knuth & life style
just listened to a radio interview of donald knuth, the guy who wrote "the art of computer programming", real and windows media streams here.
I am jealous of his life style. It sounds like a perfect job he has, give a lecture once in a while, do some research for your book, actually write your book, write cheques over $2,56 once in a while.
maybe knowing odd values of sin(), cos() of the top of your head is wrong but then if his brain can remember them. thinking about how to brush your teeth with the most efficiency is intresting in its own way.
and without doubt not reading your email is not very clever. it makes it very hard to get hold of you, claiming that most people have nothing to say when they email you and it increases the noise level is certainly true but thats what happens when you are famous. and in general if you are an intresting person. We all know that not taking part in communication is a form of communication too,]]. So you have to be able to afford not taking part and live with the consequences, which are considerably small if you are famous/important enough. because then people will actually try and contact you. A team leader might be important and perhaps even famous for his success rate in the company but still he would just get replaced if he decided to not take part in communication. Forcing the whole team to communicate via snail mail or phone etc would just slow the team down. ppl might think more about what they want to say but you can get them to do that with other measures then taking away email. you dont just take away the mic of someone giving a boring and unitnresting talk. he'll just not get invited back next year,]]
anyone willing to invest in a have time think about awkward stuff fund?
it would be so great being able to work and do stuff because you realy like doing them and not because you have to worry about the money part of being a grownup. perhaps i should just never grow up afterall.
current task is to come up with an idea of how to get a blue peter badge. there has to be something old viewers can do to get one. flat 2 will give it a think tonite.
I am jealous of his life style. It sounds like a perfect job he has, give a lecture once in a while, do some research for your book, actually write your book, write cheques over $2,56 once in a while.
maybe knowing odd values of sin(), cos() of the top of your head is wrong but then if his brain can remember them. thinking about how to brush your teeth with the most efficiency is intresting in its own way.
and without doubt not reading your email is not very clever. it makes it very hard to get hold of you, claiming that most people have nothing to say when they email you and it increases the noise level is certainly true but thats what happens when you are famous. and in general if you are an intresting person. We all know that not taking part in communication is a form of communication too,]]. So you have to be able to afford not taking part and live with the consequences, which are considerably small if you are famous/important enough. because then people will actually try and contact you. A team leader might be important and perhaps even famous for his success rate in the company but still he would just get replaced if he decided to not take part in communication. Forcing the whole team to communicate via snail mail or phone etc would just slow the team down. ppl might think more about what they want to say but you can get them to do that with other measures then taking away email. you dont just take away the mic of someone giving a boring and unitnresting talk. he'll just not get invited back next year,]]
anyone willing to invest in a have time think about awkward stuff fund?
it would be so great being able to work and do stuff because you realy like doing them and not because you have to worry about the money part of being a grownup. perhaps i should just never grow up afterall.
current task is to come up with an idea of how to get a blue peter badge. there has to be something old viewers can do to get one. flat 2 will give it a think tonite.
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