As opposed to the charlatans who desire influence for its own sake, or the martyrs who are too bitter to talk earnestly about their value, hustlers thrive as a natural outcome of their comfort in advocating for the high value work they believe in. Hustlers don’t have time to feel sorry for themselves because they’re too busy creating a new reality,... See more
If you’re moving an object from out of the frame/stage in to the frame/stage, use an ease-out variation.
If you’re moving an object from inside the frame to outside the frame, use an ease-in variation.
If you’re moving an object from one place to another in the frame, use an ease-in-out variation
Of course, there are exceptions, but this helps with... See more
Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.
– Søren Kierkegaard
Software is a house. The more you lean into the analogy, the better.
I often tell clients "The first thing you asked me to do was to move a dining room chair into the living room. Then you asked me to do the same with the toilet. The latter only works if we tear out all the plumbing."
Non-coders seem to understand these analogies intuitively.
I know that disembodiment is a real and pervasive mental issue afflicting cerebral people. The phrase “stuck in your head” isn’t metaphorical, it refers to the arbitrary sense that your perceptual home base is a golfball-sized hole in the middle of your head. I used to have it, and it is a massive downgrade versus correctly perceiving your... See more
N period on from now, software engineers who haven't adopted or started exploring software assistants, are frankly not gonna make it. Engineering organizations right now are split between employees who have had that "oh fuck" moment, are leaning into software assistants and those who have not.