I was sitting in a livestream today with Chuck, Jeremy, Anthony, and Zach. Chuck said something about getting his CCNP if 1,000 people earned their CCNA. The crowd went nuts. And somewhere in that noise, I made a decision I've been circling for a long time. I&
The ping worked on the first try, after a couple hours. My home network is not a lab. It's the network my wife and daughter use every day, which means the unspoken design constraint is that Netflix must never go down. Korean dramas do not pause themselves, and
I should have been annoyed. But I wasn't. It was one of those days where the work just flows. Small projects stacking up and getting knocked down one at a time, the kind of momentum you don't want to interrupt because once it's gone
I was today years old when I finally understood the real reason we need Spanning Tree Protocol. That sentence is embarrassing to type. I have a CCNA. I work at NetworkChuck Academy. I am around networking content and networking people every day. And yet, until recently, I did not actually
There's this thing people say now: that the tools are changing us. That we're losing something. That the person who used to sit down and think through a problem is being slowly replaced by the person who asks a machine to think for them, and honestly,
About All This AI Stuff... I am, by every measurable standard, more capable than I was a year ago. That's not nothing. The AI tools I've folded into my workflow, largely Claude Code and OpenAI, have genuinely expanded what I can accomplish — whole categories of work
Ready to elevate your coffee game? While the "best" cup of coffee is a matter of personal taste, there are a few brewing methods that consistently stand out for their ability to produce a delicious and satisfying cup. Let's count down to the best as we
It may sound a bit meta at this point of development in regard to this website (after all, it started as a way to share my current learning in the tech field), but I think this is a useful stratagem in enabling others to do the same. My aim is
I'm one of the lucky ones. This may not come as a surprise to you, but in the face of the statistics pointing to an ever-decreasing demand to attend and complete a bachelor's course, somehow I managed to pass that milestone, land a job in my
There's been so much to occupy my time and thoughts since arriving in Colorado, but occasionally I have a moment to look back at photos of daily life in Seoul. This is the view from across the Han at night. I may have shot many dozens of similar
Well, if you’ve been wondering where I’ve gone or why I haven’t been updating the site since back in August, this post is for you. It‘s no secret that I usually have a lot to say, and maybe because of that, I have found it much
If you are anything at all like me, and I bet you are, because it's kinda human to be as lazy as possible conserve energy for more cognitively demanding tasks, you likely will benefit from removing any friction that slows you down from starting anything involving lab work