Just a couple of weeks ago I was enjoying being in the present. Yet somewhere between then and now I've totally forgotten how to do that. The irony of that last statement is not lost on me. Just like that, out of nowhere I found it again. All…
Seems like it takes me a lot longer to get back up after a perceived fall. Mostly the disappointment of weeks of work amounting to nothing. It's a tad dramatic that's all. It has not been used yet, not that it's amounted to nothing.…
One sentence at a time over the course of last ten months has led to 250 blog posts. To think that the ten months before that I wrote fourteen. Compound interest has to be one of the most fundamental concepts ever. I only used to think about it in terms…
Totally stole the idea for the title from Better Software Conference. They are live as I'm writing this and I've just watched a talk by Casey Muratori. It was fucking awesome. Around the same time I've come across his post on Semantic Compression which…
It's a recurring lesson that I seem to have to learn over and over again. Just because you try hard, success is only a possibility. Yet expectations have a way of creeping in. The reason to quit is always around the corner, to drop this lunacy of hitting…
There has been an itch to work on something as I have some time during my day now. Quite a lot of it in fact. As both my own product and contract projects are in a stable place and nothing major is planned soon. Also, I'm procrastinating reaching…
We've all had those 2pm on Tuesday moments that put everything into perspective. Just like most I've had my share. I had one last week, it wasn't on Tuesday rather on a Wednesday but it had the same effect none the less. That evening…
This was a tweet I read about a few weeks ago. It really got me thinking. Not sure what a "cracked dev" means exactly but I'm guessing it's got something do with competence. It's really true as well especially when it comes…