The Nature of Storytelling

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Software Engineering and Storytelling

This is a well known metaphor in the industry, but many coders are not all that familiar with it. I would contend that coders should think of themselves as actual storytellers on a daily basis, rather than just occasionally being reminded of the amus...

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Vocal Copycatting

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Don't Look Now

The great Donald Sutherland (88) passed earlier today, RIP. This fine Canadian actor was something of a rare breed. You were never quite sure what you were going to get when he appeared on screen. His character portrayals were rarely straightforward,...

Jun 21, 20241 min read

The Fledgling Recruiter-Bot

💡 In a previous post, I discuss the cowboy coder. This job posting (an excerpt) actually appeared recently on a popular professional networking platform: It got me thinking a little further about the impact of AI in the recruiting sector. Indeed,...

May 9, 20241 min read

The Better Story

In "Life of Pi", Yann Martel suggests that the agnostic is fixated on dry, yeastless factuality. The agnostic is unwilling to give into childlike wonder and imagination, and thus, Martel goes on to say, is prone to miss out on the better story. The n...

May 8, 20243 min read

Beck - Patchwork Aficionado

Beck Hansen has been sharing stories with the world for the past thirty odd years, through sound and vision, melding all manner of genres in effortless fashion. There's little else to be said, really, other than, check him out or revisit his stuff, w...

Apr 30, 20244 min read

Multitasking is a Bad Habit; Here's How to Stop (Kind of)

💡 This post was inspired by an article (with the above title as the teaser) that appeared in the NY Times last month. The article itself was entitled: A Multitasker’s Guide to Regaining Focus, by Anna Borges We're all very familiar with the concep...

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The Fear of Doctrine

💡 Doctrine (from Latin: doctrina, meaning "teaching, instruction") is a codification of beliefs or a body of teachings or instructions, taught principles or positions, as the essence of teachings in a given branch of knowledge or in a belief system....

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