Month: January 2016

For Example

I used to pride myself on thinking abstractly. For example, creating a software model to mirror the behavior of agricultural futures trading. But I’ve since learned that thinking abstractly is easy and coming up with an example is hard or just not intuitive. For example, I just reviewed a course on business needs analysis with 99% abstraction and at most…

Productive frustration

Negative emotions can be problematic if left unchecked, like frustration, but they can be a guide too. If something is frustrating you, see if there’s something you’re missing. Some extra piece of information that is vital to understand the situation that you either don’t know about or have forgotten about. For example, Jonathan and I were shopping the other day…