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Subject:RE: We're Number 13! We're Number 13! From:Marguerite Krupp <mkrupp128 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>, john -at- garisons -dot- com Date:Thu, 7 Jan 2010 06:12:14 -0800 (PST)
Continuing my previous message:
,,,often made great tech writers. The common thread is that all are able to express abstractions in terms that ordinary people can understand or relate to.
Marguerite
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From: john -at- garisons -dot- com <john -at- garisons -dot- com>
Subject: RE: We're Number 13! We're Number 13!
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thursday, January 7, 2010, 8:29 AM
I've always claimed that my double major in Philosophy was the perfect
training for becoming a software tech writer.
Software systems don't really exist ... sure, everyone SAYS they're zeroes
and ones on a whirling magnetic disc, but has anyone ever SEEN it?
Philosophers are well trained in the ability to hold complex,
self-conflicting systems of non-corporeal concepts in our minds. After
all, once you can assimilate Kant's theories on Phenomenology, what
challenge is there in doing the same thing for an operating system?
My 2¢,
John Garison
Sarah Stegall opined:
> Wait a minute. PHILOSOPHERS make more money than tech writers? In what
universe? I was a Philosophy major! My professors persuaded me to change
my major because "you can't make a living as a philosopher".
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