Above average - a level of competency at a given subject such that:
You are good enough that average people look at your work and tell you “You’ve got a lot of talent!”
You are good enough that you know there’s a huge gap between you and those who are truly excellent.
I was wondering the other day [...]
For all of my working life I’ve gotten used to sitting at a workstation where I do not have regular internet access. So while I’ve often read a lot of those articles about how to maintain focus, I’ve never actually realized how difficult it was until I brought home a bunch of work-related reading material [...]
No, I’m not job hunting. But other people are, apparently. I got a comment on an old post I made about my job hunting days. Not only that, but the guy IM’d me asking to talk (I put my yahoo id on this site somewhere me). It’s a bit strange, but I figured, why not? [...]
I was too tired to post over the weekend - too busy. But seeing as how this is a log, I need to note significant events that happened over the past weekend:
a. Saturday (Jan 12) - Younger brother got married. Had to give a best man toast. It went well, but I got hit by [...]
No matter how much of an optimist I am, I have to admit all people will have down cycles. The last few days seem to be one of mine.
Health-wise: My stomach has been in a rebellious mood for the past three or four days, I actually went to work with a fever last Friday. Also, [...]
Today is the first day of my four-week hiatus from week, after an exhausting three-day overtime streak I basically collapsed into bed last night.
Over the past week people have been asking me why I would take a month-long break from work. Am I going somewhere out of town? Sightseeing? By sheer coincidence I was [...]
A friend of mine at work once commented to me that I ask the silliest questions.
When I’m a bit bored at the office, I will sometimes throw random meaning-of-life questions at them. things like:
“If you had a time machine, what would you do with it?”
“IF you were president, what would you do about ?”
“What’s your [...]
Late afternoon on Saturday, I was looking quite a bit more work ahead of me, an amount that would later prove to last into the early morning. For some reason or another, I was a bit out of sorts, not really into what I was doing. Not wanting to waste company time being ridiculously unproductive, [...]
About a month ago, one of the devs at my company approached me with a personal concern: he needed to borrow some cash. Quite a bit, actually, for some expensive medical / family reason. Large amount, six digits (in pesos), roughly two-thirds of my current cash savings (To save you the math…my cash savings were [...]