Yo, I’m Brendan. Currently on a journey to turn some of my unbridled curiosity into something productive. This is my space to explore stuff. You're welcome to stay as long as you'd like.
Life
I had a realization a couple of weeks ago that surprised me. I was spending days on end, scouring LinkedIn for any production jobs I could find, and applying to everything as fast as I could. I spent the last 5 years of my life working my way from Office
Life
Would you rather have $100 today, or $200 a year from now? I recently came across the term "hyperbolic discounting" while reading The One Thing by Keller and Papasan, and decided to explore it's meaning. Essentially, it is the idea that the farther away a reward
Health & Wellness
I wrote yesterday about habit linking and intentionally left out another daily habit of mine because I wanted to discuss it in a separate post. Recently, I've added daily meditation back into my routine. Specifically, I use an app called The Way with Henry Shukman, and it'
Life
I began this year as most people do: stuffed and overindulged from the holidays, and full too of resolutions and determination to make this year better than last. Diet and exercise made my short list of "nonnegotiables", along with early mornings, daily writing, and sobriety. I was off
When I was separating from my college girlfriend, my dad gave me a book entitled When I Say No I Feel Guilty, and added the context that, "This helped me when I went through...." I thumbed through it, but I think the subject and form were beyond me
Poetry
This is just a stop gap To keep the chain from breaking Words to fill empty spaces No link shall be forsaken This is a just stop gap to a sequence that never dies But series comprised of stop gaps are just streaks chock full of lies So, yes, it’
I saw a job posting on LinkedIn for a creative producer role at Dr. Squatch. I wrote this sketch to accompany my resume. The goal would be to push their medium form content in a new direction – away from the shiny, "bro-y", advertisements I am constantly seeing. For
Dogs
It's the weirdest thing. Whenever she's around another dog, especially females, my dog Daisy will guard my backpack. If the other dog tries to come near it, she will run over and display all manners of aggression, including but not limited to: hissing, spitting, baring of
Coding
My latest project has been learning how to create a simple website from scratch (using AI to generate code) and deploy it. I'm actually really glad I started with this instead of diving straight into my larger web application project, because I have learned a ton throughout this
Health & Wellness
I love infrared sauna. I find it hugely beneficial to many of my health goals; the obvious one being detox, but also recover, muscle growth, and immune function. I used to get into a sauna at least once a week, but this past year, I was dealing with some health
Stock Market
Damn it. I was this close to having a really great day. I woke up at 6 am, sat for my meditation (I use The Way with Henry Shukman – can't recommend it enough), grabbed some coffee, and settled in to trade the market open. With all the volatility,
AI
I know absolutely nothing about coding – never wrote a line of it, never dreamed of hacking into Twitter. And yet, I'm coding an app. How am I doing this you might ask? Well, AI, ofcourse. The idea: a workspace tool to help commercial production managers and line producers