In a recent post, I discussed the importance of shopping skills for a career in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. Most STEM projects involve a small amount of stuff specifically built to a particular purpose and a much larger amount of stuff that has to be obtained pretty much like…
I started this morning posting this update to my LinkedIn account: A curious thing about my listing of skills in my profile is that I did use the listed skills productively in my last job and in many cases within just a few days of starting that job, but I had nearly none of those…
This article reminds me that we have for many years promoted the introduction of computer technologies to primary and secondary classrooms with the primary goal of teaching software programming. I object to the notion that the motivation should be to prepare students for jobs as computer programmers. Programming languages take about a week to…
In my days as a low-level manager I occasionally needed to hire new staff. Based on various constraints, I had to choose staff specifically with technical degrees. But my work dealt with historical data. While it is true that there are technical skills required to write software, to understand server capabilities, to understand…
Hypothesis Discovery 