more angst in wowsville
I had really hoped that things would fall in place and the mild flirtation we shared would...
Scale and Perspective
“It takes these very simple-minded instructions—’Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if...
falling back
I like daylight savings time because it reminds me that my perception of time is a completely arbitrary abstraction based on...
There is something magical about describing something into existence
It’s hard to explain to someone who hasn’t done it. She asked me how I can take the...
Coding Ugly
Sometimes it’s good to just hack. Don’t worry about scalability or maintainability, don’t sweat coding standards, ignore...
Life Is Short
So it is — the life we receive is not short, but we make it so, nor do we have any lack of it, but are wasteful of it. Just as great and...
What do I want to do when I grow up?
If you’re reading these words and you’re not an archiving bot sifting through the...
Zombies in the Workplace
I love this talk by Sebastian Hermida called Zombies in my Workplace:...
Zen Cynicism: maitri
There was a story about the Zen master Suzuki Roshi. This was a situation where his students had been sitting and they were 3 or 4...