Charles Forster
Tales of a tech entrepreneur
“Grit is not just simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay in an uncomfortable place, work hard to improve upon a …
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Lately, I've been getting back into designing just for my own personal enjoyment, and I've come to realize how much I've missed designing for fun. We humans are pattern-matching creatures, and in …
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For most of our history, we humans were food for lions, and tigers, and bears. Oh my. We were the hunted and all we had to defend ourselves were sticks, stones and millions of years of evolution …
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Kids these days. Am I right? They have no idea how good they've got it. These young engineers just entering the workforce have easy compared to what us old guys had to work with. Sitting in a …
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Pick a framework, any framework. Implement it and boom, you're already miles ahead of where we geezers started when this new breed of young developers was in diapers. Hell, we didn’t even have …
From the time Kennedy proclaimed “We choose to go to the moon” until Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon and uttered the famous phrase “one giant leap for mankind”, a brilliant, dedicated group of …
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