Talking to my dad

Today, chatting with my dad, I realized that the programming has always been pretty much the same; they’ve just changed the tools and the speed.

That reminds me of Daft Punk’s Infinite Repeating video…

I guess because I recently fell into a video about Daft Punk, about how they evolved. But well, that’s another topic; if I find it, I’ll leave it here.

My father was talking about his course in technology, going between Japanese and Korean companies, where he had to program a certain machine to follow a sequence.

Beyond the process of describing ourselves while we were having dinner, I realized how that part of programming and finding a way to make it work is something that was passed on to me a long time ago. And that the modern software industry, in a way, made it seem like that curiosity after accepting the task of a problem fades away, as if it had erased it from me. But part of it was me choosing in that environment.

I didn’t have to choose anything; when everything seems like a minefield, I had to wait for someone to pull me up or throw a rope or something… but well, let’s not blame 24-year-old Chris for his actions. He experienced the world as he could, even though he had inherited that curiosity to learn how things are done to solve a problem, to navigate under the command that everything seems easy.