Re:What Silicon Valley gets about engineers that traditional...
by tehjoker on Monday January 11, 2021 @01:52PM
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Oh yea, I don't mean to say that every single individual can run every single aspect of the business personally. Marketing and social skills are not evenly distributed, but they can all understand it at least, provide input, and have a conversation about it, and I believe, often avoid critical errors.
This goes a little further beyond this point I was making, but I also see collective decision making like this as being more fair. Everyone at the buisness is affected by these decisions, so everyone should share in the decision making process. Natural leaders and experts should become apparent and people will listen to them if they don't attempt to bludgeon them with their credentials.
If you have ever been in a relationship, you know how irrational people are: ergo, ability in logic and mathematics plays little role.
Went to MIT in engineering/science, and I would do a mental face-palm when I heard other engineers try to ‘sell’ what they are working on.
It’s the “curse of knowledge” where you forget how to relay ideas because you forget your axioms have been updated but the person you are talking with has not had theirs updated.
This is to say some people (in all fields) can sell ideas, and some can’t. Just as some can do high level mathematics, and some can’t. Those curves overlap in unexpected ways.