I’ve loved technology since I was taking apart my parent’s IBM AT as a kid and putting it back together. With my travels in a technology career, I’m happy to be back at an MSP and bringing my unique background with me.
Understanding evolution, the characteristic that has separated homo-sapiens from all other apes and animals is our ability to imagine, communicate and accept stories and concepts without witnessing it with our own two eyes. That’s where my love of science fiction comes from. Imagining a world without discrimination. Without a need for money. Where your own desire to contribute to society can be your “life function” instead of greed (capitalism). There isn’t anything wrong with capitalism, per se. It’s end goal just isn’t to produce a functioning society. To that end, the Daoist belief in the diversity of ideas will ultimately allow the truth of “nature” to be revealed. Chapter 11 of the Dao De Jing says,
“Hollowed out
clay makes a pot.
Where the pot’s
not is where it’s useful.
… So the profit in what is
is in the use of what isn’t.”
I spend my spare time hacking humanity. In the meantime, what technology (clay pot) can I hack together for you?