A collection of notes that I hope will not sound at all condescending. When I was in college, I felt really abstracted from what I imagined coding as a career to be. It turned out that I was wrong, and all of that stuff was actually really important, but luckily I osmoted enough knowledge or something to drop out like a champ. Anyway, my belief is that environment inherently acts to inform consciousness and experience! Wow, that was out of nowhere! No, it was out of the tenets of phenomenology, and I swear it makes sense here. As a coding person, you are the master of your domain, and every tool you use to make your environment an extension of yourself facilitates workthrough, reduces context switches, etc. And I feel like maybe if I'd been more in touch with that when I was in school, I wouldn't have imagined such a schism separating me from real programmers.
Whoa, that was a bold reference! Did the situation warrant it? No, but we watched