Katie Ledecky balancing a glass of chocolate milk on her head while swimming is more impressive than her seven Olympic gold medals.

Definitely not more impressive, but pretty amazing nonetheless. I think I could maybe do that for 5-10 seconds — if I practiced for a few years.

I do genuinely dislike that I make people look bad sometimes. But I like being competent. A few months ago our physical office had a problem I solved. Went onsite to do it. Another director noticed I’d solved it and said, “Wait, you’ve been here five minutes and it’s already fixed? Someone else has been working on that for months.”

Well, what can I say. I am that good. And also, I’ve just seen a whole damn lot, stretching back to the early 1980s. Seasoning makes me spicy as all hell but means I can troubleshoot something fierce.

This Scientist Has a Risky Plan to Cool Earth. There’s Growing Interest.

I can guarantee we will be doing geoengineering in our future so it’s worth thinking about what we’ll do and how. Yes, it’s risky. However, the alternatives are even worse.

My version of this must involve space lasers. They can be Jewish or gentile space lasers; I care not.

I know I’ve written a lot about the 90s, and I don’t intend to bang on about it again at length. But here’s how it was different than what has happened since: The 90s was the last decade where we thought everything would be ok.

She is correct. I can (and do) say shit with no consequences like, “If anyone says I have to RTO, I’ll quit immediately with no notice period” and no one does anything because I’m a rare bird; good luck finding many people who can design and build a secure app services environment from nothing with poor documentation, can do compliance work, can from scratch create an entire enterprise networking environment with no assistance in a day or two, and that external customers ask for by name to attend meetings.

And so I can get away with a lot and bring in loads of dosh for the hours I do work. But you aren’t gonna be able to do that if you aren’t an expert in fifty-eleven different areas where a company would have to hire half a dozen people to replace you. And getting to that state is not in fact easy.