In knowledge work, handling interpersonal issues *is* the job, not a thing that gets in the way of the job.Otherwise interns could do it all
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Corollary: if there's nothing you could outsource to an intern after taking away all the interpersonal stuff, it's a bullshit job.
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you're saying experience and skill are meaningless. Provocative but asinine.
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They're not meaningless, they're the reward for solving interpersonal problems so you can keep growing.
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.@cigardubey I was actually specifically subtweeting *programmers* who whine too much about interpersonal issues.
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all engineering is knowledge work, in fact the archetype of it, more than "management."
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@cigardubey same rule applies to development work, cuz software is only valuable insofar as people use and buy it.
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