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Thoughts on the software industry | linus.coffee

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Someone asked me via email about my thoughts on the software engineering field, and what I would tell someone new to the industry. (Relatively speaking, I’m also pretty new to the industry! But it’s 5AM, and I ended up going on a long semi-rant. I thought the rant might be interesting to some other people too, so here’s the rant.) If you look one way, mathematics is just a box of tools. Abstractions you can pull out to solve specific problems when we are faced with them. The field of mathematics grows by mining the space of yet-unknown facts to accumulate more and more powerful tools in this toolbox. But if you look another way, mathematics gives its practitioners access to a particular kind of worldview. It has its own vocabulary, its own taste of beauty and elegance. A world examined through the lens of combinatorics or statistics or graph theory yields qualitatively different understandings of the world. None are better or worse. Just defined from different abstractions. I think sof

Someone asked me via email about my thoughts on the software engineering field, and what I would tell someone new to the industry. (Relatively speaking, I'm also pretty new to the industry! But it's 5AM, and I ended up going on a long semi-rant. I thought the rant might be interesting to some other people too, so here's the rant.) Interpretations of reality If you look one way, mathematics is just a box of tools. Abstractions you can pull out to solve specific problems when we are faced with them. The field of mathematics grows by mining the space of yet-unknown facts to accumulate more and mo

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