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> So for instance try doing marketing yourself for a month. People who try coding for a month and based on that try to hire a programmer make terrible clients/
by hawk_ 3y ago
> So for instance try doing marketing yourself for a month.
People who try coding for a month and based on that try to hire a programmer make terrible clients/managers. I am not sure this advice would apply to anything that has even a little depth/nuance.
- repelsteeltje 3y agoFair enough, let's add some nuance. Learn about the subject, but stay humble — with a month of trying (failures & success) you're equipped with very modest experience, there is far more you don't know, obviously.
- krageon 3y agoImagining you will know anywhere near enough about a completely new (to you) highly complex field to hire well after only a month of effort is very, very far from humble.
- cpfohl 3y agoI dunno man, the 80/20 rule definitely applies here (and it's cousin Dunning-Kruger does as well, so yes, stay humble). Most software engineers are paid for their expertise in rapidly acquiring and mentally modeling complex domains... Believing that spending a month of high-effort learning will teach you enough of the basics of just about any field that you can flush out terrible choices isn't _that_ ridiculous...