Jeff MacKinnon's Homepage

Now

Halifax, NS

Life is still busy, but bearability is on the horizon. I made a major life change in taking a part-time job with one of my clients. That was in June, and I'm still not sure if it was a great idea for us. I took it because I was able to negotiate an arrangement that worked for me, and still have the memory of Q2/3 '24 where I had NO new work and it was slow until the end of Q1 in '25. I got busy, had the work, but really didn't like that feeling that maybe work wouldn't come this time.

This was a strong feeling than even Q2 of '20. So it coloured my descision.

In other things, the weather is changing fast, and now that I'm getting more settled I can start planning farther out and have some ideas that I want to develop around the house (solar/storage for example, and for the business.

Books I'm reading

  • The Folded Sky by Elizabeth Bear
  • Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh

Life Things

  • Took a "job" in the summer
  • work is very busy
  • The kids and family are healthy (COVID is still a serious disease)

What I'm Thinking about

  • Keeping things simple.
  • The world isn't simple at the moment.
I had a wildly stodgy Latin prof at Dartmouth who'd wave away grammarian stuff like this. "Pedantry. Bullshit. This is English, the shower drain of languages. Entrepreneur and schadenfreude are words. 'Set' has 35 definitions. Intelligibility is the only rule. Do as you please."

Steps for success

Get paid for the work -> Get the work -> Do the work

(This is a now page. My profile is here. If you have your own site, you should make one, too.)