As a student at an engineering school the direct line to solving human needs intrigued me. Reading books like Florman’s “The Introspective Engineer” set me on a path of solving societies problems, not my own
Molly E. Holzschlag @mholzschlag
7 Apr 2021
Why did you choose/end up in #webdev #UX #a11y etc. It wasn't any profession much less in existence until I was 30 and for a year it was Lynx on a terminal. Design and complex stack dev just did not exist. Content did. Links did. People worldwide did. So why? Passion? Money? Fun?
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Replying to @placenamehere
Yes! And I counter ask ya my dear Chris: Aren't society's problems reflections of our own and back again? Also "Why?" is a very uncomfortable question if we think only one answer can exist, which is a human bug reflected in society via separatism, racism, ableism - most any "ism"

Apr 7, 2021 · 3:06 AM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag
I think the residual hard question, personally or beyond, is “what now”. If the answer isn’t laying out a clear path for what’s next then we’ve failed.
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And to follow said path and see if our answer to "why" is truly causation or correlation. Humans constantly idealize and lay out paths and manifest the opposite! Very few belief systems, political ideations, human systems realize as conceived. How do we escape our loops? Can we?
Replying to @mholzschlag
It’s uncomfortable because it’s hard and nuanced. How do we get clean water to the most people in a system? How do we make covid vaccines available to the people that need them first based on a form we design? We’re solving for bigger than the “web” into problems of society
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Also, requires honesty, empiricism and critical analysis - all difficult enough to create a world where a majority of people live in bias and theories, outright mythologies - all embraced as *the* truth to extremes. This won't be solved in my lifetime, if ever. Come find me when!