Let's See What Sticks

It’s quickly becoming the norm that I don’t sleep before 3 AM. I was looking forward to changing that tonight, but now I have this weird urge to type something out. Here’s to hoping I just rock this post, and go to bed.

This week’s been very very busy. Finding a paid gig through a friend via Twitter was quite an interesting turn of events. I guess I’ll now be flipping back and forth between this new project and my own things.

In an effort to become more efficient with my time on the computer, I’ve got into vim and its lovely library of plugins. Memorizing what seemed at first to be complete nonsensical keystrokes that now seem completely logical proved to be quite an experience. Of course, this is slowing down a lot of the simpler things, but I feel like this period of learning is going to pay off big as time goes on.

I feel extremely tired and weary, but I feel like this state of insanity is where I need to be: A balance between the ideal and practical, optimistic and realistic. And there have been times I asked myself if this is what I actually want. Am I just chasing dreams because of thrill of the chase itself? Do I truly believe in my ideas and am I truly passionate? And is this enough?

Hello, race condition.

Again, realizing: Take it one step at a time. No one becomes awesome instead in one fell swoop. It’ll take a lot of tinkering to even figure out what “awesome” is. And then to achieve it? Good luck. Or something like that, for those of us that don’t believe in that jazz.

Continuing: Why haven’t you taken that first step? What’s stopping you? If it’s anything but you, are you off the hook?

I guess it’s been laziness, thinking that there’s going to be this innate ability that I can always fall back onto for sustenance. Talent. But letting this talent rot… such a shameful waste. Honing the talent… takes effort.

I sure hope I have the talent to get more talents.

Life.hack

Fueled by: The Submarines – Honeysuckle Weeks. Yeah, it took the entire album to write this post.

Also brought to you by: Isolator. Especially for these braindump posts that don’t require any fact checking, other than in my head, it works great.

A 3 Minute Cleansing Run

Needed to clear my mind. So I ran around a couple blocks in this 49 degree Fahrenheit weather.

It’s 2:35 AM. What the heck am I doing?

Oh, that’s right, I’m coding. Or at least, trying to wrap my head around all facets of the business development project that is HanMeta.

I guess it is more or less a project update, powered by the blood rushing through my body after a very very quick run through the neighborhood (which, by the way, I shouldn’t be doing because my legs are currently on fire, but that story is for a health-related post).

Refinement of the software development process I’ve created is nearly complete. I’m sure I’m going to have to pick up things as I go along, but at least at this point, I can start on the making of something useful. This isn’t to say that what I’ve done up until this point (in this project and, in a larger scope, in this life) wasn’t towards something useful. Nay, it can only point to how much more awesome stuff I want to do from this point on. The foundations are important, but its significance truly shines through the fulfillment of the final goal.

Before I get a little too poetic, I’m learning more and more about the tools I need on the road to completion. I understand how to use git in a day-to-day setting. I know what programming/framework/database language I’ll be using. I’ve picked what server architecture I want to use to serve my projects. “I know, I know, I know.”

So far in the totality, I’ve learned that it’s very little about what you know in comparison to what you do with that knowledge. What good is a line on a resume… What good is four years at a school… What good is sitting through a sermon… if there is no actual test of what you know to be True.

It’s really about eating my own words. The stuff that I know and preach are being tested every waking moment these days… and I have to keep sticking to my guns.

What I know, what I believe, in life, people, work… Gotta bust it out with clarity and celerity.

Here’s to a less insane weekend? Maybe an even more insane one? Oof.

Man, this post could have been so good, but I feel kinda tired. Do I blow away a sleep cycle for this? sigh. Passion requires love. Love requires passion.

Not today…

Absence of post making you antsy? It’s making me tired.

Let me do a little braindump.

You don’t know how much I want to watch and report on Panel of Web Community Founders: Utter Defiance of the “Venture Capital” Model. Since my lent commitment is still going on… this isn’t happening until later. I just hope this video stays online until then.

I was floored to see that Marc Liyanage commented on the post about my PHP novice…ness. I guess I have a reply to his question, with the answer being “since I still don’t know SOAP very well… and for some reason, a lot of the example code online was using NuSOAP…”. I have a post coming up on this very issue, and actually… I tried using the PHP core SOAP classes… but it seems like the problem is on the Google side.

I think I need an about me page. At least, a category for it, so that I can continually update who I really am… because Josh Kim has many faces.

Posts waiting to be finished:

  • RSS Feed Market Analysis
  • Zooom Application Review
  • FedEx + Google = Wow’ed and Worried Josh Kim
  • Mac Copycat Windows Applications
  • Code Monkey: The Tribute to the Song
  • CX-300 Earbuds: Lesson in Word-of-Mouth Advertising

… and many more. These are only the blog ideas that sprang forth into my mind today.

Okay, I’m falling asleep again. Maybe tonight, I’ll return to the 5:30 AM lifestyle.

Or not. I could just sleep in. Finally…