This week, I've been:

• Taking multiple trips down the winding road of hopes, dreams, fears, jealousies, and uncanny dream logic that is David Lynch's magnum opus Mulholland Drive,
• Grounding myself back in reality by reading about Emacs config and endlessly tweaking my own,
• Reading about the fascinating series of events that lead to the development of Visual Basic¹ and musing again on the halcyon days of enterprise R.A.D.,
• Consolidating my thoughts on "what a manager does (and shouldn't do)",
• Digging into advanced architectures in Flutter based on my old pal Rx,
• And circling back as I often do to Willie Nelson's pivotal 1973 'Shotgun Willie'.

This week's posts have showcased using Apple Shortcuts - I haven't made much progress on my code-heavy side-projects. (On top of too many hours comforting a crying baby...) I've been struggling with some impostor syndrome, the obvious result of watching & reading too much David Heinemeier Hansson, and letting myself get triggered by a Willie Nelson line "you can't make music if you ain't got nothing to play". For context, I'm getting into my 6th year of working as a tech PM (i.e. not as a dev), as well as nearing 2 years of leaning heavily on LLM's to write code for me in my hobby/side projects, the result now being too many uncomfortable moments of "code block" where I stare into my monitor and try to remember how to do very simple coding tasks (like how to pass a block to a Ruby function or write a simple stateful widget in Flutter). It's a frustrating hole to dig myself out of, and past experience has taught me the only way through is a combination of perspective-taking and just moving forward - nothing beats the impostor blues like making working software...right?