So, after my success with last night’s post, I decided that today I would take the time to try and set down the essential principles of my work on a single page. To do that, I had to leave out any attempt at justifying the principles, providing...
In the last few weeks I’ve been working off and on, trying to jump-start a book project. I’ve brainstormed titles, written outlines, and written literally almost a dozen “chapter ones”.And the more I work on the damn thing, the more I realize that...
For the longest time, I would hesitate before taking action – any action.Or so it seemed.I mean, I didn’t hesitate to turn on the TV or check my email or any other habitual action like that. I didn’t even hesitate that much before semi-routine but...
“I feel kind of angry”, he confessed.“Good! That means you’re improving.”I was doing a one-on-one, helping him to move from shyness to sociability. And in the process, we were changing his feelings about certain kinds of actions.“There is a...
Until I saw this neat traceback from the innards of reddit, the success of WSGI and eggs was a lot more abstract. But now, it appears they’ve got some street cred (along with Pylons, Paste, Beaker, and flup, it looks like).OTOH, since reddit was...
Every so often, I see a new package listed on the Python Package Index that claims – in its tag line, no less – that it offers some feature “without external dependencies”.The authors of such packages must think it’s a truly valuable feature, to...
When I was a kid, my first bicycle was a one-speed. Instead of hand brakes, you stopped it by pedalling backwards. Later on, I had some trouble adjusting to a 3-speed bicycle, because I kept trying to stop by pedalling backwards.And I always...
(Warning: this post contains explicit language and controversial thoughts. If you don’t like that sort of thing, don’t read it.)While doing a bit of market research recently, I had occasion to search the ‘net for self-help forums, blogs, and other...
I don’t usually like to blog about my client work, but in this case I’ll make an exception, since so many other people are blogging about it who don’t have any idea what they’re talking about.A lot of these people, it seems, think that the Chandler...
I used to think that criticism of my work and life didn’t affect me that much.But something my wife said last night made me realize that I was thinking about it in the wrong way.It’s true: actual criticism doesn’t affect me that much, except...
It’s Christmas morning, in a hotel room in Dallas, and I’m getting dressed for an early dinner with my wife’s family.And I’m thinking to myself about the fact that I’m about to go to meet with mostly the same people I just spent Christmas Eve with...
After Christmas, I tried to write a couple of articles to post here before the new year. One about the nature of reality, the other about death and transcendence and the meaning of life. And maybe it’s because I was sick at the time, or maybe it’s...
