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Communicating Honestly
Most people suck at communicating—and I’m one of them. I get passionate about this issue because, really, it’s such an simple thing to change. Reordering a few words, pulling a few out, and generally saying less can have a profound impact—but then, why is it so hard? Because it’s hard to be honest, and it’s [...]
Programming and Practice
I’ve been thinking about practice lately—and about growth. Here are some thoughts: Programming is a complicated job. Many people see it as a craft, and as craftsmen, programmers must spend countless hours honing their skills and improving their expertise to reach a level to compete at the level they desire to be at. For example: [...]
Too Much Noise
The WordPress community bugs me sometimes. I don’t really have anything bad to say about the community personally. Just the side-effects of the community, which I can sum up in one word. NOISE. There are tens-of-thousands of people posting blog posts about the same exact thing. For example, recently I needed to write a plugin [...]
Did You Know 3.0 (2008)
Really interesting video. It gives some great statistics about the world we’re living in. See also: http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com/
I’m finally on Twitter
I used to hate the idea of Twitter and I was utterly opposed to becoming part of it. The idea of random people watching what I was doing seemed weird and useless. I don’t love being in the spotlight, I’m even a bit of a recluse at times. So it seemed exceptionally out of character [...]
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