by lil

Hi Hubski - some of you may be familiar with my bio line which says that I teach communication skills to computer scientists. I recently gave a workshop at Bitmaker Labs, a 9-week intensive bootcamp that teaches web application development in a modern lab setting. One of the students wrote about my workshop on his blog Kode Konviction. His writing is pretty dense and paragraph two -- well I never talk like that. But ultimately, he totally gets it, and reinterprets it through his philosophical background. He makes the communication skills I teach sound like ju jitsu, saying

The moment of attack is also the moment of greatest weakness -- your opponent makes himself vulnerable by virtue of unleashing an assault.

Needless to say, I was blown away.