July 10, 2019
When you write your best code, you take a step back and admire it. You want to show it off to everyone in attendance and show them how well it runs. You want to pull the plug while it’s running and watch it keep humming along. You want to transfer operations to another region to show how easily it flips over. Code is Art, not the production of a Factory.
July 9, 2019
Or… You don’t understand. You don’t get get it. We can’t do it that way. That’s not how it’s supposed to be done. Everyone else is doing it this way. We don’t have time for that. We can’t just change what we’re doing. All things said before amazing works of art were created.
July 8, 2019
Who wants to go back to square one on your project when you are so closed to the finish line? The bug that was just found will prevent any customer from upgrading. Or it will erase their data. Or support will not be able to diagnose issues as they did before. Take your pick, ITS THAT BUG, the one that you have a meeting about to discuss with everyone in the room and is currently keeping you up at night. And it’s forcing you to go back into the core to fix it and subsequently revalidate all of your development
July 5, 2019
I once interviewed someone where I asked that oh so amazing question – “where do you see yourself in 5 years?” (I had not interviewed enough people at that point in my career to realize that this was a dumb question and held no value to the answer being returned). On this particular day, the candidate in question said – “I want your job”. They didn’t know what to say, they probably read it on the Internet and thought it was a good response to not knowing. When they started, I waited, waited, waited and waited to see if they
July 4, 2019
You won’t find them in your phone, or a picturesque landscape or that beautiful sunset on the beach. There will always be something off to why you were not able to achieve that perfect level of inner enlightenment. The sand was a little too dry, in drizzled while you were hiking, all the ads got in your way. Ideas don’t come from doing nothing. They come from doing something, from seeing what might work and trying again when it fails. They come from action because when you start doing something – it changes, grows and adapts in your mind, you
