Mark Greer, my brother in law, at my niece Jessie's wedding, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA

This is a photo of my brother-in-law Mark Greer - he gave me insight into experts.

Visiting Mark at his break room across the fenced yard from Greer steel manufacturing plant in Fairbanks, he came in from working covered with dust, and black rings around where the welding torch distributed burnt materials.

 

"What are you doing working on Sunday?" I asked.

 

Now you have to understand that Fairbanks is landlocked in the center of Alaska for his answer.

 

"I'm building a submarine from old pieces of steel," came his response. I laughed out loud.

 

"Yep, I like building things," he said. His company built most of the fuel storage tanks in the state. He listed all the things he and his late father built.

 

"Do you think of steel as a liquid or a solid?" I asked.

 

"Liquid." he said, "It can be any shape and it starts out liquid."

 

It is the difference in thinking between software users and experts who design and make software. Software is like a liquid - it can do anything, it can be any shape, in nearly everything. Software is amazingly flexible. Software can wash your laundry, perform surgery, and make other things.

 

Experts in their crafts, arts, and sciences view what they work with as very flexible, like liquid or space, only limited by imagination.

 

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