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I keep a WTF notebook (2021)

There's a very specific reputation I want to have on a team: "Nat helps me solve my problems. Nat get things I care about done."

I'm not one of those people you see on Pinterest with the fancy spreads – I mostly just use black ink, the standard setup, and the occasional custom collection. If, on the other hand, you're interested in gnarly cloud infrastructure and software problems for the Department of Defense, check out Rise8. Ed Zitron's piece recently about How Our Need For Attention Online Drives Us Crazy articulated a bunch of half-formed thoughts I've been chewing on and trying to figure out how to write about.

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