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Hello everyone welcome to another DailyJim It is at Tuesday may 10th 2022. Actually no, that's a lie, it is now Wednesday may 11th 2022. But this is the May 10th episode. I was eating hummus at about 11 55 and actually no, I looked up and I said oh it's midnight hahahaha, I missed it. Ah There's a benefit to not doing things at the last minute. Um I'm not sure what to talk about today, I'd say most of the day I was really engrossed in web development and it's something that I started doing. Gosh back I think as a freshman in college, if not earlier, so that would have been 2003, summer of 2000 and three. Remember experimenting with a language called PHP my SQL or my sequel. However, people actually say things out loud because a lot of times I'll actually read things on the internet and not know how to pronounce them. So. I started At least in 2003 and I took a course, It must have been maybe this spring of 2004 in computer programming java. And ever since then I have dabbled in and out of it. I quit electrical engineering to try to get away from it. But as much as I say, I dislike it, there is a huge pole for me to go back into it at least to do projects that I like to do for myself. So building websites and building apps for other people has a lot more to do with than just building the app. So much of it is how to deal with the emotions of the people, and their desires and the conflict within teams and organizations on not knowing what they want or saying this is what they want and changing their mind or not being able to predict, how difficult something is and communicating design and engineering challenges.
So when I'm doing with myself, it's just one person, one person I know relatively well and, makes it easier for me to come up with goals and projects and be someone aligned basically I can produce and I can create things that I'm imagining. And if I see it and it's not working then I can tweak in the way that I wish it would work. So I have been really kind of heads down in that all day, and the benefit of that is I I don't really know what's going on in the world and I may have talked about this before, but I think there is sometimes this.
Almost hypnosis of being in the zone or being locked in on a project and not, being aware of what's happening on twitter or being aware of what's happening in the news or politics or with the neighbors or even outside. But I'm a little sad about that. It was a beautiful day outside. Um and so I find it hard sometimes to switch gears. So if I've been so focused on programming and if you don't know anyone who's programmed, a lot of us will say that it takes time to get our mind wrapped around, the issue and once we finally do and get that focus up, then we can really chug along and have a lot of momentum. But once we have the momentum, it's also hard to break it. I don't think this only applies to computer programming. But I think it's one of the fields where it has kind of a strong moment. Strong inertia moment, moment. Ah As you can tell, my brain is still focused on, oh what if I register this setting and then I could add this and I could use this library and then I could pull this here and then I could do that. My brain is still structured and seeing kind of the virtual architecture of what I was working on. And so to switch and to try to speak into a phone for five minutes can be, can confuse me and befuddled me a bit. So I say that to remind myself and to remind you that, sometimes we are just in a specific zone and it's so hard to get into another zone no matter how hard we try and the other person can get very frustrated with us or we can get frustrated with other people. Why aren't they paying attention to me? Why aren't they talking? Why do they sound so confused? Why aren't they on the same rhythm as me? Why aren't they aligned with me? Maybe because they're just stuck in a different zone, right? Going a different speed in a different direction and they want to come back. But they just they don't have the brakes or the steering wheel. Like I am sitting here trying to yeah, make something that will see, will not confuse you. That will seem very clear and and resonate with you as I bumble and stumble through words and it's over five minutes. So I am going to end for today and look forward to talking to you, man Manana. Tomorrow, okay. Show there's lots of words I can say, but tomorrow, Alright, bye.
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