“When I’m ‘on,’ that’s the time to put TextMate front and centre. When I’m ‘off,’ I try not to force it too much, there are plenty of things to do that can be done in short dribs and drabs.

“The path of love is never smooth
But mine’s continuous for you
You’re the upper bound in the chains of my heart
You’re my Axiom of Choice, you know it’s true

“I’ve heard that 2.5% or so [equity] is typical for the first employee, and it decreases exponentially from there.

“I’d find an extra 1-2% state income tax a pretty small price to pay to give up commuting..

“Process turns out to be a pretty good substitute for competence. With enough steps, documents, design reviews, and test plans, the proverbial 1,000 monkeys with typewriters really could produce a functional IT system.

“People who enjoy eating sausage and obeying the law should not watch either being made.

“I firmly believe that the interests of the team will be best served if I step down and allow another player to gain additional experience of captaincy in the one-day international arena.

“Katherine McLaine recently earned a doctorate from the University of Texas for her thesis entitled ‘Whose Immortal Picture Stories?: Amar Chitra Katha and the Construction of Indian Identities’. Ironically, that made her the first person anywhere in the world to get a doctorate on Indian comics.

“Like any late bloomer, I was eager to make up for lost time.

“I have a PhD, and I have an uncomfortable feeling everytime I read articles like this.. The feeling isn’t because I am not aware of these tricks and pitfalls. It’s because I don’t truly know them, to the point where they’re drilled into me, second nature. I don’t truly know them because I was never formally taught them. They were just things I picked up in lay reading. High schools should have a class to cover this particular skillset.. But we don’t have such a class. Even though we have known about these skills for decades. The process by which the implications of scientific results percolate through the education system is basically broken.