Discomfort, fears, overcoming them and stuff

There is a common theme with discomfort, at least with the things that I find uncomfortable, especially the things I know, deep down, I should be facing. What are some of these things for me? Talking to a stranger, specifically a stranger of the opposite sex whom I find attractive;…

Don't hate the game

I've heard this quite a lot of times: "Don't hate the player, hate the game." You are the player, but what is the game? It seems justified to hate it, but what is "it"? Is it the ridiculousness of having to do…

Own it by wanting it

The Joe Rogan podcast with Guy Ritchie for me is one of the best conversations I've had the pleasure of coming across, which I've listened to a couple of times now. Its strange how you can read a entire book, yet miss the essence of it.…

The positives of putting yourself out there

It's strange how much I tend to focus on the negative aspects of a scary thing, maybe in the hopes that I can scare myself out of doing it. I'm alway pleasantly surprised by the positives that I never consider. Why spring this out of the…

Finding joy in the seemingly mundane

Firstly, thank you for the inspiration Kupajo | A premiere internet dorkboard. I'd highly recommend this site; it's got tons of gems, like this one. This last week I caught myself saying, this work is so boring. It is true, most of the work had become easy…

The joys of despair

This is so strange, and it's happened to me three times this week. First, when I was working on making interfaces work in Zig, then while I was trying to test a complex piece of Go code for a client, and then today when I was trying to…

Invisibility is freeing

Most of the work I do goes unnoticed. For the longest time, I took it personally. At the same time, whenever I looked back at the work I put out there, most of it was just garbage. It's not a bad thing. It allowed me to evolve my…