By using phrases like "soft skills" for interpersonal skills, job descriptions accidentally paint them as non-essential.
This is like calling the keyboard and screen of a personal computer "soft features".
Truly computer literate people should only need a motherboard to work.
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Well, for plenty of jobs interpersonal skills are non-essential.
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Only two really: being rich or being unique/irreplaceable.
Even negative skills like being able to threaten or hurt are interpersonal.
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I always thought soft and hard referred to our ability to measure them precisely, or not
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Tend to disagree. Think of “soft skills” as intangibles like an ability to read situation & adjust. A KB/screen are tangibles. Machine Learning would be the hardware’s “soft skills” e.g the ability to adapt. Soft skills differentiate the literate from the savvy.
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Problematic, IMHO. This sense of "soft" is just "difficult to quantify".
I interact with most computers via sockets, the thing with the keyboard and screen is (often) the "thin client".
I'm OK with words having many meanings.








