Hard Work: Not Very Glamorous

Regardless if you’re in a corporate job or a startup as a developer, you’re sitting in front of the computer.

The problem occurs when you start to fantasize about what you’re actually doing.

I’m not running around hacking a Gibson (a joke I probably wouldn’t have been able to make without a certain friend of mine) or creating Synapse (are you getting these jokes?).

Really, it’s about the daily devotion to the craft of code monkeying. Day in and day out, without fail, to keep pushing those magical characters.

And it starts again today.

Words And Action

Without knowing, I’ve learned things without blogging about it.

And the world didn’t end.

Who would have known that it wasn’t necessarily for my existence to blog about every single lesson?

Oyez

I’m sure it might have been beneficial for some of the Vim novices out there to know how I learned more about this insanely great text editor, especially what mnemonics I used to learn some of the more ridiculous shortcut keys in Vim.

I’ve been meaning to share my insight… but without knowing, I accidentally learned how to use it.

And that’s just it. I did it. I just kept messing with the .vimrc files. I kept using it, day in and day out, for all of my development and note taking. Heck, I’m thinking about using Viki to fulfill my need for a lightweight local wiki system.

If Writing About It Is Slowing You Down…

Why was it so important that I shared what I was learning?

Actually, if I took one step further, I would have not only talked about how I went about learning Vim, but how I learned to learn.

And really, at a certain point, it would have been helpful for someone. But then my purpose would not be to actually use Vim to make something wonderful, but then the mission statement would have changed to teaching people how to learn.

This over-thinking is going to be the death of me.

Share, But Don’t Over Do It

And so, this starts off another set of daily posts. I know, I’ve had many times when I’ve started it up and failed to keep up with it. But that’s okay.

I’m doing it anyway.

And wait a minute, is this a blog post about yet another realization?

[Cue sunrise]