We all are not engineers now, are we? Don't get offended engineers, you are not an engineer either statistically speaking. You are just the people who read some books, understood it because "Mathematics" and are doing same thing over and over. So, in general the concept of engineering as in developing solutions is not exactly being covered. For others, I say, you are likely engineering the stuff out of things more than engineers themselves. And don't get too flattered because the things you are engineering are more likely to be used by you than others. In short, the goal of engineering has failed your engineering. So, what are you getting paid for, you ask engineers? You are getting paid for bodging.
For those reading this and don't understand the concept of bodging, I may ask you to google first because in that way you can understand better supposedly. As far as I am concerned, bodging is an act building a bridge of cards. You are sure that it is going to fail and still you kind of don't want it to happen until of course you want it to collapse it by yourself. During the process if you had asked the purpose of building it, you might have saved the effort and frustration that are likely to follow. All of us concentrate on the inevitable satisfaction of destroying it ourselves. That dopamine rush is needed. The same theory is transferable to other kinds of building stuff. Clever people who know that things are capable of lasting a little longer, make it multipurpose. It devalues the product in terms of its original purpose initially but along the run of tinkering, it may be improved. The thing that is immune to changing scenarios are buildings historically. I mean sure, you can build a 500 foot statue of a naked man today and expect it to last forever. The failure you are missing certainly in this scenario is the maintenance of the statue. Since no body is actually using it, it is definitely prone to elements of the nature and one day, it will become an oddly shaped material that people have long forgotten. Don't trust me? How about statue of liberty? You should really look into the maintenance of the statue.
Buildings on the other hand are a utility. Whatever purpose it might be designed to serve, it is a shelter and shelters become homes in right hands. It is not just a mere rock sitting there, it is made of bricks. No, I am talking about the bricks of family, the cement of sentiment and well, the paints of emotions. Lucky buildings see several owners of whom each want a different order of things and while it stays withering, it sees a plethora of its own forms. It's beautiful. Now, who made all that possible? Artisans? No. Engineers? No. Those professionals who decide what's better for you because you couldn't give two thoughts yourself? No. It's that little bodger in you. That little prick knows that you are gonna toss around things and couldn't care less if the book is under the bed or where your last nail clipper went missing. All that one wants is to keep things in order for now, so that you'll break it down and he could have the satisfaction to build it in a different way. How childish of that guy.
This happens every time but you don't realize it. I may give a long list of examples but you wouldn't know it. Every now and then you do that very monotonous work to keep your livelihood running. Unknown to you, you kind of do it differently every time. If you could just notice that little spark in your work, you are golden. This process continues until you stop for a little while. You stop not to enjoy your work but to compare notes with people doing the same thing. You will have this feeling that others are better than you because you failed to notice things apparently and they magically did. You may go about it in three ways. First type are the people who get disappointed and that results in the lesser efficiency in their little bodging and finally give up on the work they were initially impressed with. Second type of people loose their minds complaining about how their design is better, actually invoking the debate that never existed in the first place about who is a better performer. Those two are equally pathetic and all of us contain more than a little traces of those types. Just admit it so that we can move on.
Okay, moving on... The third type of the people, are curious. They want to incorporate the features they want after much filtering about what they really want but couldn't do it. These people are nice. They often start of with an innocence that they could get access to the ideas they never put up in the first place. More often than never, the other people become selfish and attack for no reason. They invoke a concept of security that protects things because the owner wants to protect it. There is no question of breaking laws or being unethical. The owner protects it because he doesn't want to share. He wants to show off and expect people not to know about the details. The third type of people go in two ways about this. One set of people are thieves. They are first of all lazy to figure things out by other sources or convince the owner about why they need it because they think that sitting and discussing is not better than making the owner suffer. The other set are of course hackers. They are made to be sly by the situation they are in.
Hacking is cool if you ask me. Only hackers know the difference between learning and applying. Scientists share notes about what they done and how they did it. It needs verification, testing and if we know any thing about the infamous, Royal Society of Sciences (headed by Newton), it needs politics. Hacking is just a bunch of people hanging around bodging around things, stumbling upon new ideas in a very dynamic cluster and sharing because sharing is nice. It's all happy happy scenario. The name itself is misleading though. The traditional meaning goes as tearing things down and computers made it confusing. No, hacking in my context is defined as aforementioned. Everything else is a human tendency to attack each other to the point of killing. It's pathetic and gruesome.
If engineers by profession or not, I don't care, could actually feel the weight of the things, realize that nothing stays forever and things are the symbols of something that transcends time and space, they could just unlock the spark for happiness. I might be bold when saying that things like relationships or ideas may get lost in the tremors created by lack of proper understanding, but given enough thought, they are hackable. You can learn, unlearn and relearn every single time because of those tremors. You could share advice on different aspects of life, try and fail on different things and pass it down to the next guy in line. After all, life is too short to play all by yourself. So try to bodge and hack the stuff out of your life.
Until next time
Horopter
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