I was considered “brave” and “crazy” for offering to work that shift. People were losing their minds. It was the first time I realized how gullible the general public was. I was the calm in the storm. I reminded them that air was not controlled by a computer and we would survive. It would be like “camping nursing.” Midnight -NOTHING- and people felt stupid. I’m ready for that feeling again. It was priceless.
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I was 7yrs old for Y2K. Fucking SEVEN!!!
I remember watching my dad unplug the computers and realizing I was being raised by utter retards.
It was honestly, as ridiculous as it sounds, one of the most formative experiences of my life. I've thought about it a lot.
My dad wasn't some luddite dip.
He went to a prestigious biomedical engineering school and led teams of some of the smartest people I've met in my life designing some pretty crazy shit requiring extensive knowledge of chip design & manufacturing, programming, and biophysics of the heart, and the knowledge to train surgeons to implant this technology.
If you have a pacemaker or a defribrilator there's a good chance my dad's patents are involved either directly through products he directly oversaw the design of, or through the way his patents have influenced the industry.
He unplugged every single thing that used electricity in the night of Y2K.
And thus began my education of human behavior and psychology.
I sound like I'm exaggerating... but it low key fucked me up.
I never looked at him the same way again.
A lot of it is growing up and seeing the world differently. There are so many things we stress over in life that just simply don’t matter. I wish I could have seen that many moons ago.