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The one thing i know is that the true creatives are busy with creating new things, not with collecting past glory and building rambling, halls of fame to themse
by qikInNdOutReply 3y ago
The one thing i know is that the true creatives are busy with creating new things, not with collecting past glory and building rambling, halls of fame to themselves. Thats for hasbeens and wannabees.
As soon as somebody starts tuning that "I was, i have been, i ve done" harp, im out of the conversation. Most boring people to engage with and thus usually hearded into conversation ghettos, were they can one up one another for all eternity without interfering.
Once you become that sort of silverback, all growth is over and only slow decline awaits, while beating your chest.
- sfmike 3y agoagree but disagree. this could be an indicator, albeit if someone is in an epoch in their life where they feel uninspired or even a bit depressed, even as one of the greatest of all time, they too can have these sorts of one liners. It is partially a good indicator though at least of them being post success and now sort of suffering from their skill induced ego.
- thiscatis 3y ago“Yeah totally Dr. Einstein, cool story and lecture but what new things have you created recently?”
- qikInNdOutReply 3y agoHe valiantly fought against Quantummechanisc to the bitter end? Which was a miss, but way more interesting, because it kept that cheeky oppenheimer and his entanglement from a distance in check. Which is actually quite something, that marks actual legends. Even the defeats and ongoing retreat battles are more interesting then the "I-bring-my-own-pedestal-wherever-i-go" stories.
- rcme 3y agoWas it a miss? I think it’s too early to say.
- gryfft 3y ago"You know what they do with engineers when they turn 40? ... They take them out and shoot them."
- astrange 3y agoEngineers have the strange tendency to turn into cranks (physics, politics, medical… take your pick) once they get old, so maybe it's not a bad idea. Maybe related to why they're overrepresented in cults and terrorist cells.
- SamoyedFurFluff 3y agoI think they turn into cranks much earlier. Part of this is that I think despite engineering not actually functioning that way, engineers can often get away with falling into cult logic (there is one true path) in a way that other disciplines are more resistant to. Look at hackerrank and whiteboarding- wtf is that if not straight cult logic.
- qikInNdOutReply 3y agoWe shall have a brand new world, without middle management, a clean architecture, tabula rasa, begin a new, without self deprecation. >>rm -rf --no-preserve-root / Shall be our battlecry. To drive the heathens, in acceptance of error states, to heaps and set ablaze will be our mission. Creativemode aka god wills it!
- yellowapple 3y agoHell, I was probably born a crank. I think the causal relationship is more likely to be "cranks become engineers" than "engineers become cranks".
- hirundo 3y agoAs an engineer I resent that. The causation is reversed. I got into engineering because of my tendency to, uh, think independently, not the other way around. It just took a while for me to think independently about physics, politics, medical...take your pick, and arrive at independent conclusions.
- blktiger 3y agoReminds me of this Brian Regan bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBJ6yptGqm4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBJ6yptGqm4
- jackcviers3 3y agoGoing to need some citations on this claim. Also, how is a person supposed to market one's experience for a job interview if they don't say what they've done? And the comparison between older engineers and gorillas isn't a great look, either.
- gilbetron 3y ago"true creatives" My experience is that such creatures don't really exist, but there are those that pretend to be the creator class.
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