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On occasion you may encounter a young person who is more talented and successful than you. It can be difficult to accept. Instead of attacking the author, why n
by emddudley 8y ago
On occasion you may encounter a young person who is more talented and successful than you. It can be difficult to accept. Instead of attacking the author, why not consider her thoughts and ideas?
You've set up a strawman with some asinine assumptions about the author: "relatively new to the tech industry", "lack the actual experience to justify their stance", "without ever writing any significant amount of code or being a valued team member".
- mbrumlow 8y agoPlease go read my comment again. I chose my words carefully not to attack the author. But to question the community in valuing a very specific type of social engineering that is occuring in the tech industry. I am positive that Stephanie Hurlburt is smart and talented. I never intended to question those things. But question the onslaught of speakers who have don't appear to have a good backing for why they are experts other than "they spoke at conference X, therefor...". Making a single accomplishment does not automatically make you a expert. Experts are those who have spent years honing their skills and demonstrated success time and time again. An expert is not somebody who is mirly smart and talented and driven. Those qualities combined with time, successes and failures is what makes an expert an expert. Upon second look I seem to be mostly agitated that HN has resorted to links to tweets concatenated into articles format, then suggesting buying PDF versions of said tweets.