When I was a kid and people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said I wanted to be an “Everything Man.” I don’t remember exactly how old I was when I had the idea. Old enough to realize that growing up to be a saber-toothed tiger might be problematic, but young enough that I didn’t see the issue with trying to do everything. Other kids all seemed to want to grow up and be firefighters, or astronauts, or president. Don’t get me wrong, those all sounded like good things, but they were all so limiting. How can you only want to fly spaceships? What about when you want to invent machines or write books or cook doughnuts instead? Clearly it was better to be an Everything Man.
Wednesday, 2nd March, 2016
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By day I work on home automation software. By nights-and-weekends I work on far too many random projects. Some are successful, some aren't, but I learn something from all of them.
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