I've known people to make such errors, thinking a "farmer" can be sub for a "wedding planner" on team
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: I've seen people ask an Immunologist for advice on sick pets - "hey, it's all medicine"
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Yup, I include pro medicine in tech of course, because it is...
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: well you get the same "must know everything about ..." in engineering, in law, in architecture etc.
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My point: most people don't get sheer size of territory that is tech, relative to older knowledge areas
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Again, agreed. But many techies tend to dismiss the range, complexity, importance of non-tech aspects of delivery.
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I get that you're trying to be "fair" here. I'm not trying to claim techies are "better" humans
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Understood. But as a lifelong techie, & longtime traveler in techie circles, I can see its dismissiveness.
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: we all understand tech's dismissiveness e.g. "I can create a virtual world ergo I can solve world peace"
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: however, there is an interesting point here on velocity and size of field & assumptions over expertise.
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That was my point with "spot the flaw" 4k yrs vs. 200 yrs. Tech has shorter, but exponential history
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: having made that joke expertise graph ('08), I'm tempted to explore properly


