I’ve gotten three phone calls today. I guess I wasn’t holding up my end of the conversation, because all three people said something to the effect of “you’re awfully quiet today”.

Some days are planning days, when I work on projects and build specs for features. Some days are biz admin days, when I deal with correspondence, bills, recruitment, funding, et cetera. Today is a tech day. Specifically, it’s a day for writing code. And that’s when I fall into the tech trance.

If you’re a programmer or an engineer, you probably experience the tech trance all the time. It’s when that little biscuit-goblin in your head stops giving biscuits to the chatty, artsy brain-lumps and instead gives all the biscuits to the logical, mathematical brain-lumps. The logical brain-lumps love it. They calculate, process data and build sophisticated models of how software will behave. The chatty brain-lumps starve and you nearly lose the gift of speech. Until, that is, you pull yourself out of the tech trance by deciding to blog about the phenomenon.