Jonathan Ruzek

@ruzek.ca

I've spent 25 years making technology feel human—as a designer, support engineer, and builder of things that help people show up on the web.

𝐵𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡. 𝐵𝑒 𝑎 𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡. 𝐵𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑. 𝑆𝑒𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑎 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑟𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑎 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡.

A few days ago, I sprinted. SPRINTED. After my terrier. I've always been poor with recovery, but damn I don't ever remember having this pain, let alone the cramps in both legs!

I just channelled my inner Bloodsport and had my first meditation session with my son. Unknowingly, having a bit of a meltdown with mom, he peacefully went to bed.

𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑛𝑒'𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝑢𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑑𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒. — Zdeněk Růžek