tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630379.post110796096621360808..comments2010-12-30T17:55:10.130-05:00Comments on Dave's BLOG: Life is MundaneDavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08701649145513988342noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630379.post-1108136564278033422005-02-11T10:42:00.000-05:002005-02-11T10:42:00.000-05:00I agree in the sense that, in programming for exam...I agree in the sense that, in programming for example, I'd go nuts if I did the same stuff year-in and year-out. A 20-year COBOL veteran? Yargh! A new language, a new methodology, a new problem domain; it makes the profession interesting.<br /><br />OTOH, I want to tame a couple of things. First, I want to tame this desire I have to make complete changes in what I do. Always learning something new about programming is good, but chess this week, guitar the next, and drawing the week following is a problem. More specifically, I've achieved a lot of breadth at the expense of abolutely no depth.<br /><br />Second, I want to tame the illusion that I seem to have that I can get really good at something really fast, and if I don't, I get frustrated and give up. I'm as good at programming as I am because I've done it for 21 years. I'm as lousy at chess as I am because, when I'm not an A-class player after a month, I give up and go do something else. <br /><br />I've been looking for something I can be really, really good at in no time and with no expense, and that's a fallacy. Such a thing doesn't exist, (or where it does exist, it's something simple and/or silly like playing Solitaire), and I need to get that into my head.<br /><br />I suppose, in short, I'm looking for a balance between the breadth I'm so good at acquiring, and the depth that I have in programming and lack in everything else.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08701649145513988342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630379.post-1108135585005074782005-02-11T10:26:00.000-05:002005-02-11T10:26:00.000-05:00Well, for myself I sort of consider it the "hacker...Well, for myself I sort of consider it the "hacker mentality" where it's like a challenge of solving a puzzle, a new puzzle is always the thing. I know people who are experts in one thing, and I just think to myself that it would be so boring just knowing one thing really well, instead of dabbling in new things all the time. It's like some new form of ADD where you're always looking to the "next thing" to satisfy you.rasterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01475600280560461797noreply@blogger.com