Words of Wisdom from James Gosling
After reading James's All I Really Need to Know I Learned while Skiing with my Grandmother (damn, no permalink), I've come up with a Raible Developer Creed.
- Balance - strive for it. If you're staying up late to develop, and you haven't spent a few hours with your friends/family that day - you're not being fair to yourself, or them.
- You're breathing too hard. You must be doing something wrong. Take the time to learn before doing. This is going to be a tough one as I tend to just jump in and try to do something. However, I'm sure if I studied the technology/documentation first, it would actually take me less time to do it.
- Inspiration is 99% Observation. I'm going to try to limit how much I do outside of the office and start observing more (via mailing lists/blogs). This will contribute greatly to the first item in my new creed.