I work with technology and people to enable solutions
Another way to say it is, tech is one part of solving real problems for the purpose of making a positive real-life impact, getting tangible results, and enabling better experiences.
Technology skills are required but not enough. Technology skills are critical and take constant work to maintain a deep understanding of tools, practices, and theory that never stop changing.
However, it requires wearing other hats. For example, collaborating within team, across disciplines, and across organizational units, and communicating as well as possible, because it can make or break success. It requires willingness to keep big picture goals in mind, and effort to see problems from the viewpoint of others, who may have very different perspectives.
Technology vs. the people who use it
Sometimes a viewpoint can let you know someone better. So I'm sharing one viewpoint on how I view technology as it relates to the people who use it:
Some people say, “I’m not very good with technology”. I believe it’s impossible to not be good with technology.
The responsibility is ours, those in the technology field, to design and build easy, efficient, and satisfying experiences.
People shouldn’t feel inadequate for using technology. Instead it’s our job to evolve and improve. To keep iterating and innovating without end because, like manufacturing efficiency, there is no end to the benefit of doing so.
When this kind of ethos is prioritized from the top, it spreads, becomes strategic, a catalyst for growth and profitability, allows an organizational culture of innovation, and motivates people to want to be part of such organizations.
After a century+ Peter Drucker’s and Henry Selfridge’s visions for productivity and customer satisfaction never ran out of steam. In the age of IP, neither will the advantages of enabling customers to succeed with products and services great results and experiences.
Winning companies never think “we’ve done well enough”. That’s a good thing, because it’s never true.
Words I've found informative
In the same spirit of sharing thoughts, rather than generic facts to know someone, below are a few thoughts I've found interesting.
"I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved, as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it."
"Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error."
"knowledge progresses funeral by funeral. We all have our ideological immune system. We don't progress knowledge-wise, though, unless enough of us are able to override it when we are presented with evidence."
"If it's too complicated to seem simple, it probably isn't."
"Give me five sentences written by the most honest of men and I will find something in them to hang him."
"Morality, compassion, and egalitarianism are imperatives informed by pragmatism, and require no other motivation."
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