I am not sure if this is the right question. I think there is a correlation between the type of person we are and the coding stuff. I think coding is not the reason we see things in the real world different then others. I think coding is just something we like because we see the world a little bit different. But maybe i am wrong.
Because you asked:
Since i am coding, my life changed a lot. There are so many points i could tell.
At first i changed my lifestyle to become a Vegan. I really would say this is because of the way i think to solve problems.
Then there is the Snowden thing... especially as coders we know how stuff works and what possibly go wrong... we see how social media effects the people and we see that the people become the products.
In fact i don't feel connected to non coders. And on family party's i cant find a good connection to the others... It is hard for me to accept but i think they live in a different world than me. And like i don't understand them, they don't understand me - but that's okay
I agree, it's about cause and effect ... programming tends to attract a certain kind of personality (nerdy? geeky? rational? analytic? you name it) who tend to have a certain kind of world view, not the other way around (in terms of cause and effect).
So I think (although I have no proof for it) that it's already baked into the person, so mainly a personality trait rather than an outgrowth of our profession.
On the other hand I don't strongly relate to what you say about not feeling connected to non-coders ... for me the sense of 'community' or "these are my kind of people" is very, very limited - I just do my own thing and don't give much thought about others who happen to do more or less the same thing.
However I do feel affinity to people with a science or technology background, folks who love facts and analysis - I think that definitely colors my world view, a good example being my view on the current COVID-19 pandemic.
(but on the other hand over the years I've become more sceptical that any problem mankind copes with can be solved with science or technology - inevitably it's also about political and societal choices that we make - but I do think that those choices need to be based in rational analysis)
I am not sure if this is the right question. I think there is a correlation between the type of person we are and the coding stuff. I think coding is not the reason we see things in the real world different then others. I think coding is just something we like because we see the world a little bit different. But maybe i am wrong.
Because you asked:
Since i am coding, my life changed a lot. There are so many points i could tell.
At first i changed my lifestyle to become a Vegan. I really would say this is because of the way i think to solve problems.
Then there is the Snowden thing... especially as coders we know how stuff works and what possibly go wrong... we see how social media effects the people and we see that the people become the products.
In fact i don't feel connected to non coders. And on family party's i cant find a good connection to the others... It is hard for me to accept but i think they live in a different world than me. And like i don't understand them, they don't understand me - but that's okay
I agree, it's about cause and effect ... programming tends to attract a certain kind of personality (nerdy? geeky? rational? analytic? you name it) who tend to have a certain kind of world view, not the other way around (in terms of cause and effect).
So I think (although I have no proof for it) that it's already baked into the person, so mainly a personality trait rather than an outgrowth of our profession.
On the other hand I don't strongly relate to what you say about not feeling connected to non-coders ... for me the sense of 'community' or "these are my kind of people" is very, very limited - I just do my own thing and don't give much thought about others who happen to do more or less the same thing.
However I do feel affinity to people with a science or technology background, folks who love facts and analysis - I think that definitely colors my world view, a good example being my view on the current COVID-19 pandemic.
(but on the other hand over the years I've become more sceptical that any problem mankind copes with can be solved with science or technology - inevitably it's also about political and societal choices that we make - but I do think that those choices need to be based in rational analysis)
This is the best way to explain what i wanted to say!:D Totally agree!:)