January 2010
23 posts
“Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard, and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.”
—Conan O’Brien (via editorlisa and dpstyles) (via david)
“Therein lies the best career advice I could possibly dispense: just DO things. Chase after the things that interest you and make you happy. Stop acting like you have a set path, because you don’t. No one does. You shouldn’t be trying to check off the boxes of life; they aren’t real and they were created by other people, not you. There is no explicit path I’m following, and I’m not walking in anyone else’s footsteps. I’m making it up as I go.”
—swissmiss | Career Advice
“You are not the best at programming. Live with it. — I always thought that I knew so much about programming, but there is always someone out there better than you. Always. Learn from them.”
—Programming lessons
“Who gets to direct the movie about the “James Cameron/Kathryn Bigelow ex-couple now competing for Best Picture” story — Cameron or Bigelow?”
—Twitter / John Gruber
My Job
Sometimes I think my job is OK. It pays OK, and its only occasionally demanding. I’m quite comfortable. There are far worse things people have to do for jobs, or encounter in life. I find the environment counter productive sometimes, lots of niggles.
Distractions here and there, interruptions. I find that there isn’t really a time when you can plough through the work you have, partly because that isn’t very well defined at my level. There is quite a difference between what I could get away with, what I do and what I could do.
During the recent snow, when I and many others were limited to where they could go and how fast, it occurred to me what you’re supposed to do. Move.
To quoth Up in the Air, a mostly slightly above average movie - “Moving is living”
I think this is very true, it felt antiquated when I was restricted where I could go. The whole area is fairly restricted, but making an above average effort to get to where I work seemed a waste of energy. I work with computers, and I was clogging up the channels that were needed by doctors, nurses, policement when I should really have the capability to work from not only home, but a lot of the time, wherever I want.
A job, or something you do for a living, can be a grouping of people that can achieve far more together than individually.
That is the company you keep for a significant proportion of your life, the company you work for and works for you, it is what you do with your life. I want to be prouder of what I do with mine.
Play
“I just love the Grizzly Bear. That project was great. It sounds like these church cathedral chords— it’s just sick what they’re doing.”
—Jay-Z (via Pitchfork)
Dog Days Are Over
Florence & The Machine
Florence and the machine - dog days are over
Has been used on channel 4’s recent slimdog millionaire trailer. I think it suits the film well, I like the positivity of the song, the grown up sentiment which sounds like a childhood mantra
Morning
Turn on Radio 1: Scott Mills, instant off
Change to 6Music: Terrible DJ, lose will, stays on, but make other noise to drown it out
