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> During a short stint compiling manufacturing statistics for the US Census Office, Herman Hollerith grew frustrated with the organization’s manual process of c
by forinti 2mo ago
> During a short stint compiling manufacturing statistics for the US Census Office, Herman Hollerith grew frustrated with the organization’s manual process of counting questionnaires.
Go out to the world and do something, however boring it may seem. You've got more chances of having a bright ideia than if you stay home just thinking.
- Bluestein 2mo agoIndeed. I am fascinated by the fact, also, that Hollerith was a mining engineer. Used to thinking in a constructive, technical fashion in one complex domain, and transfered skills to a new, nascent, one.-
- mohamedkoubaa 2mo agoPeople didn't use to use the phrase "inter-disciplinary" until late in the 20th century because before that there was no taboo against applying skills in one domain in another