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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 study we'd put our future kids through: a more liberal touch would foster...

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 how long it has been since I was in school or had a wonderful summer...

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 accomplish and achieve to our maximum potential. Right? I'm as guilty as everybody...

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 with a choice of study made a decade past. Though a university's seal...