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To Cloud Or Not To Cloud The Cloud It's the new buzz word. In my last post I discussed Bleeding Edge versus Cutting Edge technologies. When a new technology suddenly...
Bleeding Edge or Cutting Edge In today's fast paced world, especially within the technology sector, everything is changing on a daily basis. What was new becomes common place and what was common...
Simplicity Rules - Keep Focused on a Single Theme Over the years I have been involved in the design and construction of dozens of applications. What I have found is that the application begins...
The Value of an Outsider's Perspective In my last article, I discussed the 15 minute rule. This is a simple little rule I use to help determine when it is time to either step away or ask for...
Efficiency at its Best - The 15 Minute Rule Whenever I start a new employee, there is a bit of time when they are feeling out the waters. Do they ask a lot of questions and risk annoying their boss...
Think Before You Leap (And Save Money and Time in the Process) Over the last few weeks I have met with a new client. This client had done their homework and even had screen designs for how they wanted...
Why Work When You Can Play? Before I begin telling you how you can have fun and play all day instead of work, work, work, let me set up some "Aaron definitions" for you. These definitions...
If You Want To Be A Programmer, Program!
If You Want To Be A Programmer, Program! If You Want To Be A Programmer, Program! Am I stating the obvious. You would think so. However, I am constantly talking to would-be programmers that have...
It's not that my prices are good. It's the other prices that are bad. This is a quote I recently read on Michael Masterson's blog at Early To Rise. It struck home as I was thinking much the same thing...
The Art of SQL Report Writing Part 5 of 5 Query Optimization While the topic of query optimization could fill a book and is as much of an art as it is a science, I did want to...
The Art of SQL Report Writing Part 4 of 5 An Example Here we are going to walk through a real world example. In fact, this is exactly what we have done in updating our blog...
The Art of SQL Report Writing Part 3 of 5 Building Queries Before I begin this section, I would like to emphasize that the technique here is meant to get you a simple and methodical approach...
The Art of SQL Report Writing Part 2 of 5 Organizing the DB Diagram The first step to any development project is to organize yourself and map out what you are going to work on. I always like...
The Art of SQL Report Writing Part 1 of 5 Introduction Today we live in a data driven society. There is data everywhere and it can be more easily collected and processed than ever. Businesses...
Software Start Up on a Tight Budget Part 5 of 5 No matter how much you know, there is always an opportunity to learn more. The best of us are students of life as it allows us to keep growing without...
Software Start Up on a Tight Budget Part 4 of 5 Before you begin work to start creating your product, it is critical that you think through just how your business will operate. If you don't have this...
Software Start Up on a Tight Budget Part 3 of 5 Getting to Work Once you have your idea mapped out, a rough idea of your business model and know who is going to help you start up and run your business,...
Software Start Up on a Tight Budget Part 2 of 5 Getting Yourself Ready While most of us are eager to dive in and get started, it is immensely important that you take some time to map our your idea...
Software Start Up on a Tight Budget Part 1 of 5 Recently I went to a talk by a highly successful entrepreneur here in the Kansas City area, Jon Darbyshire. One of the things he said was that what...
Usability - The Opportunities Everyone Has Missed For the last 30 years the desktop computer has been available to the home user. Over this period, we have watched as the user interfaces have slowly...
The Need for Speed Today, everything seem to be changing on a daily basis. Products come and go almost in a blink of the eye. Today's fad is yesterday's has been. With how things seem to change so...
Job Jumpers and How to Manage Short Term Employees In an article I read yesterday in the KC Chamber Business Intelligence Brief there was an article on the new generation of workers and their attitudes...
The Value of a CS Degree It has been over 13 years now since I left my college days behind to enter the work world. I grew up in an environment where I was taught "get a good education, get a good...
In his book Ready, Fire, Aim, Michael Masterson provides a number of insightful ways to help build a business from the ground up. One of the topics he mentions is the Rule of Gold vs. the Golden...
Interviewing Programmers Recently I had a client ask me about an article that claimed 99.5% of programmers they interviewed couldn't even write a few lines of simple code. His question: "From...
Software Development: Why is it Such a Mystery? When tackling a software project, most people have difficulty grasping exactly what needs to be done and how they are to go about doing it. Software...
The 5 Most Important Things Programmers Should Know (but never learn in school) Over the years of leading software engineering teams, I have had the opportunity to interview students from a number of...
Being a Leader in Your Industry What is the best way to strangle your business to death? Hording knowledge and over concern about protecting your intellectual property could be sending your...
Standards for Success Over the years, it has amazed me how people respond when talking about standards... Some people love them. They see the standards as guidance from the...
It's an IT Revolution One day, several years back, I went to a meeting with a number of other programmers to learn more about how software was developed and tools used at our company. It was a rather...
Error Handling - Ignore, Hide or Run Away Disclaimer: Note that throughout this article I am use System.out and/or System.err to send error messages to the user. In a real application you should NOT...
Java Logging Made Easy Not long ago I joined a friend of mine for lunch to discuss what we were both doing in our new jobs. My friend had recently started a job with a local IT training company teaching...I am Rob Lawless, a man on a mission to spend 1 hour, 1:1, with 10,000 different people. I've met 2,108 people since starting in Nov 2015. AMA!

**My short bio:** In November of 2015, I started a mission to spend 1 hour, 1:1, with 10,000 different people to learn about their lives and see what comes of opening doors for no particular reason. Since then, I took my project full-time in July of 2016 (after being laid off from my job), have met over 2,100 people (documenting their stories on my Instagram, @robs10kfriends), have driven across the United States 3 different times, and have learned a lot about myself and the people around me. Happy to share some of those lessons with you today!

**My Proof:** https://twitter.com/robs10kfriends/status/1037202837095243776

**Instagram:** https://www.instagram.com/robs10kfriends/

**EDIT:** Thanks everyone for your questions so far! I'm hopping off for a bit to go meet some new people, but will answer any other questions this evening once I get home!

**EDIT 2:** It's been real y'all! Thanks everyone so much for your questions and look forward to doing one of these again in the future!Teaching in a post-Covid world may breed injustice. The move to remote or online learning in different ways results in greater distances between people.
Connecting less in person during the pandemic may breed habits for life after the pandemic, that deepen disconnection between people, families and communities.
This is the threat of social distancing becoming a way of life that causes social distances – the result of an unfortunate global terminology to encourage citizens to maintain safe physical proximities during the pandemic. Similarly, the move from learning and teaching in class to online or remote teaching and learning, inevitably may bring about greater distancing and distances between student and teacher.
This happens not only because they are not in the same classroom, but also because their sense is lost that they share similar lives, and therefore an underlying context and language that make their encounter to learn possible and transformative – in effect, student and teacher may become nameless to each other.
A sense of shared contexts and purposes between them is critical because it facilitates their openness to new perspectives and to question social realities.
As students and teachers face the threat of becoming nameless, greater distances may render the people and communities they must engage with as nameless and, therefore, also voiceless.
‘Similar to the way in which social distancing may lead people in their every day lives to focus only on the basics of survival, rather than broader questions of how we connect with others, remote learning threatens to shift the focus of education from the critical study of social questions, to a singular focus on vocational skills.
This is the real struggle when higher education institutions must make the transition from contact to distance education. It’s a struggle for what we consider to be content fundamental to the curriculum and pedagogical