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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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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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