Geek Onward

Posted September 7, 2009

I like to think of geeks as the modern day tinker. Inquisitive, resourceful, never leaving well enough alone, driven by the urge to make things better. What is great about "now" is that the future is going to be so much better.

Without the geek, the things we take for granted and love about modern life would not be here. The geek doesn't do status quo. The geek knows there's a faster, more efficient way of doing things. You see a big mess, we see a problem to be solved and we're quite satisfied to do so. We thrive on the challenging, wither with the mundane. Happy geeks are those with a tough situation that only a geek would be crazy enough to tackle.

We like to joke that we do these things because we're lazy -- but it's true. If we weren't lazy, we wouldn't go through extraordinary means (by normal folks' standards) to simplify a previously humongous, numerous step task into a single, elegant script or build a system that can handle twice as many units in the same time. This sort of lazy is a good thing and shouldn't be discouraged. We wouldn't listen anyway, though. We do this for us. Sure, it trickles down and affects the rest, but it's our passion and we take it very seriously, if a bit selfishly.

I'm Phillip. I'm a geek. I like to break stuff.