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Retired #systemsengineering professional and #organizationalchange coach with decades of experience in the #military and #aerospace domains.
WRT #STEM, I'm primarily interested in the #Science and #Engineering of #Systems. My stance towards #Technology is opportunistic (will use whatever works best for the occasion) and I 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 buckets full of punch cards, turned hard towards HPL BASIC on a much smaller HP 9825A "fully algebraic desktop calculator" with a miniature magnetic tape cassette where to store programs, and abruptly ended a few years later after a couple of months of "peeking" and "poking" in ASM on an even smaller ZX81 connected to a BW portable TV.
Even if I was reasonably good at programming the moment I got my first DOS/Windows PC to play with at work 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
For close to 40 years, I've been a globally published #technology journalist, author, editor, #content strategist, and content platform builder. My editorial services firm Ingenus actively provides content creation, cultivation, and management services for information technology companies.
I'm the author of 17 books, some co-authored with my wife, Jennifer - also known as The Inquiring Quilter, one of the nation's most prolific #quilt designers.
Three or four people may still remember me as "DFSCOTT," one of the early sys-ops on the old Delphi network, and the moderator of the Computer Shopper Information Exchange (C*SIX) during the late (in more ways than one) 1980s.
| Humanist | Husband | Father | Fire & Life Safety | Union&Non | Art | InfoTech |
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User of Plag*/Sola before it's end.
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#Nature #Science #Technology #Democracy
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Old nerd !
Enjoy Life! It's limited, you only get as much as you take.
Understanding will come with tears.
Wisdom doesn't come with Youth!
Success is doing G-ds will.
Mercy before Justice.
The value of Life is in its potential to do good.
Mistakes don't define you, they mark your progress.
#BeowulfCluster #HPC #Computers #BreadBaking #Electronics #Electricity #Physics #cybersecurity #Mossad #ShinBet #Unit8200 #NumberTheory #Technology
Ingeniero / Engineer. Based in Spain πͺπΈβ©#Technology #Health #Science #Covid19 #Photography #Architecture #Design #History #News
Astrophysicist turned aerospace engineer hoping society can transform fast enough to save the planet from catastrophic climate change.
Interests include #technology #astrophysics #aerospace #space #climatechange