Category: Work
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Sitting Quietly, Doing Nothing:
The Lost Art of Boredom & Internal Rebellion in an Attention Economy So today I learned the proper spelling of Tchotchke. In the past, when I spelled it, I did so phonetically: “Chochky, Chauchkey, Chatchki,” etc. The spelling and its historical roots are more interesting than I had thought. I would’ve bet on the phrase
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Notes from 2016:
We are about to enter a new year, with that will come new challenges and new accomplishments. There will be new projects, new people, and new experiences. I would like to go back and go through some of the things I learned in 2016, programming related and not: Getting a Job in Tech: You can
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Coding, Passion, and Deadlines
I am blessed. I get to work a job where I get to do something that if I wasn’t working I would probably be doing on my own. Life as a Career Programmer for many of us is a dream. So many of the Developers I have met in the NYC tech scene have a