As technology is everywhere, it’s important for everyone to have a basic understanding of technology matters, in the same way people should understand societal, political and financial matters. To understand how the world works, how we fit in, how to instigate or participate in change, or create what’s next. — me, 6.19.2015 [lifted from my 100Stickmen […]
The Curse of Knowledge
[Originally published in my 100Stickmen Tech musings notebook. Before it was 100Stickmen Tech.] The main cause of incomprehensible prose is the difficulty of imagining what it’s like for someone else not to know what you know. – Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style From The Sense of Style: The Curse of Knowledge: a difficulty in […]
better problems and technology knowledge transfer
Often, the work of problem-solving spurs the creation, or escalation of other problems. Most are implications of solution execution; expected or not. Sometimes though, the new problem is a result of poking and prodding the original problem, long before solution work. While considering your problem, you unearth a better problem. Not better as in more […]
