Come on, give me the chills

Thoughts about changing, life, and whatever comes to mind.

Author: Andrea Grassi

  • may 2016 monthly checkup

    May was a strange month, many things happened both from a business perspective and from a human one.

    The Deodorants business is growing and going strong. We still have some objections from time to time and we had some issues in the production of a new product, but all got fixed.

    My day job also is going fine but the pressure is rising and I think it’s because I’m giving too much for too less (it’s not a matter of money, though). The whole goal of my reduction of work was to be more present but the increase of the remote team produced that I keep my slack app on on my smartphone, and this leads me to think about work outside work. No good.

    Also, I skipped a lot of days, like 6 in this month. It’s probably the month I skipped more days in this year, and although I don’t feel guilty, I still don’t like it.

    Of the posts I liked more there are

  • 2 virgins, wear something blue, wear a present, something granted, something yours

    I am amazed by the enormous amount of things that goes into a wedding.
    Today I discovered that, at least here in italy, a woman should have 2 virgins make up her bed, and she should also wear something blue and a few other things.

    Very superstitious, isn’t it? In part I think that’s too much, but at the same time I think that most of the magic might even come from this kind of superstition.
    It adds that veil of mystery, of unknown, that you would expect from such a big event in your life.

    Yes, maybe 2 virgins won’t change the life of your bride, but after all if they’ll make her dreams come true it’s a good tradeoff.

  • tecnology is for everyone, but it’s up to us to make it valuable

    Today I listened an old woman talking to a girl about how she use the ipad to translate and talk with international clients.

    But she didn’t have a smartphone because it was too complex.

    Technology isn’t about power, it’s about simplicity.

    If it simplify your life then by all means use it.

  • the face your friends only know

    There are faces we share only with our deepest friends.
    The stories of our lives.

    A friend knows it and has saw through them not in a judging way, but in a more clement and lovely “I know you” way.

    Few days ago my boss dearest friend was in town and he was such a nice guy, and he told us about the time my boss was much more hot-tempered than now.

    He described him in a way that was so human, so natural, that made me thinking about the face only this kind of friends do see.

    It’s not the story they tell, it’s something that goes beyond that and that will stay with them for all the time in their lives.

  • if you can describe it, you can code it

    Today I was helping a student learning how to code, and I told him to describe what he wanted to do.

    once he finished, I replied to him: “Good. If you can describe it to someone, you can code it”, and in fact that’s true.
    Often we code without thinking about what the code does. We go in autopilot.

    But if we stop, the code “talks”. It’s a logic that can be easily described in words unless we’re talking about algorithmic stuff.

    Therefore when you’re in trouble or want to learn, try to describe what you want to do, and split it into smaller parts until the parts are so small that are easy to code.