https://syntopikon.com/interests/baker/Recent content in Baker on SyntopikonHugoenFri, 22 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://syntopikon.com/conversations/wouter-groeneveld/Fri, 22 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://syntopikon.com/conversations/wouter-groeneveld/<h2 id="who-are-you-and-what-do-you-do">Who are you, and what do you do?</h2> <p>I&rsquo;m Wouter and I currently study creativity for problem solving in software engineering education. I also like baking bread and thinking about thinking, which I call <a href="https://brainbaking.com/">brain baking</a>.</p> <h2 id="how-did-you-get-interested-in-that">How did you get interested in that?</h2> <p>By following my gut! Before stumbling into academia, I was a software engineer myself for more than a decade. The more junior (and senior!) applicants we interviewed, the more I was convinced that when it comes to programming, we value the wrong skills. It&rsquo;s never the technicalities that causes all sorts of trouble, but the non-technical ones: communication, solution-oriented thinking, creativity, &hellip; The more I pondered that, the more I got interested in doing something about it. By then, I was also part-time teaching at the local faculty of engineering technology. I decided to thoroughly investigate what I thought was wrong with industry and education. Four years later, I&rsquo;m nearly finishing my PhD on the topic.</p>