Month: April 2017
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Peaking Early/Peaking Late
Shortly after college, I had a passing interest learning chess and I used to watch videos of chess games with commentary by Josh Waitzkin. At a young age, Josh played at a very high level and the expectation at the time was that he would go on to be the next Bobby Fischer (which inspired…
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Why Write
Sometime ago, my manager asked me to put together a plan to validate a very complex system of software, so I requested a specification from the development team. After all, what was I supposed to test unless there was some document of what the system was required to do? But none existed. The entire project…
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Craming
We started with good intentions, we were going to start studying early, slowly, and make sure that we really knew the material before the final. But here we are, the final is two days away and we still need to read through the last half of the text-book. So like we’ve done before when woefully…