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This article has a limited perspective. People have different skill sets, and valorizing one skill set and demonising another is something that is not very help
by ajb 5y ago
This article has a limited perspective. People have different skill sets, and valorizing one skill set and demonising another is something that is not very helpful. You as an engineer may want to say that your skill set is the most crucial one and others are worth less, but you know what? Other people are going to do the same to you, and often with more success.
For example, UX and design is now quite valued, and frequently you hear UX and design guys disparage engineering. Is that something we want to encourage? It's better to encourage making rational decisions about what skill set you need and who is best to supply them, so we are all judged on our merits and not based on self-marketting. Idea-generation is useful in a lot of contexts. Personally my best ideas have often been to figure out a way where we didn't need to execute a bunch of difficult stuff that the execution types were about to take on.