A good friend of mine has helped me see that there is value in blogging content from my YouTube videos. This is my first trial. If you would rather watch then you can see the video here. …

Conversations can be a tricky thing but they play a crucial role in our lives. There’s unspoken rules that we may or may not be aware of and it affects our energy. For some people conversations can take energy, or for others it can provide energy. You can think about…

I was a competitive strongman. I had gone from unathletic and fat, to lean and mean and fighting at 155 and 170 in combat sports. From there I wanted to be strong so I started lifting at home on the P90X program. I started looking for people who could inspire…

Friends are naturally supportive of one another. They like to help and be there for their friends and they are interested in a friend’s experiences in life as well as their own. If you have a friend, Johnny, who is trying to start his fitness journey you would likely naturally…

Public speaking can be hard, even when it is just a small group. Some people never get over stage fright. Some of us can just wing it and others read from a script. There are some tips and tricks you can use to help you give a presentation well no…

I work at a place that has a great little perk. We’ll call it “The Elite 30” for this article. This is time offered during the day to do a workout or some form of physical activity. When you are done with the activity you take a sweaty selfie and…

Giving and receiving feedback is hard but we all have the same goal: getting better — Code reviews are tricky. They can be hard to give and can take a lot of energy. What is it that makes code reviews great? I’m glad you asked. I’m about to give you the steps I take to give a code review. This is for async reviews like you’d…

Let me repeat that: “If you don’t understand a problem you’re not allowed to fix it” For a lot of my career I was known for my talents in debugging, reading terrible code and understanding it, and fixing bugs. I didn’t have the heavy algorithm and intense math background my…

What makes a kata a kata? Why is that different than solving quick puzzles? How can performing katas more than once be helpful? It may help to relate this to something else. I recently read a blog post where the author spoke about walking, and how you don’t just get…