Monday, December 5, 2005

If this makes sense to you right now, then stop thinking about it! You might screw it up! ;) Otherwise…don’t sweat it too much. Move on; let your subconscious do the work later.

Chris Pine’s Learn to Program book, in the section on class objects. It struck me as good advice regardless of the context:

Thursday, December 1, 2005

Magical Thinking

I’m reading Augusten Burroughs’ wonderful “Magical Thinking” on the plane to Boston. It opens with a definition:



Magical Thinking


A schizotypal personality disorder attributing to ones own actions something that has nothing to do with him or her and thus assuming that one has greater influence than is actually the case



I couldn’t help but mutate it slightly:



Project Planning


A schizotypal personality disorder attributing to ones own actions something that has nothing to do with him or her and thus assuming that one has greater influence than is actually the case