Navy Nuclear Engineer → DevOps Expert → Engineering Manager → Now Learning Web3 in Public
Making DeFi accessible while maintaining peak performance across life’s four spinning plates: physical health, mental health, family, and financial success.
Weekly insights on DeFi education, sustainable high performance, and 30 years of tech career wisdom.
The Minimum Viable Fitness Protocol For Busy Engineers
It’s 2 AM. The servers are back online, the site is up. Everyone is relieved. For the last six hours, I had been watching the banner on my second monitor out of the corner of my eye. “It’s not you, it’s us. We’ll be back up soon!” I refresh the screen. The banner goes away and our site loads up perfectly. My boss thanks everyone for their work and says he’ll schedule a meeting later today to discuss the root cause and follow-up actions. 2 AM. I have a workout scheduled in four hours.
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Christmas Day Crisis: When a Training Run Turns into a Rescue Mission
“help…”
It seemed odd to say the least, but was convincing enough that I ruled out the sound coming from my headphones and paused the music as I crested the ridge. On the other side of the ridge was a steep descent into a ravine. At the bottom of the ravine was a brand new Specialized Rockhopper mountain bike and just beyond it lay a man in the middle of the trail.
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ELIWC: A Blockchain Guide for the Over-40 Crowd
Disclaimer: This is not financial advice. It’s educational material for you to use at your discretion, along with other sources to make your own financial decisions.
From Checkbooks to Chains: The Evolution of Trust You’ve probably heard about Bitcoin, Ethereum, maybe even some ridiculous-sounding coins like FartCoin. They’re all built on something called a blockchain, which sounds intimidating, but it’s easier to understand than you think. Let me explain it in a way that anyone who remembers balancing a checkbook will immediately get…
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