Hack Days are marathons. You're given 24 hours, a set of tools and let loose to be creative in amazing ways. They require dedication, skill, ability and dedication. A great many of these sorts of skills were on display at this years Y!Open Hack Day 2008, where many a mental marathon was run.
i got shin splints around mile 8. i may have also had a heart attack. Either way, i wet myself. On camera.
This, was not my finest hour. Actually far from it. This was quite possibly my worst weekend. Unlike every other hack, i came ill prepared, tired, unfocused, and far too easily distracted. i rabbit holed myself time and time again, avoided simple like the plague and spent most of my time pontificating instead of performing. i had become "that guy". To my utter shame and humiliation, a great deal of this was captured as part of a permanent record that i have no doubt will follow me like a rabid, feral cat with explosive diarrhea and a penchant to annoy skunks. i suck. i suck so bad it's not even funny anymore. In the era of youtube and flickr, your mistakes tend to haunt you like that.
i'm ashamed, i'm cranky, i'm bummed to a degree i haven't been in decades. i am so incredibly ticked off with myself that i left Hack Day because i couldn't deal with myself. i didn't even say "thanks" or "goodbye". Yeah, i suck that bad.
i've got to focus and get back into hack marathon shape again. i've been way too easy on myself lately and letting myself get away with all sorts of crap. No more. Dammit, i did some pretty god damn cool stuff in the past, but that's all in the past. i need to get back to doing cool stuff.
And i am NEVER going to let myself get in this bad a situation again.
(Way to completely and utterly sabotage yourself, jr! you lose!)
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