I grew up Chinese (unyieldingly rational?) and have a natural inclination for engineering problems. No, these are not correlated. Some allege that I have artistic tendencies too. Many years ago, I got a Wacom tablet to draw on my computer. However, it worked great except for one thing, I naturally use my right hand for everything. Allow me to elaborate; I had both a mouse and drawing tablet to the right of my keyboard and in order to use them both interchangeably I needed to move the mouse pad and tablet back and forth. My engineering mind decided that I could fix this with a very simple adjustment… I’d move one left of the keyboard and start to use it with my left hand.
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