The Friday Five for 12 October 2018

[anais_pf]

1. What was the best compliment you ever received?

2. What are your five best talents?

3. What do you wish most people knew about you, and why?

4. What has been your biggest accomplishment so far, and why does it mean so much to you?

5. If you could achieve anything in your life, what would it be?

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[jack]

https://jack.dreamwidth.org/1087500.html

Oh gosh, this is a lot of stuff I already introspect about a lot.

1. What was the best compliment you ever received?

I unfortunately tend to be overly hungry for validation, so it's a bit weird to answer. But probably when someone described me as kind and calming, because I'd always thought of myself as over-emotional and bad with people, so it was really lovely to think that I can actually be good for people.

And when I solved some 3d reverse transformation problems and my manager found a plastic medal and gave it to me.

2. What are your five best talents?

Oh gosh. Um. Programming? Dealing with temporary crises? Something-about-writing-I'm-not-sure-what. Introspection and self-improvement, maybe? And... not sure. Hugs? Understanding other people's point of view? Cooking the three dishes I cook well?

What do other people put here?

3. What do you wish most people knew about you, and why?

More just sort of... everything. I'm always too scared of talking about myself too much, so I can easily end up not sharing anything. When I looked at what I'd been doing recently -- Inktober, board game design, visiting stockholm, going to Ghoti's canadian thanksgiving, it's all things that many people might be interested in about me. But I keep persistently failing to mention things.

4. What has been your biggest accomplishment so far, and why does it mean so much to you?

Oh god, I don't know. It feels like I failed to accomplish anything. The last biggest accomplishment I was really excited by was getting into university at Cambridge. My life has overall been undeservedly successful, but not much feels like *my* accomplishment.

I'm proud that I -- finally -- started jogging, but that was six years ago and I kept backsliding.

I've written a couple of toy computer games, but they weren't *done* done.

My professional work has gone reasonably well, but it's hard to point to one thing and say "I'm proud of that".

And I'm proud of some other things, of mostly-doing NaNoWriMo, and of learning some rust, and other projects I've set myself, but they never seem to reach a level I'm actually proud of.

Oh, and I just about lifted my previous company out of cvs to git, that was very satisfying.

5. If you could achieve anything in your life, what would it be?

Well, see above, I'd really like to achieve *anything*. But writing some software which catches on and makes a difference to people. I really wish I'd been driven enough to go into academia at least long enough to Contribute One Thing to Human Knowledge No-one Else Did. Writing a novel. Writing a computer game.