Tag: daily thoughts
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My Brother & Motorcycles
My brother and motorcycles: no more. Motorcycle. Motor cycle. Cycle. I met with him last weekend and he said, “Thank goodness I lost the passion for motorcycles.” “I’m no longer addicted to it.” “Can you imagine being into motorcycling like a teenager at this age I am now?”, he asked me. He is 47. I…
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Leave the Source for Later
Some people now enjoy starting their statements with a direct reference to a (more credible) source of information. It seems that everyone’s suspicious until proven otherwise. For that, along with exposing the broader context of the topic, people just go straight to disclosing the official source of what they are about to say. “According to…
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Good Music Ages Well
Listening to good music when you are young, in adolescence for example, is one thing. You barely have a hobby and certainly don’t work. You haven’t had the chance yet to experience the “pull” of a working profession. The motivation that makes you observe things, copy or improve them. It’s a mix of feeling and…
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The Motivation to Do Things (a 4-Step process)
Step 1 – Allow yourself to take the risk of doing something either you don’t like or don’t have the right tools to do it, or don’t know the outcomes. Step 2 – Keep your eyes and ears WIDE open so you can learn with the process Step 3 – Build a solution for you…
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Code Review Debt
I’m beginning to notice this behavior not only on my programming work, but also on comment on X. Most people still believe that code review is a task for humans to perform. I agree with that. Normally, the reviewer is someone senior within the team or organization. And the seniority came from many hours working…
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How Low Can You Go?
We were using this eSignature SaaS for collecting signatures from customers. One day, a key user came to me to say that users were complaining because they had to fill-in a long identification form before they could sign the contract — which makes sense because all that information would be added to the contract itself.…
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Every person on the planet should have their own website
Amin Eftegarie makes an excellent point on personal websites and Archive.org — that once you publish something online, there are good chances that it would become eternally available via Archive.org. On the other hand, content you publish inside walled gardens like social media may vanish after a handful of years of account activity or be…
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Dealing with fear
I’ve got and interesting insight from Laurence Endersen’s “Pebbles of Perception” about how we could be dealing with a type of fear we feel that is based solely on immaterial things, thoughts or ideas. The fear which resides only in our head. In contrast to this type of fear, the most obvious type of fear…