When we know the goal, know the measure, know what or who we are being compared against, our game changes and we will eventually figure out a way to rise to the challenge. To catch up to those in front of us and get to the level we need to be at. But can you lead? Can you surpass the measure and do something more? Can you lead from the beginning and make them follow…
I have an old laptop, going back five years now. It is my favourite tool. I only have very basic tools installed on it; NotePad++VisualStudio CodeOfficeFilezilla That’s it and most of the time, I am pulling up Google Docs if truth be told. It’s a glorified Typewriter, but it’s fast, it’s thin, I can take it everywhere, it still holds a charge for at least 2 hours before needing to be plugged in. I have…
You don’t need to be first at everything. You shouldn’t be. If you are, how do you know what it feels like to struggle and achieve something? How to work for something? How to fight for it? You never will, until you find something you come in last at and have to work your up to.
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.
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…