Thanks for coming up and welcome to my first post!
The other day I recommended a movie to this colleague of mine. It was a wedding comedy. You see, he’s getting married in a couple of months, so I thought he could like it. My colleague said something like
I don’t get along that well with French comedy, it seems like a bit forced to me. Is this one that kind of a movie?
I just replied,
I don’t know if it’s the classical French comedy or not, but man, I enjoyed it very much and it made me laugh!
This kind of mindset, as pragmatic as full of light, is the one I’m always trying to apply to myself as much as I can in my everyday life as an IT guy (just in case, IT stands for Information Technologies; ‘make IT simple today’, pun intended 😊).
You see, things are usually complex enough. Don’t make them seem harder than they are!
To be simple or not to be
I don’t really know if things are complex or simple (nor do I actually care…). What I do know is that, most of the times, things CAN be simple: they just need a friendly mind to unveil their inner simplicity that lies within.
When I say things CAN be simple, I don’t mean that you have to alter the essence of the thing to adapt it to your understanding, thus making it more simple than it really is. That way you would just be believing you understand a thing when you really don’t.
What I’m saying is that truth’s essence is always simple, and this usually comes with the price of a fake it ’til you make it attitude. And how do you know you’ve finally made it? How do you know when you’ve truly understand something? Well, that’s the fun part of it, you don’t really ever know 100%, even when you think you do.
I’ll just try to share my fakes in order for you to make it.
Cracking the code
As Leonard Cohen put it,
There’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light goes in.
Leonard cohen
What I’ll be doing on this blog is to find those cracks. I can’t guarantee that I’ll succeed everytime. What I promise is that, at least, we’ll have a good time!
From now on, I’ll be writing these IT digestive pills on a weekly basis. Actually, they won’t always be about technology per se: let’s say some posts will be about IT indeed, but some others will just reflect on it, with lower case.
it is greater than IT
‘What is this it?’, you’ll be wondering. This it is always more important than IT, because it came before IT, it is the basis for IT…
it is life, man, and life is bigger than everything else. it is always urgent, our attention is born from it; it’s the source of our attitude, of our passion to learn and see others learning. So for sure we’ll need it to make IT more simple.
I see trees of green…
So join me on this trip to simplicity. We’ll have fun understanding things, seeing them in a simpler light, enjoying their lighter simplicity. Can you hear Louis Armstrong in the background, singing What a wonderful world?
By the way, just in case you were wondering: the French movie we were talking about is called C’est la vie.