This is a weird one for me... It's odd that we're proxying competency by way of intent. Would it make more sense to consider the actual actions of individuals

This is a weird one for me... It's odd that we're proxying competency by way of intent. Would it make more sense to consider the actual actions of individuals? If I work on a problem with the intention to solve it, I've done both, and thus (by this essay) am competent for my intent to solve the problem, but also incompetent for my intent to _work_ on solving the problem. I don't know that I entirely disagree with the author's core points, but I don't think this was a very effective piece. Mostly because I have to take a wild guess at what those core points might be, and then try to tease them out myself.