I wish I could go back to engineering school for an intensive 1 year reboot. 6mo refreshing basics like calculus, physics, chemistry, coding, stats, basic mech/elec/chem hands on, and 6 months high-level refactoring of engineering principles based on megatrends since graduation
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When you're in a state where you're good at both, the effectiveness leverage is unbelievable. In the 6 months of my life when I was good at both, I suspect I did 90% of all the valuable things I did.
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A career in technology is basically trying to add value as you age from good at learning/bad at choosing --> bad at learning/good at choosing. The area under that curve = value you add. Time spent in "good at both" quadrant = spikes of value creation.
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What makes this hard is that BOTH low-level and high-level are changed by evolution in megatrends after you leave school. The rise of "AI" for example, impacts both the value of knowing linear algebra (low-level skill) and rewires intuitions around tradeoffs between data/compute
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And continuous experience in an industry/problem area is no guarantee that you'll keep your head in the game effectively. Entire companies and industries can get out of sync with impact of megatrends, taking entire buildings of engineers and engineering managers down with them
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I've been in rooms full of smart engineers and managers discussing tech problems in fundamentally wrong-headed ways that doom the company. The frogs-in-skill-wells don't know their identity-pride skills have been John Henryed, the big-picture people are ignoring key variables.
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Generals fighting the last wars with armies using the previous war's weapons
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Thought provoking. Figuring out "what is worth learning" isn't that muddied by what one wants to achieve (curiosity, mega-profit, assigned task completion, etc.)? Subject to an objective, I understand "worth learning" as an efficiency hack: quickest way to achieve objective
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Eng prof Dowd said to us: "As I very older, I find myself spending as time preparing to learn as actually learning." He also questioned, "if Dark Side of the Moon was not the greatest album ever, then what was?"
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