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Going for the Easy Win

A big part of software development is making hard problems into easy problems, but sometimes it’s essential for your sanity to work on easy problems that you know how to solve.  I call this “going for the easy win” or sometimes “picking the low-hanging fruit.”  While it might give you a lot of bragging rights [...]

Clear Thinking

In the one and only philosophy class I was ever required to take in college, the professor defined philosophy as:
The sustained effort to think clearly.
Now, granted, this was an intro class, so we also delved into the different “branches” of philosophy, like metaphysics, aesthetics and epistemology. However, his original definition of philosophy is what stayed [...]