The blog

Notes from the workshop

Tech, business, making and the occasional life lesson.

Start with one window

The Broken Windows Theory says neglect invites more neglect. I've been running it in reverse, fixing one small window at a time, in my health and my business. This site is one of them.

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Four days from no gear to lane splitting

I bought my first big bike with no gear, not even a helmet. Four days later I was lane splitting Friday morning traffic on the highway. Sensible? No. True story? Every word.

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The show must go on

Four minutes and fifty-nine seconds on the countdown clock, and my guitar was making no sound at all. Four true stories about things breaking on stage, and why they're the reason I stay calm when your system breaks.

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Give me a few days

A friend asked if I could remotely monitor battery voltages on a huge generator. My entire microcontroller experience was flashing someone else's code onto an Arduino Nano for a planned drumkit. So, classic Warren, I said "give me a few days."

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From worker to owner

How I went from a kid teaching himself Turbo Pascal out of a textbook to running a software company with enterprise clients.

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