Killin’ It

Multi Int

Chill Amusing, Killin' It

It’s always been odd when people have told me that I can’t be as good as I am at reading comprehension, processing and integrating information quickly and just general language stuff because I am terrible at operational math.

And then I totally mog them them by taking a four-hour 150-question exam with a migraine and passing it — again, with a fucking bad migraine — in 43 minutes1. In fact when I came out the proctor asked if I needed a break. I said, “No, all done.” Then she said, “But that’s the long test!” And then something about how she didn’t think I’d be done for another couple of hours. Don’t remember her exact words there because I was both very nauseous and near keeling over.

Trust me, bro, you can put me up against 10,000 randomly-selected people in those areas I mentioned in my first paragraph and I will tear them all apart like they are made of tissue paper. But I still cannot solve a quadratic equation and never will be able to do so.

  1. If I’d not had a migraine, it would’ve been more like 15-20 minutes. For a signifanct part of the exam, I could barely see the screen. It was too late to reschedule the very expensive company-paid exam.

Certifiably Done

Chill Killin' It

Well, I passed the cert exam for CISM.

I’m not certified yet, though. It’s one of those “who you know” (and experience-based) certs, so once I get the official results back I have to submit an application and a colleague has to attest that I am awesome (I am). Then, I’ll hold these three certs at the same time: CISM, CISSP and CCNP. There’s likely only a few hundred people in the world (at most!) who have all three of those at once.

Now give me the cash moneys!

Neolang

Chill Killin' It

I had created two languages from scratch by the time I was 15. One kind of sucked. That was my first attempt.

But the second one was well thought out and pretty cohesive; it could’ve been used by actual humans. Hell, it was used by me. I kept my class notes in it for over a year. Turns out, though, teachers get upset when you hand in a notebook in a language ain’t nobody ever seen before and only one person in the world can read. Heh.

I’m pretty proud of that. Not annoying my instructors, but rather creating my own language de novo with very few outside resources. Just my own big fuckin’ brain and the will to do it.

Still Thrill

Chill Amusing, Killin' It

I’ve never slept very long at a time — four hours max, unless I am sick — but these days it’s more like two.

Well, whatever, I still feel fine and I do not care. I’m still killin’ it every day and twice on Sunday.

Housed Internally

Chill Amusing, Annoying, Killin' It

When I first started day and short-term trading in the stock market, everyone told me I’d lose all my money. Instead, I was able to buy a nice house in cash without touching any retirement savings at all — and just as importantly, not having a house as my primary financial asset.

If I’d listened to those who would’ve actually lost all their money, I would’ve been a lot worse off. The average are constrained by the average “good” advice. It doesn’t apply to me and people like me. The thing is, you better be certain it is inapplicable to you or you will crash and burn as the normies predict and expect.

But I knew I could do what I did. And so I did it.

Mat Pat

Chill Killin' It

One of the reasons my partner and I get along so well is that she has zero — absolutely no — maternal instinct and I likewise have zero paternal drive or instinct. Just nothing there at all.

There was never even any question of children or wanting them. Makes things just so much easier.

Speed Steamin’

Chill Amusing, Killin' It

When I was taking the competency test to attend community college, I finished and told the proctor I was done but that I hadn’t gotten any results. They were supposed to appear immediately.

The proctor looked confused and said something about having never seen that happen before. He spent some minutes messing around on his computer and then said that my exam had been flagged for probable cheating.

I said, “I’m on video and you’re sitting about eight feet away from me. How could I cheat?”

Anyway, the CC spent quite a long time (more than a week) reviewing the video and eventually decided I hadn’t cheated. They’d just never had anyone get a perfect score on a two hour test in 12 minutes.

LOL. I love doing shit like that.

That test was mad easy, y’all.

Directing

Chill Killin' It

I really didn’t think I would get this far. Asking for advice. (IT Director).

I became the IT Director of a large regional company with about three years of full-time IT experience. It can be done.

By the way, I did great. I was probably one of the youngest people in the country with that role, if not the youngest. What I didn’t know, I researched. If I truly was out of my depth I brought in outside help.

But I succeeded so hard they begged me to stay when I decided to leave that role.

Cope Fact

Chill Killin' It

Indeed. I’m not Asian, but I don’t have to grind to utterly defeat nearly anyone in anything to do with reading comprehension and understanding large volumes of disparate data really quickly and thoroughly.

In that arena, I can do what takes normies days (if they can do it at all1) in 20-30 minutes. There is no grind. I can just do it as easily as water flows downhill. Pretending I have to work hard at it would only be a cope by others.

I took a nap during one of the big standardized tests (CTSB?) back in school and still mogged every kid in the state but two others2. To say that I wasn’t even trying would be an understatement. For at least half the exam period, I wasn’t even awake.

  1. Most often, they cannot
  2. And we all got identical scores.