According to my experience I find that there are two simplified environments where people can work in. You will thrive in either one, but never* in both. This means you can ask this as a question when starting to work at a new place whether or not they will provide an environment where you will thrive in. The first environment I will describe by what the employees will need to do in order to thrive here.

Over the course of years I have met my fair share of professionals with all kinds of job titles. To the cute and cuddly chief happiness officer to the outright weird evangelist of something. Then there are titles that get created and sold to you with the premise that you need them. I am looking at you growth hackers.

I ended the last post with stating we are digital craftsmen. All of us who create something in the digital space, from designers to applications to hardware engineers, we all are digital craftsmen. We also need to protect that state. Just like in the years of yore the craftsmen could not be hurried or pressured into making things faster. Whatever was being made was created at the rate it needed to be created at. Definitely this should be put back into place and enforced by us digital craftsmen.

One of the arguments I have heard numerous times is that creativity or art flourishes when it is basking in a pool of total freedom. I quite often have found that a small set of limitations actually improves creativity. After all

necessity is the mother of invention.

So this post will be short and sweet and filled with nice tech on regexes or regular expressions. Regex is a language on its own and it serves to live as a benefit to parse complicated strings and make it so it is easy for us developers to validate strings or to extract relevant information from it.

So that is quite the abstract thought immediately straight out the gate. How can someone fathom what infinity is, and therefore be able to reason about it? I will detour into two sections, one religious and one pseudo scientific. In a future post I will tackle a more spiritual one.

One of the more interesting features of us hoomans which makes us humans I suppose is our ability to communicate.

Of course there are other species that communicate, but none so intricate and complex as ours is.

How often have you heard you should only live in the moment, experience everything just as it comes in holding no judgement to it?

What now?! Another abbreviation in this gotta type fast with fewest characters possible but still convey the most information possible? Well for us developers the chance is high that you had to search something with those four chars and an Operating System as the search term.

Some of you might be familiar with the Hippocratic Oath taken by medical personnel. It states amongst its main lines that you shall not intentionally harm other human beings. That means use your knowledge for healing and not killing or maiming people. Not denying medical aid to whomever needs it. There are quite a few scenarios covered by this statement.