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WED APRIL 9 86
Two main thoughts to write up

The work at Microsoft is interesting to me. I find that peoples perception and interaction with a product is what interests me most. In works spreadsheet all of the underlying code is being done by others so I don’t have to worry about math functions structure manipulation etc. My job is communicating with the user. One reason I left [language] was that My work is invisible except programmers. Works is used by financial people and what they see is my work.

I’m interested in perception. As long as Microsoft is willing to pay me to do something interesting and challenging but not too tough why should I spend time on non-paying things even if they are interesting to like negotiating infinity etc.? And I definitely have a lack of retention in some reading so it certainly is a waste of time to watch or read and not remember and have no achievements from it.

The answer to this last question is that I have limited time in this life and I want to use it well. Choose accordingly. Negotiating seems much less important than infinity or Turings biography.