High school physics class taught me that one is the inverse of the other. But often in life, it's difficult to find anything that's the exact opposite of something.
Do I need to have answers/reasons to the stuff that I do? I know I want to. But do I have to provide them for others to know? The answer is not always. I don't want to be always the good guy providing a nice evading reply even when I don't feel like it. It just takes too much effort... sometimes. Is that one of my mood swings?... I think so.
Having just read something about Humane/Duck Interfaces on Martin's blog, it set me thinking further... quite nonsensically actually. Is my wide variety of behaviours a case of a Duck Interface? where people usually makes use of one of several interface but not knowing of its other implementations? This is certainly a Nonsense Interface.
Sometimes, I have to trust my own instinct not to think further than temptations have me to. Whether are there really opposites to be found, it must not matter that much. And so I gather that if there are really opposites, let it be and not let me question its existence nor acknowledge it. Frequency and wavelengths, unless I'm a scientist who needs to be precise with my wordings, it doesn't matter in which manner I use them in daily use.
17 January 2006
13 December 2005
interesting or uninteresting?
Blogging from Neuchatel, Switzerland doesn't feel any different. Hahahahaaaa, I mean should it?
Being in this new job does bring about certain challenges which I never thought would bother me. There are mostly about working with new people, being conscious about team and people dynamics and other stuff mostly concerning people matters. This brings me to the topic of what makes interesting work, and work interesting to me.
I have no doubt that technical challenges is the main factor for making any work interesting for me. But I also know for a fact that I'm also very much of a people person too. Let me rephrase: I am someone who is always concerned about how best to put forth my comments and ideas so that I'm understood and not misunderstood, and simultaneously being as sensitive as I can to how others are feeling about me, the situation and such. Such people-aspects of work, and life of course, has been an on-going effort and thus sometimes is relegated to the sub-conscious.
Thus, it is interesting to me that I'm putting in more effort to take a conscious note of the people dynamics around me than being worried about work challenges, or the lack of it.
Logically, blogging in an entirely different location should not matter that much. But again, it does feel good to being able to look out of the window and see a snow covered field just outside. A difference nonetheless.
Being in this new job does bring about certain challenges which I never thought would bother me. There are mostly about working with new people, being conscious about team and people dynamics and other stuff mostly concerning people matters. This brings me to the topic of what makes interesting work, and work interesting to me.
I have no doubt that technical challenges is the main factor for making any work interesting for me. But I also know for a fact that I'm also very much of a people person too. Let me rephrase: I am someone who is always concerned about how best to put forth my comments and ideas so that I'm understood and not misunderstood, and simultaneously being as sensitive as I can to how others are feeling about me, the situation and such. Such people-aspects of work, and life of course, has been an on-going effort and thus sometimes is relegated to the sub-conscious.
Thus, it is interesting to me that I'm putting in more effort to take a conscious note of the people dynamics around me than being worried about work challenges, or the lack of it.
Logically, blogging in an entirely different location should not matter that much. But again, it does feel good to being able to look out of the window and see a snow covered field just outside. A difference nonetheless.
26 November 2005
a milestone
Things come, things go. Everything.
Partings. Reunions. Reflections.
It's been 4 years since I left school. I'm now leaving my first job for another. I've always talked about changing job due to the high stress level, lowly pay, lack of appreciation etc etc etc... the list goes on. But there must be something more to the complaints I have about the job that kept me going and going for these 4 years.
I don't want to go around pretending that everything is rosy and nice. If there'll be something that I felt should have been better, I'd like to make it known and heard. It also helps to relieve the bottled up stress. Friends who know me will understand that; I don't work well under stress.
Several have asked me if I have any plans or targets for the coming years. Frankly, I haven't been thinking too much about it. Given how I am, I know I will make the best of each and every situation to ensure that it helps me grow in the general direction that I wanted. And I think that is enough to see me through for at least a few more months.
Partings. Reunions. Reflections.
It's been 4 years since I left school. I'm now leaving my first job for another. I've always talked about changing job due to the high stress level, lowly pay, lack of appreciation etc etc etc... the list goes on. But there must be something more to the complaints I have about the job that kept me going and going for these 4 years.
I don't want to go around pretending that everything is rosy and nice. If there'll be something that I felt should have been better, I'd like to make it known and heard. It also helps to relieve the bottled up stress. Friends who know me will understand that; I don't work well under stress.
Several have asked me if I have any plans or targets for the coming years. Frankly, I haven't been thinking too much about it. Given how I am, I know I will make the best of each and every situation to ensure that it helps me grow in the general direction that I wanted. And I think that is enough to see me through for at least a few more months.
17 November 2005
11 November 2005
leadership
There was this discussion at work about what makes a good leader and what is good leadership recently. My first thought about this was this is an every-now-and-then discussion topic that surfaces, hundreds if not thousands of books published about it and uncountable articles written. I posted something similar like this in a blog shared among colleagues; this is improved upon the original.
If you ask me for my 2 cents worth, this is what I feel a great leader should be:
He may not be your friend in good times but is your best friend in bad times.
He is whom you will seek advice from when lost; and whom you will follow when instructed, and whom will inspire you to go further than instructed.
A great leader is not really your friend, but can be your friend, and is more than your friend: He is your leader.
What do you think?
If you ask me for my 2 cents worth, this is what I feel a great leader should be:
He may not be your friend in good times but is your best friend in bad times.
He is whom you will seek advice from when lost; and whom you will follow when instructed, and whom will inspire you to go further than instructed.
A great leader is not really your friend, but can be your friend, and is more than your friend: He is your leader.
What do you think?
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