Journal Posts
I've been blogging since 2008. Here is a collection of my thoughts, 102 things since 2008.
- My 2025 in Review
What just happened?
- Thirty six
Reflections on life and happiness during my birthday week.
- My 2024 In Review
What happened this year? Seriously, what happened. I'm asking you.
- Lessons Learned from Four Months of Working Solo
I quit my job and focused full-time on side projects for four months. Here's what I learned during this time and what I plan to do next.
- All of the things I watched while on paternity leave
I like watching TV. Get out of here, books.
- Creativity vs. Consumption
- Day 10: That's a wrap on the nutrition challenge. How did it go?
- Day 3: Inspirational tech people I follow on Twitter
- Day 2: What's the deal with this Nutrition thing?
- Day 1: My 30 Day Creativity Challenge
- Kindness and Code Reviews: Improving the Way We Give Feedback
The set of guidelines our mostly-remote engineering team established to make giving and receiving feedback on a pull request a pleasant experience.
- Why won't my puppy stop pooping in the night?
It's starting to become a problem.
- How to Share Snapchat Stories on the Web
- CodePen Des Moines Happened! Here's a recap.
As an active CodePen user, I've been wanting to host a CodePen meetup in my area for a while. In the spring of 2016, I decided to bite the bullet and enlist the help of my pals Justin Lobaito and Ryan Young to plan Iowa's first CodePen meetup! Spoiler alert: It was really great.
- Challenge: A Week with Vim
I go on a week-long challenge to only use Vim as my text/code editor. Goodbye, Sublime Text! See you never! Totally kidding.
- Nobody Looks at Your Shoes
When's the last time you noticed somebody's shoes? Nobody looks at your shoes. I write about how it relates to life and keeping up appearances.
- A Happy Announcement
I announce the next step in my career.
- My Lesson in Hip-Hop
In which I discuss the merits of hip-hop music. The good, the bad. Lil Wayne to André 3000.
- My Grandmother's Piano
In which I describe my thoughts on Alzheimer's disease, my grandmother, and the power of music.
- Thanksgiving Break Thoughts
- Hard Work Rewarded
- Westward Expansion of the Digital Frontier
- Power of Three Notes
- Selling Stuff
- Chronicles of a TV news producer
- Terrible Time Delay
- Proud
- Final Stretch of Break
- A New Year's Eve Update
- A Larson Christmas (2010)
- Sunday's Music: Adele, Nickel Creek
- Snow in Ames!
- A Classy Office Christmas
- Bowling With The Band
- Caroling With Instruments
- Intern Log: July 4 - July 10
- Intern Log: June 27 - July 4
- Intern Log: June 20 - June 26
- Intern Log: June 13 - June 19
- Intern Log: June 6 - June 12
- Intern Log: May 30 - June 5
- Intern Log: May 23 - May 29
- Intern Log: May 16 - May 22
- Intern Log: May 9 - May 15
My first week at KCCI: A day with Steve Karlin, "Next Gen News," WHY we do what we do, learning the ropes of producing, and an introduction to investigative reporting.
- Kicking myself over Katie Couric
- Journalism: Degradation or Transformation?
This was forwarded to me by one of my professors regarding ABC News' recent decision to lay off a number of employees and move toward the use of multi-functioning journalists.
- Futures Quest: An Overview
I was recently asked to attend a leadership conference in Brookston, Indiana as a representative of my social fraternity Beta Theta Pi. These are my thoughts on the experience.
- Leadership and Motivation
I speak about my experiences with several organizations, originally published in my band fraternity district newsletter.
- Westboro Baptist Church comes to Ames
We definitely had some interesting visitors in Ames this summer. Read what I thought.
- When in Rome...
This is a review of the trip I took to Rome from July 3 through July 5, sent to my parents and published in The Stratford Courier. Enjoy.
- Media: Singular or Plural?
This might sound weird, but I've been thinking about something on a near-daily basis: the use of the word "media."
- Save the K-State Marching Band
- WCTV at ITEC
- How it all began