The story
I research, code, and teach.
I exercise, cook, and hike.
I make, break, and fix.
I like road trips, timeless.
I like poems more than novels.
I like to plant, carpenter, and sew.
I like things that go fast, very fast.
I like highly functional but minimal objects.
I graduated a while ago, but never left the school.
This journey started from an engineering school. I learnt how machines work, how components of a system work. Toward the end of the program I took some business courses. That changed my mind. I went all-in and got into the business school. I faced a more fundamental question; how systems work. Luckily, I got accepted to a Ph.D. program, following a couple of other masters, trying to find out how social systems work.
Engineering teaches us how things work. We need to measure. We learn the universe talks in math. The challenge is, a system is beyond how its components operate, individually. And, it’s hard, if not impossible, to come up with measurements for social systems. To figure out how complex systems work, we need engineering and social science, statistics and data models.
Maybe the easiest social systems to study are the monetary structures; there is at least one conveniently quantifiable parameter.
And some lessons …
