What the nice man told me about problem solving outside of the Alan Turing museum

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What the nice man told me about problem solving outside of the Alan Turing museum

In the summer I went to Bletchley Park for the 3rd time to celebrate my 30th birthday with my best friend. Being me I was screaming about computer science. A nice man stopped us. He was very mysterious and very very magical and very very strange.

Exactly like the magical kind of a man out of a story. It turned out he was a volunteer at the computer science museum.

He lectured me and my friend for 30 minutes. He was so wonderful and so so magical. It was hard to get away and we wanted to visit Bletchley Park but also I knew that if we ran away we might miss something. I don’t remember much of what the man said but we talked loads about the enigma and we talked about problem solving. We talked about problem solving and how it is breaking things down into ever smaller and smaller pieces. Because you know. I visited the WITCH in December 2023. I stood there transfixed for an hour. I talked to a man about AI. I shouldn’t find my job this hard. I shouldn’t be on my Christmas holiday unable to sleep at night because I am thinking about my job. I shouldn’t have gone a year without mostly calling my family and I shouldn’t have had to think about my job 24/7 over the last year. Because I find it so stressful. Stopping only to think about it when on an expensive meditation retreat (I don’t plan to go on any more maybe one at most but unlikely). (I do however plan to go on solo meditation retreats). I don’t know what went wrong.

I was a brilliant software engineer although my confidence all came from the frontend. I don’t think I’m bad at the backend but I think it forced me to learn skills I didn’t need before. 

I found the Frontend so easy I didn’t need problem solving skills like I do now. I guess I was just solving simpler problems too although that is debatable I guess. I don’t want to be up at 1.30 am thinking about this any more

I just want to be breaking my problems down into smaller and smaller parts
A photo of Susanna with a photo of Alan Turing


A folder open with information on Alan Turing

Because the only reason I am up tonight at 1 am and listening to Spotify and crying over my job is because of Alan Turing. And because of his amazing legacy and his contributions to mankind. And the only reason I have a job at all is because of Alan Turing. And I am typing this on my phone because of Alan Turing. And I have this phone at all because of Alan Turing and this blog and Mr Turing I love you you are always in my heart always in my thoughts always in my Being

thank you 

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