From my good friend, Hao:

harbinbear: did you start a new blog, your tabulas entries have been less self loathing than usual

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A point hammered home to me today: when it comes to software, I have difficulty designing architectural components. I have a goal/product/feature-oriented mindset.

This came up because I stayed late today to help out with some new conceptual "feature". It's totally useless right now, but has really cool implications. For those of you who have some notion of computer concepts, we implemented a message bus in Javascript - basically one Javascript component would fire and another would pick it up through a subscribed bus.

Anyways, I didn't really get the concept at first, but I've learned that even though I don't "get it," it's usually enough to follow through with somebody else's passions until I can see the light. So dutifully, I helped out. After hacking away at it for a little bit and understanding a real-life implementation of it, I started to pick up a little more on what was important about it.

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I've noticed that my writing of late has gone down the absolute shitter. My SAT students would be quite amused. So this week's goal: tighten up my writing. I blame emails at work - the constant flow of busy-ness is affecting my ability to concentrate and communicate in a clear, concise manner.