Post B6HuLPQabZClGoUg1g by gregly@retro.pizza
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 (DIR) Post #B6HuLPQabZClGoUg1g by gregly@retro.pizza
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       I know this seems counterintuitive, but I originally liked computers as a kid because they felt “simple” to me. By the time I was in college they already felt overly complex. By now, they feel like hopeless, impenetrable, tangled disasters.Old machines were limited and clunky and temperamental and slow and often a huge pain in the ass, but I felt like I could understand them. Today there is so much to memorize, so many interconnected systems and services and toolchains and transpilers and webpackers… I don’t know, maybe I’m just getting too old. But even in my 30s, my peers never seemed to have a problem understanding and adapting to these new paradigms, while I struggled. They are managers and directors and VPs now. I am still a senior software engineer, at the denouement of his career.#retrocomputing #adhd #AuDHD #coding
       
 (DIR) Post #B6HuLPgBfZgK3Bn8L2 by jibsaram@68k.social
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       @gregly@retro.pizza hi~!👋we've not met before but I saw your message come by thanks to the hashtag used. This might not be particularly helpful, but:(...) But even in my 30s, my peers never seemed to have a problem understanding and adapting to these new paradigms (...)I'd wager they didn't "understand," though you may very well be right about them having adapted alright. I think you're simply more aware than most of the limitations in understanding most (née all?) of us have when it comes to these increasingly complex tools, hard- and software both.I don't know you, and I don't know if you have any regrets in the career choices you've (not) made, but the way I see it is that being aware of one's lack of understanding of these increasingly incomprehensible tools is an asset, not a limitation.But what do I know. I'm quite possibly younger than you, but am battling with my own questions. A kind of job I loved and treasured for over 20 years is rapidly slipping away from my fingers and, in some ways, the world as we know it.And here I am, left wondering what to do with myself. I have no real practical skills to offer in anything other than this area that seems to rapidly be changing. I'm feeling kind of left behind, as many around me seem to have no problem underst— Well, adapting, anyway.😄