problem solving

  • What’s your worldview?

    Who you are determines how you explain the world. I know I’m generalizing, but typically, when faced with a challenge . . . Engineers see problems and processes. Architects see spaces. Teachers see opportunities for learning. Doctors see conditions and ways to treat them. Software developers see algorithms. Soldiers see enemies and allies and weapons….

  • Unfair

    I was a math prodigy. But everything changed when I encountered an unfair problem more like the real world than mathematics. Math had always come easily to me. I majored in math at Penn State, and everyone in the department knew I was a student with special abilities. Math sort of shifts on you. In…