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Hi all, On Sat, 27 May 2023 08:34:38 -0400 B Tommie Usdin <btusdin@mulberrytech.com> wrote: > > On May 27, 2023, at 12:26 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif@shlomifish.org> wrote: > > > > I have a hypothesis that such wilfully-ignorant, non-geeky, non-hackery, > > people are becoming less influential, less attractive, and rarer ... > > I am of a different opinion. > > There are far too many knowable things for anyone to have deep knowledge of > all of them. Some people choose to know a little about many things > (generalists), some people choose to know a lot about a few things > (specialists). Generalists seem to have an easier time in life than > specialists. Specialists seem to be the people who get important things done. > Slighting specialists because they are not generalists (or specialists in > some topic other than their specialty) is unhelpful; insisting that they make > the time and devote the energy to learn skills outside their area of > expertise is an effort to dilute their genius, and likely to fail. > I discussed generalism vs. specialism in "sherlock holmes about Awk": https://shlomifish.livejournal.com/1991.html . noone can or should be a 100% specialist unless you expect people to forget that 1+1=2, or that there are 12 months in a year. "One does not simply not Know who Marilyn Monroe is" [ https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/image-macros/indiv-nodes/not_know_marilyn_monroe.xhtml ]: [[ Some have not heard of Sarah Bernhardt, or Sarah Michelle Gellar, or Ava Gardner, or whoever, but everyone has heard of Monroe. She is, in a sense, a litmus test. ]] I know vim/vi fairly well, but dont consider it essential knowledge given text is text, and there are many other text editors. OTOH, I dont know how to cook because I earn much more than 100 USD/day. > To circle back to the discussion of why standards are written in XML: > I want the geeky hackery people to make it so easy to do things we know will > be long-term helpful (such as create standards in tractable, long-term stable > formats) that the specialists can do it without knowing anything about it. > > Our win will come not when we bully the ignorant into learning our way but > when we make our way easy, invisible, and attractive to people who are paying > attention to other things. > > -- Tommie > > =================================================================================== > B. Tommie Usdin mailto: btusdin@mulberrytech.com > Mulberry Technologies, Inc. https://www.mulberrytech.com > Phone: 301/315-9631 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mulberry Technologies, Inc.: A Consultancy Specializing in XML for Prose > Documents > =================================================================================== > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > -- Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ The Human Hacking Field Guide - https://shlom.in/hhfg If you have the same ideas as everybody else, but have them one week earlier than everyone else — then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier, you will be named a lunatic. ( Barry Jones ) Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - https://shlom.in/reply .
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