POETS

Zed Shaw reminds me of House.

He acts like an asshole most of the time, but he’s smart and right too often for anyone to do anything about it. And he gave an awesome talk at CUSEC – about becoming a corporate programmer and not losing your soul. It is so freaking cool that they have speakers of this calibre talking to students. Should’ve gone to school in Canada.

“Corporate” programmers have been getting a lot of stick in my orbit lately (much to the amusement of the closest thing to a corporate programmer I know). I don’t think I’ll be in the position to go and work for a “big” company anytime soon – I’m enjoying being my own boss way too much. But, if I was looking, I know where I’d be going. Look at this office!

I’ve never written code for any company with more than about 7 employees. I’m definitely missing out on some valuable learning and experience working with smart people in big teams. But everybody complains about it so much!

Someone (who shall remain nameless to protect the innocent) who works at the State Services Commission (government) just came on my IM and said: “It’s POETS day!”.

Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday.

I couldn’t even go to work if I felt like that. Why bother doing something you hate?

But hey, I’m a freshly-minted University graduate with no family to feed or mortgage to pay. Make the most of it while it lasts, I guess.

(Photo from the Fog Creek Software Office Tour)