old dog, new tricks, etc.
so, i’m finding after years of doing things one way, it’s hard to suddenly shift gears and do them another way. hard to believe, right?
i spent roughly eight years working with a particular sound system that shall remain nameless…mostly because it had no name. it was a hodge-podge of this-n-that built up over the years on top of a basic off-the-shelf API. and over those eight years, its features and limitations, its methodology, and its fundamental approach to The Way Things Work became second nature to me. but that all changed six months ago when i started working with a different sound system.
hey, it’s all good – within a month of kickin’ it new school i came to wonder how i ever kicked it old school for so long. but i still haven’t shaken off the last of the old school assumptions, it seems. every so often i just…can’t…seem to grasp how something works in the here-and-now, because it would have been so completely *impossible* to do in the there-and-then. it takes a lot of careful RTFM-ing on my part, or somebody smarter than me explaining it in 3rd-grade english, before the light bulb goes off over my head.
i’ll get there. hopefully without looking / feeling like an idiot too many more times. in the meantime – and in a very similar “looking like an idiot until you get the hang of it” vein – i’m learning to ollie so i can skateboard with my kids. i’m pretty sure that’ll land me in more trouble than my occasional lapses in comprehension on the job…
