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2026-09-06
CAREER
7 min

Back to school, twenty years in

A year of ladder logic and cabinet wiring, and what two decades of writing the software above it had not taught me.

A draft. On going back to train as an automation electrician after twenty years of writing the software that talks to machines, and what standing in front of the cabinet changed.

Written by Martin Dahl. If you want to argue about any of it, say hello.