Man, that Naggum quote hits home. I was a much bigger asshole early in life before I went to work at Microsoft. Usually one of, if not the, smartest kids in the

Man, that Naggum quote hits home. I was a much bigger asshole early in life before I went to work at Microsoft. Usually one of, if not the, smartest kids in the room. Go to work, usually the same thing. I had to be insufferable at times. Then off to Microsoft I go to get thoroughly humbled. Much like I didn't know what "rich" really meant until surrounded by millionaires, I didn't know what "really smart" was, either. I still consider myself to be "pretty smart", but I now know that I am a long way from anything resembling brilliant, and always will be. So how about I tone down that attitude, eh? Lesson #2 was that those super-smart folks I worked with had absolutely no problem saying, "I have no idea what you're talking about, could you explain it?" Probably how they got so super-smart. So though I learned a lot about the craft in my time at Microsoft, I'd dare say I learned a little bit about how to be a more decent human, too.