There’s no one else here

It’s funny what you think about when you’re alone at the office on a Friday night.

I’ve been pulling 14-15 hour days since Wednesday, and guess what I’ve been doing the entire time? Typing. That’s what my job boils down to: thinking and typing.
Forget the jargon. Forget phrases like ‘yield curves’, ‘use case’, ‘stakeholder’, ‘instrument drawdowns’, ‘agile’, ‘end-user computing’, ‘entity relationship diagram’, ‘baselining’, ‘governance’… all that.
It’s really just sitting on my ass and either typing a bunch of words on a computer screen or talking to people.

Which made me realize the power words actually have.
With words I create strategies and new/re-engineered business processes; with words developers make programs, apps, and websites; with words writers make books and newspapers; with words politicians make or break economies.

Words make things… and that’s a sobering thought because there are so many of them going around every single day.

Things I Learnt: Words make things.