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"I'm Brett... and Twitter power user" I can't believe a grown adult considers this some sort of qualification. As for "education-based communities on the back

"I'm Brett... and Twitter power user" I can't believe a grown adult considers this some sort of qualification. As for "education-based communities on the backs of (social) media empires"... what a horrible thought. Imagine getting your education from a Twitterati or Fox News-backed organisation. "Psychology is the most underrated major in tech." Maybe for someone with a psychology degree who's looking for a "Silicon Valley" job. I don't think I'd see psychology majors clamouring to get through the doors of IBM or Capita.

HumblyTossed 6y ago
Even worse: "Twitter is where all the action happens in the tech industry"
- swagonomixxx 6y ago
  "Tech Twitter TLDR". As if there is only one "tech Twitter" that you can concisely summarize in a "TLDR". For another, why would I care what users on Twitter say? Is there some proven law that sentiment of Twitter users (mostly bots? I don't know) is now the sentiment of the masses? I'm not denying that there are many students that are angered by Harvard not agreeing to lower tuition costs for online learning, but what does "Tech Twitter" have anything to do with that? Has any one of these prospective Harvard students written something expressing their disdain at Harvard and the extremely overpriced American higher education industry? "Twitter is where all the action happens in the tech industry". Absolutely not. It's where a lot of people mumble garbage about random things. Are there some people on Twitter who don't do this? Of course. However, the large majority of Twitter is a cesspool and it should not be taken as a first-tier source of information. There's just so much wrong with this post. Emoji's everywhere, before practically every sentence and in every section. Tip to the writer - if you want to be taken seriously, do as serious journalists do, and let your prose convey the emotions you want them to convey to the reader. Emojis simply have no place in any journalism of any kind, unless you're a "Twitter power user" I guess.
- eplanit 6y ago
  Yeah, I stopped reading at that one.
watwut 6y ago
> Psychology is the most underrated major in tech. That particular tweet continues with "UX, growth, management, etc all boil down to understanding how people think." And you know ... my tech education did missed even basics of user interfaces or reasonable level of management/organizational/team dynamic info. Just a basic information on how to select colors or generally make things look decent. Does not have to make us experts, just basically not disasters. Just a basic information on how to communicate with users. Just a basic information on humans and teams beyond kindergarten level of "be nice to them and hope they will be nice back" nonsense. Or like, this is how you communicate with slightly autistic. Or like, this is what you do when encountering narcissistic or someone domineering. All of that would made me better developer.
- kingkawn 6y ago
  Then go find that info it’s all easily available
  - watwut 6y ago
    Not really answer to "education missed this stuff". Especially since all of these are in the category of "people dont know that they dont know if they never heard of it".
    - secondcoming 6y ago
      But the whole premise of the post is that you don't really need to go to university to educate yourself about things. It's all out there already.
      - watwut 6y ago
        I did not really took stand on the post. More that I don't think that particular tweet was super crazy, althrough it was phrased in a way that baited angry reaction. For technical people it is easier to learn and search pretty much any technology by themselves amd a bit harder to do the same with ux or psychology related things. And it is much easier for us to distinguish crap from good resource in psychology related things, making self learning harder.
Noos 6y ago
about as worthwhile as Harvard is, to be blunt. It's really all about chasing what your target audience thinks is cool, isn't it? Some of us could really mock the kind of people our elites are, and find them just as distasteful as you find twitter power users.

HumblyTossed 6y ago

Even worse: "Twitter is where all the action happens in the tech industry"

swagonomixxx 6y ago
"Tech Twitter TLDR". As if there is only one "tech Twitter" that you can concisely summarize in a "TLDR". For another, why would I care what users on Twitter say? Is there some proven law that sentiment of Twitter users (mostly bots? I don't know) is now the sentiment of the masses? I'm not denying that there are many students that are angered by Harvard not agreeing to lower tuition costs for online learning, but what does "Tech Twitter" have anything to do with that? Has any one of these prospective Harvard students written something expressing their disdain at Harvard and the extremely overpriced American higher education industry? "Twitter is where all the action happens in the tech industry". Absolutely not. It's where a lot of people mumble garbage about random things. Are there some people on Twitter who don't do this? Of course. However, the large majority of Twitter is a cesspool and it should not be taken as a first-tier source of information. There's just so much wrong with this post. Emoji's everywhere, before practically every sentence and in every section. Tip to the writer - if you want to be taken seriously, do as serious journalists do, and let your prose convey the emotions you want them to convey to the reader. Emojis simply have no place in any journalism of any kind, unless you're a "Twitter power user" I guess.
eplanit 6y ago
Yeah, I stopped reading at that one.

watwut 6y ago

> Psychology is the most underrated major in tech. That particular tweet continues with "UX, growth, management, etc all boil down to understanding how people think." And you know ... my tech education did missed even basics of user interfaces or reasonable level of management/organizational/team dynamic info. Just a basic information on how to select colors or generally make things look decent. Does not have to make us experts, just basically not disasters. Just a basic information on how to communicate with users. Just a basic information on humans and teams beyond kindergarten level of "be nice to them and hope they will be nice back" nonsense. Or like, this is how you communicate with slightly autistic. Or like, this is what you do when encountering narcissistic or someone domineering. All of that would made me better developer.

kingkawn 6y ago
Then go find that info it’s all easily available
- watwut 6y ago
  Not really answer to "education missed this stuff". Especially since all of these are in the category of "people dont know that they dont know if they never heard of it".
  - secondcoming 6y ago
    But the whole premise of the post is that you don't really need to go to university to educate yourself about things. It's all out there already.
    - watwut 6y ago
      I did not really took stand on the post. More that I don't think that particular tweet was super crazy, althrough it was phrased in a way that baited angry reaction. For technical people it is easier to learn and search pretty much any technology by themselves amd a bit harder to do the same with ux or psychology related things. And it is much easier for us to distinguish crap from good resource in psychology related things, making self learning harder.

Noos 6y ago

about as worthwhile as Harvard is, to be blunt. It's really all about chasing what your target audience thinks is cool, isn't it? Some of us could really mock the kind of people our elites are, and find them just as distasteful as you find twitter power users.