Experiences of the first week in a new job in a new city..
Day 1:
I set up my laptop and struggle with mac trying to understand why the control key doesnt work!!
Look at the empty inbox in outlook and wonder how long its going to stay that way.
I lose my way back home and miss exits twice and finally manage to get home after spending half hour driving in circles.
Day 2:
Set up the dev environment and try to remember how to run MySQL.
I see broken glass at different spots everyday on the drive-way to the ofc. Scares me!!
I manage to find some local radio stations that are equivalent to 90.3 and 92.9 after fumbling through some spanish stations.
I hate to admit, but I miss the delila talk show.
Day 3:
Finally start looking at yet another in-house built framework and realize I can never escape frameworks :)
Spend 40 minutes in horrendous traffic to reach home which is 7 miles away.
Day 4: Attend training session for a ER system here. You can never escape working on tickets either!!
On way back home, the car immediately behind me gets rear-ended and I am just saved by an inch. Need to change to a better auto-insurance.
Day 5: Attended the first team meeting and then nothing much interesting. Becoming an expert in dealing with bumper-to-bumper traffic.
Friday, February 01, 2008
Distribution of Knowledge
How many times did you say "I don't know" today?
If you have a computer at hand, I guess hardly any.
Because all you need to do is "google it" and hundreds of web-sites pop up talking about it and there you are omniscient, the "know-all" :-)
I can see both good and bad in this. Previously (some 10 years back) it would be hard to find out about something you have never heard of before. Some of the ways you would know about it would be talking to friends, parents, relatives etc,. And then at School or College if they are academic topics. This not only increased your knowledge but since you gained the knowledge by interacting with people, you have also gained some social skills, made new friendships and actually had fun discussing the subject.
Reading from a computer screen is monotonous and a one-way road. You are not interacting with anyone unless it is a discussion forum.
Going through this, I understand why we are increasingly lacking in our social skills and why we think we can survive without friendships or relations. But you will end up feeling alone. Though Google can find any information you need, it cannot talk to you like a friend or give you a personal view point.
How many times did you say "I don't know" today?
If you have a computer at hand, I guess hardly any.
Because all you need to do is "google it" and hundreds of web-sites pop up talking about it and there you are omniscient, the "know-all" :-)
I can see both good and bad in this. Previously (some 10 years back) it would be hard to find out about something you have never heard of before. Some of the ways you would know about it would be talking to friends, parents, relatives etc,. And then at School or College if they are academic topics. This not only increased your knowledge but since you gained the knowledge by interacting with people, you have also gained some social skills, made new friendships and actually had fun discussing the subject.
Reading from a computer screen is monotonous and a one-way road. You are not interacting with anyone unless it is a discussion forum.
Going through this, I understand why we are increasingly lacking in our social skills and why we think we can survive without friendships or relations. But you will end up feeling alone. Though Google can find any information you need, it cannot talk to you like a friend or give you a personal view point.
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