![]() Slowly trying to figure out how it all worked, copying code snippets out of magazines, and attempting to convince myself that I understood how a computer worked. I’d programmed a bit on my Atari 400 and a lot on my Apple ][ and IBM PC, but this was hacking. There are an equal amount of situations where my skills/habit put me at a disadvantage. In these situations, I can hit the ground running, quickly assess, and equally quickly get us moving in a credible direction. There are situations where this particular set of skills is advantageous, particularly in situations where I have relevant experience. Combine all those, and you get me: usually well-informed, very aware of what those other shifty humans might be plotting, and probably already thinking about something else. Voracious consumer of information, professional introvert, and ownership of a painfully short attention span. Here’s the rub: I’ve always been this way. You think this results from years of being a leadership type who is constantly thrown into random situations where I am required to build situational awareness quickly, and you’d be partially correct. I am not calm until I find this familiarity, and when I do BAM Ok, what’s next? How do we make progress from here? Let’s go. I walk into a situation, and I’m furiously trying to figure it out, “Which situation is this?” I am parsing the people, the words, and the mood, and I’m searching for familiarity. The distractions were innumerable, but the real reason was character. I wanted to be a computer scientist, and I failed my first class… badly. I’d been a grocery store clerk, a butcher, a video store clerk, the guy who backs up the system to tape drives on Saturday, and a bookseller. ![]() Knew I was going to fail it halfway through the class.
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