Category Archives: General

Spring Cleaning Thoughts

Posted on 2023-03-18 by phasorburn

This blog has been fairly neglected for the past mumble years.  I’m going to take a run at cleaning up broken outgoing links, content curation.  There’s a lot of cringe to clean up or annotate from my current perspective maybe. … Continue reading →

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Asking for a friend

Posted on 2022-12-30 by phasorburn

(source) Somehow I’m not surprised.

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Grizzled Veteran

Posted on 2019-07-03 by phasorburn

I’ve been reading more and more about ageism in tech. Probably because I’ve reached a certain age milestone and also have been at my current employer 9 years (2x longer than any other job in my past). Ten to twenty-five … Continue reading →

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Orbital Oscillations

Posted on 2018-07-05 by phasorburn

Orbital Oscillations, aka Mid Life Crisis aka WTF am I doing. I find myself in a strange yet familiar space with my current job, career, life. Drifting along in comfortable orbital cycles of interest, disinterest, satisfaction, dissatisfaction, engagement, disengagement. I’m … Continue reading →

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Protect your personal life from work

Posted on 2017-12-20 by phasorburn

ProTip: Never allow work email or chat systems on your personal mobile devices. You won’t get sucked into ultimately non urgent work things if someone has to actually page or call you during out of office hours. That small barrier … Continue reading →

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