Recently I have started believing that humans are just another part of nature and nothing more. I don’t know whether this idea is part of some greater philosophical tradition. I have not looked into it, but it feels like it should be, i.e. probably somebody else has already thought and written about it.
The good part of thinking like this is that you become content with everything, you don’t worry about stuff not working out because you believe there’s no reason why it should in the first place.
The bad part is that you might affect the people around you.
I think you might be referring to something like Ecocentrism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecocentrism), as opposed to Anthropocentrism which centers around humans.
Yes, I am referring to a nature-centric approach to life and ecocentrism seems to be getting there. However, I don’t agree with the ethical claim in ecocentrism which seems to imply an ecological movement: humans should respect nature and compensate for destroying it.
This very idea gives humans a special role. I believe humans destroying nature is part of nature itself, so motivating ecology using ecocentrism raises a contradiction.
PS: I am not claiming we should destroy nature.
That makes a lot of sense!
But how do you deal with people that expect something different from those levels? That is, 'proficient' might mean 'expert' for some people.
I do a similar thing but just use "proficient" and "familiar", leaves much less room for misinterpretation when there are only two levels imo. Over time I've also trimmed down the list significantly to only languages I would be OK working with and be comfortable doing an interview in. For example, I know C++ to a "familiar" level thanks to school, but I personally dislike it and wouldn't want to it to be part of my work at all, so it's not on my resume.
It's not an exact science, so I'd try to provide an honest self-assessment while ultimately not worrying too much about it. The CV should really be a conversation starter more than anything - you can provide more clarity in the interview.
I enjoyed this a lot! It identified a problem and explored a couple of aspects of the solution. It's really fun to think about designing such a product.
Even though there seem to be some technical roadblocks in the way, I would love to use an app like this!
I actually had a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B laying around for months until I decided to finally do something with it. I guess I was never into hardware that much and I could not think of an interesting software project that I could pick up.
Thanks for sharing this! I find these kind of articles very interesting, as they go really deep into the analysis behind product development.
As for the feature itself, as other people have already mentioned, I think it depends on whether your users are more accustomed to GUIs or CLIs. Personally, I prefer the latter so I'm definitely biased.
We are trying to present GUI users with good arguments for a switch. Our tests with people that are unfamiliar with CLIs showed they were up to speed after a short amount of time.
It's great that you've managed to reach this conclusion!
Yet I assume you still need to earn a living.
Have you considered finding a job where you would do something more similar to what you enjoy doing?
Yes I have been doing things similar to what I enjoy doing for my most of my career. I'd be doing more interesting or riskier things if I had financial independence (or investment with favorable terms) but I think that's true of a lot of people
Yeah that's the dream for me as well. I want the freedom to choose what I build. I don't ever want to stop building. I don't much care for most of what I build to pay the bills.
