Anton Zeicher from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on Monday the 9th day of March 2026. Hi, I’m coming to you from the closet here in my house.

Closet because I’ve just spent the last hour here ironing shirts for the week ahead.

Starch spray, hot steam iron, and listening to podcasts.

Today was the Coaching for Leaders podcast by Dave Stachowiak.

So interesting.

I’ve been listening to his episodes for the last two years or so, although his podcast goes back even longer, maybe 15 or 16 or maybe even longer.

I’ve listened to many of the episodes in the archive.

Lots of interesting leadership skills and relationship skills and communication skills and even entrepreneurial skills in there and a lot of books that authors come on and talk about their books and their research.

And I’ve purchased a number of those books.

They’ve been very useful.

So always interesting to listen to that and think about how I’m applying those skills, what I’m good at, what I can strengthen, what I can do differently or better or less of in my work environment with my work teams, with my colleagues, with my peers, and of course here at home with my spouse, my children, and my extended family.

I saw the news today that Manton Reese unveiled his Inkwell RSS newsreader, which is pretty cool.

I’ve taken a number of the feeds out of my Feedland installation.

I, of course, run the Feedland software that Dave Weiner has developed, and I run that on my own server and able to manage my own feeds, and that’s been pretty cool.

I’ve learned a lot about installing software and managing that on my server.

The web host that I use is Opalstack.

Anyway, Manton is always developing and making the micro.blog service better.

It’s been wonderful to use for seven, eight years now.

I enjoy using it for my small blog, small.zycher.com, small spelled S-M-O-L, which is kind of the Bislama word for small or micro.

That’s my micro blog.

I post small, short items there about the music concerts I see, and of course the turtles, pictures of the turtles we encounter here on the land here in Chapel Hill.

That’s it.

Just wanted to say hi, congratulate Manton on yet another useful tool and service, thank Dave Stachowiak for his leadership podcast and coaching tips, and thank you for whatever and whoever you are and how you’ve helped make me the person I am, whether you’re my parents, my sibling, my spouse, my friends, my peers, my managers, my colleagues, and or any part of any of the many communities that I’m in, soccer, science, blogging, etc.

Anton Zycher, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, saying thank you.

Bye.