A Friday Thought
Engineering and things
It’s Friday, and I have a little bit of time to put some thoughts on paper. These thoughts aren’t really all that organized, so forgive how disjointed and rough they are, but I wanted to put them down on paper anyway. Take them for what they are. Hopefully they at least resonate a bit.
Learning From Others
At the beginning of my engineering career, I had this very common experience:
I needed to look something up or find out how to do something, so I would turn to Google and type in my search query. Then, I would scan the search results and click on the first article available. Usually, the first article was either from Stack Overflow or from GeeksforGeeks. When I opened the GeeksforGeeks link, it usually took literally forever to load or just wouldn’t load at all. Eventually, I just stopped going to GeeksforGeeks (I have no idea if their site’s improved since). When I’d go to Stack Overflow, usually the question that was asked was kinda sorta like my problem, but not exactly. Usually, the answers below were also kinda sorta relevant but not exactly.
So, eventually, I’d try some other article out there from some other popular forum site or click-bait style website, written by some random person on the internet. Usually, their article was a mishmash of words and…
