December 2011
2 posts
Code Soloist #19: Interventions
I read the post of a young man, much like myself, who is lamenting his addiction to idea creation, to finding more satisfaction living in the possibilities of new projects than in the reality of building them. He has a lot of domain names, because he believes the thrill of it is in the beginning.
That fact that we don’t hear more stories like these is only because few people have the...
Code Soloist #18: The distance is the same
Imagine you are standing on one side of a football field. You start running towards the other end, and depending on how many times you’ve done this before, you feel pain, or fatigue, or burning in your lungs. Or perhaps just the sheer pleasure of feeling warm wind in your face. When you reach the other side, you are finished.
Now, run the same field, but this time, be an ant. Run over the...