I’ve been in Manila for almost a week now. Although I’m on vacation I decided to spend a few days working on a side project. Beyond just making progress on the application, I wanted to see how feasible it would be to work remotely while traveling. Here are…
After a bout of uncharacteristic indecision, I decided I will take my vacation in The Philippines. I guess in the end I just wanted to do something completely different for a few weeks. The Philippines is warm, cheap, far away, and in theory should be easy to navigate since they…
I had a very thought provoking conversation this week about the importance of art. At first blush my reaction was no, art is not important to me. My original logic was two fold. First I do not create art. I do not paint. I do not draw. I do not…
About six months ago I spent an entire weekend thinking about, and then starting to code a side project. It felt amazing to take an idea I was thinking about and take it to the next step. However, the high I got from diving head first into a new side…
Fed up with the cold and in need of some time away from the daily grind, I decided that I was going to take a break. At first I felt relieved, since I had assumed that once I decided when to go, everything else would fall into place. However, just…
I’ve been on a 2 month binge of programming video tutorials. It started over the holidays when I watched 40 hours of tutorials in a 2 week period. I felt very empowered with the new knowledge that I was able to acquire in this brief period, and put it…