Welcome to 2019: Make Some Connections

Hello friends! I hope that you had a good Winter Holiday (winter holiday?) and New Year. If you didn't get a holiday or do anything for New Years Day then, umm, that sucks. Hopefully it was not something that will carry through the rest of the year.

I read the book Lost Connections and liked it. I recommend that you read it too if you wonder why depression is so common in societies that, for all intents and purposes, seem to have everything they could want. If you prefer to listen then get the audio version, or listen to the podcast with Sam Harris.

2018 ended on some welcome news for me: I got a job. I had been unemployed for a short while and it sucked. Partly because worrying about health insurance was a stress, and partly because I am much better when I am busy. The long unproductive time before I got laid off sort of but not really prepared me, so I was looking for work very aggressively before I got let go. It feels good to be back working again, and being able to work with smart people on fun opportunities is an exciting prospect. I will not post too much here as I prefer to keep this space separate from my business life (I have a customer-facing technical sales job and the views expressed here are not always popular).

Did some traveling at the end of the year. More on that later.