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This is the thing I find really puzzling. Being able to read between the lines of virtually any kind of communication (but especially business communications) i
by hcayless 4y ago
This is the thing I find really puzzling. Being able to read between the lines of virtually any kind of communication (but especially business communications) is kind of a superpower. I can only come up with cynical reasons why it’s deprecated.
- eldaisfish 4y agoa key point is that these skills - soft skills if you will - can be learned on the job, even with minimal background knowledge. It is much harder to learn programming or electrical engineering on the job if you lack the educational base. Communication is a critical skill today as are information skills. Truly sad that they are often derided as being worth less than technical skills.
- brewdad 4y ago[flagged]
- eldaisfish 4y agoThe personal attack aside, pointing to the exception is never a good argument.
- Apocryphon 4y agoIt's not a rare exception, there's a whole class of programming autodidacts, boot campers, physics majors and electrical engineers who pivoted to software. Often the argument against credentialism in the field is to protect such people.
- eldaisfish 4y agothe limited point i was making is that soft skills are easier to pick up as you go along. Software is now approaching that same state. This does not apply to an English major learning the nuance of - say, aviation turbine design. Some fields require extensive study and lots of foundational knowledge.
- RajT88 4y agoSuch as the comment below you