Being the most technical person in the room is a cool thing and saying the word algorithm, equally cool.
Knowing a lot about technology is usually a .01% outlier situation and you earn a lot of money if you’re diligent.
What I’m saying is it’s often that people learning technology are outliers themself or will become one in the future. An outlier like someone who may know a lot about technology or expected to know a lot about tech.
Imagine the population VS the amount of people who know web development or could buy a website, host the website, deploy wordpress, and blog.
I have a feeling there’s not even a blip on the bell shape curve having our data.
Speaking of data, I just mentioned some and would feel weird if I didn’t paste the information below in this blog too.
Population 7,917,781,716… compared to most I’m extremely technical and so are you because the amount of users on this website are extremely small.
You have access to a device that connects online, and you figure out how to get here. This makes you rather genius level compared to most people.
As we pass through life in this boolean trajectory of living or dead, we are granted the luxury of options to live many paths. Options they say are leading to less and less satisfaction. I’ve learned the ability to have a choice is always a let down because no matter what you do it will never live up to the expectations when you first assumed it was the right choice. Having a thousand toothpastes to pick from is actually a negative thing for our brains, and having the illusion of choices is another fascinating thing we can get into later. (like big business involvement in politics, and the illusion that we are picking a candidate, thankful bernie sanders woke my eyes to the problem, we will save that for another blog, and try to keep the woke stuff offline for now)
Dead or alive, during one state of this boolean transaction is whether you grasp technology or not.
You can tell your kids to stop playing with the technology and later watch them become a career IT professional because they ignored your dumb wisdom.
I’m not saying screen time is healthy, but what I’m saying is there will come a time that your child can handle screen time and it not destroy everything you’ve worked hard to help them with… like taking a breath, meditating, and communicating without a tantrum. Study shows there’s some specific ages that should be considered before giving a child blue light, screen time, etc. and I’m lucky my wife was able to do this research and help our child escape this paradigm we both faced due to there being not a lot of studies/information to explain the negative side effects of screen time.
Parenting tip… your kid could be a huge introvert and they feel better after gaming.
Your child is trying to gain energy. Introverts recharge when they are alone. Just because they are surrounded by other gamers doesn’t mean they are socializing positive or negative, it just means they are completely alone and have an option to shut everyone up. These floating objects are not just people, they are technology, and they are given features to live in this sea of humans, abstractly alone or in a tiny squad.
If your kid is happier when they game, let them game, and let them learn to communicate with other humans.
Let them escape, let them game, let them get into technology.
One day, your kid will be the smartest person in the building, in a square mile, or in the state. Give them the chance of getting there in a fashion that progresses them positively.
Before I go deep on gaming and advice, let me say…
I feel online gaming, is a joke right now, and all the big companies are streaming your children voices so they can get smarter at making better games and essentially earn more money off your children. They want them on the machine longer, using their apps, devices, etc.
They don’t stream this information to find toxic people, killers, rapists, murders, and rather they just trying to sell the data to marketing firms and shit like that. Go ahead and try to find the team responsible for adopting AI/ML in voice communication technology across Oculus Quest 2 applications to ensure we are finding toxic users. Notice you will find zero roles available.
I know from empirical observations having question people who work at these companies directly. The executives, people who are not executives, and many layers of this political structure I’ve talked to them directly. Gaming is really toxic from end to end. Each of them know there’s a lot of toxicity there too.
Toxicity lives in gaming, and natively easy to walk around.
However kids who can figure out how to escape the toxic people are finding themselves in virtual friendships with technology experts like myself. The world itself is rather toxic when you stop trying to make everything sound pretty, cute and nice. Gaming was an experiment, which is now hardened technology, voice and AI/ML are just now being improvised for these solutions, and it’s becoming a profession over the past decade in every country around the world. Just be aware there’s not a lot of parental control happening.
Also, if your kids stay up at all nights trying to get after this gaming system, be sure they are exercising during the day because staying up until 7am gaming in your closet to avoid getting in trouble is extremely unhealthy and your kids will start to go crazy.
Sure, screens are cool and many devices are fun.
However wait until it’s an appropriate time. Cramming VR in your 4 or 5 year olds face because you’re a lazy fuck who saw it on sell at costco VS getting them something for their imagination that may require you parenting VS 35 year olds like myself parenting your children online while I enjoy some gaming time.
As you crush through life, from age X to Y, we become computer adverse or computer smart. We get computers to work for us or we become the end users of the things that are created for you.
Creating > Consuming
— Silas Reinagel ⚛️ (@SilasReinagel) January 2, 2022
Device usage is an interesting thought. Let’s talk about it.
Being the most technical person in the room isn’t always the best. It means you’re not going to be told you’re wrong very much. People will agree with you because you’re that person. However are you really that person for all things technology?
I am really good on computers, mobile and even figuring out a remote on a TV… Don’t ask me to do that. I’m not sure the UX compared to iphone1 and would rather google it than figure it out. In computer world, I’m good at figuring it out and have done it so much that it’s second nature to debug. A tv remote, buzz off the shit keeps changing.
Same with devices.
What will you use most in 2022?
Comment thoughts ⬇️ 🧵.
— tyler garrett🪜 (@itylergarrett) January 3, 2022
I’m a solution architect, I write kick ass SQL, and I have a degree in database tech. I design and build tableau dashboards. It’s rare people who design also develop in the products they are designing for but that’s just a competitor outlier that I use to be successful with my business compared to competitors. It’s really a business strategy to bring people into the fold that already have a lot of design experience or “obvious willingness to learn better design practices” and clearly has an eye for being a good designer. Design in a dashboard is not just the shade, also you design the solution and architect with your words, wireframes, code, etc. and this is the tip of the spear.
But I’m not a front end developer who just picked up nodejs on a weekend break. No, I studied sql, the end to end need for acid compliant solutions, and the why, why, how for information systems. You can check Tyler Garrett’s Education on his Linkedin account.
The fact that I’ve got this information systems degree often means “i’m somehow responsible for knowing everything in technology” like how to record tv shows…
I can’t record a TV show or figure out where it’s stored, and if my life depended on it, I’d ask the person with the gun if I can google. The UX on recording a show has changed so much and because I never gave a damn when my mom handed me the remote and made the request, I found that not knowing this tech was important to lower the amount of work needed to do something I felt was virtually unnecessary given I’m downloading whatever shows I want via torrents at the time. I swear, I don’t touch this shite now, I don’t need to download a virus, and also I can afford to be more than a pirate.
Maybe it’s me going mental ya? (probably)
Maybe it’s a mental condition you generate as you progress in technology (probably).
Often people assume you know something or probably good at knowing something, and then they go and say a few set of words, or phrases, that generate a need to learn 6months of technology in 6hrs. So much for a short email.
Having an information systems degree means I can figure out anything in technology and understand why a lot of this technology is necessary. I learned to code, networking, front and back, but that doesn’t mean that’s my specialty.
I’m uncomfortable having to tell people that I don’t know something that I use each day, but I do this to set expectations with people who will likely never use the code (recruiters).
For example, I’m working on a client engagement right now, I’m using nodejs, gcp, and other things. There is also SQL inside of the solution. The SQL itself lives on a user friend, easy to adopt, … let me just say google drive. We update sql here, this ensures we don’t break the nodejs. (because of this last sentence, someone skimming my resume may think I only understand gcp, nodejs, and maybe it’s the right amount of keywords to bump me into next interview, wtf.)
I’m using this nodejs each day, but it doesn’t mean I’d take a job that’s responsible for utilizing nodejs. That would not be of any benefit to them. They would assume I’d be a master and I’d have to reset expectations and tell them “I’ve never met a master, however if you’re willing to teach me your environment, I’d like to try and become a master”… Or something along those lines.
So the point I’m trying to make is… sure I’m technical, but I don’t know all of the techs. I am interested in learning more about web development, as I’m eager to take a bigger engineer role in our application https://canopys.io and imo dev3lop.com is in a good place to scale passively. However I don’t want to pretend that I don’t want a kick ass gatsby website. I want to continue to blow this “tableau consulting” world out of the water, and I want to continue to progress my skills in a productive way.
Before last year ended I asked all the top smarties I could get into a zoom, DM, email, and discussed about learning and found one particular bootcamp style + free web development offering by Brian Holt. I’ll be taking this course and reviewing it over the next few days, months, who knows. During that time I’ll also be documenting what I learn and sharing it here.
Have a good day all. Some final thoughts for today.
Knowledge in 2022 is power and the currency is data or your skills to generate alternative currency. Web2 is going fast, appears to be about to burst in most cases, climate change is insanely bad and web3 is funded by web2.
(used pexels for images yo)