As I create more content, I feel like it’s easier for certain things to get buried or forgotten. Likewise, I share content across this website, an email newsletter, and YouTube, so it can be hard to get a full picture of all the things I’m putting out into the world.
My solution? A “Start here” page for this website. This will be updated as necessary to keep it relevant, and will contain links to places of interest for anyone new here.
Places I publish
How I work
Every time I set up a new MacOS laptop (not often, but enough) I always tend to do the same tasks to customize my digital life. Here’s what they are.
Every year since 2012 (with a few exceptions), I’ve done a Year in Review post. You can find them here: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2013, 2012.
My Productivity
Daily todos and tasks are managed in a physical notebook, in a system I’ve dubbed the Daily Driver Task Management System.
I use Obsidian as a second brain, syncing across all my devices with Obsidian Sync ($8/mo) and backing everything up to Github for free.
There’s a tour of my personal Obsidian vault on YouTube, and I’ve shared various systems both on my YouTube channel and here:
- My Obsidian Daily Note Template
- My Obsidian People Note Template
- My Obsidian Meeting Note Template
- My Obsidian Physical Object Note Template
FinOps
FinOps is a relatively new engineering discipline that serves as a bridge between engineering and finance. Professionally, I’ve worked as a FinOps Practitioner at several companies and have been active in the FinOps community for many years.
I’ve also published FinOps content sharing what I’ve learned. Here are my favorites:
- Creating a FinOps practice as the first practitioner
- Convincing Your Company Adopt Finops
- Avoiding Lone FinOps Purgatory: When and how to grow your FinOps team
I’m in the process of writing a book called FinOps for Startups and I’m documenting the entire book research process in an effort to Learn in Public. You can subscribe to follow along.