Dean Wilson@UnixDaemon: ... be good, get good or give up.

Sun, 27 Mar 2005

Are Yearly PiPs Too Long?
I have my own Pragmatic Investment Plan that I've been (remarkably slack) in following. It's the first one I've done and it covers a whole year. Which I'm starting to think is a mistake.

My circumstances have changed a fair bit since I wrote that PiP and a number of the tasks, such as learn Mono and write a CPAN module, are no longer very relevant to me and where I'm heading; although the fact I couldn't pick goals that were valid for a whole year might say something about me :). Instead of staying annual I'm thinking of doing shorter, three- six month PiPs, that allow me to keep a constant eye on what I'm doing while also being more focused and, probably, themed (RPM, Oracle, Apache etc.). I think the short term approach, with it's constant small corrections, is a better idea than waiting a whole year for feedback.

The obvious problem with this change is a lack of an overall career path, but I don't really have one of those yet anyway (I'm 25...). I suppose I should follow the conventional wisdom that every job should make you more prepared to work for yourself and go from there; but I'm not that happy with such a fuzzy end goal.

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Posted: 2005/03/27 12:19 | /geekstuff | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date

Vanity, PiP and Screenshotting
Over in my Pragmatic Investment Plan I have two items under the topic of vanity. To put something on my site worth reading and to get my site into the first 100 results returned by google.

Once my traffic hit a 100,000 unique (not obviously bots) visitors in under three months I considered the first one fulfilled. I'm now, and I realise how sad this is going to sound, very happy to report that at least for this very moment unixdaemon.net is in the top hundred results for the search phrase Dean; 99th to be exact. And yes I did take a screen-shot.

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Posted: 2005/03/27 02:11 | /unixdaemon | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date

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