I quit my job today. But there was no drama to it—it wasn’t the typical story you see online, where a mistreated employee, full of piss and vinegar, says their righteous piece to The Man. It was pretty quiet, actually. Threaded with moments of pained silence, an inability to maintain eye contact. And the sense—which … Continue reading On quitting
Author: T Coe
On the simplicity of holding open a door
No one is excited to go to Discount Tire. You end up there either out of necessity—a puncture, a flat—or out of mere maintenance—rotating tires, season tire exchange. The waiting room of a Discount Tire feels more like a doctor’s office than anything else: no customer is bright-eyed with excitement. The amazing thing is, I’ve … Continue reading On the simplicity of holding open a door
On the Challenger and the stories we think we know
At a friend’s (gentle!) urging, I started in a few weeks ago on The Challenger Launch Decision, an exhaustive ethno-history on the work culture that resulted in the Challenger disaster. I won’t bother recounting the Challenger disaster for those unfamiliar—because 1) Wikipedia will do do the job and 2) Wikipedia (and most other sources) will … Continue reading On the Challenger and the stories we think we know
On the foot
The foot was just another one of those things from childhood that you never really think about. I knew it was weird, of course—not every family has a mummified human foot displayed in their living room—but I never considered it as much more than an oddity. That is, until the other morning, driving back from … Continue reading On the foot
On 7 things from last week (10/30/23)
Pueblo. In five years living on the Front Range, most of my travel has been into the mountains rather than along them. So, last week marked only the second time I've been to Pueblo. And it was delightful! Clearly, the city has struggled in the past decades, but there are signs of life in the … Continue reading On 7 things from last week (10/30/23)
On being indispensable
It's the best job security advice there is: Be indispensable. Well, sure—but what does that look like in practice? In my 10 years of work, I've seen the advice enacted in many ways. There was the business administrator who held company finances so close that they couldn't take more than a week off without serious … Continue reading On being indispensable
On the ultimate necessity of technology in Explorer: Lake of Fire
Prodded by the latest issue of National Geographic, I pulled up Disney+ last night to check out the latest volcano document. (I’m a big sucker for content about volcanos.) Lake of Fire was riveting…but also disappointing. Disappointing in the sense that while the team managed to confirm the existence of the Earths’s ninth lava lake—a … Continue reading On the ultimate necessity of technology in Explorer: Lake of Fire
On the humble hamburger button
There are some things about computers that it's hard to imagine someone having to invent. The cursor is one of them—another is the hamburger button. The button is one of those elements that I interact act so intuitively that for many years I didn't even have a word for it. If asked to explain a … Continue reading On the humble hamburger button
On your personal “toolkit”
I've been leafing through Richard Feynman's amusing Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!—a pseudo-memoir that's amusing, if a little slight, for the author being one of the most famous scientists of the 20th century. But there are plenty of tasty nuggets sandwiched between silly, self-aggrandizing anecdotes. (There's a very brash, American 'tude to much of the … Continue reading On your personal “toolkit”
On “not much” as the response to “what’s new?”
God, isn’t it the worst? But, in an uninspired moment, that was me this past Sunday. It’s the conversational equivalent of someone handing you a beverage and just pouring it on the ground. They’ll wonder, Why did I even bother? It helps to remember that having someone to even ask you the question is a … Continue reading On “not much” as the response to “what’s new?”
Taylor Coe 