Clare Chin

The industry tends to be a little wary about people being too interested in the theoretical aspect of programming/software engineering. The pursuit of highly subjective values such as "beauty" or "purity" is quite different from "getting things done", after all. Nonetheless, I do

I've always liked the tactile feeling of writing with a pen on paper. So I naturally like getting nice notebooks, but for some reason I almost always only use the first few pages of each notebook before I basically never open it again. The reason became clear as

I've been recently reading Paul Conti's What's Going Right. Although I'm still on the earlier pages, the framework of categorizing our drives into the pleasure drive, the assertion drive, and the generative drive was interesting and got me overthinking. In short, the