Posts tagged with Learning
Thinking about the Merits of a Westernized Education
Being a product of both the Asian/eastern-style of education as well as American/western-style schooling, I'd like to think that I have a broad perspective on education. Sometimes, my wife and I argue about which style of…
The Passage of Time, in Software Development Years
Sometimes all these years seem to be physically weighing me down. I turned 30 this year, and while that's hardly old by most standards[1], it feels like a significant amount of time particularly when I think about…
The Functional Equivalent of a Solo Meeting
Inbox Zero; Getting Things Done; IDEs; Notes and Annotations. These are the tools and techniques that we – the productive, naturally – use to make sense of our busy lives, to squeeze the most out of limited time and focus, and to…
A Dash of Humanities within a World of Science
Having been in the industry now for 8+ years, I learned some time ago that a colleague's school and degree become less relevant over time, that great developers come from all backgrounds, that engineering ability is not correlated…
