Naming this site
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things
I’ve always enjoyed writing but it is an extremely time consuming process for me. I have, however, always felt that writing is something I should do more of, apart from exercising and spending more time with my family, because it forces you to really understand the topic in depth while also trying to tell a story. This publication is my sincere attempt to do so. But all things created need a name and therein lies a challenge.
I used the quote above because it puts naming things at the same level as a significant computer science problem with no simple solution which I thought was apropos in this context.
I named the company Connect46. Why? Because I intend it to be about connecting dots. Allow me to explain…
Connecting dots
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
Steve Jobs could tell a story well. His speech at the Stanford Convocation in 2011 was inspirational. Of the four things that he mentioned, the one thing that really stuck out for me, was “connecting the dots”. His thesis was that, and I paraphrase, you don’t know what you will need until you need it. So in the meantime, learn as much as you can about as many fields as you can and if you are curious enough, you will be able to connect the dots.
Why 46?
& #46; = .
I’ve been working with developers for a while now and perhaps because of that proximity, I began to think about ASCII characters. And it turns out that the ASCII character for a dot is & #46; (without the space in between) or in the interest of brevity, just 46. And here we are, connecting dots or connecting 46s or to be even more brief, Connect46.
A version of this was previously published on Medium at https://medium.com/connect46/naming-this-publication-9c270a2c86a6 and on my other blog on Github - https://connect46.github.io/2017/03/23/naming-this-site/index.html