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what you wrote is mostly true but also partially incorrect: many competencies are transferrable. there are privacy-compliant products in that sense, unless you

by znpy 3y ago

what you wrote is mostly true but also partially incorrect: many competencies are transferrable. there are privacy-compliant products in that sense, unless you've been literally told "click here and click there" you should be able to employ old concepts with new tools.

vladvasiliu 3y ago
Given GP's paragraph: > Personally I find this astonishingly foolish of the people who train exclusively on these tools instead of first principles and primitives. I wouldn't be surprised for this to be a "click here and click here" kind of training. I've seen a painful amount of those. And then, when the inevitable "new and improved ui" comes along, these people are lost and require a new training.
- bdcravens 3y ago
  These are essentially "IT Factory Workers". To be honest, I think there's value in that, with the same economics of "traditional" factory workers.
fendy3002 3y ago
You'll be surprised at how many competent (or looked like) people that cannot connect the dots between technologies / tools. They excel at one tools and will having a very hard time migrating to new one since they cannot connect the concept and similarity between both. Not all, but there's many.
- bsenftner 3y ago
  There was a time when "Six Sigma" was all the statistical analytics rage for everything and anything corporate. However, if one already knew statistics they'd encounter a franchise branded school of terminology, different formulas than the accepted standards, and their own separate "z-tables" that apparently backed in corrections for their use of non-standard formulas. It was a hugely successful re-branding of standard statistics with a branded hierarchy of made up human hierarchies and Scientology-level made up technical terms. All the "Six Sigma Black Belts" - an actual title in corporate pointy head world - are 1000% useless now, unless they are at some dinosaur still following that nonsense. This is how corporations and the will to profit undermines first principal knowledge and leaves a wake of fake education that ultimately needs to be unlearned or unwisely held as a fragment of useful adrift in an island of potential non-logical nonsense

by znpy 3y ago

vladvasiliu 3y ago

Given GP's paragraph: > Personally I find this astonishingly foolish of the people who train exclusively on these tools instead of first principles and primitives. I wouldn't be surprised for this to be a "click here and click here" kind of training. I've seen a painful amount of those. And then, when the inevitable "new and improved ui" comes along, these people are lost and require a new training.

bdcravens 3y ago
These are essentially "IT Factory Workers". To be honest, I think there's value in that, with the same economics of "traditional" factory workers.

fendy3002 3y ago

You'll be surprised at how many competent (or looked like) people that cannot connect the dots between technologies / tools. They excel at one tools and will having a very hard time migrating to new one since they cannot connect the concept and similarity between both. Not all, but there's many.

bsenftner 3y ago
There was a time when "Six Sigma" was all the statistical analytics rage for everything and anything corporate. However, if one already knew statistics they'd encounter a franchise branded school of terminology, different formulas than the accepted standards, and their own separate "z-tables" that apparently backed in corrections for their use of non-standard formulas. It was a hugely successful re-branding of standard statistics with a branded hierarchy of made up human hierarchies and Scientology-level made up technical terms. All the "Six Sigma Black Belts" - an actual title in corporate pointy head world - are 1000% useless now, unless they are at some dinosaur still following that nonsense. This is how corporations and the will to profit undermines first principal knowledge and leaves a wake of fake education that ultimately needs to be unlearned or unwisely held as a fragment of useful adrift in an island of potential non-logical nonsense