I'm actually 40.Well not really, but I would prefer to see having an open mind that's constantly passionate about learning new things and changing any existing understandings as a result as more of a strength than have great levels of experience. I've discarded so many elements of experience that no longer apply in the world that I'm a much bigger fan of the reasons behind things than things themselves.
When you stop learning, you might as well die. That's my philosophy. I can't understand people who go to schools and somehow after they are graduated they can just work and be. Maybe take some occasional training if the employer pays for it. I mean what the fuck, that's below animal level. Even animals are learning constantly new things about their surroundings and evolving in some ways. Not to mention animals are always curious about new things. People just seem to be awfully happy being machines. That's what really worries me. If that doesn't change and people just keep multiplying we will soon feel the fact that only thing that stays in the earth is evolution and we are no longer going to be part of it. If there's one war we will lose without any doubt, it's humans versus earth.
So after that off-topic, my point is that if you keep using your brain in ways that constantly challenges status quo, I believe you can do anything. It's just a neural network, learn how it works and operate it. It's as simple as that. All creative people are using their brains a lot differently than normal people. It's because they can access it differently. Some have ability to do it naturally, some use alcohol and drugs to initialize the connection. Nevertheless, it's the same brain we all have and it's a damn fucking shame that our education system is mastered the art of erasing any skills that are required to make that connection. That's why almost all truly revolutionary people are not the ones who went to schools. In my opinion it's a bad deal to trade imagination to fact knowledge. There's probably nothing in this world that I value more than my imagination and creativity. It makes it possible for me to have no job, do what I want which is create and soon start a project where I will give all I've got to make sure it succeeds because when it does, it will change the way we see internet and that's something I want to do in my short time here.
Me too. I just happened to have this wicked smart older brother who taught me how to program in the 5'th grade. Being a sad, speechless introvert until I was about 15 didn't hurt my IT life either. Then working full time computer related jobs at 16 and onward pretty much made me the turbo geek that I am today.
That's what your generation is.. turbo geeks and that's what made today possible. The funny thing is that in order to change the world and get computer to every home, you had to be a turbo geek to have the passion to take it beyond conventional limits. I'm little bit worried that it's not existing anymore because people don't see that we are in the beginning anymore when it couldn't be further from the truth. People actually see computers as something final when in reality it's just a prototype, a demo of how you can put electric charge in sand. Computers themselves are pointless and useless pieces of constant pain. What we are after is the output that comes from that machine but nobody wants the damn machine. It's been proven in studies that when people use current operating systems, same "brain parts" are being stimulated that have action when you are in physical pain. So my belief is that the first change people get to throw computers out and still get the same benefits, it's gonna happen fast. But this is what happens what today's society drives for... dulling happiness and sense of achievement about one's idleness. Not good in the long run, not good.
And regardless of how I may sound, I'm an agile head these days and no longer a waterfall player. Empirical systems rule and the individual is the most important unit of society, not the rulers.
Well, you'll get your change to prove yourself to yourself soon. Only worthless waste of skin denies that speech/writing is free and the real value of man is measured in actions.
