Someone asked me via email about my thoughts on the software engineering field, and what I would tell someone new to the industry. (Relatively speaking, I’m also pretty new to the industry! But it’s 5AM, and I ended up going on a long semi-rant. I thought the rant might be interesting to some other people too, so here’s the rant.) Interpretations of reality If you look one way, mathematics is just a box of tools. Abstractions you can pull out to solve specific problems when we are faced with the...