Category Archives: Psychology of Programming

The mental aspects of creating software.

20/20 Hindsight Psychology of Programming

Birthdays, 10,000 Hours, and the Myth of the Ding

My earliest “motion picture” memory is from the afternoon of my 3rd birthday. The footage is shot in a fish-eye lens, and a bit blurry, either because of the age of the memory or because I was always a bit nearsighted. I guess hindsight isn’t always 20/20, eh? It’s only a few …Read More

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ADHD and Web Development

Is Attention Deficit Disorder a liability in the Knowledge Economy? I don’t think so. I’ve found it to be quite useful, in fact. The fact that ADHD is looked at as a problem at all just shows that our educational system sucks. …Read More

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