Still on the theme of thirty-year olds in the work place. (See my blog posting below this one for an extended rumination on the topic of thirty-year olds in mining.) This afternoon two thirty-year olds came marketing. I must admire what they are doing. They are setting up and marketing a software company that specializes in geotechnical software.
“Why a new company at this time?” I asked.
“If not now, when?” the simple reply.
We spent time going through their codes, which they seek to sell to geotechnical engineers. I have seen many such codes before, and used a few. What I like about what they are doing is the grounding in deep theory. It is possible, in their codes, at the flick of a switch, to change and thus use a different analytical approach to data interpretation and design. That way you can use your favorite professor’s approach—or the approach implemented by your client’s in-house engineers–or the one that the regulators understand.
The next advance awaiting their attention is to assemble the case histories and the data in the case histories in order to enable the code user to apply practical experience in the service of their analysis and design. All at the click of a mouse (or flip of a switch in old-fashioned terminology.)
Their enthusiasm and intellect come across pretty quickly in their presentation. It was refreshing to see their energy at work.
I do not name them here, least it be viewed as “advertising.” I do provide links, so you can find them if your interests are computer codes that may be used in geotechnical engineering. And you want to work with thirty-year olds who have brains and energy.
(Disclosure: They did not pay me to write this. They do not know what I am writing. If anything, I am trying to get them to give me material to blog and write about. I am innocent of influence. Although I confess I liked them.)
