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Posted on Wednesday 7 December 2005 - Popularity: 5%

Some that linked to my blog called me an “alpha geek”. Now I don’t really care if I am one or not, but if you think I am and for whatever reason think you have to be like me, then have a look at this nice list of requirements for being an “alpha geek”. Actually, even if you don’t plan to become an “alpha geek”, the following two advices should become requirements for any human being out there:

Never Quit Learning - Geeks want to fill their brains with more and more information. Keep going until it fills up! A geek knows full well that the world is changing too fast today to keep up without dedicating a large part of each week with learning a new way of doing something or a new way of thinking. The nice thing about being out of school isn’t that class is over, it’s that you get to control the entire curriculum!

Be Open Minded - Alpha-geeks are open to the possibility that they don’t know everything. That really would be boring. The surest way to quit learning is to fool yourself that you know everything - even about just one topic. Having an open mind allows a kind of unclouded thinking which can be very useful in solving some really difficult problems. Whether it’s debugging multi-threaded code or having to maintain some really horrible spaghetti code, unconventional thinking is a fantastic trait.

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