My technological evolution in 2 days

Once at my workplace we were rewarded with a free paper-based calendar (what a well-deserved bonus). To my own surprise, I refused the gift. I am modernizing myself. The next day with colossal excitement and a bunch of questions, I was visiting an electronic, “Beep and Gadgets”, exhibition. To my own unexpected astonishment, I felt geeky, but cool! What a progress!

 I started to really understand that knowledge of high tech and the skills to take advantage of it, is an important a factor to succeed in your career. For example, other departments, like finance, design, you name it, are more dependent of abilities within IT. Therefore, following the technological development with the right speed is critical for your own career development and for boosting your intelligence. It definitely gives more value to your skills when you are really good and fast with high tech. Therefore, I decided that it would be advantageous for me to be swift with beeps and gadgets.

Beeps and gadgets are not only nuts and bolts, gaming, fast social updating, virtual dating, but it’s a whole world of opportunities in your pocket. If you are really fast with following high tech progress, there are opportunities to explore, and not only for men (who were the majority on the exhibition), but also for women.

"Thinking, fast and slow"

My class mates used to tell me that the reason I got high grades in oral exams was because of my confident argumentation. I used to believe it was true. However, it was schooling, it was easy to make assumptions, to prove a theory, or apply a specific formula, and consequently, sound certain.

However, recently I have noticed that unfortunately, in some situations I was misguided by my own perceptions of reality, my own argumentations, or even my own knowledge on a particular subject. Especially now, after being employed for one of the biggest Danish companies, I have completely changed my perception of certainty, after having experienced “real-world” uncertainty.  Because of business complexity, my own intuitive and not-intuitive perceptions can be misguiding. Not that my understanding or solution to a given problem are wrong, but as the world becomes more complex and information more limited, my own decisions become more biased, and arguments less powerful.