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Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say (www.stilldrinking.org)
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[–] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The following doesn’t apply to everybody in technology, but it applies to enough of them: At some point STEM education was the only thing the Olds cared about because of something something Asia, and now we have a couple of generations that are highly educated on paper and comically unaware of the complexity of the world outside of WordPress plugins.

I was going to say it's not just technology executives. I'm glad the author addressed this too. It's the whole industry.

People do this to ourselves too. How often do people see a tech nerd and think they're some sort of all knowing demigod.

"You're a tech guy. Here fix my thing."

"Tell me about such and such complex topic complete outside of your niche professional expertise but you're of the All Knowing so opine me your All Knowing wisdom."

Everybody just fucking stop already.

You trigger their autistic word vomit. They use an excessive amount of tech jargon you don't understand. So people assume it must be profound insight. In fact 99% of what they're saying is complete non-sense.