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Reflections on Ambition, Attainment and Fulfilment
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Reflections on Ambition, Attainment and Fulfilment

Henry David Thoreau famously said; “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.” and at the risk of accidentally and inadvertently “outing” myself as a middle-aged man, not merely a middle-aged man but also a Cis, White, Middle-Class, Man living in one
28 Jul 2021 9 min read
Estimates, Time and Toxicity
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Estimates, Time and Toxicity

or... How to build software reliably without “Crunch” I have been building software professionally for twenty years, and the one utterly constant truth I have discovered is this; > Making Time a key factor in the lives of Coders, and specifically in the process of estimating and planning work, is
28 Oct 2020 11 min read
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Complexity is a good thing...

> "You know I've noticed a certain anti-intellectualism going around this country ever since around 1980, coincidentally enough. > I was in Nashville, Tennessee last weekend and after the show I went to a waffle house and I'm sitting there and I'm eating
16 Nov 2015 7 min read
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