Comment by bch

Everybody else is a fungible cog.

TFA is a good little read - couple things come to mind

  1) Knoll’s Law [0][1]

  2) The ways I feel when I’m working on a hard problem in an area of my expertise and  some person starts in with “Why don’t you just…”. Enough people have come to me in such a situation with such a comment that I think it mostly translates as a sort of shibboleth for “I have no real idea what I’m talking about.” Now to find out if this is a teachable moment, if I have to maintain a sense of humour, or find out if I’m actually one of the days lucky 10,000.[2]

[0] https://effectiviology.com/knolls-law/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Knoll

[2] https://xkcd.com/1053/