I was as blown away by my first conversation with ChatGPT as anyone could be. It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since I first logged in and thought about what to ask it first. Just for fun, I threw a Latin phrase at it during one of those first conversations to see what […]
“As for me and my codebase …”
A Changing Landscape In 2011, I was interviewed for a programming job at a local company and, as part of the interview, I was asked to provide some samples of my coding. I brought a couple of significant examples I was happy with and let the interviewer look over them. He immediately asked me to […]
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Leaving Facebook
I decided to pause my use of Facebook for the month of April and see what happens. This is a little background on my decision.
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So you want to be an entrepreneur?
There’s been a lot of talk about The Great Resignation in which employees are quitting their jobs left and right, sometimes to go on to other jobs, sometimes not. The common wisdom I’ve heard too often is that the government needs to stop “all these unemployment benefits” and get people back to work. That’s never […]
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Why I’m Still On Facebook
Yesterday, I received an e-mail notice of yet another change to Facebook’s privacy policy and finally decided to pull the trigger on something I’d been itching to do for a little while. Around mid-day, I posted the following status update… Once again, I’m reducing my presence on Facebook and trimming the Friends List. If you find […]
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The Value of Choice
… It seems that more and more people in this society are unwilling to accept this responsibility or understand the concepts of free will and choice … The freedom to make the wrong choices is vital to a person’s actual ability to make the right ones. This is not as heretical as it may sound.
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