My Life as a Programmer

I don't particularly enjoy programming - I think it's tedious and boring. But it's like cleaning toilets, if you want a clean toilet, either you pay someone to do it, or you clean it yourself.

Perhaps relevant: I get paid to clean toilets for a living.

Generally I do find tech stuff interesting, but tech is a lot bigger than programming. Did a lot of sci/tech related stuff from 8-17yo (1991-2000), then didn't do much in college because the college was better for other subjects. After that just picked various jobs in banking / online social networks to get paid to learn on the job. After that did a few months of home study in FP (2012), then some programming/CTO work in 2014, then in 2015 opened a cafe for the tech community ... 2017 got banned from corporate social media by shareholders, so had to pivot into things like Google Ad Script. 2019 refocusd on our web assets ... started building our stack. Still working on it ...

Work-Life Balance, and the Exponential Cost of Generalisation

Choosing to participate in physical conditioning and developing social relations has fairly modular trade-offs. I figure that I have about four (4) productive work sprints in a single day. Each takes say 2-3 hours of time.

Working out, feeding, washing, laundry, and reloading information after working out, basically consumes one sprint.

Recalibrating my memory to interact with loved ones basically consumes another sprint.

Given that within each day, later sprints are usually superior in productivity to prior sprints due to memory locality, there is an exponential cost to physical and social conditioning.

Yet we all do it anyway. Sometimes. Sometimes we do not. 

That is the economics of it.

Leadership in Malaysia

 In general, when I think about what it would be like to demonstrate exemplary behaviour as a Malay leader in Malaysia, it would simply be to rub race equality in the faces of my Malay peers. But I am not a Malay (and have not yet applied for a change of status), so that is purely theoretical.

Instead usually, when I think about how I can demonstrate exemplary behaviour as a non-Malay leader in Malaysia, my judgment has always led me to rub racial inequality in the faces of my non-Malay peers. I think so far in life, I have done so, proudly.