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From my experience, people who are good at their trade tend to know their tools very well. They may not use the best tools, but they use the ones they have to t
by beatgammit 8y ago
From my experience, people who are good at their trade tend to know their tools very well. They may not use the best tools, but they use the ones they have to their fullest. The people who aren't very good at their trade but want to appear like they're good use the flashiest tools, but they don't know those tools to their fullest. They may know of a lot of the features, but they don't use them consistently.
It doesn't really matter what tools you choose, provided you know them well and they're well suited for your work.
- atoav 8y agoNow that I gave the whole thing another thought, it might be very different for different professions. Maybe we also got it upside down? What if experts tend to be good with their tools, because they had a ton of experience with them and not the other way round. So they are not experts because they use their tools well, but they use tools well because they had a lot of time spent with these. That is, if you are in a profession were the tools stay the same. The sound mixers I mentioned certainly know SOME workflows inside out, but mixing desks change and differ between manufacturers, get more modern etc. That means judging a sound mixer purely by his ability to handle a certain mixing desk on one point in time might not be completely representative of the man/woman’s abilities. For programming it is much the same. A perfectly guru programmer could have switched to vim just months ago, while anoob could have invedted a year into learning vim instead of gaining experience with code.