Try without experience – I met my long-time friend in Tokyo…
Interesting guy – he is very engineer-type person whilst his focus is ‘evolving’ almost every 3 month period.
After talk about ‘dancing drone’ project (this itself was extremely interesting),
‘The meaning of experience is changing’
It sounded deep by such an established person.
The point he made was like this:
Learning curve for new knowledge is shrinking in timeline. This itself is good thanks to all shared and tailored educational material on-line.
However,
It also means we got to be careful how to use time for experience.
Exploit initial acute curve – learning
Now you made a path for everyone to follow. You still go ahead but naturally progression is tailing off.
So now is time to exploit initial-acute gradient on your learning curve.
Use-ware – not just for archaeology
Modern technology is consists of hardware and software in every sense.
‘Do you know one another factor, use-ware?’
I took a bit time to remember it’s a word from archaeology. Yes, it was kind a joke. But not just a joke…
Recently he sold his old car. He spent sometime to put it back on road and found many issues which doesn’t make sense financially to restore it.
‘It was a detective’s job’
He said. One tiny rusty bit tells how well it was designed (or how badly).
Some are easy to maintenance. The others are Not so easy as if they led customer to expensive route to fix it (I don’t say it’s intensional…may be).
And at the end of this process, what is left in his hand?
Knowledge – all tips and tricks applicable even on our business.
Reach-out – it’s nature of engineering
Engineer expands human ability by science. When we started, mini drone was a toy. And now – you know how well it spreads across all industry.
Your learning curve never tails off as long as you reach out to new application one after another. Use-ware is one of long-survive ‘experience’ you might want to equip.
I dig out old saying to everyone:
Wing it!
Author: Sergio T on the move