park! (2021-05-16)
567AZ - Coming out of hibernation (2021-02-28)
566AZ - Breaking isolation, our first out of the house vacation since the pandemic started! (2021-02-21)
565AZ - Yummy snowstorms (2021-02-16)
Achievement Unlocked - 149lbs (210lbs in November 2013) (2015-12-01)

TD Collection

WinDbg Notes (2025-08-31)
Visual Thinking Notes (2025-08-31)
Virtual desktops in Wox (2025-08-31)
USB Tech (2025-08-31)
Igor's Tech, Tricks, and Tools (2025-08-31)
Testing and Quality (2025-08-31)
System Design Questions (2025-08-31)
Habit tracking app (2025-08-31)
Statistics (2025-08-31)
SQLAlchemy with Redshift (2025-08-31)
Smilebox (2025-08-31)
Slow ZSH prompts (2025-08-31)
Structure and Design of Computer Programs (2025-08-31)
Screencasting on OSX (2025-08-31)
Accessing Google Photos (2025-08-31)
Developing on roblox (2025-08-31)
Ring Video Doorbell (2025-08-31)
Recommender Systems (2025-08-31)
Quip tips and tricks (2025-08-31)
Private Web Site (2025-08-31)
Pandas + IPython + Jupyter Incantations (2025-08-31)
Neovim (2025-08-31)
Sentiment Analysis and NLP (2025-08-31)
Mosh (2025-08-31)
Modal - A tool to play with ML (2025-08-31)
Minecraft Notes (2025-08-31)
Machine learning for regular programmers. (2025-08-31)
Make LINQPad Work with Redshift (2025-08-31)
In Real Life Diary (2025-08-31)
iOS and iPadOS tips (2025-08-31)
iOS Software Engineer Nomad How-To (2025-08-31)
iOS Accessibility (2025-08-31)
Igor's Technical Diary (2025-08-31)
Hacking the web for fun and profit (2025-08-31)
Grammarly (2025-08-31)
SSH Client Commands Timing Out from Some Clients Sometimes (2025-08-31)
The Case of the Cert Validation Error (2025-08-31)
Accessing iMessage history (2025-08-31)
Docker tools (2025-08-31)
Software Design and Architecture (2025-08-31)
Decentralized Finance (2025-08-31)
Data Systems (2025-08-31)
Cloud First Applications (2025-08-31)
Security Notes (2025-08-31)
Adding back references to my blog (2025-08-31)
AST Grep (2025-08-31)
asciinema (2025-08-31)
Make an Alexa Skill (2025-08-31)
Advertising (2025-08-31)
The Mystery of the google ads (2025-08-31)