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Agree absolutely. It also reminds me of, “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.” I don’t know how people have the ego t
by 300bps 6y ago
Agree absolutely. It also reminds me of, “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.”
I don’t know how people have the ego to think they’re going to study a problem for an hour or two and discover solutions that have eluded competent people that have spent their careers studying the problem.
- jiofih 6y agoIt’s much more complicated than that. Sometimes the people who start from scratch actually lead to real innovation while the scholars are stuck in their old world view. There is room for both types of exploration.
- koonsolo 6y agoI get your point. But that innovation comes from experts too, not someone who watched 10 YouTube videos on the subject. I would say most novices soon find out why things are done the way they are done. True innovation is really exceptional.
- toast0 6y agoI've run into all sorts of things in my career where competent people completely ignored parts of the problem. Someone, qualified or not, spending two hours studying the problems would apparently have been the first two hours spent; and to good use. Many times, I've stumbled across reports from other fields about solving problems in ways well known for their field, but unknown in mine that would apply well for some problems in my field. A (kindly worded) suggestion and reference from someone who thought to be helpful would be useful. Of course, some fences are Chesterton's fences, and some are just randomly placed fences in weird spots.