Stay Hungry, Foolish

Intracompany Hackathons are in vogue at large companies.  At Shelby we hack on shit all the time.  But we also have more formal hackathons because of how popular they are at big companies! ;-]

I don’t work on iOS day-to-day.  So I worked on it during our last hackathon (March 28-29).  I built a custom gesture recognizer that Apple somehow forgot about, DSBoredGestureRecognizer.  It detects finger taps, like this:

Also works with human hands.

I spent the other half of my time building a silly app that shows off the gesture recognizer.  

It’s all up on git’s hub: https://github.com/spinosa/BoredNoMore

I’ve never really had a mentor.  So I’m always wondering, how does a mentorship relationship work?  

“You ask a mentor questions, they give answers from their extensive wisdom and knowledge,”  said the engineer in me.  And so I never thought a mentor would be useful, because I can usually answer my own questions.  It’s the answer to questions I don’t think of that would be most useful.

AHA!  When i said that, it clicked in my head how wrong my initial understanding was, and how the relationship should work…

“You spill your stream of conscious, the good and the bad; your mentor gives advice and asks poignant questions (from their extensive wisdom and knowledge).”

I could use a mentor.

Humans are so inherently curious. We have an inborn drive to understand our world. So it’s no surprise that you could teach young children about the crisis in Syria. And probably do so more effectively than with adults…

It’s a shame that school seems more effective at turning you into a cog than developing your curious nature.

I have a feeling these “explain like I’m 5” videos will be making many more appearances on danspinosa.tv