The Tech Trance
The Storm on Aug 11, 2006, in Uncategorized
3 commentsI’ve gotten three phone calls today. I guess I wasn’t holding up my end of the conversation, because all three people said something to the effect of “you’re awfully quiet today”.
Some days are planning days, when I work on projects and build specs for features. Some days are biz admin days, when I deal with correspondence, bills, recruitment, funding, et cetera. Today is a tech day. Specifically, it’s a day for writing code. And that’s when I fall into the tech trance.
If you’re a programmer or an engineer, you probably experience the tech trance all the time. It’s when that little biscuit-goblin in your head stops giving biscuits to the chatty, artsy brain-lumps and instead gives all the biscuits to the logical, mathematical brain-lumps. The logical brain-lumps love it. They calculate, process data and build sophisticated models of how software will behave. The chatty brain-lumps starve and you nearly lose the gift of speech. Until, that is, you pull yourself out of the tech trance by deciding to blog about the phenomenon.
3 comments
I’m in shock! You’ve written something
This is probably why developers can sometimes be viewed as grumpy geeks, when they are at their best, being creative, they become grumpy and angry, ‘you wouldn’t like them when there angry!’
I’m sure artists, and other creative people suffer from this too.
spot on post, I completely empathize.
I *knew* there was a good reason why I consume so many biscuits when I’m having a Busy Brain Day… all those pesky biscuit-goblins in my head!
Thanks for enlightening me
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