Comments on: An open letter to my future self http://www.unschooled.org/2010/03/an-open-letter-to-my-future-self/ It's been a long week... Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:04:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Amanda http://www.unschooled.org/2010/03/an-open-letter-to-my-future-self/comment-page-1/#comment-4188 Amanda Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:08:20 +0000 http://www.unschooled.org/?p=343#comment-4188 Michael, my own experience with old techies (and others) is that it's perfectly possible for a human being to be quite adaptable in his/her professional life, without that translating into an equal flexibility in their personal lives or political actions. Being good at recognizing a pattern in one context doesn't necessarily mean that you'll be able to spot it in another context, much less act on it. Michael, my own experience with old techies (and others) is that it’s perfectly possible for a human being to be quite adaptable in his/her professional life, without that translating into an equal flexibility in their personal lives or political actions.

Being good at recognizing a pattern in one context doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ll be able to spot it in another context, much less act on it.

]]> By: Michael Glass http://www.unschooled.org/2010/03/an-open-letter-to-my-future-self/comment-page-1/#comment-4186 Michael Glass Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:04:27 +0000 http://www.unschooled.org/?p=343#comment-4186 From my experience with old techies: I'm not so worried about the closed-minded nature of your new self. We work in a field that requires constant rebirth, retooling. I would argue that, for techies, being obstinate means constantly changing. There's surely a, "I want to do this the way I know how to do it," but that's not really resistance to macro-change so much as it is pragmatism. From my experience with old techies: I’m not so worried about the closed-minded nature of your new self. We work in a field that requires constant rebirth, retooling. I would argue that, for techies, being obstinate means constantly changing.

There’s surely a, “I want to do this the way I know how to do it,” but that’s not really resistance to macro-change so much as it is pragmatism.

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