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Everybody else is a fungible cog. TFA is a good little read - couple things come to mind 1) Knoll’s Law [0][1] 2) The ways I feel when I’m working on a h
by bch 4mo ago
Everybody else is a fungible cog.
TFA is a good little read - couple things come to mind
1) Knoll’s Law [0][1]
2) The ways I feel when I’m working on a hard problem in an area of my expertise and some person starts in with “Why don’t you just…”. Enough people have come to me in such a situation with such a comment that I think it mostly translates as a sort of shibboleth for “I have no real idea what I’m talking about.” Now to find out if this is a teachable moment, if I have to maintain a sense of humour, or find out if I’m actually one of the days lucky 10,000.[2]
[0] https://effectiviology.com/knolls-law/ https://effectiviology.com/knolls-law/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Knoll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Knoll
[2] https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/