Neil Overmon

I am various bug fixes a s improvements personified. Unfortunately, this is a Beta release...

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My best friend’s late Gen-Z son just said, in rapid succession:

“I want to do it in order, first C then C++ because C++ is stricter.”

Moments later…

“C feels like a downgraded version of Python.”

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“Lack of planning IS my super power!” - my friend describing my time horizons and concluding that perhaps my disorganization is a global standard

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There are no “big myths” - only plausible falsehoods.

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“I’m a wild dog!” - my daughter, but honestly with or without context it’s awesome

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“I was born fully formed and whole in 1985”

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“I would say that for a given time the distance between now and the future is infinite...”

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“I’m Santa Cruz adjacent.” —my longtime friend and I discussing the raw use of compiling Mac CLI commmands vs using brew

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“This is not a recommended design pattern.” - me, desperately trying to gently explain to my colleagues why we might need to re-architect

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“It’s both you and it’s not you.” - my friend helping me work through a complex work situation

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“Iteration: winging it for professionals.” — my longtime friend and colleague on how to help manage a difficult situation

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“Automation is the difference between arson and accident.” - My Team on the virtues of automating an indoor coffee roasting machine

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“I want to go right.” - my daughter informing my friend piloting the two person Piper Cub regarding the new force on the plane

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“Talk to my mouse and not to me!” - my daughter pulling a small tin with a cloth mouse in it and using it as a talisman during a competitive game of “sneaky statue”

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“Leadership is all the decisions you make after your orders leave off” - my friend over brunch. A fantastic insight I wish I could have articulated.

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“He burns the stuff - I eat it!” My daughter, unfairly explaining what happened while mom was out of town

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Lately It seems to me that things change slowly for the good and all too quickly for the bad. Knowing this we should spend that much more effort on the good because true benefits are harder to see and farther away.

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“Use a directory dude - POSIX will get you pretty far.” - my friend, commenting on a technical conversation where it was clear people didn’t understand what a database does

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It’s not that my views are false - it’s that they’re unvalidated.

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“The same day can’t come again. But Monday can.” - my daughter, assessing the overall timing of the universe

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“Mama, what animal comes after the time of humans?” - my daughter, perhaps brilliantly inquisitive and hopefully not frighteningly prescient