Now we had a chance to meet this young man, and boy that’s just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him

So your biggest weakness is that you can’t put up with bullshit?

You should have a government job.

I recently had to answer this question during a performance review. I said something along the lines of, “I never liked this question and here’s why.” Then we had a conversation about the questions and how corporate bullshit is bullshit. Long story short, I’m now looking for a new job...

Now if we can just get websites to support longer and more complicated passwords. I still run into sites that say “Passwords must be 8-12 characters, uppercase, lowercase and numbers”.

I think there is also, sometimes, a great fear of completing something, as if somehow by doing that, your reason for living will be there. Sometimes that happens for me even with smallish but important projects that require comparatively little effort. There's a kind of 'what next' effect that leads to inertia not to…

I agree with "do both".

I went from a C student to an A student in college by making these simple changes:

I find its more of an issue of music vs. no music, as opposed to what kind of music. If I'm trying to focus very hard on figuring out why something isn't working or trying to understand how it works, I need silence. But when I'm going through the motions of getting stuff done I need noise.