PJ @pj@qoto.org
- Listening:
- https://radioparadise.com/listen/channels
Retired #systemsengineering professional and #organizationalchange coach with years of experience in the #military and #aerospace domains.
WRT #STEM, I'm mainly interested in the #Science and #Engineering of #Systems. My stance towards #Technology is opportunistic (will use whatever works best for the occasion) and consider #Mathematics a necessary evil to get things done properly.
My experience with #computing technology starts in the late '70s on a room-sized IBM machine running FORTRAN programs from punch cards, continued with HPL BASIC on an HP 9825A "fully algebraic desktop calculator" and abruptly ended a few years later with "peeking" and "poking" on a ZX81.
Even if I was reasonably good at programming, after I got my first DOS/Windows PC to play with and surf on something called the #Internet, I fell in love with things like #writing, #drawing, and #exploring new ideas, that could now be done much better and faster with this new gadget, so I soon decided that being a #user, doing the #design and #testing while dealing with other #people to define #product and #process #requirements is much more fun than the actual #development of the #software product itself.
I'm very glad I found this Mastodon #community where we can "Question Others to Teach Ourselves". Please feel free to ask questions and argue with anything I say. Be sure I'll be doing the same. Nothing is sacred. There are no stupid questions, just BS answers.
Stay safe and be nice to others.
PJ
- Listening:
- https://radioparadise.com/listen/channels
Retired #systemsengineering professional and #organizationalchange coach with years of experience in the #military and #aerospace domains.
WRT #STEM, I'm mainly interested in the #Science and #Engineering of #Systems. My stance towards #Technology is opportunistic (will use whatever works best for the occasion) and consider #Mathematics a necessary evil to get things done properly.
My experience with #computing technology starts in the late '70s on a room-sized IBM machine running FORTRAN programs from punch cards, continued with HPL BASIC on an HP 9825A "fully algebraic desktop calculator" and abruptly ended a few years later with "peeking" and "poking" on a ZX81.
Even if I was reasonably good at programming, after I got my first DOS/Windows PC to play with and surf on something called the #Internet, I fell in love with things like #writing, #drawing, and #exploring new ideas, that could now be done much better and faster with this new gadget, so I soon decided that being a #user, doing the #design and #testing while dealing with other #people to define #product and #process #requirements is much more fun than the actual #development of the #software product itself.
I'm very glad I found this Mastodon #community where we can "Question Others to Teach Ourselves". Please feel free to ask questions and argue with anything I say. Be sure I'll be doing the same. Nothing is sacred. There are no stupid questions, just BS answers.
Stay safe and be nice to others.
PJ
