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  • current life

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    ChatGPT prompt of the day: “Based on what you know about me, draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like.”

  • Desert walk

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    Tomorrow Kate and I are going to do the Moab Trail Half Marathon. Kate’s gonna run it and I’m going to walk it. I figured it’d be more fun than waiting around for her to finish. My goal is to have a nice walk, finish in around 4 hours, and avoid any injury. The weather…

  • Sometimes by plane

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    I’m currently on a flight from Denver to Durango after more than a week of business travel. I’m exhausted from traveling and the intense and challenging conversations I had at a few conferences. It was a great trip and I’m more excited about open source software than ever before. The main takeaway is that I…

  • WordPress and WordCamps : podcast

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    I did a podcast with my good friend Remkus de Vries and we covered a lot of ground. From the Gutenberg part of the WordPress project to data privacy and WordCamps it’s a lot to take in. I’d love to hear your thoughts. On Data Privacy, WordPress Community, Organizing WordCamps, and Challenges in WordPress with…

  • Just don’t fall

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    One of my goto phrases when people ask me about learning to ride a bike or ski/snowboard is: Just don’t fall. It’s a simple idea but infinitely complicated and that’s my point. This post about Skiing as falling from Dave Weiner crystallizes my point: it’s a balancing dance. Just like life. One moment you’re flying…

  • WordCamp Phoenix 2024

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    Ten years ago I was asked to fill in for a last minute speaker cancellation at WordCamp Phoenix. I talked about the WordPress User roles and how they can be used in various organizations. That speech was also my introduction to WordCamps in general. At the time I was focused on helping clients with their…

  • Small town Colorado struggles to progress

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    Great story on how difficult small Colorado towns are trying to grow. The struggle is that outside of Denver and Front Range cities Colorado is pretty conservative. Between ranchers and oil/gas industry the mindset is mostly that there’s no need to change things from how they’ve worked for decades. The problem with this is that…

  • Great day of snowboarding

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    Oh what a joyous day! We got a few recent snowstorms that piled white fluffyness all over the high mountains. Today’s forecast was for blue skies so we got the gang together and spent the day on Telluride Ski Resort with big grins on our faces. We got up at 7am and I started making…

  • Time to buy a bike

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    Unless you follow the bike industry you might not be aware that the market for bicycles is in free fall. Demand went through the roof during the pandemic when everyone thought they would become cyclists. Supply lagged then it caught up just as demand began to evaporate. Today companies are going bankrupt and high end…

  • Active Rest and other oxymorons about training

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    This is week 9 of 12 in my annual Base training program, but the program has been different this time. Why? Because for the first time in four years of doing this program every year, I’m following it exactly as planned, thanks to my new Zwift Hub trainer with a power meter. Using the Zwift…