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I don’t disagree. After all, that’s exactly how I became an expert in whatever I do right now. You seem to have missed my point though, it was about switching
by fooker 1y ago
I don’t disagree. After all, that’s exactly how I became an expert in whatever I do right now.
You seem to have missed my point though, it was about switching tracks to become an expert in a new thing. A random physics PhD grad might not have a burning passion for fintech, for example but still becomes an expert after three months in the job because of the sheer amount of rigorous training.
- rixed 1y ago...and because we decided to call "expert" any dev with 3 months of experience. Now, how much of this is actual expertise and how much wealth extraction, I really don't know.
- cduzz 1y agoI think that the ability to learn adjacent skills (and I'd call fintech and physics PhD adjacent) is a function of domain expertise. For instance, if I were running an automotive body shop I'd put the expert hvac technician slightly ahead of the quant in the "how quickly they'll pick it up" and I'd put either ahead of the person who's never run down to the end of the "obsessive about a subject" maze. For lots and lots of kids, that "obsessive about a subject" focus comes naturally and often is beaten out of them by "please go back to your data entry task; we're not paying you to find weird buffer overruns while speed-running mario brothers 720"