Ben from New Mexico @bluefiddleguy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I'm super interested to know how you bring philosophical insights and the kind of combined model awareness and model skepticism that seems to go with an LSE education, and bring it to a tech job. Are you able to decrease reality-resistance? 110
Gizmo Widget @gizmowidget.bsky.social · 03/09/2026My job involves a lot of problem solving, so that kind of logical thinking that philosophy encourages is a useful set of tools. Its definitely more skills and ways of thinking rather than specific knowledge that I now find useful. 140
Ben from New Mexico @bluefiddleguy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I'm sure there's many thousands of these examples that elude your awareness, because it has to do with fundamental habits of thinking, but can you think of an example of a type of problem where you find to an approach with your background that eludes most tech-trained problem solvers? 000
