9/ This is more likely to diverge than converge. You'll get more unique.
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10/ Instead of convergent apples to apples competition for roles you'll need to compose teams that are even more unique than members
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11/ Interchangeability is for robots, humans can decouple social class+status from work identity. Their convergence is historical accident
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12/ 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' is a dumb waterfall-plan question for a creative leisure society.
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Instead, ask, 'What will you be after the next education sprint?' Self-directed learning is *necessarily* bottom-up, divergent and agile
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14/ Let's continue why not...A very hard teaching skill is getting people to see potential in non-textbook power-habits they already have
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15/ Think the trope of Mr. Miyagi's wax-on/wax-off. That's based on a real thing: the power of deprogramming functional fixedness
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16/ We see skills through lens of default social function. Waxing cars is blue collar schlepping. Being martial arts master? Higher status.
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17/ When skills don't even *have* a default social function because they're too new (data cleaning for example), we devalue them even more
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18/ One can imagine a software version of Karate Kid, where "wax on/wax off" becomes "clean this data"...kid whines about "low status" work
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19/ And hey, in Act II, Mr. Quant Miyagi shows Daniel that JSON schlepping leads to him win hackathon prize against MIT Cobra Kai jerks 😂
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