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A Fish in Water
At work, we recently had a head swap for the director of the building. The old guy was well enough, but the new person is much more interesting. He is a nice, southern salesman. Depending where you read this, that might all sound oxymoronic. Regardless, I can tell you what he really is – a rhetorician. In all interactions with him, I have found it exceedingly interesting to see how deftly he navigates any question at all. This might seem like a cheap trick or a sham. However, humans are thinking beings, and all one needs to do is convince you of something. In a pure sense, that’s the only goal.
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Of Currents
When I was about 20 or so, I decided to get into reading. It was through a muddled mix of pretension and desire for slower media that I found myself opening books, which is to say reading Dune on my phone. I loved the development of my dilettante status, but I also really enjoyed learning about the world and myself through the books. However, even salient lessons can feel theoretical and hard to apply to life. It can feel hard to tease apart the themes in a book, but past that how do we make them useful.
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MVVM understandings
I have recently started a new job working on dotnet apps. Through conversations with more experienced, it was made clear that there was an architectural issue with an application that was causing growing pains. This document is intended to cover the source of those issues and explain the solution.
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What can I be proud of?
My brother-in-law recently asked me if I was proud to have graduated college – his exact words were “do you feel accomplished”. In an odd way, I don’t It just wasn’t that hard. My partner tells me that I don’t remember how hard it was on me. Fair enough, I worked hard. That said, I don’t know that I was really challenged. So, why does that take away from the accomplishment.
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Hey! Weren't you doing advent of code?
Great question. Yeah, I was, and I was blogging about it – I even wrote a supplementary meta-article. Below are all the links to my posts/code.
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A tentative list of core tenets
If you’ve had a long conversation with me, you’ve no doubt heard me say, “I need to write them down, but I have a few core tenets and this is one of them…”. This is often followed by prattling about how the current situation exemplifies how or why a value I hold is worthwhile. Though it is already said in the title, it should go without saying that this list is tentative. I’m still young, so I doubt my values are calcified yet. All the same, the following is my list of core tenets.
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Yes I am doing Advent of Code
A (negligibly older) friend of mine who is a dev and blogger publicly answered my question, “Hey, are you doing Advent of Code this year?” In his article, he offered some strong opinions on why one should or shouldn’t participate in the advent of code. The following are my thoughts on the matter.
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What does it mean to be a Good Cat
I recently came up against a moral quandary. The moral quandary is of the sort of that of a parent. Where lies the boundary of my influence on other beings’ lives? What does it mean to be a good cat?
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On Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
In a recent blog post, I made the statement that an issue with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is that it artificially gates levels from one another. The following post is a digestion of a conversation a colleague and I had diving into that premise.
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Who is Thaddeus Snaatch?
I’ve recently started my first Dungeons and Dragons campaign. It’s a game that I’ve long coveted to play. My character is a Elvish Wizard named Thaddeus Snaatch.
I have found Fire Bolt to be indispensable and Magic Missiles to put a bow on most enemies. However, I’ve only felt well covered in combat. In role play and general adventuring, I feel lost – not lost but lost as Thaddeus. I don’t know what he wants, thinks, or is looking for in the world. So, as the titular questions asks, Who is Thaddeus Snaatch?
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