How do you define being “burnt out”?
I found this fellow’s definition intriguing:
burning out isn’t just about work load, it’s about work load being greater than the motivation to do work
– Keith Yost
This sounds so very insidious.
Tag Archives: philosophy
How do you define being “burnt out”?
Monday, April 12, 2010
A Philosophy of Cool for Non-Living Things
Friday, March 19, 2010
Cool can come from what a [thing] is or what it does. But at the core, Cool is about purity of expression, of material objects being infused with human energy, creativity and insight to make them more than just the sum of their parts.
– Mark Hoyer, WHAT IS COOL?, Cycle World 2/2010
I love Mark’s take [...]
When You Just Can’t Imagine…
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Something to consider…
“I can’t imagine why anyone would need X” is a statement about your imagination, not X.
(via Dan)
Glass Drinking Glasses
Friday, January 22, 2010
Was it a happy-accident that glass drinking glasses have been in use for hundreds of years and they don’t leach any dangerous chemicals into their contents and thus into our bodies?
Did that lull us into false sense of security where we assume that drinking container vendors would only provide us with things that would not [...]
The aim of a language
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
to turn ideas into software, quickly and faithfully
– John Chambers
Great aim!
The Bipolar Lisp Programmer
Monday, December 21, 2009
Ben referred us to this article (cached here) in the midst of a discussion about, among other things, why there is still no FFI in the Scheme standard.
That article is really interesting.
What did you think about it?
What Spending Money Says About You
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Money is more than a transfer of value. It’s a statement of belief.
(via Seth)
There are a lot of ways to think about how this applies that might help you to better make sense of why things “work” they way that they do.
Conway’s Law
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Conway’s Law is not intended to be a joke or nasty witticism:
…organizations which design systems … are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
– Melvin Conway
(via Fare via Wikipedia)
The Grass is Always Greener
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Here is a little tongue in cheek developer career philosophy/humor:
(via xkcd via Greg Wilson)