I saw the image below recently and was intrigued. Unfortunately I saw the image without context so I couldn’t figure out what to google to learn more. The other day, however, I ran into it again. Here’s the explanation I found: Robert Plutchik considered there to be eight primary emotions – anger, fear, sadness, disgust, […]
via: Alan van Roemburg by way of this post
It was late at night and I was standing in my kitchen, cooking bacon and crying. I was cooking bacon because I was hungry and I had bacon. When those two conditions are true it’s not at all surprising to find me in the kitchen cooking. The crying, however, was new. It had taken me […]
I was poking around on my desktop tonight because, let’s be honest, there’s nothing quite like a thursday night spent playing with .oh-my-zsh. Quick Aside: I just noticed that in looking for the most “canonical” link to use for .oh-my-zsh in the previous paragraph I googled it and saw a few possibilities in the first […]
Sometimes it’s good to just hack. Don’t worry about scalability or maintainability, don’t sweat coding standards, ignore DRY but mutter YAGNI as often as possible – just duct tape things together as you think of them. It’s like sketching, but instead of a pencil you have a text editor. You pop around the control flow […]
I was thinking today about the “soft skills” of business and particularly entrepreneurship. Much is made of the often amorphous “business skills” or “people skills.” For technical people those phrases are often heard as a euphemism for either an eagerness to take advantage of people or, just as often, moderate alcoholism. We joke among ourselves […]