An interesting set of articles fell into my lap today. It rides on some research that basically says, if you want to be great at something you need to put about 10,000 into do it. Indeed it indicates that talent has little to do with it, save perhaps the ability to get you to put more hours into something. This does fit with my P.F. Skinner attitude that talent or being gifted is no substitution for old fashion grinding and that we can all be the be on top if we work to that goal.
However, this is not to say that hard work will guarantee success. You may be the best programmer in the world, but if you never publish your work and, to use a old phrase, never get out of your mothers basement, then you will never be a success, despite your capabilities. Opportunities need to be created to match your talent.
I encourage you to look at the articles your self, they are a rather entertaining read; more so then the research they are based on ;)
10,000 to success from the Guardian
Teach your self programing in 10 years
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Who am I and what this blog is about
My name is Bryan, and I am the Director of IT for Loop Advertising LLC, which is a parent of SpeekBack.com. Before this I was Director of IT for Cornerstone Homes and Development Inc. I have degrees in Accounting and Information Systems Management, both from the W.P Carey School of Business. In truth I have over 200 credit hours with a background strong in physics, chemistry, engineering, math, and religious studies. However business seemed the most practical thing to actually get my degrees in.
After several years of being asked where my blog is, I decided to actually keep one, which will, well, deal with my life in tech. I eat it, drink it, dream of it, and am generally surrounded by it throughout my day, and this is to help disseminate my thoughts. Hopefully about once a week, perhaps more, you should see an entry pertaining to something interesting; perhaps simply how-tos, or more abstract thoughts on the hazards of perpetual beta, or how iterative design is the only true model. We will just have to see how it turns out.
I hope you find it interesting.
The next entry is likely to be on the joy's of IBM's DB2 Express-C database
After several years of being asked where my blog is, I decided to actually keep one, which will, well, deal with my life in tech. I eat it, drink it, dream of it, and am generally surrounded by it throughout my day, and this is to help disseminate my thoughts. Hopefully about once a week, perhaps more, you should see an entry pertaining to something interesting; perhaps simply how-tos, or more abstract thoughts on the hazards of perpetual beta, or how iterative design is the only true model. We will just have to see how it turns out.
I hope you find it interesting.
The next entry is likely to be on the joy's of IBM's DB2 Express-C database
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