Personal READMEs and User Manuals

Eric Larson on management, empathy |

I've heard that manager READMEs are bad. The criticism revolves around these documents ultimately being self serving by giving the author a way to justify acting in the wrong. For example, if I write in my README that "I don't handle criticism well" and I explode when someone says I'm…

Reboot!

Eric Larson on Writing |

Long ago I used my blog as a means of learning things like programming languages, databases, etc. It was fun for a while, but I always got hung up on making it easier to blog. As I became more focused as a programmer, I spent even more time trying out…