I wish to emphasize that this is one of those "Difficult to appreciate from the outside, extraordinarily obvious from the inside" facts about the tech industry.https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1087590716887334913 …
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Consumption of technology skill in productive labor will likely increase over time, and skill levels which would have predicted "highly-skilled specialist" a relatively short time ago will be broadly available in working population. (There will still be specialists at frontier.)
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Remember in living memory that people were given year-long classes to use MS Word. Most did not graduate these classes with meaningful proficiency. McDonalds used to train people to operate registers, for weeks. In 2018 McDonalds can expect *customers* to use POS w/in seconds.
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As sidenote, have had conversations before about whether we are in a literacy bubble and what that would mean haha
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What would it mean?
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I have a bookmarks folder called "Street smarts". It's disproportionately filled with your tweets!
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