RE: We're Number 13! We're Number 13!

Subject: RE: We're Number 13! We're Number 13!
From: "Pinkham, Jim" <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com>
To: <john -at- garisons -dot- com>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 07:48:17 -0600

And perhaps it's not fully relevant, but I'm suddenly reminded of Søren Kierkegaard's famous comment to his parents, "I am a fork, and I will stick you!" Not that WE would ever be guilty of, um, prodding anyone.... :)

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From: techwr-l-bounces+jim -dot- pinkham=voith -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+jim -dot- pinkham=voith -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf Of john -at- garisons -dot- com
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Subject: RE: We're Number 13! We're Number 13!

I've always claimed that my double major in Philosophy was the perfect training for becoming a software tech writer.

Software systems don't really exist ... sure, everyone SAYS they're zeroes and ones on a whirling magnetic disc, but has anyone ever SEEN it?
Philosophers are well trained in the ability to hold complex, self-conflicting systems of non-corporeal concepts in our minds. After all, once you can assimilate Kant's theories on Phenomenology, what challenge is there in doing the same thing for an operating system?

My 2¢,

John Garison



Sarah Stegall opined:
> Wait a minute. PHILOSOPHERS make more money than tech writers? In what
universe? I was a Philosophy major! My professors persuaded me to change my major because "you can't make a living as a philosopher".




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