There’s a lot of complete dismissal of religion and god(s) when I chat with people. I’m not going to go into my beliefs here—At the moment I don’t assign myself to any religion. However, I do feel that these folk, because they don’t believe in god(s) are also denouncing many forms of spirituality because it’s [...]
Endgame
https://www.monbiot.com/2019/05/15/net-curtains/ Literally every aspect of everything we do, eat, consume, is industrialised beyond sustainability. Owned by the very very few, supported by government, with propaganda fed back to us paid for by us. Smile. How can this go on? How much longer can we sit here paying our mortgages, contributing to this by enjoying consumerism [...]
Sleep
https://youtu.be/5MuIMqhT8DM Wow. Sleep. You NEED sleep. Without it you will not perform well, at anything. In my previous post I talked about imposter syndrome. I’m having a bout of it now. I am also not sleeping particularly well at the moment. It’s only been a few days - not weeks or anything - but I [...]
Moments of self doubt
I’m growing more confident but as work and pressures of deadlines build up I become uneasy. Doubt creeps into my thoughts. I have a feeling that says that I only got here by piggybacking on the success of others. I’m just a bystander that gets caught in the flow and somehow people think I was [...]
On being an introvert
I spend lots of time fighting against my own traits. While others are pitting their thoughts across in a meeting I have delved deeply into the first point, losing some of the later stuff. Not moving fast, considering everything and formulating my answer. Does this work in a fast paced Agile environment? How do I [...]
It’s not in the paper, it’s on the wall
When I travel I like to look at the graffiti and stickers. It gives you an idea of what the protests are. What is going on in the underground without necessarily being in the papers or in the mainstream media outlets. Here in Konstantz I’m seeing a lot of green revolution messages. Veganism, extinction rebellion, [...]
Open Source Abuse
(Open) source of anxiety - Increment: Open Source This talks about the reliance put on Open Source projects. Some of these projects are vital to the community, in this case Babel, and there is very little thanks back from the people who use it. When I say people, I mean large corporations who don’t offer [...]
Physical Social Health Education
“Once, in Physical Social Health Education, we learnt about drugs, the type that you put up your nose, there was someone who sneezed and part of the middle of their nose fell out.” My son came out with this, 8. I wonder how all this stuff is framed. I wonder how they talk about marijuana, [...]
The London Rush
Today I went to apply for my Dutch passport. I’m Dutch by rights because my dad is Dutch When I was born and was Dutch at my 18th birthday, despite me being born in England and holding an English passport all my life. This has been months in the planning. The application is quite involved [...]
Fat Cat
The cat at the top tells the product owners what they want. The fat cat is not a software engineer. The product owner tells the engineers what they want. The engineers bend over backwards to accommodate the will of the product owner because they are not on an equal level respect wise. The product owners [...]
