While I agree with the articles sentiment I think missing enough with the engineers mindset is only part of the problem. I recently wrote thoughts on the rest

While I agree with the articles sentiment I think missing enough with the engineers mindset is only part of the problem. I recently wrote thoughts on the rest of the problem (having honest disusssions about problems to gather the insight and data to engineer with in the first place). It was in response to a friend's social media post which read something to the effect of "Whats your most controversial opinion? No judgement" "[... It] is nearly impossible to have completely honest versions of these conversations attached to your identity today because of a mixture of - extreme militantly politically correct culture - the existence of social media itself (allowing for identification and easy witch hunts from the comfort of your home) - and in aggregate many people operating from completely different and often incompatible belief systems and sets of facts For instance try to have any conversation in public with even slightest bit of negativity about any group of humans that are not rich, male, and white. People in most of western civilization today would be hard pressed to voice any opinions because they would instantaneously be labeled a "fascist", "misogynist" , "racist", or a litany of other "-ists" with a dizzying amount of speed and force. No matter how well you argue any point you are now inextricably linked with some "-ism". Someone screenshots this opinion and posts to a group like Occupy Democrats with a person's full name... And bam life quite possibly on the way to ruin. It will affect your social and professional lives for quite some time. I feel like until we can come to some form of consensus around the state of the world and how to use observations about it to discuss it we will continue to have situations where people cannot understand each others side and constantly talk past each other to all our detriment."