Saturday, March 24, 2018

SelfConcept - The first realization

You::The World :
Perhaps the most difficult concept to comprehend is the realization of who we are. Most of what we are is a compilation of finite number of information yet we have difficulty to start the evaluation of due to the complexity and overwhelming fact of what it is actually that makes us: infinite source of information that overloads the ability to start the journey of discovery.


In most cultures you are identified and that itself is the interpretation of ourselves. Ultimately that is the self concept we expect and therefore define yourself as [who]. This is really difficult stuff after-all; otherwise we wouldn't discuss it.

Take a moment to think of yourself in any cafe you can imagine around where or what is familiar to you. Now imagine there is another person standing and looking-in with a full view of the inside the cafe. If that person is you standing outside with one of the complete strangers inside the cafe, what do you think is each stranger is about?


Next:
Win or/and lose and mental[itys]
   *overriding the itys
Never discussed: Looking beyond our lifetime
Culture Driven by: [thinking process][written process]

Saturday, March 3, 2018

The Becoming of a Technocrat

In the most southern tip of Ethiopia [ኢትዮጵያ ] I began to see change in my environment when construction began to create a pipeline to pump fresh water from the mineral rich local river of Tegona [ትጎና ]. It's on this river where my very young friends and I fished and played. It was a shocking change to see the machinery of  construction and how the earth suddenly become so vulnerable to the combined efforts of man and machine. It was this time in my life where I began to realize the capability of engineering.

Until the age of Middle-School, I begin to play with toys and household items where I found it to be rewarding to brake-fix hardware. From toy's to cassette players. This fundamental skill aided my efforts to fix computers for the Ethiopian community within Portland, OR.

By the end of my high-school years, I realized my passion was focused more on software. I learned to code in script and c/c++ by the end of my high-school year. My Senior Project exemplifies my talent capacity: Screen Saver that displayed a shift-change of shapes. 

Senior year of college at Oregon State University, I developed my first product: A word processor focused on my native language of Amharic [አማረኛ ]. It was a very successful product; at the time the Microsoft did NOT support the language and there was greater demand than for communicating in Amharic especially for diaspora's who had access to technology but have not yet mastered English.