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Some cool insights in there that I have not had the ability to articulate myself but I have been feeling for maybe 5 or so years. The biggest hurtle is that a
by foxhop 9y ago
Some cool insights in there that I have not had the ability to articulate myself but I have been feeling for maybe 5 or so years.
The biggest hurtle is that a "frequent dev" isn't always the best at remembering the sum of everything needed and so it takes an "infrequent dev" to write the docs and outline the helper tools and environment setup and common gotchas.
Which if done for a certain amount of time the "infrequent dev" will gain enough insight and mastery until they move into the "frequent dev" category. As a result they will become blind to the pitfalls. They become the blind "expert".
This is why I'm completely fascinated with teaching and knowledge transfer and I feel like there is huge advances that can be done in this field.
Here is the catcher, this isn't just limited to computers or programming! In fact it isn't even limited to spoken language.
This "blindness" to detail applies to all of reality!
If you want to read more checkout: http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-...
- jt2190 9y ago> As a result [the now frequent developer] will become blind to the pitfalls. They become the blind "expert". This is known as “The Curse of Knowledge”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge