There are some weeks that I try to cram too much into my head. I can always tell it’s getting full too, when it begins to refuse new material and I start to get cranky. Today I’m getting cranky.

This week I looked at a bunch of new technologies, I made significant progress on two separate projects at work, and I started work on a few personal projects that have been waning. I also started reading a textbook that arrived in the mail on Friday, Software Conflict 2.0, which resulted in a great deal of well-needed reflection.

The technologies I crammed in my head all proved to be deceptive, as they often are. Each promised to revolutionize how something is done, without any of the pain of the other approaches. Each inevitably made some small aspect of a problem trivial, at the cost of other things. The search was fruitful, though I’m not sure my muse has finished digesting it all.

The theme of this week’s brain-freeze: While a framework may make a few things easier, it always makes at least a few things harder.

I was going to continue to work some more tonight, but instead I think I’ll give my head a break. My muse has some catching up to do.