Cross discipline
I have a lot of cross-discipline abilities. I know a little about a very wide reaching array of subjects. Creating things, fixing things, describing things and documenting things. As long as it can be applied, I am interested. The minute you start talking about theory or your guesses, I start to get lost and bored.
New information has to be actionable for me to respect it.
When I am entertained by anything (a movie, live music, theater) my mind goes to: how do they do that? What I want to learn is how they got from an average person to how they rose to heights so great that they pass my discerning palate. What was that journey? That’s what is interesting to me: how did they do it??
For our honeymoon my wife and I took a 2 week cruise through the islands in the Bahamas. It was beautiful, we saw a lot of interesting and new things. However, my favorite part of the whole trip was when we got to tour ‘behind the scenes’ of the ship.
We went to the control room where Russian engineers were monitoring all the systems of the whole ship. We went to the deck where they showed us how they steered the ship too. We saw the water treatment facility, the recycling center and the morgue. We saw every part of every kitchen, where the staff slept and they let us try every type of food they have. This ship had an ice skating rink, we saw how they maintained that. The whole tour was “here is how we do everything”.
I was in heaven.
Because I have an understanding of how things work you could say I have a lot of experience and reference points to draw from.