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I'd say that the ability to ignore groupthink, and reason on your own about a hyped-up new technology, from first principles, is one of the most important qualities to have as a technologist. Rare, maybe because it requires extensive familiarity with tech & econ first principles
There's a curious difficulty here. In the early days of understanding, you need to take a lot of things on faith and defer to others, in order to bootstrap your own understanding.
But as you build that understanding up, you gradually start to arrive at a point where you've internalized much of the best prior points of view.
Then you need to invert your approach, and start to question things from first principles, effectively breaking them down and remaking them, perhaps in many different ways.
A difficulty in doing all this, IME, is that it requires both a great willingness to listen to & learn from others who are more expert, & then the drive to go beyond conventional wisdom, & reinvent from first principles. Very different skills, even arguably somewhat anti-aligned
But there's enormous utility in realizing that this is the state that one occupies. A lot of the tech dudebro demographic lacks the metacognition and awareness to do this.
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