I view scientists as being at the top of the production chain for humanity. The group of scientists who have made real breakthroughs and contributions probably added more to human society, I think, than any single other class of human beings. Not to take away anything from art or politics or engineering or business, but without science, we’d still be scrambling in the dirt fighting with sticks and trying to start fires.
~ The Almanack of Naval Ravikant.
I view scientists and engineers as the most awesome people in the world. Just look around you, everything you see, everything you can experience, every previllege you have, all is thanks to countless scientists and engineers who strived to make theirs and your lives better.
One particular group that I found especially interesting is developers. The computer scientists. They’re crazy folks.
I think the widespread availiblity of the home computer has in turn led it to be the most worked upon or researched field. We have people building apps like swiggy, to people building operating systems like linux, to quantum computing, to cryptogrpahy, to much simpler stuff, like the script that someone built so that I can easily publish this blog peice.
It’s just one button press for me, and this script was built profit free, by someone else who needed it.
This feels like god. Since, using computers, you can create pretty much anything digital that you imagine.
Tomorrow in the metaverse, we’ll be able to take this to the next level, we’ll be actually able to create a reality from our imagination. Isn’t that crazy!
For all the engineers and developers out there who love what they do!
I love you, and I thank you for all your invalueable contributions.
It is because you crazy folks, that tinkerers, hackers and inventors like myself are able to do and enjoy what we do. We stand and build on the strong foundations that you’ve made.
Thank you. ~Naman