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Sean Larkin

Well Ive always loved working with my hands. So woodworking, gardening, etc. I'm even obsessed with collecting Orchid Species.

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Rachel Tal

That's awesome! Have you ever incorporated this into developing?

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Sean Larkin

I haven't yet. Haha although looking at all the hobbiest orchid, woodworking, etc forms, they all are pretty painful interfaces and experiences. I'm sure it would be a great way for me to chip in to an org like that.

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JasonSooter

It's funny, I grew up as a chicken farmer. Imagine 3 large barn-ish buildings with 35k-50k chickens in them. There are obvious reasons I moved on. I now enjoy getting eggs from our neighbor 3 doors down. Ha!

But I in my first 10 years of working I was a Kitchen/Bath/Home remodeler with cabinet/various woodworking projects thrown in.

The last 5 years I've been in software and web development.

We recently bought a home built in the 1920s and I find there are many correlations between software architecture and well-built home architecture. In a home, you have various systems. Electrical, Plumbing, HVAC, Structural framing, etc. Those all easily translate into a well-built software application. The planning required for both is just so similar.

The similarities become even more hard to distinguish with a poorly built home or software application. The lack of planning for how those systems will work together as a cohesive system becomes really problematic.