One thought & I can go enjoy my birthday weekend. I was re-watching “Halleluah: Leonard Cohen, A Song, A Life” the other day. A quote hit me & I started crying. Leonard had just had all his money stolen by his business manager. At the age of 70 he was flat broke and, as he put it, not in old age but definitely on the foothills of old age. And so he started writing songs again & performing again.
Kent, it is a pleasure to wish you a belated birthday.
Lovely post. It reminds me of a conversation with my brother Steve and a David Hussman presentation.
In 2011 my brother and I were talking about writing. I told him that I wrote in small chunks, as the ideas hit me, saving some chunks to flesh out later. Steve, always being the observant one, asked if that was how I wrote code.
I told Steve that writing code was like writing poetry and that good code has a sense of rhythm like a poem or a song. Good code reads like poetry and there is a joy in writing and reading it.
Interestingly enough the next year I attended the Keep Austin Agile conference where David Hussman gave his keynote address on rhythmic systems and how good code and good song lyrics have a similar structure and pattern.
"...I don’t see reflected in the people I talk to about programming. I think they are missing something. I want to crack open the shell. To give them a chance to glimpse what I see. Whether they choose to look is up to them." Wow, beautiful. I feel bad (missing out) about not having engaged much here (partly due to those intrusive economic necessities), but my consolation is that even if I have not been following progress closely, the master is tirelessly at work, shining his torch on programming, and I know that, as always when reading his writing, I will be in for an enlightening experience when he is ready to publish his next book.
Kent, it is a pleasure to wish you a belated birthday.
Lovely post. It reminds me of a conversation with my brother Steve and a David Hussman presentation.
In 2011 my brother and I were talking about writing. I told him that I wrote in small chunks, as the ideas hit me, saving some chunks to flesh out later. Steve, always being the observant one, asked if that was how I wrote code.
I told Steve that writing code was like writing poetry and that good code has a sense of rhythm like a poem or a song. Good code reads like poetry and there is a joy in writing and reading it.
Interestingly enough the next year I attended the Keep Austin Agile conference where David Hussman gave his keynote address on rhythmic systems and how good code and good song lyrics have a similar structure and pattern.
Really beautiful. Thank you for sharing this
Happy birthday Kent !!!
Wish you all the best coincidences ;)
"...I don’t see reflected in the people I talk to about programming. I think they are missing something. I want to crack open the shell. To give them a chance to glimpse what I see. Whether they choose to look is up to them." Wow, beautiful. I feel bad (missing out) about not having engaged much here (partly due to those intrusive economic necessities), but my consolation is that even if I have not been following progress closely, the master is tirelessly at work, shining his torch on programming, and I know that, as always when reading his writing, I will be in for an enlightening experience when he is ready to publish his next book.
Thank you for doing what you do Kent ❤️
Thanks for writing. Happy birthday! Have a great weekend.