Welcome to the blog: An Introduction

Hi, my name is Joey, and this is a space for me to build, share, and generally make my own little online treefort.

So why would you want to be here?

Well, if you’re reading this and your name is Linda, thanks, Mom, for the unconditional support. If your name isn’t Linda (or it is and you’re still wondering who this Joey fella is), you might have some questions about why you’d want to stick around joeyplunkett.com, and that’s fair. The internet is already full, your time is finite, and I should probably have a decent reason for asking for any of it.

Here’s the pitch: this is a place for my practical curiosity. It’s where I collect ideas, habits, tools, and things that have actually earned a spot in my life, and share them while they’re still fresh, useful, and occasionally half-formed.

In short, this blog is a weekly habit of practical curiosity, shared without pretending I’ve got it all figured out.

I publish one article every Thursday. If you sign up for the newsletter, you’ll get a short overview of that post, a music recommendation, and five things I found interesting that week, delivered every Friday morning. Think of it as a box of curated curiosities from a close friend, dropped into your inbox once a week.

As for why you might want my take on any of this: my day job is running a software company called BugSplat. We build tools that help developers find and fix crashes in their applications, and over time that’s turned into supporting a lot of teams in the video game space. We’ve supported Microsoft, Relic Entertainment, Linden Lab, SEGA, and a lot more.

What makes that work especially interesting to me is that BugSplat is bootstrapped and independent. We don’t have unlimited resources, which means we have to be creative and focused when competing with larger, venture-backed companies. This has taught us a lot about what actually matters: building products that earn trust, supporting customers like real people, and designing tools that respect how teams really work. I’ll share those lessons here as they naturally come up.

But that’s not the only reason this space exists.

I also write about things I find personally compelling: personal fulfillment, writing and productivity, music recommendations, travel suggestions, cooking tips, a few product reviews of things I’ve used long enough to have real opinions about, the occasional short piece of fiction, and the small failures that come with trying new things.

Along the way, I keep and curate resources I actually use in my own life. There some of my favorite playlists I've built into an online record collection you can use for different moods and situations, a library of blog posts that for me, are required reading, and a running list of items I’ve put my stamp of approval on.

One particularly large vein I’ll be mining is the idea of building personal capacity. I’m fascinated by people who manage to accomplish more than average while appearing to have the same, or even lighter, workloads than the rest of us. I’m interested in what they don’t do, what they protect, and what they choose carefully.

Before letting you go, I want to be clear about one thing: this isn’t a place for advice from on high, and I’m not pretending to have anything figured out. Most of what I write about is stuff I’m still working through, or things I wish I’d known yesterday or ten years ago. Writing is how I think, process, and arrive at conclusions.

This is me doing more of that in public. Stick around.

Editor’s note: Joey’s editor here. I’ll pop in occasionally to provide context and help explain what the hell Joey is thinking. At the moment, he’s hoping, somewhat vaingloriously, that this connects with you on some level. If it does, please send him a note so he can print it out and put it on his refrigerator for motivation. He claims he’s doing this only for himself, which is… mostly true.