Description: A sandbox for business insights, programming, and data.
A sandbox for business insights, programming, and data.
I, along with nerds across the country, embraced this decades’s appreciation society gives to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). However, after years of hyperbole, we learned the wrong lesson. We treated STEM as an end unto itself, instead of tool it has become a goal. We have confused the means (education) with the ends (jobs). Math does not create jobs. Projects do. Do students at any level of education receive instructions in running a project, organizing a group, creating requiremen
In a different generation, many of my coworkers with aerospace or chemical engineering degrees would be building planes and designing chemicals. True, my colleagues and I are still ‘technical’ in the abstract sense. But the value we add to our company and for our clients every day is often very functional. Minimizing risk, documenting changes, aligning efforts, these things can be done as well by a Philosopher as by a Nuclear Engineer.