The Musings of a Wanna-Be Radical

 Water exists in various states, the most famous being solid, liquid and gas.  There are many more ( Check it Out ). Can data be said to exist in various states? Data can be at rest (stored), in motion (being transmitted), or being transformed (processed). It can even be in a quasi dual state of at rest and transmitted when it is being displayed. Does shifting the mind to consider the states of data change anything about the way we treat it? Would it shift our approach to the user-community if we thought of data in a different way?

 If this is true, how to we ever hope to help people who are trying to figure out what they're personally interested in doing as a career? When the potential workspace is SO large, where does one start?  How do we make it simple enough to be easily digested, yet informative enough to ensure we are not creating false expectations, or (probably more importantly) scaring students away from the "hard" stuff? What is THE Problem? Students are not aware of the diverse career opportunities that exist in the information technology space. Students who have a limited interest in the “technical” part of I.T. are not aware of the non-technical aspects of the work. Why does this problem exist? There is not a definitive IT advocacy group that has defined all the potential careers in the market There is no "simple answer" to what a career will look like so we have analysis of too many choices Guidance counselors are only able to "guide" on subjects they have informa...

The brain doesn’t stop… The path to a “good” job is like the broad way followed by many unsuspecting souls. In the end it is full of debt (for most)… worse still is the inability to find meaning in the paper and meaningful work in “gender studies”.

So, instead of trying to stay on topic, perhaps my effort would be more rewarding if I just wrote whatever came into my cranium on a given day without regard to the trend of topics or if any previous topic had been exhausted through my musing.  To that end, this blog is not expected to bring much value to anyone, not even to myself perhaps.  Hopefully it will allow me to collect and potentially collate my musing into a body of work that will allow me to see patterns that might not be seen.   In the end, this is a blog about nothing... Which I believe was the theme of a rather successful sitcom at one point.