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None of these things exist. A taxonomy of three kinds is entirely inadequate to describe the potential of anyone working today. These sorts of quick fix mental
by meheleventyone 6y ago
None of these things exist. A taxonomy of three kinds is entirely inadequate to describe the potential of anyone working today. These sorts of quick fix mental models are pretty poisonous. There are literally recommendations for all three saying how useful they are. This is some of the dumbest snake oil to infect software development.
- x86ARMsRace 6y agoAll these sorts of things were cooked up in the depths of some HR department somewhere, likely by people who fundamentally don't understand technical skillsets. They provide some level of false utility by allowing people to compartmentalize otherwise highly complex systems (knowledge sets) into simple ideas. Skillsets are highly complex assemblies that can't be summed up or generalized. Doing things like that give us the hilariously misguided strategies that make HR folks hand out Myers Briggs tests for culture fit checks. I know for myself that a lot of my skills are actually just fancy applications of thought processes and theory, expressed in code. Trying to box that into this goofy trichotomy will just confuse someone.
- superbcarrot 6y agoThe point isn't a taxonomy of 3 types but the layout in two axes - breadth and depth of expertise. Those are quite real and useful to think about when considering hiring or your own career development.
- meheleventyone 6y agoRight but no one actually measures what real distributions look like. They just invent some shapes with stories attached they like. Then the misguided try to lump people into them.