This is probably a trivial thing, but I find it to be quite convenient. It’s a way to keep notes and TODO lists associated with a particular project within your workflow.

In the past I’ve taken paper notes and used the physical act of crossing something off as a way to signify that action being completed. I have to admit, I love the feeling of taking a pen and scribbling out that thing I had to do, but that sheet of paper really isn’t associated with the project, nor is it a natural part of my workflow. I have to think to check my list…

Intelligence is not the only aspect of being a good software engineer, nor does it guarantee success.

Learning takes courage because one must commit to the conclusion drawn from experience.

All to often, experience is sacrificed to the hobgoblins of complacency or arogance and nothing is gained.

A good coder is always learning, and learning means committing to the conclusions which experience provides. To grok a language means having a multitude of such experience. Yet, it takes courage to say, ‘I have found a new understanding’, and commit to it…

The content posted to Facebook or Twitter has its value for that moment, or for a certain period of time, but the platforms do a terrible job of connecting those posts through time.

So much of what consitutes a persons life resides in the connections between their uniques experience and the insights/experience they have gained from those experiences.

Posting to FB or Twitter conveys a snapshot, but rarely tells a story. Socializition is about telling stories, so it’s no wonder the quality of the social experience on these sites is somewhat vacuous…

For anybody who produces a creative work, unless you are one of the few who derive all the satisfaction necessary from simply producing art to continue doing it, you likely want your work to have some sort of impact.

Seth Godin published a post ‘You can’t change everything or everyone, but you can change the people who matter’, with a series of questions intended to focus attention on just who a creative is intending to impact.

I want to answer these questions as it will pertain to my progress on Knowledgenode…

There is movement in every day, a current, that runs beneath what is seen. This union carries the rhythms of living within it. If I would but slow down and escape the pain of desire and in so doing escape the bondage of want, we might rise above these feelings of inadequacy, of failure, and expand again into a full self.

The over-activity of the critical sense and the drifting distraction of my thoughts pull my concentration away from the sensual potential of moments and quickly rush self-aware guffaws out to make light of abundant and nebulous

All too often introspection becomes the habit of second-guessing, guilt takes the room confidence would otherwise occupy.

We need to spend a lot less energy trying to convince others how to feel, think or act. So much of our economy is about encouraging and pursuading their audience to think and feel ways that benefit the message promoter.

Indeed, even our education system is about encouraging a mindset towards heirarchies and status which feeds the system future workers, and therefore future consumers.

Debt is the badge of responsibilty each image concious consumer wears. There is something fearsome about such a hemogeny…