absolutely, I believe this. I have never been able to "write"--at least a first draft-- any other way than by hand.
our handwriting is unique to us as our fingerprints. it makes sense that the brain & the hand are closely coordinated. handwriting can vary & be loose & formative--not fixed like print; it embodies plasticity, change. even an unintelligent scrawl has meaning.
print is uniform, impersonal. as Samuel Beckett said: "It all came together between the hand and the page."
There is this side of software engineering that many people rarely talk about - consultancy software.
Not every developer is building the next TikTok or AI startup. Some are building and customizing systems businesses already depend on every day.
Software like:
SAP
Oracle NetSuite
Microsoft Dynamics 365
Odoo
Salesforce
Zoho CRM
QuickBooks
Sage
Tally ERP
Workday
BambooHR
Moodle
OpenMRS
ERPNext
Shopify
WooCommerce
Magento
HubSpot
ServiceNow
Jira
Freshdesk
Power BI
Tableau
SharePoint
A huge part of software engineering is consultancy - implementing, integrating, customizing, automating, training users, building APIs around these systems, and maintaining them for organizations.
You can actually learn these platforms and build an entire career around them.
Most people only focus on startups and flashy apps, yet consultancy software powers companies, banks, hospitals, schools, NGOs, and governments every single day.
๐จ๐๏ธ Robin van Persie on Bruno Fernandes chances not been converted:
๐ฃ๏ธ โBruno Fernandes has created 132 chances in the Premier League this season, yet only has 20 assists to show for it?
In fact, he's created 670 chances in the Premier League alone since he joined Manchester United. Now imagine if 40% of those chances were all converted.
Our forwards seriously need to step up next season, because you just have to imagine what these guys have done to Bruno.
If our frontline possessed even an ounce of elite, cold-blooded composure, Bruno would be sitting on a completely untouchable assist tally right now.
Instead, he has to practically double his workload just to drag us over the line, casually creating 58 more chances than any other player in the league this season just to equal the 20-assist record.
Our boys have to do much better next season. We cannot keep wasting the peak years of the most creative playmaker the Premier League has ever seen.โ