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The Purpose of This Site

The purpose of this site is four-fold:

  1. Keep track of lessons learned for a quicker/easier place to reference those lessons in the future. By writing the lessons down I hope to cement the knowledge and reduce time spent relearning.
  2. Record professional development for future reference.
  3. Keep track of professional development reading to cement knowledge and leverage.
  4. Build/control my online brand/identity.

Free/Busy Calendar

There's a good chance you're here for my free/busy calendar to setup a meeting. Unfortunately I have 4+ calendars (personal, Lakebed.io, Applicant.Fit, and work). I've not found any solution that shares free/busy for multiple calendars publicly. So, I wrote a cron job that pulls in the data from the disparate sources (Google, Zoho, and O365), I then use an Open Source, JQuery library to parse the .ics files and display in a calendar format; as seen below. Review the calendar, pick a few times when we're both free, and send me a meeting invite. I now have a 5th, public calendar displayed in orange that shows event details. The reason for yet another calendar is explained in this post.

About Me

My original career path was to become a Red Seal chef. I still enjoy cooking at home but do not enjoy working in restaurants. Everyone, including Red Seal chef's, work very long hours at relatively low wages. Additionally, there are actually very few positions that truly utilize a chef's skills and art; mostly the position …

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Why the amorphousprojects.com domain?

A few years ago I started a technology company. The 3 products planned were all related to insurance and risk management but eventually I wanted to develop many more ideas, not necessarily risk management specific. So, I called the company amorphous_projects because I felt that accurately described the plan for the company. Unfortunately I fell victim to perfectionism and was unable to release a MVP.

Photos

I've started putting together "albums" of photos from various occasions. I'm by no means a photographer and my photos aren't great but they also aren't terrible. I'm keen to collect life experiences, rather than money or things, since my near-fatal crash and these "albums" allow me to collect & remember those experiences.

See the photos here »

Connect With Me

I love connecting with new people and genuinely love hearing about what you do & why you do it. But:
  1. You need to send me a genuine, personal message in your connection request.
  2. If any message you send me appears "spammy" or automated or generic or copied/pasted I'll likely delete it and block you.
  3. Don't lie in your connection request. If you say you viewed my LinkedIn profile I can see if that is true or not.
  4. I'm genuinely keen to provide value to my connections and if you want to connect with me you have to provide some value to me. Connecting with me solely to sell me something is not valuable.
I am more than happy to help with anything related to data, analysis, technology, or risk. Honestly, if you have a question or need a hand always feel free to ask. I'm not great with email because I get so much spam, junk, CC's, and unnecessary messages. If you have my email there's probably a good reason for it and you're welcome to email me. If you "work with a team of developers that can [solve all my problems to perfection, fly a rocket to the moon, and] solve my IT needs". Don't bother connecting. I am certain you turn out buggy code, do not adequately comment/document your code, do not adequately elicit requirements, and working with 10-year-old technologies. I'm on:
  1. LinkedIn (simonlepine)
  2. Twitter (@simon_lepine or @lakebed_io)
  3. Indie Hackers (lakebed_io)
IMPORTANT: If you wish to connect with me, at the bottom of your message (email, LinkedIn, DM, text,  whatever) put the date today in YYYY-MM-DD format. Doing so will prove to me you read my "rules of engagement". Otherwise I'll ignore you.