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The first sound I can remember is the click-click-click of typewriter keys.
The machine was a pre-War Olivetti, and the fingers that gave it life belonged to my father – the Sufi scholar, Idries Shah.
In a career that spanned forty years, he churned out dozens of best-selling books, most of them relating to philosophy and human thought.
He was obsessed with creating work.
One summer, I remember him leading me by the hand through blazing sunshine. I must have been five years old.
'When are you going to write your first book?' he asked earnestly.
Any other father might have been joking.
But mine was deadly serious.
Nothing is taken quite so seriously in our family as the creation of written text, the telling and retelling of stories. It's a kind of ancestral lifeblood, a matrix by which one generation passes on ideas and wisdom, gleaned through centuries of experience.
Some family weave carpets in the shadows of their homes.
We weave stories.
Just about every member of my immediate family is a published writer – both my grandfathers, one grandmother, my father, aunt and uncle. And, both of my sisters have books out this week – same as me.
The key idea passed down to us, generation on generation, is that you must write for yourself – and not as part of a crazed circus, one created to publish for the sake of publishing.
It's an idea that has been drummed in to me throughout my life by a close family friend – Doris Lessing. She would always say that writing is a way of creating equilibrium in one's mind, a method of escape unlike any other.
The advice was echoed one afternoon by an American guest. He had turned up to see my father at our home in the English countryside. And his name was J. D. Salinger.
He said that a typewriter was a kind of magic wand, and that the ability to harness it was an alchemy of its own.
And so it was that I learned the obsession of putting words on paper, and the puritanical work ethic and the angst needed to create.
My first book was an assortment of travel writings that I called Beyond the Devil's Teeth. Looking back at it now, I was fumbling in darkness and hadn't yet learned the craft. But I was enthusiastic, even when I couldn't get an agent.
I'd been refused by absolutely everyone.
Undeterred, I started my own agency. It consisted of a plush color letter-heading, a telephone, and me…
I was the agent (William Watkins) and the only client.
Having sent the manuscript out to a zillion publishers, I sat by the telephone, waiting for it to ring. It didn't. So I got into bed and hunkered down under my quilt.
Days passed.
Days of hibernation.
Days of misery.
Then, one morning, the phone rang. I picked it up and answered breathlessly.
'Is that Worldwide Media?' asked a prim woman's voice.
Pinching my nose, as if I were a receptionist on a switchboard, I answered in the affirmative.
'I would like to speak to Mr. Watkins, please. It's about Beyond the Devil's Teeth.'
The rest is history… a history of toil, grind, and wordage.
My books were commissioned by increasingly large publishing houses – book projects with a pay-check even before I had written a word. It was good. My wife and kids were clothed. We could travel. All our mouths had smiles. Editors took me to fine lunches and ordered rare wine. There was a joie de vivre, a sense that the glory days would never end. I was swooned over and praised, and told how absolutely fabulous I was.
And I believed it.
But, worse than that, was the small fact that, with each book I produced, I was coaxed (and sometimes cajoled) to rejig my work – taking it in directions I was less than happy to go. 'Just change the beginning old boy,' the editor would say as he poured another glass of Chateau Lafite. Or, 'Think we could lose chapter 9. It's a bit of a downer, don't you think?'
And the foreign publishers were no better.
In Germany they excised the entire 80 pages from one of my books, while muttering apologies. I found out later it was because all German letterboxes are apparently the same size (the mind reels), and that my book was a shade too thick to get through any of them.
And so, as the years passed, we were lavished in royalty cash. I bought myself little pressies, and jewelry for my wife, and a shiny new car, and toys for the kids.
I even bought a cabinet of curiosities.
Inside it was an assortment of prehistoric dinosaur teeth, a phial of sulphur from an ancient mine, a bent nail from a gallows, and a strand of hair from an Amazonian shrunken head.
But, all the while, I found myself slipping away from the sound advice of Lessing, Salinger, and of my own father…
The advice to write for myself.
On the rare occasions I entertained the thought of going it alone, my editor choked. Charging my glass with claret, he poured scorn on the abysmal anti-world of 'self publishing'. Agreeing with him, and laughing at the idea, I shuffled home and got down to my new commission.
Time passed.
And, as it did, I kept thinking and wondering.
What did all those people in a big publishing firm actually do? Some of them pushed paper from one office to the next, and back again. Others made restaurant bookings, or soothed the editorial egos.
A great many more appeared to do nothing at all.
Then, one morning, I received an email from my editor in New York. He was an untouchable, the ruler of a kingdom all of his own. I half expected him to be inviting me to another luncheon – roast suckling pig and another cascade of Chateau Lafite.
But it wasn't like that.
The editor's tone was suddenly meek and crestfallen. He was 'moving on to new challenges'. That's publishing speak of having been laid off. I gawked at the words, and I gaped.
It was the beginning of the end.
That night I saw Salinger and Lessing in a dream. They were looming over me, as was my father. Each of them was wagging an index finger in my direction, while shaking their head in disappointment.
'Stay on the true path,' they said as one.
'How do I do that?'
'By going it alone.'
And so I did.
Over the next year I created a new publishing model for myself. It consists of two distinct parts, under the name Secretum Mundi Publishing.
The first part is dedicated to creating some of the most beautiful books ever printed – books written by me. I scoured the world for the finest book printer, and found him in Hong Kong. His firm printed my epic novel Timbuctoo, interleaving within it a series of enormous eighteenth century maps of London.
Timbuctoo was followed by Scorpion Soup, another exquisitely-bound volume, with yet more maps – this time hailing from the seventeenth century.
Both books made me proud to be a writer for the first time in years. Beyond that, they filled me with joy at having created the kind of opuses that no number-crunching money-man in publishing would ever have signed off.
The second part of Secretum Mundi is devoted to releasing print-on-demand editions and Ebooks of my backlist, as well as to a great new panoply of work. Among them is a new series of novels that I am releasing them under the title PSYCHO ZONE.
The first book in the series is called Eye Spy. It is about a serial killing eye surgeon called Amadeus Kaine who develops a curious delight in eating human eyes. I used Lulu.com for the initial books and have been quite happy with them. The most recent book I have self-published is Casablanca Blues. It just came out.
With my own small team of freelance editors, typesetters, proof-readers, and designers, I have brought out books that are how I want them to look and to read. They are launched when I want, and the way I want. I don't even have to beg an editor about anything, because I can have my way.
It's like a child's dream. No grown-ups to hold me back.
And, the result has been that I can produce far more work than a conventional publisher would allow. But, better still, it means that I have total control.
You don't need to hear it from me to know that publishing is going through a revolution. Nothing gives me more joy than to see the monolithic publishers of yesteryear sliding into oblivion. I just can't believe that they didn't spy it on the horizon. Didn't they consider the music industry fair warning?
I guess not.
The result is a complete leveling of the playing field.
Technology is making the business of printing in mass, or shipping books vast distances, unnecessary, and even laughable. It's making it simple for anyone to bypass a crooked broken system, and to go it alone. Ebooks and print-on-demand will change publishing more in the next five years than anything has in the last century and a half.
The way I see it, the business of books is getting back to how it was in the early days – to the time when a writer would have their work edited, bound by a bookseller, and put for sale.
The key difference now is that we can get our work out to the whole wide world in the blink of an eye.
My own journey has brought me through twists and turns, trials and tribulations, but at last I feel contented. For the first time in my life I am holding the reins of the work I am writing… work that I am publishing as well.
After an eternity of suffocation, it's like being able to breathe at last.
Visit Tahir Shah's site at TAHIR SHAH.
Joe sez: Everyone's journey is different. Sometimes you get what you want. Sometimes you get what you think you want.
I just bought Shah's Eye Spy because I followed the link after the description an immediately smiled.
Shah is no doubt doing exactly what he wants, and that kind of self-awareness is rare.
I'm big on self-awareness. The root of it is not only knowing who you are, but understanding your effect on others and the world around you, and cultivating how you are perceived. To implement self-awareness, you have to be deliberate (as I stated in one of my more controversial blog posts.)
It's hard to be both deliberate and self-aware when your publisher cuts 80 pages from your novel so it is slimmer. You could either recite the Writers Serenity Prayer and accept it, knowing it is wrong without trying to change things. Or you can change things.
If your future as a writer hinges on someone else making important decisions that will effect your writing, your sales, and your career, I hope you're self-aware and being deliberate. You need to understand exactly what you're getting, and what you're giving up. You also need to consider what you'll do when your expectations aren't met.
A wolf in a trap has two choices; die or chew off its own leg.
A self-aware, deliberate wolf would have avoided the trap completely.
Many in this business believe the revolution going on right now--the growth of the shadow industry of self-publishing--makes this an us vs. them scenario.
There is no "us vs. them". There is only setting realistic goals, informing your decisions, and being deliberate and self-aware.
I've never been anti-legacy publisher. Many of my good friends have legacy deals, and I'm thrilled for them.
I have always been pro-writer. Which means I spend a lot of time explaining why many legacy policies aren't good for the writer, and cutting through the BS that legacy pundits spout.
Doctors, lawyers, engineers, plumbers, electricians--these folks have clear career paths. They figure out what they want to do with their lives, they study, they learn it, they do it. There are timeworn paths that one must follow to complete that journey.
With writers, the paths have changed. All the things we thought we needed to do to get published, we no longer need to do. Writing dozens of query letters to find an agent isn't the same thing as interning in the ER. It never really was the same thing, but now it isn't needed at all.
Figure out what you want, and why you want it, and set appropriate goals. Whenever you make a decision, know why you're doing it, what you expect from it, and what you'll do if it doesn't work out.
You don't want to suffocate for eternity. I've been there. Tahir Shah has been there. Thousands of other authors have been there. It sucks.
But the cool thing is, because writers now have options, the only writers who will suffocate are the ones who choose to.
Or, in different terms, don't step directly onto that wolf trap unless you have a damn good reason for doing it, and a really smart exit strategy.


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BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Hundreds of people on Sunday took part in the West Bank's first marathon, looping around the biblical city of Bethlehem four times on a course that was limited by the confines of Israel's sprawling separation barrier.
The race was meant as a political statement as much as a sporting event.
One participant wore a T-shirt honoring the victims killed in last week's bombing at the Boston Marathon, while other runners waved slogans in support of Palestinians. The area was decorated with green, white and red balloons symbolizing the Palestinian flag.
Runners jogged near the stone-clad Church of the Nativity, built over the grotto where tradition says Jesus was born, past a charred Israeli military watchtower where Palestinian youths often hurl flaming bottles during protests and alongside the concrete barrier. The 8-meter (26-foot) high barrier, partly scrawled with graffiti demanding freedom, hems in Bethlehem.
"This is illegally occupied land," one slogan read. "The wall must fall," read another.
Israel built the barrier a decade ago in response to a wave of suicide bombings carried out by West Bank Palestinians. Israel says the barrier keeps out militants, who killed hundreds of Israelis. Palestinians see its route as a land grab because it frequently dips into the West Bank, swallowing their lands.
About 1,000 people participated in the race, which included shorter 10-kilometer (six-mile) and 20-kilometer (12-mile) options. Around a quarter of participants undertook the full 42-kilometer (26.2 miles) run, said Itidal Abdul-Ghani of the Palestinian Olympic Committee.
"C'mon guys, you gotta go a lot faster than that!" yelled a voice from the crowd in English as the pack began jogging.
The fastest runner, Abdul-Nasser Jawani of the West Bank town of Jericho came in at 3 hours, 9 minutes, 47 seconds. The fastest woman was a Palestinian from Bethlehem who came in at 3 hours, 36 minutes, 37 seconds. Abdul-Ghani did not have her full name.
The Palestinians seek an independent state in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, which Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war, and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
Palestinians and their international supporters have turned toward sports in recent years to draw attention to their struggle for statehood, although that has sometimes backfired.
In March, the United Nations had to cancel a Gaza marathon because the territory's conservative Islamic rulers wouldn't let women participate, claiming it was immodest.
The mood was far more relaxed in relatively liberal Bethlehem during Sunday's "Right to Movement Palestinian Marathon," held in cool, rainy weather.
Most of the women jogged in loose shirts and tights, although some wore Muslim headscarves. Most men wore shorts and sweatshirts. Loud Arabic music blasted in the background.
The participants jogged four times around Bethlehem because there wasn't enough space to do a straight marathon due to the barrier, Abdul-Ghani said. Israel also has full control over nearby areas, making it complicated for Palestinians to run there.
Underscoring hostilities, Abdul-Ghani said Israelis weren't welcome to join the marathon while their military occupies Palestinian lands. Israeli officials would not allow some two dozen Gaza hopefuls to cross through the Jewish state to reach the West Bank to attend the marathon.
The marathon came six days after the Boston Marathon bombings. The Sunday run also coincided with the London Marathon.
Participant Demitri Awwad, a Palestinian-American from Fenton, Mich., wore a T-shirt honoring the Boston Marathon victims under his official marathon shirt as he ran in the 10-kilometer race. It had a picture of 8-year-old Martin Richard, with the words "No more hurting people" emblazoned below.
"'No more hurting people' — it's a very simple thing from a kid and it's what we all should live by," said the 33-year-old.
Other runners touted other causes: One group ran with a banner demanding the freedom of a Palestinian prisoner Samer Issawi, who has been refusing food since August. Two Palestinian men smoking cigarettes looked on as they ran by.
Israelis said they also planned to hold five-kilometer (30nuke) evening runs in the cities of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Beersheva in solidarity with the Boston Marathon victims.
Organizer Ilia Rabinovich said the gesture was to show Americans that it was important to "continue running."
The 26-year-old marathon enthusiast estimated some 300 people had signed up for the runs.
"We feel a lot of compassion to these innocent people who are victims of terrorist attacks," he said.
Associated Press writer Diaa Hadid in Jerusalem contributed to this report.


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By Quentin Fottrell
Presidential candidates want to raise money the same way the Red Cross does after natural disasters: with text messages.
Federal election regulators are mulling this campaign finance reform for the LOL era. If approved, people could send a $10 or $20 donation by texting a particular number rather than punching in a credit-card number and other personal details. "It's exactly like American Idol-style shows where you text your vote," says psychology professor Larry Rosen. "This is a generation that lives vicariously through Twitter and reality shows."
Text donations tap into people's impulsive nature, experts say. If the these plans are approved, people will make instant donation decisions, says Michael Cornfield, acting director of the Political Management Program at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. "It's just like how people give money to a charity moments after they might witness scenes from a devastating earthquake on television," he says. Obama's recent support for same-sex marriage is one example of how one speech can motivate a group of people to suddenly donate, he says.
Allowing text donations would also appeal to an army of younger voters, Rosen says. As SmartMoney.com reported, Americans send an average of 41 texts a day – but those aged 19-25 sending an average of 110 texts a day, according to a 2011 study by Pew Research Center. Plus, getting an increasing amount of small donations allows political parties to raise more money while staying within Federal limits on individual contributions, says financial adviser David Abuaf. "This is the driving force behind the text donation plan," he says.
Presidential candidates are also raffling evenings with celebrities as a way to attract donations. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has offered dinner with Donald Trump for one lucky donor, while President Obama offered evenings at George Clooney's Los Angeles home and cocktails at the New York townhouse of Sarah Jessica Parker as prizes. "They are taking a cue from charities," says social psychologist Matt Wallaert. "Once members of the public get involved they're more likely to make repeat donations."


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Out-of-district families hoping to get their students into La Cañada public schools can leave their sleeping bags, ear warmers and jugs of hot cocoa at home.
The La Cañada Unified School District on Monday announced the introduction of a lottery system that will mean certain categories of permit students will no longer be given priority. As a result, families will not be camping out for a weekend in front of the district office to get to the top of the list, as has been the practice in recent years. Instead, those hoping for a coveted interdistrict permit can bank on one thing only — the luck of the draw.
"I think it's a positive move," said school board member Andrew Blumenfeld. "It's definitely an improvement in the process rather than the undignified system of having parents line up for days. I think to have a lottery system is at least as fair and maybe more fair than asking parents to line up days before."
Board president Scott Tracy agrees.
"The wait-in-line method can be a very big imposition on families," Tracy said. "This alleviates all that."
Parents who work full time within district boundaries, families who reside in the "Sagebrush" area of western La Cañada, or those applying under "open enrollment" provisions will no longer receive priority. Instead, their interdistrict permit applications will be accepted at the district office from March 11 through April 30. Afterward, the district will conduct a lottery to rank student priority by category.
Students of full- and part-time school district employees and siblings of continuing permit students will not have to depend on the new lottery system. They will continue to receive priority for interdistrict permits.
"It's a good way for us to maintain local, community schools because they are already part of our community," Blumenfeld said. "If your sibling already goes to the school, we don't want to break up the family. These people are already a big, important part of our community."
Fewer than 50 permits are expected to be given for the 2013-14 school year. Last year, the school board voted to decrease the interdistrict permit percentage caps to 15% total districtwide and 25% per grade level. The district's permits are nearly at their limits because of the large number of permit students accepted during the last few years.
"The caps are the same as last year," Blumenfeld said.
An increase in kindergarten enrollment has increased the demand for space in local schools, according to Tracy.
"What makes this year more challenging is that with the increased number of resident kindergarten students there will be fewer spots available for permit families," Tracy said. "That's creating even more of a frenzy."
While getting a child into the district may not always be easy, the challenge demonstrates the high quality of education in La Cañada, according to Blumenfeld.
"It reflects very well on the quality of education and the value of sending your children to La Cañada schools," he said. "For parents to be able to get access to the level of education we're offering is a very big deal for families."
The district decided to try the new lottery method after receiving the suggestion from an engineer at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Blumenfeld and Tracy passed along the suggestion to Supt. Wendy Sinnette, who helped draft the official policy change.
District officials are optimistic that the new lottery system will be an improvement on the old camp-out-all-weekend method. Later this spring, they will review how the new permit procedures fared.
"I can't tell you how this is going to play out," Tracy said. "But I can tell you there aren't very many spaces available."


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Understand that the actual zone message for FY18 should be out any day now, but while I was surfing SailorBob I came across this document found at http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/officer/communitymanagers/Unrestricted/nsw/Documents/Promotion%20Zone%20Forecast%20(FY17-FY21).pdf
Does the CW/IWC maintain a similar document? I've seen the OPA charts from the OCM, but I was curious if we actually maintained the 5-year projection of zones and flow points. Reason why I ask, I think it's very interesting that URL LCDR are steadily creeping to the right (est. flow point of over 11 YCS starting FY20) and I'm curious where we stand in that calculus. I know for a fact that I'm moving much quicker through the zones now as a CW than I did as a SWO, but even still, many of my contemporaries that went IP were in zone last year, so they're essentially 1.5-2yrs ahead of their contemporaries in the URL.
As discussions about the IWC going URL and what that might look like keep coming up here and there, I think it's important that we take a look at how life is in the URL and factor that in with any such discussions that take place.


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Tuesday, April 24, 2007
When The Beast Was Born
I'm a programmer, and I'm in acting classes. Other programmers wonder if I'm trying to do some weird career change, and some even seem to think I'm "up to something" - social skills being seriosuly undervalued in programming, almost to the point of suspicion. The people in my acting classes ask me if I work at Urban Outfitters, and while this wouldn't be a flattering question among geeks, I can't be insulted, because there are very talented people in my acting classes who do work at Urban Outfitters, and no disrespect is ever intended.
The result of this is a minor identity crisis. Am I a programmer who studies acting because it makes giving presentations easy? Or am I an aspiring actor who somehow developed an entire career as a computer programmer (of all things!) before I discovered my true calling?
The uncertainty is amplified because one of the very few commonalities these very different fields share is that passion is necessary. Not just because you have to be passionate about either one of these things to be good at them. Also because both job markets have absurd dips and peaks. Nobody sane is doing either of these things just for the money.
Everybody knows this is true of acting; however, people are used to the idea that programming is a steady job. Don't count on it. Go back in time to 2002 and try telling that to people. Anybody who got into programming for the job security needs to seriously reconsider that strategy. The dot-com downturn sent legions of programmers back to their moms' basements. It's true that there's going to be more and more programming work in the future, as every last little thing from your refrigerator to your shoe gets an IP address, but that doesn't necessarily mean the work will pay well at all.
The popularity of this idea that programming leads to riches comes and goes with booms and busts, and that cyclical rhythm in and of itself should be a kind of wake-up call. Sometimes your services are in fashion and sometimes they aren't. The image of the struggling actor waiting tables is so burned into our culture I can't even guess when it first originated, but if the image of the struggling programmer waiting tables ever becomes an established cliche, I can tell you with confidence, it'll have started in 1997 and gained serious credibility in 2001.
So here I am. Am I an aspiring actor? Am I a programmer? What's the deal? I realized the answer today. The answer's actually real simple.
I'm a science fiction screenwriter who does way too much research.
Seriously. I spent so much time researching the Internet that I actually forgot the point was research in the first place - but that is in fact what got me started. What's the best way to find out what changes are really going to happen? Simple. Bet your ability to eat, for several years running, on which technologies you learn. After a while you get a pretty good intuition for that kind of thing. And likewise - the best way to write a screenplay? Learn to act!
But that still doesn't explain it all, so I should probably add that I'm also an egomaniac who enjoys math for its own sake. OK - maybe this is too much about me to be useful for anybody else. Maybe my psychology is kind of odd. But there's a story here. Stick with me.
I got into programming because of zines - specifically Mondo 2000, Fringeware Review, Wired, bOING bOING (in a very different, earlier incarnation), and of course the weird, incredible, wonderful Schwa (which I almost sorta wrote for). These zines chronicled the emerging "cyberculture," this new sci-fi movement that was going to change the world. At the time, Wired was a very different thing than it's since become. Wired didn't publish e-mail addresses in its first issue, and it didn't feature business leaders in its first year. If you were reading Wired back when it was new enough that the rawer, more street-level Fringeware could do a parody called Weird - and mean it sincerely, as the compliment it was at the time - then you know, the first issues of Wired put science fiction novelists on its covers. They got to do huge articles about the future, too. Business leaders were in the mix, but initially, they were not the focus.
A few years later, all the other zines were gone, and Wired had gotten as boring as fuck. You never saw anything but business guys and Rollerblade ads in Wired. I had moved to San Francisco to change the world. Instead I was working for a bank. Admittedly, I was working for an investment bank, in a situation with responsibility and where my programming skills were highly valued, but still, ultimately, I was working for a bank. I was making good money but my soul was dead. I might as well have been a zombie.
When the dot-com downturn hit, I was thrilled. I knew I'd be fired. And one day my manager called me into his office.
"We're going to have to start firing all the contractors," he said.
"Ah," I said. "Well, that's regrettable, but in the current economic climate, it's no shock."
(And it wasn't. Two hundred thousand jobs were lost in January 2001 in the city of San Francisco alone.)
"That's right," my manager said. "So we want you to come on full-time."
I told him I'd think about it, and pretty soon I was driving off to live in a forest in New Mexico and learn how to draw.
It's pretty fucking hard to draw a human hand, by the way. Just so you know. Seriously. Try it sometime. And don't complain. I warned you I was an egomaniac.
But enough about that.
Why is this story allegedly useful?
It's useful first because I've met programmers working on interesting things who clearly think I should be more excited about the projects they're working on than I am - especially when these are also projects which potential clients are offering me. If you're one of those programmers, cheer up. It doesn't mean your project's not fascinating. There is just nothing happening on the Web today that is anywhere near as exciting as the experience of telling people that there's this thing called the World-Wide Web and it's awesome and you should totally get into it. Nothing happening today as fun as arguing with staid business types that advertizing will one day become a big part of the Web. Nothing as high-stakes as moving across the country to a strange city on nothing but a few hundred dollars and your absolute, total faith that you've spotted something that will soon grow huge.
It's useful second because sometimes living in a forest and drawing is awesome.
And if that's true, you have to wonder: is there a way in which working at Urban Outfitters could be awesome too? There is. I've seen it. I saw an actress today doing incredibly fearless work. To pay the bills, she works as a waitress. She's awesome.
It's useful third because programming is looking more and more like acting or screenwriting every day. The entry costs are approaching zero and the value of education is only partial. And certainly the show biz adage that "you're only as good as your latest hit" is true in programming as well. Ask anybody who lost a job to a younger programmer with less brains but trendier skills. So if you're a programmer and you're making money, save some of that money. And take time to keep your skills absurdly sharp. And study business, too, because it's only the great businesspeople who really make money as programmers.
It's useful fourth, and most of all, because if you're choosing between projects, you might think it's because you're brilliant, but it's not. In a very small number of cases it's because you're brilliant, and the economy's doing well; in most cases, it's because the economy is doing well. And when you're choosing between projects, you should absolutely choose the projects which excite you. The reason is simple. Hard work, risk-taking, and talent are the ingredients for a successful career in both acting and programming, and passion's necessary in either case.
But at the same time, just as an actor who wants to succeed should balance artsy "cinema" with popcorn flicks, every programmer should balance programming for money with programming for programming.
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- AnonymousApril 24, 2007 at 9:30:00 PM PDT
Thanks for writing this. Really. I'm graduating soon from a CS program and I have no desire to work on the web (PHP, ASP, etc) or on MS technologies like VB, etc.ReplyDelete
What I really want to work on is irrelevant but your story made me understand that I bette rwork on stuff that I like because I'm sure not going to get rich or steady income. It's the kind of thing you need to hear from someone else, I guess.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately, though with not as much clarity.ReplyDelete
I know completely that I got into this for the love of it, not for the money. I've proved that to myself many times over. I went through the recession in the early 1990s, and I went through the one that started in 2001. From my experience they were pretty similar, though the more recent one seemed to last longer (I was in college for most of the earlier one). When I was studying CS, everybody told me, "That's the field to be in," because of the money. Somehow I tended to know better. I didn't truly understand the swings until I experienced them though. Even when the boom of the 90s happened, the memory of the struggle I had to go through just out of college stayed with me.
Everywhere I've worked I've had to make compromises on working on what I enjoy, to varying degrees.
I feel like for the first time in my life I'm studying and working on stuff I completely enjoy, but it's all on my own time. I'm not working right now; taking a time-out to pursue this stuff. I've had this nagging feeling though that I might not be able to find work that matches the wonderful feeling I have doing what I'm doing now--that expecting this to happen is too good to be true. I'm not ruling it out, but that part of me that wants me to survive and continue having a roof over my head is cautious about putting all of my eggs in just a few rarified baskets.
@anon - definitely! a friend of mine went to work in tech support for some kind of video drivers company after he graduated. he was hating it. he spent some time teaching himself to code for video games, made a demo, and got into that instead. they work you really hard in that industry but he was loving it. It applies if you're writing PHP but you want to write Rails; it's true if you're working on the Web when you want to build robots; it's true in every case. (you do want to exercise good practical thinking, though.)ReplyDelete
@mark - well, sometimes I've found work easy to get and sometimes I've found work hard to get. when it was easy, it was *always* because I had gotten interested in something and that thing had gotten big. every time I learned stuff because I thought it might be a good idea, or structured my career in what seemed to be a sane and sensible manner, it left me totally screwed. that would seem like a very powerful argument in favor of doing only what you want - except I've also had times where I studied stuff I wanted to study, purely for its own sake, and it took a long time to turn into work, and it didn't turn into much work.
two good examples are Bayes nets and screenwriting. writing screenplays has never gotten me anything and probably never will. studying Bayes nets, I've gotten one consulting gig doing Bayes nets work, and it netted me $50. (I could have gotten some followup work, but I was too busy to go after it.)
Basically, for me personally, playing it safe always backfires, but going after what I want still only works sometimes. Being fascinated with Rails totally paid off; studying acting has not made me richer. To a certain extent it depends on what becomes popular, and that's essentially random.
(Technically chaotic, but essentially random.)
So it's true and it's false. Programming is still a much safer choice than painting, for example. There's truth in what I'm saying but there's a great deal of exaggeration as well. I don't think any bust in the immediate future will be as harsh and severe as the dot-com bust, for the same reason that no new Web startup will ever have to face the question of "but will people even use the Web?" Because that question's been answered, that time is over. Hopefully that'll be the hardest bust tech will have seen for a very long time.
But the value of education in programming is plummeting in CS, unless you're in a really good school where they have you reading SICP and writing compilers. And technical recruiting, with its fixation on X years of Y, has totally evolved into a hit-driven marketplace. All they talk about is what acronyms are hot at any given time.
Anyway, I'm not working right now either, and it's GREAT. With any luck I'm going to make some progress learning Smalltalk and Haskell. I have to offset that with actual working sooner or later, but it's definitely fun at the moment.
I've always pursued what I'm interested in to a certain extent. I can remember I wanted to work in Smalltalk after I first got exposed to it in college 16 years ago. By the time I graduated though the market for that really dried up. So I went with my second choice, C, which was growing in popularity at the time. I enjoyed that for a while, until I couldn't stand it anymore.
What I've always tried to do in the past is take a look at what's popular out there and then pick from that something I can feel good about. I can get some satisfaction from that, but the part that really irks me is there have been times while I've been working where I feel like I'm shoehorning myself into a market. It doesn't fit well. It's not terrible, but it's not very satisfying. I can do this for a while, but eventually I just want out. I've never been successful with this strategy. It doesn't find me work. I used to try to do this when the recessions would hit. I didn't feel I had a choice.
What I've since discovered is that at the very time I was doing this from 2001 on, Squeak was out there, as was Ruby. Seaside may not have existed, and I don't know if Rails had even come out yet. I've thought to myself recently that if I hadn't been so focused on trying to find work in a dry market, and just done something else for money for a while (which I eventually did anyway) and been studying Squeak, Ruby, DSLs, etc. in the meantime, I might've enjoyed myself more.
I hope you're right that we won't see something like the dot-com bust again, but I'm less optimistic that we won't see swings in our business. It's happened many times before, so I see no reason to doubt we'll see them again in the future.
Re: I'm out of work, too
Alright, so you've joined the club. :) Yes, it is nice to have the free time to pursue this stuff.
Re: the X years of Y trend
Like I've said before this has gone on for a looong time. Maybe it's gotten worse recently. I haven't noticed. The one thing that was nice about the 90s boom was that even though employers were asking for X years of Y, they were willing to compromise, because the labor market was so tight. With a couple exceptions though, I've found most of my work through contacts, not through want ads, anyway.


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Entered in the Spindle Category, Expert (because I've won competitions in the past, and because I teach spinning lessons. I feel like such a fraud - I'm FAR from an "expert"- I consider myself an advanced beginner - but these were the rules), plied, undyed alpaca fiber.
The judge marked on the card, "3 ply" and I just had to smile to myself. See, some folks insist that Navajo Plied yarn isn't really a 3 ply, it's a single ply, folded upon itself. I must admit to a certain immaturity, but I get endless amusement out of this, lol.
At any rate, I just love to do this ply on the fly method of plying yarn. I think that it is really fun to do, and for me, spinning is an area in my life where I want to have fun. So... I use this method of plying for just about everything.
Entered in Spindle spun, expert, undyed wool, plied.
This was really a stretch for me - I feel like I really learned a lot from this project. Best of all, it was really FUN!
Entered in wheelspun, expert, undyed alpaca, plied.
There's something I'd like to point out - many of us entered yarns and other items made from fibers from Eyedazzler Alpacas, and all of us won ribbons! My friends, Sharron, Erin, and Peggy (and maybe others who I don't know) spun Eyedazzler yarn and won ribbons. Sharron knitted a hat which won a ribbon. A woman made a needle-felted sculpture out of Eyedazzler fiber, and won a ribbon. Allie, one of the owners of Eyedazzler entered a fleece and won Grand Champion!
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In the spring of 1920, it seemed to dawn on President Woodrow Wilson that his debilitating stroke months earlier had not only hurt him politically. It had also harmed the country.
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The doctor talked him out of it.
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Wilson's illness is the most remarkable example in American history of the public being kept in the dark about a president's health troubles.
As letters, oral histories and Grayson's own diary showed, there was a concerted effort among the doctor, Edith Wilson and a few others in the president's inner circle to minimize the severity of his condition.
The nation's 28th president was having trouble persuading his political enemies in the Senate to ratify the Treaty of Versailles, the document that ended World War I. A two-thirds majority vote was needed to approve the treaty, which also provided for the creation of the League of Nations. To drum up public support, Wilson embarked on a whistle-stop tour of the country. Three weeks into the tour, on Sept. 25, 1919, in Pueblo, Colo., Wilson collapsed from exhaustion.
The train sped back to Washington, but on Oct. 2, Wilson was stricken by a massive stroke that paralyzed his left side. For days he could not move. Eventually, he recovered some ability to walk, but he was debilitated for the final 17 months of his presidency. Wilson's secretary (what we would today call the chief of staff), Joseph P. Tumulty, and Wilson's Cabinet, ran a sort of "holding pattern" presidency, O'Toole said.
In those days it was possible for a public figure to stay on the sidelines for months on end without it causing much concern.
"There was a question of what's in good taste and what's not in good taste, what would be reckless speculation," O'Toole said. "There was a great deal more circumspection about commenting and guessing in that time than there is in ours. People don't need a single fact now to go off on a tirade."
Edith Wilson is sometimes called the first female president, because she shielded her husband from most visitors. Any request had to go through her.
"The word went down that if you had a question for the president, you had to write it up briefly, and it had to be a question that could be answered with a yes or a no," O'Toole said.
Wilson's inability to passionately argue on behalf of the Treaty of Versailles doomed it. After 14 "reservations" were loaded onto it, it failed approval in the Senate in November 1919.
"There was important stuff, quite in addition to the fight over the Treaty of Versailles, that needed to be taken care of that just wasn't taken care of" between Wilson's stroke and the end of his second term, in March 1921, O'Toole said. He died Feb. 3, 1924, at 67, from complications related to his stroke and heart problems.
Here are other examples of undisclosed, or undiagnosed, illnesses of presidents -- and one running mate:
Abraham Lincoln: What friends and observers simply described as "melancholy," we know now are the classic symptoms of depression, from which Lincoln suffered most of his life, even before the Civil War and the deaths of two of his sons. Lincoln "often wept in public and recited maudlin poetry," Joshua Wolf Shenk, author of the 2006 book "Lincoln's Melancholy," wrote in The Atlantic in 2005. "He told jokes and stories at odd times -- he needed the laughs, he said, for his survival. As a young man he talked more than once of suicide, and as he grew older he said he saw the world as hard and grim, full of misery, made that way by fate and the forces of God." There are different degrees of depression, however, and clearly Lincoln was able to carry out his duties during the nation's darkest period.
Grover Cleveland: According to a 2011 post on LiveScience.com by Maureen Salamon titled "The Hidden Illnesses of Presidents," Cleveland discovered a lesion on the left side of his palate "that was said to be cancerous." This was in the middle of the 1893 financial panic. "As Americans waited for him to create economic stability, the president had the tumor clandestinely removed while sailing on the yacht Oneida to his summer home. The crew was sworn to secrecy."
Franklin D. Roosevelt: During FDR's 12-year presidency, the media helped him and White House officials hide his polio-induced paralysis by photographing him only from the waist up.
John F. Kennedy: Kennedy had a variety of health problems, including debilitating back pain and Addison's disease, which caused physical weakness and jaundiced skin. JFK took as many as 12 pills at a time.
Tom Eagleton: The running mate of Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern in 1972 was a respected senator from Missouri. But he hid from McGovern's people that, in the 1960s, he had been treated for depression and underwent shock therapy. Rumors among the media circulated, however, and Eagleton acknowledged his treatment during a news conference July 25. After initially backing Eagleton, McGovern asked him to step down. Eagleton was the vice presidential nominee for 18 days. McGovern lost to Richard Nixon in a landslide, but Eagleton was re-elected easily to the Senate in 1974.
Ronald Reagan: After John Hinckley's failed assassination attempt on Reagan in March 1981, the White House, and the media, didn't want to project a sense of confusion or weakness. So the president was portrayed as bouncing back right away. He went home from the hospital after 13 days, but it actually took him about seven months to fully recover. Reagan, who was 17 days shy of his 78th birthday when he left office in January 1989, sometimes had trouble remembering names and other details while in office, but his doctors maintained that he was not impaired. Reagan announced in 1994 he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. He died 10 years ago, on June 5, 2004.
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9 January 2019
Associate Professor Katia Cejie at the Faculty of Law is to receive a multi-year research grant from the Torsten Söderberg Foundation, for a research project on income taxes and social security contributions in border-crossing situations.
Economic growth is favoured by high international labour mobility. To be able to take a decision to work abroad, people need to understand its implications for their own finances. Here, taxes and social security contributions, and their impact on net income, play a major part. Inability to foresee the consequences of a move dampens mobility in the labour market and thereby also reduces economic growth.
Countries levy taxes and contributions in various ways and with differing purposes. There are international principles governing, and established research on, the combined workings of different tax systems. The same applies, to some extent, to social security contributions. In contrast, there is extremely little research on the two areas' combined effects. However, an initial review reveals such great complexity that not only employees and employers but government agencies, too, apply the regulations incorrectly. The errors may consist, for example, in certain contributions falling between the systems. This may double the burdens on individuals or prevent the state from collecting the correct taxes and contributions.
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Jun 25, 2011, 08.42 PMby ginasophia
this is so lovely, lining and all. beautiful work!
Feb 11, 2011, 02.40 AMby corinneski
Wow! Very impressive – you've inspired me to have a go at making a lined jacket. My efforts in the past have ended up as UFOs. With this gorgeous jacket for inspiration I might just persevere and get something I really like out of it. Love the buttons and all the detail.
Feb 10, 2011, 04.59 PMby dixiediy
Awesome! It looks great on you and I love the check pattern fabric for the lining – it's unexpected and gives the jacket a whole different feel. It sounds like you put a lot of work into this and it shows. Great job and cute outfit!
Feb 10, 2011, 04.06 PMby carottesauvage
Great jacket! I was always tempted by this pattern. I will have another look at it!
Feb 8, 2011, 05.18 AMby hannnc
I love your jacket! I really want to make one with fun lining like yours. Fits you well too :)
Feb 4, 2011, 04.23 AMby thistletoo
This looks amazing! And not only because of the excellent photography. I'm pretty sure all of your hard work more than paid off.
Feb 3, 2011, 11.14 AMby machelefranklin
The cut of this jacket is really nice, you did it brilliantly.
Feb 3, 2011, 09.51 AMby nikotina
great great job, not only for first time jacket . It's looks professional made and i love the lining ,well done.
Feb 3, 2011, 08.12 AMby jodieclark
Wow! I love the lines, I love the buttons, I want one!
Feb 3, 2011, 03.34 AMby dottedhalfnote
I love it! It looks so professionally made and super chic :D
Feb 3, 2011, 02.31 AMby thecuriouskiwi
It looks amazing on you! Great job with the fit. I love the gingham lining, it's a nice surprise inside, and it looks good with the sleeves rolled up too.
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Feb 3, 2011, 02.45 AMby carolinesj
Thanks ! Yeah I'm loving the sleeves rolled up, a bit more casual. I was in Wellington for the day and saw heaps of them in shops :) I actually googled the burda pattern to see the technical drawing and came across a post on your blog with it!
Feb 3, 2011, 05.48 AMby thecuriouskiwi
I thought it looked familiar, its the one that's emerald green isn't it? It's amazing what a change in fabric can do to make a jacket look completely different. It's still on my list, it just has to wait until Winter comes back around.
I had the best time fabric shopping in Welly last month :)
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