Alice Goldfuss: Foot Candles in tech 📹
Thursday, May 10, 2018 :: Tagged under: culture engineering. ⏰ 1 minutes.
The song for this post is Blue Bossa (Live), as performed by the Ray Brown Trio.
The blog has slowed down a bit while working on [my Deconstruct talk,][] but while
you're here, Alice Goldfuss wrote a must-read post on different paths to tech,
and where/how to learn different things along the way:
While knowing about foot-candles added some foundational understanding to my
film degree, it wasn’t required to make films and the lack of it didn’t prevent
you from becoming a photographer in your own right.
Foot-candles are specialized knowledge used by cinematographers and lighting
experts. If you want to go into those or similar fields, awesome, you should
know about foot-candles. But you didn’t need to know them to get as far as you
did.
[...]
Being a self-guided programmer means I go through the same mental cycle again
and again. I’m always comparing myself to traditional CS grads. I’m always
worried I’m missing something. I’m always worried I’m not enough.
This isn’t helped by some (not all) CS grads holding holier-than-thou
attitudes regarding programmers from non-traditional backgrounds. Nothing like
having your abilities questioned both internally and all across the entire span
of your industry.
Really, read the whole thing, it won't take that long. It hits a few of the
notes I hit on my piece about Engineer Showboating and gatekeeping. It also
hits on a lot of why tech interviewing is such a weird, hard problem to get
consensus on.
Thanks for the read! Disagreed? Violent agreement!? Feel free to drop me a line at , or leave a comment below! I'd love to hear from you 😄
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://morepablo.com/2018/05/alice-goldfuss-foot-candles-in-tech.html