#meditation

Seeking perfection is a fool’s errand. Perfection is a fading spark that can only be achieved for oneself - never when working with others - and as soon as it’s gone the search for the new perfect begins. By constantly searching for perfection you end up living in the fantastic future - in the...

One weekend in 2017 I was using my Macbook Pro when all of a sudden the screen turned black and it started spewing white smoke like it had just elected the new Pope. Luckily, it didn’t catch fire. Later that day I opened up the laptop to see what happened. To my surprise it wasn’t the battery,...

At my first job I used to take a break every time I got stuck on a problem until one day my boss caught me looking out of the window. He didn’t say anything the first time he saw me, but when he saw me in the same position some 15 min later he yelled “At least sit by your desk and have your...

“I’ve spent a lot of my life worried that people will think I don’t know enough. Sometimes, that worry has made me use big words when I didn’t need to.  –Randall Munroe in the foreword to the Thing Explainer” I used to be a stickler for organizing code by what it was. Models, decorators, form...

Tom was brewing tea in preparation for a 5 o'clock meeting he knew little about. The agenda was so vague it might as well have been left out - it read “Mark introduces a new system for controlling 3rd party IoT water sprinklers”. That was standard practice for CorpCorp - the company Tom worked...

As a kid I practiced Judo which is a martial art as well as a philosophy. And my Judo teacher gave us a philosophical story which I came to understand only recently and which helped me achieve more than I though was possible. So I wanted to share it. The story was about a small tree in a strong...