I've always been attracted and antagonized by the recurring theme of irrationality just below the surface of all of this. I've never thought of myself as a "cod

I've always been attracted and antagonized by the recurring theme of irrationality just below the surface of all of this. I've never thought of myself as a "coder" but as someone who engineers how people think about problems. I just end up coding because I guess I love sideshows and amateur burlesque. My father was a shrink. He was fond of (among other books) _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Mechanics_. Are you seeing how this is going? I took out a display ad in the back of (print) _Computer World_ which said "VAX Hacker for Hire", in 1984.