Recently, I was talking with my parents about some people from my early child-hood and where they were now. My mom told me that someone was a Data Scientist and said isn’t that really impressive. When I heard that my first instinct was no that’s not impressive? But I had to stop myself because I heard how that sounded and thought I was being a dick.
What I realized is how I view things as impressive or not. The reason I didn’t think being a Data Scientist was impressive was because I could visualize the steps and work it takes to get there along with visualizing a lot of the job. I’ve been working with many data scientists for a large part of my career and had to do a lot of data scientist adjacent work at several roles. The work is respectable and interesting. I know it takes hard work and I can give kudos for that, but “impressive” wasn’t the word that came to mind.
This is sorta similar to what I talekd about in A New Age of Magic. I find things that I can’t understand that are far beyond my comprehension. Just like a regular magician, once I know the trick it stops being interesting. If you are a creative working on researching and discovering new things I’d recommend you read Frieren, there were ideas in there that I felt I related too a little too hard.
This is a bit of a rant to verbalize a thought process I found myself having without thinking. If you are working on something well known that takes hard work I can find that respectable, but impressive is something I reserve for the truly Alien ideas.