Exhausperation
I’m tired. Really tired. We’re at the end of a project, ever so close to “done”, and that great rewarding sigh of relief that comes with it, but everything else around won’t stop moving for that moment. It’s all part of growing up.
I’m tired. Really tired. We’re at the end of a project, ever so close to “done”, and that great rewarding sigh of relief that comes with it, but everything else around won’t stop moving for that moment. It’s all part of growing up.
As a response to Laura’s Branch, I’ve expanded on my first two post-graduate experiences working at a pre-launch start-up and working at Yahoo, in the form of advice over which type of company a new graduate might choose to work in.
We are obsessed with the idea that technology is too complicated. We aggressively push an ethos of simplicity and mono-interface, and we cheer for benevolent, tasteful gatekeepers as the one-true-way to bring the benefits of connected computation to all. We are obsessed because the problem is so hard. Because we are obsessive personalities. Because distilling the real complexity of computing for the masses is a worthy and vital goal.