Her interest in how any technology works and how people use that technology continues today. By 1996, Sharon was very frustrated with bad technical writing. There had to be a way to have a company that wrote good documentation that made technology available to people. Sitting in traffic one afternoon, the words Anthrobytes Consulting popped into Sharon's head. Since she had a name that reflected her interests, it was time to start the company.
Technical writing is an important occupation.
People depend on the instruction manuals to tell them how to use their tools. The one thing that we know about humans is that if you give them tools to use, they will do things with them you cannot imagine. Like send a skate board to another planet. Like make devices that talk to satellites to tell you where you are on the face of the Earth. Sharon has a stone scraper that dates to about 1000 AD she likes to show people.