Dec 31, 2025: deltron 3030

I also spent a good portion of my day on a Team's call with a colleague that was struggling with his confidence a bit. Sometimes you can be so deep into the weeds that you can't really appreciate what a great job you might be doing. And/or the feedback from those around you can make it difficult to notice that you are on the right path. He's one of my favorite co-workers and I helped him see that he's doing a hell of a good job, and to trust his gut.

Plus, he's sharp as a whip on the technical side, so just seeing what he's been working on gave me all kinds of good ideas. If I were to guess, he feels like he got more out of the exchange than I did, and if I was right in that guess, I would disagree with his assessment.

Great session.

Let's close with a little bit of story time......

I was on TikTok today - even though it's bad for me and I try to avoid social media - and someone reminded me of the group deltron 3030 [wikipedia] when talking about dan the automator. As any good fan boi would do, I dropped their self-titled debut album into the queue and gave it a spin.

It's a fantastic, and futuristic journey through time & space.

Anywho, back when nikkigirl and I were divorced, she once called me the Mastermind. Not necessarily in a derogatory way, but not necessarily in a nice way either (lol). I was reminded of this when this popped on the ol' earbuds:

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Around the same time she said that, was one of the times I took one of those personality tests and rated out as an INTJ [the Mastermind]. I've taken a wide variety personality style tests over the years, usually within Corporate America, and while many of the results tend to vary slightly the more you take them, I always land as an INTJ when taking Myers-Briggs Type Indicator tests.

If you add this, to that, you get me setting this as nikkigirl's ringtone on whatever shit phone I had at the time. Remember those? Yeah, this was a ringtone story.

As part of this adventure down memory lane, I found an old email between her and I from over 15 years ago. We shared a nice memory and smile as she read it.