Just a quick update to you all that I discovered https://4thewords.com/ today, and it may or may not take all of my writing in the near future. I will be dialing down on HEY World updates to an average of one post per week.

Summary: looks like a recovery to about ~60% of 2019 in the the US, nice trend up on lodging and flight shopping, cruise lines are at a disadvantage. TSA checkpoint travel numbers Looks to be about 60% of 2019 values. Skift Recovery Index The US, Mexico and Russia seem to be leading with highest Skift Recovery Index scores. In North Am...

In Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Richard Feynman shares wonderful stories from his life. A common thread among his stories is Feynman following his curiosity and excitement about a particular topic or activity. There is a story of him learning to crack safes as a hobby while he was working on an atomic bomb, or learning to paint p...

Hey, and thank you for subscribing! Since I announced my Season of Writing last week, I wrote a total of 4 HEY World messages. They were the following: • The 2020 State of DevOps Report — shares two key takeaways from reading the report. I read it and have been sitting on the raw notes for weeks, and writing about the report helped me ...

This was the question I asked myself in early January. Thing is, there are not too many hours of light in December and January in Texas, and summers are brutally hot, so I was in the market for an indoor exercise equipment. It was either rowing, cycling or elliptical, and rowing seemed to me the most interesting. My sources for recomme...

On August 5, 2020 I received an email that started like this: “Welcome to [[**Roam Book Club**]] If you are receiving this email, it means you have already been given editor access to the Roam Book Club graph. You can start to add your notes on this week's book, Steven Johnson's Where Good Ideas already.” Today is 8 months since I join...

I have been making waffles every Sunday since January 2019, that is more than 100 times. They are perfectly crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. I use the same Waffle Maker and the same recipe every time. I would like to share those with you. You need a good Waffle Maker 80% of success is a waffle maker itself. I have Cuisina...

We have a reading group at work and most recently we decided to read 2020 State of DevOps Report. Here are my key takeaways from reading it. • Internal platform teams are a logical step in DevOps evolution. • Automation is a key contributor to enabling effective change management. On the role of internal platforms At a certain point of...

I have just completed a season of fitness. For 90 days straight fitness and exercise have been my focus, and it helped develop good habits, which hopefully will stick. Today I am starting a season of writing. Writing is thinking, and writing allows for asynchronous communication at scale. I want to become a better writer and a better c...

HEY World reminds me of Posterous in early 2010s.