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This hits pretty close to home. Some of the best conversations in my life have been with humanities grad students who are smart and still deeply interested in t
by porknubbins 5y ago
This hits pretty close to home. Some of the best conversations in my life have been with humanities grad students who are smart and still deeply interested in their subject, but I lost touch with those kind of people. It seems harder to converse about engineering topics though working together on problems kind of hits the same spot.
- tibbar 5y agoThis is funny. Yes, some engineers (and I’m an engineer, so it’s fair game) seem only comfortable talking about engineering. You can try to go outside the zone but things only pick up when you get back to DevOps. My best friend is a studio artist (but his parents were engineers).
- therealdrag0 5y agoI think the problem is mental diet. Even though many engineers have a history of interest in humanities, our mental diet doesn’t situate us for regular conversations about it. Or not being in a class together, we’re not all thinking about the same things. We might read the same books but with months or years between so hard to talk about.