Recent related experience: About a month ago a friend asked for help with his arduino project. He was having difficulty figuring out obstacle navigation. Getti

Recent related experience: About a month ago a friend asked for help with his arduino project. He was having difficulty figuring out obstacle navigation. Getting the compass to work combined with the math strategy had him puzzled. My suggestion, based on my experience as pilot, removed the compass and the math calculations. We both had a great time working with the implications of this new approach. Offering a fresh perspective from a different domain was very valuable. Reducing the complexity of the solution to his problem made sense to me, felt good, and delivered an easier to maintain "product". My friend is about 70 yo and has been developing software professionally since his early 20's. His resume is filled with pretty cool projects with notable peers in tech over those 5-ish decades. There was something very affirming about being able to help such an accomplished engineer in this manner. I learned a lot in that hour.