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Chord when you say nothing at all3/28/2024 ![]() ![]() When we’re really “on”, I will hear him play some interesting phrase somewhere in the middle of a song and something will click in my mind. We end every song differently every time. While I’ve enjoyed playing with many people, Curtis and I share a deeper level of musical communication than I’ve experienced with anyone else. Musicįor thirty years I’ve played off and on with my musical partner Curtis Wright. I have the same feeling of satisfaction with many programming-related tasks–when I see a big refactoring in terms of a succession of smaller refactorings, when I see a big task in terms of independently verifiable sub-tasks, when I see a big feature in terms of a succession of features each of which delivers value–at all these times I feel good. Every time I transformed the chaos of the original problem into a pattern I knew how to handle, it was intensely satisfying. Not only could I solve the problems quickly but I enjoyed the process. I blew through the rest of the assignment in minutes, eager to solve more. I’d look at a problem and see it in terms of the problems I’d already solved–I can split this in two, transform part 1 into this and part 2 into that and I’m done. Somewhere around half way through the assignment, though, a door opened in my mind. At this rate the assignment was going to take me hours. I had to sweat to figure out how solve them. Here was a big pile of work I couldn’t get out of easily.įor once I did the right thing and decided I would just plow through the whole stack. Usually we’d get half or a third of the exercises in a given set. Burishkin (hi Dave! ) got mad at our algebra class (this was fairly common) and assigned us all 40 trig identities in the book. One of the transformative experiences of my young life came in high school when Mr. ![]()
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