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Hello everyone welcome to another DailyJim and I am stretching it when I call it a friday june 17th it's about a little couple hours after it officially ended. But today I want to talk about, I don't know, just heads down, focused on coding and forgetting that there's other stuff going on in the world. Oh man. It's uh I don't know for people who don't know how to code. There's there's a certain appeal to it. So I don't know if how many people are listening familiar, but when I started at college or university, if you want to call it that I was in the electrical and Computer engineering program, I did very well in terms of getting successful grades and high grades. I also worked so hard to get those good grades and and I'm not having much of a social life during especially this, my third semester. I wanted to study abroad in my fourth semester. And so I worked really hard. I took two classes together. They were both, I think it was easy, 2 10 and 2 90 And all the advisors and upperclassmen said do not take those two together. It's the equivalent of a 500 level class and there was so much work and I got good grades, but I did nothing. But then I studied abroad in Costa rica for four months after. So yeah, so as I sit here and I code and code and code and code. I find it somewhat funny ironic that uh I I quit electrical and Computer engineering. I switched International studies. I focused on intercultural communication. I tell people I switched from human from computer language to human language. And now I am back using computer language to try to help people with human language. As I tried to build this website to basically get payment system. So it's easier for people to pay me for me to receive it. But also more importantly, it's easier for people to use the website, log in, get access to different audios, even connect over to a forum where people can talk. Communicate with me as well. Oh uh.
Yeah, I think it's actually one of the biggest challenges that I've seen is going from a mode where I'm communicating very strictly with a computer, telling it what to do, giving commands if this do that, if this then do that, um, do this while, you know, make this, it's a loop. It's like while you're in this certain condition just do this over and over again. Oh, trying to find functions and commands and all these things and to pull back and communicate with others. Humans can just be a different modality.
I think this happens a lot in life, not just computer programmers, but there are certain industries where it's a lot more command or imperative language. So like in the military or even in, I imagine film directing in some ways like telling people what to do. Um, in maybe in a hospital, in many, maybe logistics, in a lot of places that tend to.
Be focused on trying to become more efficient, especially with regards to time. I think a lot of times do this do that language imperative, the imperative tense, I believe it is tense.
There's a better phrase for it. There's a Dick Lantian in latin that I don't know what it's really called, but.
That form of verb telling somebody to do something can be very helpful in certain cultures in certain contexts and others can be really, complex and cause a lot of unnecessary trouble.
Just one story on that. I remember talking to a guy who was a military vet. I asked him what the communication style of the military was. He says, somebody who outranks you, tells you what to do and there's always somebody who outranks you. That was interesting. I thought, wow, must be hard to come home and tell your five year old kid what to do. And then they go, no, what do you mean? No, you can't say no. Why? Why? Why? I don't know, Because they took the person above me told me you had to do it. I don't know. So yeah, just kind of reflecting on that and.
Yeah, I think that's good enough for friday night. I'm going to go to bed and I hope you all have a great weekend and talk to you on the other side.
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