servers, sewers, alienation | maya.land
epistemic status: drafty as hell lol| maya.land
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Posted on | Hillel Wayne
This is part three of the crossover project. Part one is here and part two is here. I met William at Deconstruct 2019.1 We were walking back from the pre-party—too loud for my comfort level—and I took the chance to interview him. He knew about my project and wanted to share his memories of mechanical engineering. “Most of my skills transferred seamlessly. There’s one book, Sketching User Experiences, that’s aimed at software engineers.| Hillel Wayne
This is part two of the crossover project. Part one is here and part three is here. No one thinks about moving the starting or ending point of the bridge midway through construction. -Justin Cave I had to move a bridge. -Anonymous1 Carl worked as a mechanical verification engineer: he tested oil rigs to see how much they vibrated. Humans work and live on oil rigs for long stretches of time, and if they vibrate too much it can be impossible to sleep.| Hillel Wayne
NOTE: This post has the #programming tag, but is intended to be comprehensible by everyone, programmer or not. In fact, I hope some non-programmers read it, as my goal with this post is to explain some of what it means to be a programmer to non-programmers. Therefore, it is also tagged with “nontechnical”. What is the most important skill for a software engineer? It’s definitely not any particular programming language; they come and go, and a good programmer can pick them up as they work.| The Coded Message
Soft skills are hard, and everybody's career path different. Some skill sets tend to intersect, however. Here's my simplified breakdown using, what else, Venn diagrams.| www.netmeister.org
