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--- "Rock, Megan" <Megan -dot- Rock -at- fanucrobotics -dot- com> wrote:
> What I don't agree with is the rather invasive attitude that
> "there's too
> much knowledge out there, so I don't need to know any of it as
> long as I can
> look it up." I had a college journalism professor who said
> that Americans
> have a very surface-level knowledge. We deal with facts and
> experiences
> rather than going deeper into theories, ideas, and
> philosophies.
Ah, but you see, I class theories, ideas, and philosophies as
"need to know and understand" since I can't look up that kind of
thing. maybe it shouldn't be that there's too much knowledge out
there, but that there's too much data... Data can be looked up -
background concepts can't.
> When is the last time you sat down with a 13-year-old and
> talked about the
> violence going on the Israel right now and discussed the
> war-torn history of
> that country?
at my nephew's bar mitzvah this summer, actually. but I'm not
sure that I'd like my children to understand quite that much of
the history of violence yet -- but then, I'm an overprotective
mommy.
> It bothers me when I
> go to talk to
> my SME about his product and he tells me, "I don't know. I'll
> have to ask
> somebody and get back with you." Yes, he knows how to get a
> hold of the
> information he's lacking, but he also bears the title of SME.
> The questions
> I ask aren't THAT difficult! :)
you're much nicer than I am. <g>
but isn't knowing your product part of the definition of Subject
Matter Expert? They're *supposed* to be primary resources...
I love technology; it's coding I can't stand.
(with appologies to Peanuts)
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