I hate the anonymity of the internet. I know some freedom of speech advocates say it protects you but if this is truly supposed to be the public forum, before the internet you had to stand up and speak to people in the public forum. Make your voice heard and stand by your beliefs and principles. Now we just have a bunch of anonymous cowards that just troll.

September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. 💙 As a prostate cancer survivor and U.S. Army veteran who relies on VA health care, I’m asking you to contact Congress and support the bipartisan POPCaP Authorization Act of 2026. Veterans deserve the best prostate cancer care available. 🇺🇸 #ProstateCancerAwareness #Veterans #POPCaP

That time of year again! #SteelerNation

One thing nice about vacationing in Croatia was they shut down on Sunday like it used to be here in the US so many years ago. We need to go back to that.

I know people argue for anonymity for the web but if this is the public square you don’t have it in public. Anyone can find out who you are when you speak in the public square. But online and people posting anonymously are cowards in my opinion. If you can’t stand behind your convictions then don’t post.

The rise in sea level over the years due to climate change.

The best thing about being retired is being able to tell people to fuck off. It feels so liberating to not have to worry about social engineering policies that corporate America pushes on employees. I was there to do a job, not to worry about someone’s pronouns.

Democrats are pissed that the stock market is going to go up tomorrow and oil futures are going to drop.

Scientists mapped a piece of brain the size of half a grain of rice. One-millionth the size of the human brain. It took them a year and over 1.4 million gigabytes to scan it. They found over 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, and even some new structures they didn't know existed. Mapping the entire human brain in this level of detail would require all the data storage generated on Earth in a year + a 140-acre data center. But the human brain itself can hold up to ~2.5 million gigabytes of information - enough for ~3 million hours of HD video or 342 years of continuous viewing. It can process roughly 10 quadrillion calculations per second - enough processing power to run over 4,000 high-end gaming PCs all operating at peak ability. And it only runs on the amount of power needed for a single dim light bulb. No technology even comes close to doing what the brain can do. The more we learn about biology, the more complex it becomes. This is God's Glory on display.

Found Mark Zuckerberg @finkd in London. Makes you wonder..?🤔😀

I didn’t write Thin Ice to tell people my story. I wrote it to understand it. Turns out… when you slow down and look back, you start seeing the patterns that shaped you.

AI isn’t magic. It’s just probability wrapped in confidence. The real power comes when you connect it to: • tools • data • feedback loops That’s when it stops “answering” and starts doing.

Your identity isn’t what you say it is. It’s what remains when things get taken away. Career. Health. Status. Strip it all back and what’s left… That’s the real you.

Didn’t expect to see Thin Ice break into the Top 100 in its category this week. Really appreciate everyone who’s taken the time to read it and share their thoughts.

I spent a lot of years trying to prove I wasn’t what I was told I’d be. At some point that stops working. Then you have to figure out who you are without that.

One thing I didn’t expect with Thin Ice is how often people say it made them reflect on their own lives. I wrote it to understand mine. Didn’t expect that part.

Yeah I’m doing shameless promotion of my book Thin Ice tonight. a.co/d/05uNagYD

I wrote Thin Ice like I had it all figured out. Truth is, I was just surviving one system failure at a time. Career. Health. Identity. You don’t fix that with discipline. You fix it by understanding what broke.

April is Autism Acceptance Month. My memoir Thin Ice releases March 31st, and that timing isn’t accidental. For most of my life I didn’t know I was autistic. I built a career in technology — enterprise architecture, DevOps transformation, and platform engineering — and from the outside it looked like a straight line. Inside, it often felt like crossing ice you weren’t sure would hold. Receiving a diagnosis later in life didn’t change who I was. It explained decades of experiences that never quite made sense. Writing Thin Ice meant stepping back from the systems I built to navigate the world and telling the honest story behind them. Over the next few weeks I’ll be sharing parts of that journey — what autism looked like from inside a high-performing career, and what it means to understand yourself after years of moving forward without a map. If you’ve ever felt like you were navigating life without one, this story may resonate. Thin Ice: Survival, Identity, and Learning Who I Was All Along is now available. #AutismAcceptanceMonth #AutismAcceptance #Neurodiversity #LateDiagnosis #Leadership #TechnologyCareers #PersonalJourney #Memoir patsantry.com/thin-ice/