Every industry is full of non-technical hills that people plant their flag on. What is yours?

(The other post was technical hills. I changed the question to non-technical.)

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    Using your cooking analogy, what I’m talking about are people who can’t even describe the basics of how to cook.

    What ingredients do you need to bake bread? I don’t know.

    What cooking equipment do you need to bake bread? I don’t know.

    About how long will it take to bake bread and when do you need to start? I don’t know.

    I’m not talking about how to communicate being an expert at a craft and teaching it to someone else, I’m talking about understanding the basics.

    • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 hours ago

      Ok, sure, if someone doesn’t know the basics, then they can’t be an expert in that thing. But that hasn’t been what we’ve been talking about in this thread, and your initial comment was that someone can only be said to understand a thing if they can explain how it works.

      And I’m pointing out that:

      • Some people are bad at communication, and understand things they can’t explain, because their explanatory ability is hindered by their communication skills.
      • Some specific concepts are not easily reduced to words, so they are inherently difficult to explain. That doesn’t mean they can’t be understood, or that nobody understands them.

      Dropping back to only talking about the basics kinda ignores huge swaths of human knowledge and understanding.