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Category: English

  • Plans and planning

    Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. — Dwight Eisenhower.

  • Where to begin?

    Begin anywhere. — John Cage.

  • Cunningham’s Law

    The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong answer. — Cunningham’s Law.

  • Roots and fruits

    The roots of education are bitter, but the fruits are sweet. — Attributed to Aristotle.

  • Catan

    Review of “Catan”, the board game.

  • Routine things

    High performing teams do routine things in an outstanding manner, routinely. — Ann Dunwoody, USA’s first female 4-star general. At A8C’s Grand Meetup, 2018.

  • Dare to know

    Have the courage to use your own understanding. — Kant, What is enlightenment?

  • Azul

    Review of “Azul”, the board game.

  • CuBirds

    Review of “CuBirds”, the card game.

  • Sushi Go!

    Review of “Sushi Go”, my goto party game.

  • Team and ideas

    Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they will screw it up. Give a mediocre idea to a great team, and they will either fix it or come up with something better. If you get the team right, chances are that they’ll get the ideas right. — Ed Catmull, Creativity.

  • Who to write code for?

    Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. — SICP, preface to the 1st edition.

  • Dvorak, 3rd year

    How I’m doing with Dvorak, 3 years since I switched from QWERTY.

  • To become an architect

    To become a member of the community of architects requires an ability to learn to view the world as an architect and to use architect’s tools in a professional way. This can happen only by observing and interacting with experienced architects within the context of a studio. — Ilkka Tuomi, Internet, innovation and OpenSource: Actors…

  • The new

    The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends. — Anton Ego, Ratatouille.

  • Chairs and motivation

    Get a good chair, because you can’t always be motivated, and sometimes you have to sit on it until you’re done. — The grandfather of a colleague, who had a work ethic that I share.

  • How I learned the NATO Phonetic Alphabet

    The learning and memory techniques I used.

  • Architecture astronauts

    When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. — Joel Spolsky, Don’t let architecture astronauts scare you.

  • Make something well

    To learn to make something well can take your whole life. And it’s worth it. — Ursula K. Le Guin.

  • Change and irrelevance

    If you dislike change, you’re going to dislike irrelevance even more. — Eric Shinseki. Heard to Ann Dunwoody, Automattic Grand Meetup 2018.

  • The UNIX way, resurfaced

    Make it work, make it right, make it fast. — The UNIX way, resurfaced decades later by Kent Beck.

  • Two small jumps

    It seems to be much easier to make two small jumps than the one big jump in any kind of mental thinking. — Creative Thinking at Bell Labs (1952), Claude Shannon.

  • Vaccine for fuzzy thinking

    Objectives are like a vaccine for fuzzy thinking. — John Doerr, Why the secret to success is setting the right goals.